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Is being downvoted for being married a common problem?

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While I hope OP can give you a personalized response, the scope of the question is broad so I want to direct you and others to the /r/AskHistorians wiki on the subject where they have a number of responses to questions about the Library of Alexandria.

• Facts about the Library of Alexandria by /u/XenophonTheAthenian
• Someone on an Ask Reddit thread claimed research indicates that prior to Ptolemy VIII exiling academics from the Library of Alexandra, "they were only about ~300 years from full on industrialization." Is this true? If so, where can I learn more about it? by /u/Iphikrates
• Who had access to the Library of Alexandria? by u/toldinstone
• How did the Library of Alexandria became the memetic vault of all human knowledge it is known as today? by /u/KiwiHellenist
• What made the library of Alexandria so special? by /u/KiwiHellenist

And also these questions that have great responses and/or discussions:

• How serious a loss was the burning of the Library of Alexandria to human knowledge? by /u/Naugrith
• Do we have any idea what was in the library of Alexandria? Or exactly how much knowledge we lost? by several users

Since Damien hasn't gotten to this question yet you might take a look at the 'Completed Projects' page and see what elephant-related projects the IAPF has supported in the past or plans to support in the future since the IAPF has already vetted those programs.

Specifically of note would be areas in Mozambique like the Niassa Game Reserve which has a large elephant population and is located in a very high-risk area. The IAPF has also supported Xonghile Game Park which you can read about on that link and watch the short documentary on supplying anti-poaching rangers and going after poachers in that region.

As an aside, I noticed that /r/babyelephantgifs has a lot of the big charitable organizations listed, but is notably missing Big Life which has a very heavy focus on anti-poaching along the Kenya/Tanzania border, a region where we're losing a tremendous number of elephants (and Kenya is a focal point of illegal wildlife trafficking). Big Life also accepts tax-deductible/tax-effective donations from USA/CAN/UK.

Hey, I'm a long-time participant in the SETI@Home project using BOINC (/r/BOINC shout-out). Have any of the projects you've worked on utilized the SETI@home distributed-computing software and yielded useful results?

What else can be done, through the use of distributed-computing or citizen science and education, to better make use of volunteers or volunteer computing time and reduce the direct costs of publicly funded scientific research?