How Much Impact Will Your Donation Really Have?

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Give well spends over 20 thousand hours each year researching charitable organizations and only recommends a few of the highest impact, evidence base charities they've found. Givewell wants to empower as many donors as possible to make informd decisions about their donations. They publish all the research and recommendations on their site for free, no sign up required. If you've never don't recommend the charities before, you can have your donation matched up to 250 dollars before the end of the year or as long as matching funds last.

We’ve talked about the very origin of life, but certain transitions along its subsequent history were incredibly important. Perhaps none more so than the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms, which made possible an incredible diversity of organisms and structures. Will Ratcliff studies the physics that constrains multicellular structures, examines the minute changes in certain yeast cells that allows them to become multicellular, and does long-term evolution experiments in which multicellularity spontaneously evolves and grows. We can’t yet create life from non-life, but we can reproduce critical evolutionary steps in the lab.

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William Ratcliff received his Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at the University of Minnesota. He is currently Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech. Among his awards are a Packard Fellowship and being named in Popular Science‘s “Brilliant 10” of 2016.

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