Citizen Science | Boing Boing

chicken Can you slap a chicken until it's cooked? Gareth Branwyn
international space station An opportunity for college students to send science projects into space Gareth Branwyn
nanny state Look kids, it's a tour of the 1951 A.C. Gilbert Radioactive Atomic Energy Lab Kit, now with seven sources of radiation! Gareth Branwyn
old weather Help climate scientists by transcribing weather data from old ships' logs Cory Doctorow
amateur astronomy A surprise meteorite hit the moon during Monday's total lunar eclipse David Pescovitz
stripal recognition Wildbook: facial recognition for critters in the wild Cory Doctorow
macrofocus Kickstarting an open digital microscope kit for public-spirited citizen science Cory Doctorow
balloon mapping Kickstarting Mini Balloon and Kite Mapping Kits for everyone Cory Doctorow
macgyver The MakeShift Challenge (or what would MacGyver do?) Gareth Branwyn
waters a solvent How an engineer/public health whistleblower led the citizen scientists who busted Flint's water crisis Cory Doctorow
Citizen Science The microbes on your phone are different from the microbes on your shoes Cory Doctorow
AGU Adventurers can help science by sharing their data Kiki Sanford
activist Crowdfunding a smart, open source beehive to monitor hive-collapse Cory Doctorow
Citizen Science Horrific plague causes starfish to tear themselves to pieces Cory Doctorow
Citizen Science Amateur astronomers find lost Russian Mars probe Maggie Koerth
cycles Citizen science project: Tracking cicadas on the East Coast Maggie Koerth
makerspace Kickstarting the LA Makerspace Cory Doctorow
donate Science needs your money (and your gut bacteria) Maggie Koerth
Citizen Science Crowdsourcing the microbiome: what's in your guts? Cory Doctorow
Citizen Science Short film about Safecast, the hackerspace-created, crowdsource radioactivity monitoring project Mark Frauenfelder