The GalaxyZoo project has announced its first preliminary results.  As I mentioned before the GalaxyZoo project asks the general public to classify images of galaxies.  The results they are announcing now is that galaxies tend to rotate counter-clockwise from our point of view.  If that were to hold true there would need to be a unknown force acting upon them or the universe would need to be lopsided in some way.  Naturally I have to wonder if there is a natural bias in the human eye/brain system that explains away this anomaly.  Of course, they have already considered this and are investigating it by adding a bunch of mirror images into the database to see how they are categorized.  This is quite an interesting project.

Another thing I find interesting is that when they compared their data to that of earlier work done professional astronomers they found that the self-selected general public is about as good at classifying galaxies.