by Darlene Cavalier | May 26, 2009 | Astronomy & Space Projects, Biology Projects, Citizen Science, Computer & Technology Projects, Projects & Activities
The “distributed computing” project known as SETI@home just celebrated its 10th anniversary. For the past decade, thousands of volunteers have loaned the experiment a little bit of their personal computers’ idle capacity to help in the search for...
by Darlene Cavalier | May 25, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science
Love this! Coming soon, another promising citizen science application for your smart phone. The Extraordinaries — On-demand crowdsourced volunteerism via smartphones. 20 minute volunteer activities you can do from your cell phone. (from The Extraordinaires...
by Darlene Cavalier | May 19, 2009 | Citizen Science, OTA, Projects & Activities, Science Education
Though our continued support for citizen scientist programs across the country is vital to the success of directed scientific research about specific topics, we also need make sure we remain broadly educated about the general scientific issues we face everyday. The...
by Darlene Cavalier | May 18, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science, In the News
For those of you weren’t able to attend the live, SXSW event in Austin, TX, here’s the audio recording of the discussion. Such fun! (I’m the last of four speakers.)
by Darlene Cavalier | May 13, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science, News
One of the most fascinating people I’ve had the pleasure of working with is Dr. Story Musgrave (I used to introduce him at public events when I worked for Disney; pictured left at my house with me and my husband.) Story is a six-time shuttle...
by Darlene Cavalier | May 12, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science, Science Education, Social network science
Science Cheerleader contributor Stephen Zachary explains, among other things, why citizen scientists are so damn cool (and “creative” when it comes to our uncommon use of certain words). He manages to fit me, Franklin, Stalin, Steve Jobs and Jane Goodall...
