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littlegreenenvelope:

I have been lending money to people overseas who are poor to help them start micro-enterprises and such with Kiva. It’s great cos you choose who your $25 goes to and they repay it over a period of time and then you can lend it to someone else. So far I’ve lent to 3 different people - a couple of different girls who were starting/growing their own businesses selling burritos and last week to a woman in Burkina Faso who buys large bags of flour and sells it to her neighbours. It’s really cool to know a bit about the people your lending to.

Someone has just donated a load of money to help more people get into Kiva loans, so if you want to, you can lend $25 for free and try it out for yourself. I hope you’ll look into it, I think it’s good to be reminded of these people in other parts of the world and remember that they are real people with dreams and aspirations for a better life, and I think this is a great way to help some people.

(Source: youtube.com)

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rhamphotheca: Successive close-ups of the scales of a Peacock butterfly wing. Shown from left to right, top to bottom: (second row) a closeup of the scales of the specimen at top, high magnification view of coloured scales (different species); (third row) electron micrograph of a patch of wing (~×50 magnification), the scales close up (~×200); (last row) a single scale (×1000), microstructure of a scale (×5000). (photos: MichaD (top and second row left), Shaddack (second row right), SecretDisc (micrographs)) View Larger

rhamphotheca:

Successive close-ups of the scales of a Peacock butterfly wing.

Shown from left to right, top to bottom: (second row) a closeup of the scales of the specimen at top, high magnification view of coloured scales (different species); (third row) electron micrograph of a patch of wing (~×50 magnification), the scales close up (~×200); (last row) a single scale (×1000), microstructure of a scale (×5000).

(photos: MichaD (top and second row left), Shaddack (second row right), SecretDisc (micrographs))

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