Grant Jacobs • Aug 02, 2013 •
One of the cleverer and more entertaining promotions of a scientific journal I have seen in while has to be the game Eye Sci promoting Nature Publishing’s open-access journal Scientific Reports. You have until October 31st to work out the names of the 50 scientists alluded to in the picture. Read More
Grant Jacobs • Jul 05, 2013 •
Here’s a simple game that might amuse readers for a few minutes. It’s an easy game meant for everyone, on the National Geographic website. Your challenge is simply to order the species by how many of their genes are also found in humans. Give it a go and let us know how you get on. Read More
Aimee Whitcroft • Aug 29, 2012 •
As regular readers of mine will know, I have something of a jones for citizen science projects. Something of a substantial one, in fact. And so, it’s with enormous joy that I’d like to introduce y’all to another member of the flock: eteRNA. In this online ‘game’, you get to help advance science by [...] … Read More
Michael Edmonds • Jun 10, 2012 •
Last week, alongside the Transit of Venus forum, an online game Pounamu ran for two days. Asking players to envision what science would be like in 2020, we could play a series of cards which were visible for comment by other players. These cards included positive imagination and dark imagination cards as good or bad things that might affect … Read More
Chris McDowall • Jun 24, 2011 •
Over the next couple of days I am helping run an online event called Magnetic South – an online game about the long term future of Christchurch. It is part of Christchurch City Council’s Share an Idea suite of initiatives and will input to the development of the Central City Plan. The game is being run on … Read More