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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1556402  Canada09/19/2011 10:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Gamers rule! Anti-video games parents, SUCK IT LONG AND HARD! [link to cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com] Gamers solve molecular puzzle that baffled scientists Video-game players have solved a molecular puzzle that stumped scientists for years, and those scientists say the accomplishment could point the way to crowdsourced cures for AIDS and other diseases. "This is one small piece of the puzzle in being able to help with AIDS," Firas Khatib, a biochemist at the University of Washington, told me. Khatib is the lead author of a research paper on the project, published today by Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. The feat, which was accomplished using a collaborative online game called Foldit, is also one giant leap for citizen science — a burgeoning field that enlists Internet users to look for alien planets, decipher ancient texts and do other scientific tasks that sheer computer power can't accomplish as easily.  |
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| Tatlantis User ID: 1552159 United States09/19/2011 11:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | just found this too...you beat me to the punch [link to scienceblog.com] good way to discover solutions, I'd say "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." -Albert Pike • The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. • “Your Majesty, please… I don’t like to complain, But down here below, we are feeling great pain. I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, But down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights. We turtles can’t stand it. Our shells will all crack! Besides, we need food. We are starving!” groaned Mack. “You hush up your mouth!” howled the mighty King Yertle. “You’ve no right to talk to the world’s highest turtle. I rule from the clouds! Over land! Over sea! There’s nothing, no, NOTHING, that’s higher than me!” |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1368376 Canada09/19/2011 11:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The meek shall survive and thrive, because it is all just a game after all, so why have fear about anything?  |
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