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Introducing Boid — The Social Supercomputer — Boosting Scientific Distributed Computing & Expanding Access to Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

There is a new player in the “distributed computing for good causes” scene. Boid, seeks to boost participation in volunteer distributed computing efforts and ma...

Introducing BOID -The Social Supercomputer

Hi Steemians!!! We are the team from Boid.com and we are super excited to launch our new platform. Today August 3, 2018 we are releasing our public Alpha versio...

Distributed networks aren't new, but why aren't they mainstream?

Distributed networks are designed to be self-rewarding to participants, so we find that the reason people are not participating is not due to lack of direct inc...

Steemit Gets a Mention in The Economist

I just came across a nice mention of Steemit and Steem in a recent Economist article. Inside a special report on blockchain and re-decentralising the internet t...

The Concept of Drawdown is Gaining Steam as More Communities and Businesses Commit

The concept of Drawdown, is that in order to reverse global warming, we don’t just need to halt the increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations, rather we need t...

Finally a Volunteer Computing App for iPhones! Thanks Vodafone!

Vodafone Foundation has released DreamLab which runs volunteer computing projects on Apple and Android devices! While BOINC has been available for Androids for ...

Johnnie C's Favorite National Parks - Yellowstone

I mentioned in my last Johnnie C's Favorite National Parks post that the focus on wildlife was a teaser for the next park I'd cover. I love seeing wildlife when...

Bored? Help find Gravitational Lenses By Looking Through Images of Distant Galaxies!

The Space Warps Project is a fun way to kill some time and help out scientists. Here is how they explain their project: "Gravitational lenses are massive astron...

What if Blockchain and Simulation Hypothesis are what give us Deja vu, Alternative Universes, Dreams and Forked Realities?

Classify this under Saturday morning waking thoughts that are fun to consider. As I was waking up from a particularly interesting dream featuring lots of my old...

New Climate Projects Coming to World Community Grid

World Community Grid just announced three winners of its contest seeking new climate research projects to support on WCG. These winners get access to the volunt...

Threatened Turtles Return to Beach in India that Until Recently had Been Buried in Trash

Following environmental news these days it is easy to get depressed and become pessimistic. While these feelings are justified, they aren't always helpful. For ...

Johnnie C's Favorite National Parks - Wildlife

I recently started a new series "Johnnie C's Favorite National Parks". You can read the introduction here and my first post on Olympic National Park here. As a ...

Johnnie C's Favorite National Parks - Olympic National Park, Washington

Welcome to my new series "Johnnie C's Favorite National Parks". Today, we travel to the Pacific Northwest, in particular to the Olympic Peninsula in northwester...

Johnnie C's Favorite National Parks - Introduction

I love backpacking, hiking, strolling, kayaking, and taking photos outdoors and have visited lots of great parks over the years. In this set of articles, I'm go...

Yosemite in Winter

.jpg) I've long wanted to visit Yosemite in winter. I'm not sure if it was an Ansel Adams photo or a story about early settlers living in Yosemite Valley, or a ...

Which Carbon XPrize Finalist's Idea Do You Think is the Best?

The Carbon XPrize is a $20 million prize that hopes to incentivize the development of technologies that utilize carbon dioxide, in particular concepts that conv...

These New Transportation Technologies Will Have Major Impacts on Urban Transportation and Carbon Emissions

https://steemitimages.com/DQmV2bDCacvJb7hn1tpK4dvLdBznofspo9iBCfY1jNEZxqY/image.png  What do scooters, skateboards, bicycles, and carshares have in common?...

Saturday is Citizen Science Day! How do you Citizen Science?

This Saturday is Citizen Science Day, though like Earth Day, it seems like every day should really be Citizen Science Day! There are so many ways for anyone to ...

A Non-Techie Perspective on BOINCing with Single-Board Computers: Raspberry Pi 3 vs. ODROID XU4Q

What follows is a description of my experience setting up a Raspberry Pi3 and an ODROID XU4Q. If you just want to see a comparison of the results and a short su...

Renewables Keep Getting Better (& so do the cryptos that support them)

Lots of big news on renewable energy has come out recently. For example, did you know that in many regions building and using new renewables (like solar and win...