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Citizen science - "the involvement of nonprofessionals in the scientific process," according to University of Oxford astronomer Chris Lintott, one of Galaxy Zoo's founders - is not a new concept. Distributed-computing projects like SETI@home, which hunts for radio signals that might indicate intelligent life in the universe, and ClimatePrediction.net, which tests the accuracy of global climate models, have long tapped volunteers' home computers to help process data. The difference between these projects and Galaxy Zoo - and its inspiration, Stardust@home, which asks volunteers to search electron-microscope images for interstellar dust particles collected in space - is that the latter...
...technology and bandwidth have made data collection almost too easy. Many scientists are now drowning in massive amounts of data, which they don't have the time, resources or brain power to analyze. "In many parts of science, we're not constrained by what data we can get," says Lintott, who is also the co-host of the long-running BBC series The Sky at Night. "We're constrained by what we can do with the data we have. Citizen science is a very powerful way of solving that problem...
...authority. While Caplan’s utterly vivacious and animated performance deserves many high regards, Dalal’s portrayal of Irwin’s inner turmoil guarded by a severe façade also warrants a great deal of praise. The third teacher of the school is Mrs. Lintott (Alison H. Rich ’09). As the sole female in the cast, Rich certainly holds her own, hitting a homer with an impassioned monologue on women’s lack of recognition in the classroom.Further merits go to David J. Smolinsky ’11, who plays Scripps...
...protested one tailor, who finds himself invited out for dinner and away for weekends. In London, he might be invited in for a drink at most, and that only if he delivered a suit personally. In return, the Englishmen go all out to satisfy their customers. Traveling Partner Frederick Lintott of H. Huntsman & Sons, which specializes in hunting pinks and riding clothes, recalls vividly being awakened at 3 a.m. in his Biltmore suite in Manhattan by a Southern belle who wanted a hacking jacket fitted. Mr. Lintott sleepily obliged. "She was well escorted," he adds primly...
That mustard severely irritates the stomach, that alcohol taken in small quantities does not inflame the stomach at all. Drs. Douthwaite and Lintott had noticed that many patients suffered heartburn after taking aspirin. They collected 16 patients who were willing to endure the discomfort of a gastroscope, gave them three tablets of aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) crushed in one ounce of water. Through the gastroscope the doctors saw most of the 16 glistening pink stomachs turn at once to a "dusky...