Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Crowdsourcing Citizen Science
7 years ago, Kevin Schawinski, a young astronomy researcher at Oxford, met up with his colleague Chris Lintott at a local pub. Schawinski had started the tedious task of looking through images of a million galaxies that he needed to classify. He’d just spent the whole week doing this and had completed just 50-thousand of them.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min read7 years ago, Kevin Schawinski, a young astronomy researcher at Oxford, met up with his colleague Chris Lintott at a local pub. Schawinski had started the tedious task of looking through images of a million galaxies that he needed to classify. He’d just spent the whole week doing this and had completed just 50-thousand of them. He told his friend Chris he wasn’t looking forward to spending months going through the rest. The solution they came up with was Galaxy Zoo, a way for anyone to go online and work on real science.
The full episode
4 of 6
Vaping, Chevron in Ecuador & Crowdsourcing Science- 0:00E-Cigarettes
- 9:11The Mad Brand Vapes with The Joel Stein
- 17:11Chevron and the Amazon
- 26:35Crowdsourcing Citizen ScienceYou’re reading this
- 33:39Kickstarter Reaches $1 Billion
- 41:52The Movie '300'
The full episode
4 of 6Vaping, Chevron in Ecuador & Crowdsourcing Science- 0:00E-Cigarettes
- 9:11The Mad Brand Vapes with The Joel Stein
- 17:11Chevron and the Amazon
- 26:35Crowdsourcing Citizen ScienceYou’re reading this
- 33:39Kickstarter Reaches $1 Billion
- 41:52The Movie '300'