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Citizen Science
Citizen Science
The further from centre, the more strongly this hobby leans that way. Your quiz answers are scored against exactly these fifteen.
Recording observations for live research: counting birds, classifying galaxies, logging rainfall or reporting wildlife sightings.
TonightTime to first win
About an hourA session
Mostly outdoorsWhere
Step 1: Pick one project and make an account.
Is it you?
What you need
3 thingsThe honest floor, taking the cheapest option in each$431
How we make money: if you buy through one of these we take a small cut, and the price is the same either way. The cheapest option that works is always listed first.
The path
15 questsASetting up2 things to sort, in any order
BThen the quests
- Find a citizen science project to join
- Submit fifty classifications to one project
- Make your first observation or classification
More on Citizen Science
Everything else we have written about it. Free to read, no account needed.
Guides4
How to Grow Oyster Mushrooms at Home (From Spawn to First Harvest)Oyster mushrooms are the one to start with: they grow fast, they forgive beginner mistakes, and you can fruit a proper harvest from a bag of straw in a spare corner. You can buy a kit and skip most of the work, but growing from scratch is not much harder and it teaches you how mushrooms actually behave. Here is the whole process, start to finish.How to Find Things in the Night Sky (Star-Hopping for Beginners)The hard part of astronomy is not owning a telescope, it is finding anything with it. The skill that unlocks the sky is star-hopping: navigating from bright stars you know to the faint targets you do not. Here is how.How to Program a Repeater Into a Baofeng UV-5R (So It Actually Talks Back)You bought the cheap Baofeng, you can hear the local repeater, and now you key up and nothing happens. This is the wall almost every new ham hits, and it is almost never the radio. Programming a repeater into a UV-5R comes down to three numbers and one tone setting people forget. Here is exactly how to do it, both the easy way and the keypad way, and how to tell which setting you got wrong.How to Identify a Bird: The Four Things to Look AtIdentifying a bird feels impossible at first and then becomes second nature, once you know what to look at. Experienced birders do not memorise every species; they read four things. Here they are.
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