Make over your brain with the SCIENCE CHEERLEADER

Darlene Cavalier is an ex-professional cheerleader who's now using her site, Science Cheerleader, to rally the troops of 'citizen scientists' - average peeps like you and me - to engage more with science efforts in their community.

This video teams REAL LIFE CHEERLEADERS with REAL LIFE SCIENCE FACTS, and is part of her Brain Makeover programme:

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Darlene Cavalier used to cheerlead for the 76ers. But now she's set up a website for average people - or citizen scientists - to get involved in the science efforts taking place all around them. You can:

"Tag butterflies to help track their migratory habits, count fireflies to help researchers better understand why they appear to be diminishing in some places but not others (talk about a fun family project; my kids and I learned how to differentiate between males, females and stealth predators!), sort through galaxies, help meteorologists predict weather patterns, record earthquakes, help project flu outbreaks, you name it!"

Here she is making her perky stand for citizen scientists to Penn and Teller:

Goooooooooo SCIENCE!

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