Blog post on Popular Science!
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by DZM admin
While it might seem like the citizen science movement is all shiny and
new, in part because of all the mainstream media attention it has been
getting lately, in fact, citizen science has been around for a long
time. Indeed, well before there were the “professional” scientists we
know today, scientific investigations were conducted by anyone with
the time and the means.The Victorian era was a particularly rich time for both citizen
involvement in science and public interest in all things scientific
and technological; this interest was fueled in part by the printing
press and the rise of the ‘science popularizers.’ The public consumed
vast quantities of books and magazines, many of which were lavishly
illustrated. Unfortunately, we don’t know much about who the
illustrators were. The Biodiversity Heritage Library, a consortium of
natural history and botanical libraries, has digitized and cataloged
millions of these pages dating back to the 1400's. A new Zooniverse
project called Science Gossip needs your to help identify, classify
and correlate them. That’s right: Science Gossip wants the help of
citizen scientists to learn more about citizen scientists...Posted
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by geoffrey.belknap scientist
Very cool!
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