Crowdsourcing is most often associated with using social media tools as a means of quickly bringing people together people on a specific topic or issue. The recent events in Tunisia, Egypt, and elsewhere in the middle east are examples of the power of crowdsourcing. It isn't a surprise that the same approach might not be helpful to scientific investigations and creative research as well. One obvious example of scientific crowdsourcing is the SETI Institute that is trying to decipher ...