Today we explore how the internet has created globally connected interfaces that are bringing scientists and citizens closer together. We talk to wildlife biologist Alexandra Swanson about how she began crowdsourcing manpower to process data for her monstrous camera trap project, through a platform called The Zooniverse, which in turn gave rise to her own project, Snapshot Serengeti.

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