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Get involved in science using citizen science projects and distributed computing projects or donate books.

Donate Books

Book and Textbook Donation at Bigwords.com
Donate books and textbooks to fight illiteracy around the world!

International Book Project
Since its beginnings in 1966, the International Book Project has been making dreams come true through books for millions of people in need, worldwide.

Distributed Computing & Citizen Science Research Efforts

BOINC
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing open source platform

Climate Prediction
Climateprediction.net is a large experiment trying to produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century.

Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)
Open source distributed computing environment

Einstein@Home
Einstein@Home uses computer time donated by computer owners all over the world to process data from gravitational wave detectors.

Folding@home
The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery

Galaxy Zoo
More than 200,000 people have taken part in Galaxy Zoo so far, producing a wealth of valuable data and sending telescopes on Earth and in space chasing after their discoveries

List of Distributed Computing Projects
Ongoing distributed computing projects list compiled at Wikipedia

MilkyWay@Home
The MilkyWay@Home project processes data from tthe Sloan Digital Sky Survey to better understand the layout of our Milky Way galaxy. Part of the BOINC network of @Home projects

SETI@home - Search for Extreterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
A scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)

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