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#CrowdCloudLIVE After each episode's WORLD premiere in April, show host, producer, and people seen on the show participated in post-premiere roundtable discussions. Viewers like you listened in, asked questions, and were able to dive deeper into the power of Citizen Science.

Watch the recorded Facebook Live events now. Discover more about how Citizen Science is revolutionizing the ways we gather, analyze, and utilize the data that fuels scientific research, discovery, and community action.

Find your local station and showtimes here, or go to:
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MalariaSpot
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GOAL:

Identify the malaria parasite in an online game to help eradicate malaria.

Malaria is an infectious disease that kills 655,000 people every year and is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium. The parasite is transmitted by mosquitoes and multiplies in the liver and eventually red blood cells of infected humans. In order to diagnose malaria a specialist has to view a person’s blood smear through a microscope which can takes up to half an hour per specimen. This just isn’t fast enough! Researchers came up with a way to screen for malaria much more quickly using mobile phones to crowd source analyses of malaria images, by having people simply play games. MalariaSpot and MalariaSpot Bubbles are games you can play to help eradicate malaria, what are you waiting for?

http://malariaspot.org/en/