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Use your marbles with Marblar
A screen capture of the Marblar website Something a bit different for today’s entry, as this one isn’t strictly citizen science, but does tap into the scientist and inventor in all of us. Marblar is a...
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What is citizen science?
Check out the new citizen science infographic (click to enlarge): Click to enlarge Sources: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/page.aspx?pid=1664 http://www.galaxyzoo.org/#/story...
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Citizen Science in the News
Citizen science is getting more and more media attention. Check out some of these stories: Biopunks, Science and Discovery Enter citizen science No PhD Required: Science Goes Grassroots Citizen Science...
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Counting Rain
Rain can be inspiring (Photo credit: @Doug88888) This is a guest post is by Aradia Farmer. How often do you wonder if you can contribute anything important to the world? I wondered a lot, until I found...
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Citizen Science: The Book
I’m very, very excited to announce the launch of Be the Change: Saving the World with Citizen Science. Available now at Amazon.com, the book has project listings and exclusive content you won’t find...
View ArticleTED Talk: Massive-scale online collaboration
Found this TED talk earlier today, which provides an excellent overview of some of the creative ways crowdsourcing and online collaboration is changing how we do things… just like with citizen science....
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Citizen science explained
Last month, I had the pleasure of speaking at a TEDx conference, where I explained the concept of citizen science to a very receptive and enthusiastic audience. Check it out, and please share it with...
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Featured TED talk: The danger of science denial
One of the reasons why I advocate for citizen science is that I want more people to be comfortable with science and technology. I also hope that by getting involved, people will come to understand the...
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Featured TED: Citizen science and innovation
The post Featured TED: Citizen science and innovation appeared first on Citizen Science Projects.
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Guest Lecture: University of Miami
Late last month, I had the pleasure of speaking to the fine students at the Exploration Science Program Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy at the University of Miami. In a wide-ranging...
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Featured TED: What New Power Looks Like
Here’s an interesting talk about what peer-to-peer and crowdsourced movements (like citizen science) are doing to change how power is distributed and used. The post Featured TED: What New Power Looks...
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It’s a fair question: why do I do citizen science?
A guest post by Sharman Apt Russell Citizen science enlarges my world. When I am in the mood, I classify galaxies at the online site Galaxy Zoo, looking at images from the Hubbell Space Telescope or...
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Some Citizen Science Predictions
I’ve been covering the citizen science movement for a very long time now; indeed, I’ve been writing about citizen science in one form or another since before it was really a movement. Recently, I sat...
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Featured TED: How cognitive surplus will change the world
I mentioned Clay Shirky’s concept of “cognitive surplus” in my own TEDx here. If you’re not familiar with the concept and what it will mean for the future, check out this video. The post Featured...
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Citizen Science: Definition
One of the most common questions I get when I tell people that I write about citizen science is: can you give me a citizen science definition? For many years, that wasn’t an easy question to answer....
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8 Reasons Why Kids Should Science More [Infographic]
From a very early age children love to learn new things, and not only do they love to learn, they are experts at it. Children learn by playing, observing, doing, testing ideas and pushing boundaries....
View ArticleOne small step for Lego man…
In January, two teenagers launched a Lego toy into space, and it reached nearly 80,000 feet. They were inspired by a video posted by MIT students. Check out the science and engineering behind the...
View ArticleA boycott of Elsevier?
The Register is reporting that there is growing dissatisfaction with the way Elsevier, a publisher of many of the world’s top academic journals, is doing business. Citing a blog post by Tim Gowers, The...
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A picture is worth … a billion stars
More stars than you can imagine Researchers have stitched together a picture of our Milky Way Galaxy, and the result is a stunning image containing more than a billion stars. The picture took 10 years...
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The arrow of time: visualized
Fly through time with ChronoZoom Certain things, because they are beyond our day-to-day experience, can be difficult to imagine. Astronomical distances are like this, and so are time scales beyond a...
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