The Guardian is spearheaing a mapping project, worldwide to map ghost bikes. Ghost bikes commemorate a lost cyclist. The project is Flickr based and will use the geocoded images to create the map.
Eight months after a tsunami caused a nuclear accident in Japan, ordinary people are using new technology and the power of crowdsourcing to find radiation hotspots.
It turns out zebra patterns are unique for each zebra...so
that makes it possible to be scanned like a bar code. McDermott reports that scientists and citizen scientists can use an app called Stripe Spotter created by the University of Illinois at Chicago and Princeton University to upload the zebra’s identity into a database.
by Adena Schutzberg on 11/14 at 05:04 AM |
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