Crowdsourcing

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of crowdsourcing.

Talks about Crowdsourcing

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Sarah Parcak

Hunting for Peru's lost civilizations — with satellites

Posted Aug 2016

7:04

Angelo Vermeulen

How to go to space, without having to go to space

Posted Feb 2015

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Janet Iwasa

How animations can help scientists test a hypothesis

Posted Aug 2014

12:11

Heather Barnett

What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime

Posted Jul 2014

10:08

Ellen Jorgensen

Biohacking — you can do it, too

Posted Jan 2013

16:22

Michael Nielsen

Open science now!

Posted Nov 2011

12:47

Jay Bradner

Open-source cancer research

Posted Oct 2011

18:18

Aaron Koblin

Visualizing ourselves ... with crowd-sourced data

Posted May 2011

14:34

Eric Whitacre

A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong

Posted Apr 2011

Exclusive articles about Crowdsourcing

Why we shouldn’t underestimate the power of diversity

The best way to prepare for a future of unknown complexity? Build on the strength of our differences, explain MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito and writer Jeff Howe. In the fall of...

Why you really should share your medical data

A lot of people are advocating for citizen science, pooling medical data, crowdsourcing medical history — you know, de-siloing traditionally isolated institutions and discipline...