Here’s a piece from the New York Times blogs: A New Kind of Big Science by Aaron E. Hirsh, a Colorado biologist and writer.
And then there’s that problem of relating to Big Science when you’re standing outside the building, looking up. The difficulty is not just that the research is recondite, but that the work [...]
I’m excited to be a guest blogger on Science Cheerleader, with a post there titled Getting back to our roots as everyday scientists: Permaculture.
I’ve been contemplating the connection between citizen science and permaculture ever since returning from the permaculture design certification course I took this summer. The similarities seemed so clear; both include grass-roots [...]
Followers of this weblog will be interested in this editorial by Darlene Cavalier of Science Cheerleader: Harnessing Citizen Scientists: Let’s Create a Very Public Office of Technology Assessment:
Congress is right not to reopen the old OTA. The name alone strikes a negative chord with partisan detractors who feel the Office took too long to [...]
Great video report from Adam Rogers and Wired Science about the impotent chemistry sets being sold today and the glorious ones of the past.
This was being sent around the office at work as our excitement there grows about the upcoming Maker Media book, Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments.
I can’t for the [...]
A thought crystallized for me yesterday when talking to someone about citizen science…isn’t it interesting that sometimes we don’t even know what we think until we try to talk about it?
Something has always bothered me about discussions over the definition of Citizen Science. It’s most often defined as a collaboration between “real” scientists and [...]
