Treasure in human waste
Author Bryn Nelson wrote an entire book about the ways that human waste can help humanity. Only some puns included.
Cheerleader helps discover novel bacterium
A cheerleader volunteering for a citizen-science project helped discover a novel bacterium from a seat at a football stadium.
Citizen science – Many hands make research work
Seattle area resident Laura James spends many hours each year piloting an underwater exploration robot beneath Puget Sound waves to count sea stars.
Unprecedented conversation on cancer film
People are talking about the cancer film, “Emperor of Maladies,” produced by Ken Burns for the Public Broadcasting System, PBS.
The hairball of citizen science
The hairball is jargon for data scientists. It means a special graphic that illustrates intersections.
Small words = big ideas
Explaining science is a tricky business. You have to . . . assume that your audience may never have heard those words.
Social + citizen science meets my porch
The envelope arrived a few days ago. Happy to see that my data loggers from the North Carolina State project known as Your Wild Life arrived.