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Innovation

by Michael Ho

Thu, Jan 26th 2012 5:00pm




Filed Under:
challenges, contests, international space station, research, science

Companies:
american chemistry council, assay depot, biocurious, youtube


DailyDirt: Looking For Science Projects...

from the urls-we-dig-up dept

Lots of companies are trying to encourage budding scientists to test out their wacky ideas. We've covered some of the more well-known contests before, but here are a few not-as-widely-publicized challenges for young scientists out there.

By the way, StumbleUpon can recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.

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    NASA has been trying to crowdsource space experiments for DECADES...

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    Anonymous Coward, Jan 26th, 2012 @ 5:42pm

    NASA's been asking kids for science experiment ideas to put into space for decades, and it makes me think that there's a surplus of experimental time on space stations... why else would they allow useless kid experiments to be done by highly trained astronauts? Where is all this research published? The journal of cute kid ideas?

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    BioCurious Meetup Group

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    ced1106 (profile), Jan 26th, 2012 @ 5:50pm

    Here's the link to the BioCurious Meetup group, which includes their direct URL: http://www.meetup.com/BioCurious/

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    Re: NASA has been trying to crowdsource space experiments for DECADES...

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    abc gum, Jan 26th, 2012 @ 6:31pm

    "why else would they allow useless kid experiments to be done by highly trained astronauts? Where is all this research published? The journal of cute kid ideas?"

    This may be incorrect, but I will assume you are serious.

    Why is it that you think only adults have original, creative and worthwhile thoughts? Do you have any empirical evidence to support this claim? If so, please share, I'm sure everyone would be interested in your presentation.

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    Re: NASA has been trying to crowdsource space experiments for DECADES...

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    Michael Ho (profile), Jan 26th, 2012 @ 11:34pm

    I remember NASA asking for project ideas in high school... I think it would be really cool if NASA kept all the submissions somewhere -- not only so that they didn't get the same experiments submitted every year, but also so that future students could build off the shoulders of [giants?] other teenagers....

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    Scientific Theories: They Say You Can’t Prove A Negative ...

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    Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Jan 26th, 2012 @ 11:50pm

    ... but I’ve never come across a proof of that.

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