Last night's guest on The Colbert Report was Jane McGonigal talking about how the world needs more gamers to change the world.
She mentioned that there are games out there "working on curing cancer, ending poverty and stopping climate change."
Steven Colbert then asked "Do they work?"
Jane replied "So far this year 57,000 gamers co-authored a paper for Nature Journal, the prestigious scientific journal, they didn't have any training in biochemistry at all, but they played a game that helped them co-author a paper."
The interview is now up on the Colbert Nation website (although it might not be available worldwide):
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/373360/february-03-2011/jane-mcgonigal
It was actually that show which I first heard about this game. I usually do not what the Colbert Report, but the moment I do I find something amazing!
Eterna and foldit in the news of science
AAAS (American association for the advancement of Sciences)
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/07/will-nih-embrace-biomedical-research.html?ref=hp
In the middle 26min
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/show/2011.08.14/
Interview with Seth Cooper: http://www.innovationstuntmen.com/?p=1759 (scroll down, article german but interview is english)
statue like that! ;]
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/09/how-online-gamers-solved-aids-mystery.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44562202#44562202
http://tinyurl.com/6ae334j (Deccan)
http://the-scientist.com/2011/09/18/public-solves-protein-structure/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/uow-gsw091611.php
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/09/tk.html
http://h1n1vaccine.net/ (mat747)
seems to be this:
the press wave is now over 70 articles most of which are repeats of the press release, while others contain some pretty inaccurate information (not unusual from our previous experience)
play..... more..... ;]