January 4, 2013

Science Video Games Lead to Epic Breakthroughs

The Scientist, The Scientist


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Eli Fisker has struggled to hold down a job as a librarian, largely as a result of an undiagnosed condition he describes as similar to Asperger’s. In his ample spare time, the 35-year-old from Alborg, Denmark, plays an online video game in which he arranges colored discs into two-dimensional chain-link shapes.

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TAGGED: protein folding, DNA, citizen science, video games

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