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Gamers Redesign Protein That Stumped Scientists
Folding: it’s detestable and boring, as any Gap employee can tell you. But it’s also a totally fun thing you can do in a video game! And today it’s particularly exciting because players of the online game Foldit have redesigned a protein, and their work is published in the science journal Nature Biotechnology.
Crowdsourced Star Wars Remake Is Done, Watch It
Back in 2009, Vimeo developer Casey Pugh requested the internet’s limitless denizens come up with 15-second recreations of scenes from Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. The internet responded, heartily and, in 2010, Pugh secured an Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media for his efforts. Since then, the scenes have existed in isolation, snippets of a potentially greater whole. That was until now.
Crowdmug Lets You Pay Strangers To Be Your Social Spies
It’s always a bummer when you decide to try something new, only to discover that it’s not your scene. Crowdmug for iOS helps you avoid these situations by harnessing the most effective crowd motivation tool of our time: money.
Iceland’s Letting Its Facebook Users Help Write Their New Constitution
What could possibly go wrong here! Facebook, the same place where people drunkenly message their exes and solicit assassins, is now going to birth Iceland’s next constitution. The government wants user feedback while they make a new one. Prudent.
