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Whitley Fund for Nature: the Big Give day 4

Day four of my Big Give Christmas Challenge 2024 tips goes to grassroots conservation with the Whitley Fund for Nature. It’s a sad truth that fundraising takes up about half of most charities’ income and resources. Anything they can do to make fundraising easier means that more money goes to the causes they support. The […]

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Thin Green Line Foundation UK: the Big Give day 3

We’re back to conservation for day three of the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2024 with the Thin Green Line Foundation UK. It’s a sad truth that fundraising takes up about half of most charities’ income and resources. Anything they can do to make fundraising easier means that more money goes to the causes they support. […]

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The Orangutan Foundation: the Big Give day 1

The Big Give is a charity that helps other charities to find sponsors who double their income from public donations. December 3rd kicks off the Big Give Christmas Challenge — if you have some spare change, I’d recommend the Orangutan Foundation. It’s a sad truth […]

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Comparative sentience: what does it mean to be smart?

Comparing the relative sentience of human and non-human intelligences starts with defining the aspects of sentience, even before you break them down into specific characteristics. I’ve brought this post over from Medium because it was cited in December 2022 by Maurice Yolles at Liverpool John Moores University for Consciousness, Sapience and Sentience—A Metacybernetic View in […]