(1/n)Excited to announce new course I have been planning for 5 years BioE271: Frugal Science frugalscience.org structured as global participatory class open to all. 50% Stanford students 50% global participant. Learn how to solve serious challenges with little bit of play 
(2/n)Together we will explore principles of frugal science to design scalable solutions with cost/performance rubric. With examples we will look at imp of fundamental science of everyday building blocks. We will juggle rigors of applied math/physics with creativity of a toy maker
(3/n) Global Participatory Community Health Track:
Can we diagnose deadly infectious diseases under a tree? Environmental Planetary-Health Activists Track: Can we build tools to make measurements at planetary scale.
Can we diagnose deadly infectious diseases under a tree? Environmental Planetary-Health Activists Track: Can we build tools to make measurements at planetary scale.
(4/n) Democratizing Tools for Discovery Track:
How do we make access to science a fundamental human right?
How do we make access to science a fundamental human right?
(5/n)Why teach this class? As a society, we find ourselves surrounded by planetary-scale challenges -lack of equitable health care to environmental degradation to loss of biodiversity. One theme that runs across is need to invent cost-effective solutions with potential to scale.
(6/n) We hope to use this teaching platform to build a global community of curious explorers passionate about frugal science ideas; sharing and learning from each other - with a critical eye towards scalability.
(7/n) On a lighter note; doesn't the world need needs more designers that can solve partial differential equations. Erase the boundaries between basic and applied and look at the world with a fresh eye!
(8/n) Off-course, this will be all online course + garage science. Lecture videos will be online frugalscience.org - No matter where you live in the world, any stage of career - if you are serious about engaging, please apply by Thursday Sept 10th midnight PST.
(9/n) Just like everything in life, it will be an experiment in global creativity. We apologize in advance if we don't accept you in round one. Once we prototype the class this year, we will scale this massively. If you are a field org that engages in frugal science - write to us
@himdaughter @kvijayraghavan Any chance we could get help in translation of lectures in Hindi/other languages? Just a thought. I ask since I know about your past translation projects.
