50 million is quite a large number -- especially considering that a lot of the articles involved funding, research and work not obvious to most people but those

50 million is quite a large number -- especially considering that a lot of the articles involved funding, research and work not obvious to most people but those who are specialists in their field. I wonder what the average cost of a research article is? I know that getting funding for research involved difficult proposal writing, etc .. I wonder if startups like https://microryza.com/ https://microryza.com/ going through and figuring out crowdfunding science will have as big of an impact as kickstarter or the various microloan sites will have. Imagine a world where science funding is not only drawn from the public, but where the public, by the very nature of going through research ideas also participates in learning and staying informed about science. Pretty cool, eh?