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Chemical weapons; Crowd-sourcing weather; Fingerprint ID; Dino drill

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How to Use Smartphones to Improve Weather Predictions

The UK's Met Office is also interested in crowd sourcing data. Hot Bists can upload measurements from their amateur weather stations. Since June 2011, there have been over 140 million observations. Professional weather stations are expensive to install and run. But at least the forecasters know they can trust their outputs.

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