If you're really bored, or really want to help out;
Go to this website and start doing stuff!
https://www.zooniverse.org/
I use it every day, and I think you'll find it to be really good too!
Excellent stuff, passed that along on my FB, TYVM!
Let me second this -- besides the passive citizen science in the various BOINC projects (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/), Zooniverse is a great way to do real hands-on work.
And there's nothing like getting an email that you've discovered (or, more likely, co-discovered) something.
New hands-on Citizen Science Project!
Map cells in a brain! Can't get better than that can it?
http://eyewire.org/
Yes, I have WAY too much time on my hands
Found a new website for citizen sciences:
http://scistarter.com/activity/10-Exclusively%20online
Most of the stuff I found were in beta stage and needed you to go through tutorials, but still pretty cool.
This is a little off-topic, but you reminded me to share this Wikipedia 2.0 project called Citizendium (http://en.citizendium.org/).
Quote from: Hijiri Byakuren on February 16, 2015, 02:45:40 PM
This is a little off-topic, but you reminded me to share this Wikipedia 2.0 project called Citizendium (http://en.citizendium.org/).
Thanks. :azn:
I am a Necromancer!
Seriously though, best place to put this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRFKUjuVuiY
Hidden link in description:
http://www.clickheretosavetheworld.com/
By the way, If you've been on Eyewire, you might have have seen this:
http://blog.eyewire.org/whats-that-i-hear-eyewire-now-has-sound/
How does thinking change over time?
http://www.onlinewisdomlab.co.uk/news
(http://puu.sh/lWKxN.jpg)
I be a necromancer! I come from the dead... (a bit more literally this time due to my absence. A long bout of suicidal thinking and withdrawal... but better now!)
If you're a teacher, parent, or something; give this site to them and make them play a bit.
http://www.tiltfactor.org/