Boy, I feel like the Internet is just on a roll with providing cool science things today. First I found WorldWide Telescope (see previous post) and now Discovery News points me to FoldIt. FoldIt is an online game in which players fold and manipulate proteins to solve puzzles. I think the coolest thing about FoldIt is that it presents the possibility of solving some actually scientific challenges. The proteins in the game are all real proteins and the problems are all real problems. This just seems really cool and innovative. People like puzzles and many of the challenges that modern science faces are nothing more than complex puzzles. I wonder if FoldIt experiences some good success if other branches of science will try and follow with their own versions of puzzle games. Think of how cool it would be to play a nano-material synthesizing game!
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