Comments on: You Tell Us: What would you do for the world with $1 million? Part 2!

By: khalid ahmed

khalid ahmed — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:50:46 +0000

what happening about this talk guy’s I’m wait …..

By: Michael Barnathan

Michael Barnathan — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 03:19:51 +0000

That creative school other people are suggesting? I’m trying to do something similar: http://www.projectpolymath.org. That would be where the $1 million would go, though that would only be enough to start, though that alone would not take it all the way.

By: Maksim Radev

Maksim Radev — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:30:13 +0000

I would make the coolest school in the world, where anyone can receive knowledge and every idea would be heard and discussed. Where any kid or grown will be respected for he’s/her’s uniqueness. Place where education is a product of love of science – a science which teaches that any life or ecosystem on the Earth stands before everything else.

By: Priscilla Wolfe

Priscilla Wolfe — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 05:01:56 +0000

I would invest in a sustainable environment based on the city systems of The Venus Project to serve the less fortunate members of society and raise their level of education, health, and welfare.

By: Tara Limbu

Tara Limbu — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:10:12 +0000

Build a cheap desalination plant all over the world, cos millions have no access to clean water. Water is the basic necessity of life.

By: Guillermo Balboa

Guillermo Balboa — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:55:10 +0000

with the help of the best minds in the world I would create a prototype of a self sustaining enviroment that would seek to serve as an example to future generations to come , in this prototype enviroment, science, art , sports and all known academic subjects related would be the younger generations main activities

By: Xing Chen

Xing Chen — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 13:45:46 +0000

Identify pairs of schools- one in a wealthy developed nation, and one in a relatively poor nation. Ensure that their curricula and teaching quality have comparably high standards. Then, allow half the children from each school to swap places, for several months. The idea is to provide as much interaction, friendship formation, and immersion in a different culture, as possible. These experiences will allow the kids to grow into adults who see others as fellow human beings, regardless of nationality and religious and cultural roots.

By: Raul Sacristan

Raul Sacristan — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 13:09:17 +0000

I would create a school with a educational system based on Education2.0 that all the bright people (Sir Ken Robinson, Will Richardson and other) are suggesting.

By: Ruth Stavrik

Ruth Stavrik — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 07:14:20 +0000

Cancer in the number one killer in the world. The billions spent on drug based research have produced survival benefits measured in weeks/months. Cancer immunotherapy research can change all this, but a paradigm shift is needed in the medical community and cancer funding agencies. Professor Carl June has just managed to secure a deal with Novartis for funding after receiving funds from a small private fund for a 3 man clinical trial, which had staggering results. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110810141248.htm
Other researchers like Prof Daniel Powell and Prof Brad Nelson are researching immunotherapy strategies for solid tumours, in a bid to control the most fatal cancers as chronic condition, and even cure. If I had a million dollars I would donate it to a small clinical trial for cancer immunotherapy, conducted by researchers like these. It is beyond belief that these researchers still need more funds, and that drug based research is still favoured. The Novartis move is the beginning of the paradigm shift I hope, but much much more needs to be done.

By: Naiem Yeganeh

Naiem Yeganeh — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 05:39:28 +0000

Honestly, what can one do with 1 million to have an effect?? One million is so little that the only possible effect it can have is to help educate a few poor children, hoping that they can do better than what you could do.
To have an effect on the world, there are two cases: 1, No money needed: money doesn’t count when you are an artist or you have some individual contribution, and 2, tens of billions of dollars is required on investments that change the world (e.g. energy, medical etc.)
In any case, 1 million would not have an effect.