Join the Citizen Science brigade

A lot of people think only scientists can do science. They're right. But then, anyone who does science is a scientist. You can do science. So, you wanna be a scientist? For a while now, more and more regular ol' people have been participating in science. It started a few years back with SETI@Home, where you could download software to automatically process data taken from radio telescopes using your CPU. Still, as advanced as computers are, there are still things that are just better done with human brains (what we call "wetware"). Pattern recognition. Pulling weak data out of strong noise. Seeing the anomaly in the field of sameness. Citizen Science, it's called. It's a powerful new tool, crowdsourcing the work to people interested in helping out. And the cool thing is: it works. People categorize galaxies. They examine lunar craters. They look for lonely iceballs orbiting the Sun out ...