Genes In Space is an arcade game for your phone that helps cancer researchers analyse data. Simple game but addictive enough, and a great concept.
Category Archives: Science
Loomio – collaborative online decision-making
Loomio is a user-friendly tool for group decision-making.
Creating a world where it’s easy for anyone to participate in decisions that affect them.
Loomio.org appears to be an intelligently thought through approach to the thorny problem of online group democracy. It’s discussed in Can Social Software Change the World? Loomio Just Might – worth a read. Here’s a snippet:
“The key,” says Benjamin Knight, one of the members of the core team developing Loomio, “is building shared understanding before a decision is reached by the group.” He adds, “That means that when you get to the outcome, it’s not that everyone has to agree to the outcome, they just have to agree that its the best outcome the group can reach at that time.”
Empathic design
I came across Design for an Empathic World: Reconnecting People, Nature, and Self
Astrophysicist: “I’m almost embarrassed for my species”
It took an actual meteor over Russia exploding with 25 times the power of the atom bomb in Hiroshima to convince people that maybe we should start doing something about (possible asteroid collisions). I’m almost embarrassed for my species that you can be so blind to everything experts have been telling you and you got to wait for people to almost die to say, “Oh, I guess they are out there.”Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist
I hardly need to point out the parallels with climate change.