jtotheizzoe: brooklynmutt: Last month, computer gamers working from home redesigned an enzyme. Last year, a gene-testing company used its customers to find mutations that increase or decrease the risk of Parkinson’s disease. Astronomers are drawing amateurs into searching for galaxies and signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. The modern equivalent of the Victorian scientific vicar is an ordinary person who volunteers his or her time to solving a small piece of a big scientific puzzle. Crowd-sourced science is not a recent invention. In the U.S., tens of thousands of people record the number and species of birds that they see during the Christmas season, a practice that dates back more than a century. What’s new is having amateurs contribute in highly technical areas.  Read: Matt Ridley on Crowd-Sourced Science | Mind & Matter - WSJ.com And be sure to check out SciStarter, a new online hub for citizen science projects that you or anyone you know can join in on. Great for educators and students alike.

jtotheizzoe:

brooklynmutt:

Last month, computer gamers working from home redesigned an enzyme. Last year, a gene-testing company used its customers to find mutations that increase or decrease the risk of Parkinson’s disease. Astronomers are drawing amateurs into searching for galaxies and signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. The modern equivalent of the Victorian scientific vicar is an ordinary person who volunteers his or her time to solving a small piece of a big scientific puzzle.

Crowd-sourced science is not a recent invention. In the U.S., tens of thousands of people record the number and species of birds that they see during the Christmas season, a practice that dates back more than a century. What’s new is having amateurs contribute in highly technical areas.

 Read: Matt Ridley on Crowd-Sourced Science | Mind & Matter - WSJ.com

And be sure to check out SciStarter, a new online hub for citizen science projects that you or anyone you know can join in on. Great for educators and students alike.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

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