"Not only are people better than computers at detecting the subtleties that differentiate galaxies, they can do things computers can't do, like spot things that just look interesting,"
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A Brief History of YouTube [Infographic] - 4 views
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"Today's infographic goes over YouTube's history in its relatively short existence. The first video (called "Me at the zoo") was posted in April of 2005 and a year and a half later in October of 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for an astounding $1.65 billion. They weren't done growing yet though; within three years there were 1 billion videos being viewed daily, a number which quadrupled in 2012."
Citizen Scientists Making Incredible Discoveries - NASA Science - 3 views
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And the Zooniverse team has proven that the Zooites' classifications are as good as those by professional astronomers. "Their contributions are extremely important," says Lintott. "They're helping us learn how galaxies form and evolve. And they take their work seriously." But that doesn't prevent them from bringing a sense of adventure and just sheer fun to the research.
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nd now you can be the one to find it, thanks to Zooniverse, a unique citizen science website. Zooniverse volunteers, who call themselves "Zooites," are working on a project called Galaxy Zoo, classifying distant galaxies imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
FlickrStorm. Search on Flickr with some Magic - 0 views
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Great photo search tool for flickr. Create a "set" of photos. Can save a page of results as well.
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