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DailyDirt: Citizen Science
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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If you'd like to read more awesome and interesting stuff, check out this unrelated (but not entirely random!) Techdirt post via StumbleUpon.
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Citizen science: How families can contribute to real science
Boston :: MA :: USA | 1 month ago
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What do early radar images of hurricanes, handwritten ship logs, and backyard rain gauges all have in common?
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Science Isn't Just for Scientists
Donetsk :: Ukraine | 4 months ago
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February 8, 2013 A 14-year-old boy in Donetsk, Ukraine, recently made a fascinating discovery halfway around the world and 894 metres under the sea. Kirill Dudko was watching Neptune Canada's live-stream footage of the ocean floor near Vancouver
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How backyard rinks can change the world
Toronto :: Canada | 4 months ago
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Story The Globe and Mail Editorial cartoon video It isn't news to anyone that the Earth is warming, that sea levels are slowly rising, that snow and ice are receding worldwide. We know these things are happening and grudgingly allow that people are
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Citizen science project Opal marks its fifth anniversary - in pictures
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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More than half a million people have joined the Open Air Laboratories (Opal) project, designed to get people outdoors and involved in scientific research. Since its launch in 2007, more than 25,000 sites including areas never before sampled by
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Citizen Scientists Successfully Fund Groundbreaking Startup to Sequence their Microbiomes
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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ubiome.com">uBiome, the first citizen science effort to map the human microbiome, is the world’s largest successful citizen science crowdfunding campaign in history (http://
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Galaxies resembling letters ?A to Z? classified
Mumbai :: India | 5 months ago
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European Space Agency, and captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the deepest image of the universe ever taken in near-infrared light. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years after the Big Bang.
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Local bird counters make annual science contribution
Fresno :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago
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tool goes here Fresno High science teacher Bruce Williford was among about 25 people counting birds on the north side of the city and beyond -- and adding to valuable scientific data. The Fresno contingent took part Saturday in the 113th annual
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Secret Serengeti caught on camera
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
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The site allows users to identify animals by describing physical characteristics, in order to narrow the search down, explained Dr Lintott. It is the latest citizen science study organised by the Zooniverse project, led by the University of Oxford
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A Biopunk Manifesto
New York City :: NY :: USA | 6 months ago
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Meredith Patterson on a manifesto for the biopunk movement: The prevalence of citizen science has fallen. Who are the twentieth-century equivalents of Benjamin Franklin, Edward Jenner, Marie Curie or Thomas Edison? Perhaps Steve Wozniak, Bill Hewlett,
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