Citizen Science is research undertaken by professional scientists and members of the public collaboratively. The best example of it is Zooniverse. Since it first launched as a single project called Galaxy Zoo in 2007, the Zooniverse has grown into the world’s largest citizen science platform, with more than 25 science projects and over 1 million registeredContinue reading “When and Where is Citizen Science happening?”
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Breaking news in a connected world
The bitterness of the tragedy is the same, what has changed is the way that information spreads. I heard about the Boston Marathon Bombing, first when I was preparing to go to bed, and as a recently emerged habit, I was doing my bed-time-Facebook “friend feed” check. The news-line was so shocking that I kept “browsing” forContinue reading “Breaking news in a connected world”