Plant Watered by Facebook Fans Drowns in Love, Literally
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Tragic news from Facebook, yesterday: a plant has died. The flora, named 'Meet Eater,' was originally planted in Australia by Queensland University student Bashkim Isai, who wanted to find out whether or not random online strangers would care enough about a plant to collectively "water" it. To test his theory, Isaid created a Facebook page for his Eater; whenever someone became a fan of the ...
Citizen scientists are nothing new. In fact, they've been helping the Audubon Society to catalog birds since 1900, and have even been enlisted by NASA to study stardust collected in probes. But new technology like 3G data networks and advanced cell phone operating systems like the iPhone's OS X have scientists scrambling to put powerful, connected, mobile tools in the palms of amateur ...








