Crowdsourcing Science
Friday, March 19, 2010 - 08:14
in Astronomy & Space
Anyone can help discover new stuff in Galaxy Zoo- but why do people bother in the first place? In the podcast "Why Go to the Zoo?", Jordan Raddick responds with some unexpected insight into why people donate their time for open science. Anyone can contribute to science these days-- and you don't even need to know any science! You can run the SETI@home screensaver, to help try to tease out potential alien signals in radio data. You can do protein folding, hunt for comets, search for solar flares, all from the comfort of your home. read more