I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (05 April 2014)

I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (05 April 2014)
I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (05 April 2014)
Sign up for The Ed’s Up, a weekly newsletter of my writing. Here’s a recent example. Top picks This is a heartbreaking piece on the sheer scale of pangolin trafficking, following a long undercover investigation. By John Sutter. “Not every mystery involves a dead body, but every dead body is a mystery.” Kathryn Schulz’s […]

Age of Citizen Science – Four Websites Where You Can Lend a Hand

Age of Citizen Science – Four Websites Where You Can Lend a Hand
Age of Citizen Science – Four Websites Where You Can Lend a Hand
Crowdsourcing. Group thinking. Call it what you will, but in the past ten years, average Joes tasked with online assignments (from bird counting to cloud identification and more) have contributed reams of data to the scientific body. Just one thing: Few scientists ever took it seriously. That’s changed. Sites are better, questions keener, and citizens…