{"id":79,"date":"2008-05-25T10:01:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T14:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=79"},"modified":"2011-12-21T08:48:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T13:48:53","slug":"game-your-way-to-a-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2008\/05\/25\/game-your-way-to-a-nobel-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Your Way to a Nobel Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard the stories about young doctors, with plenty of computer-gaming hours behind them,\u00c2\u00a0wielding laparoscopic surgical tools with skill far beyond older, game-deficient peers. And the military adaptations of gaming engines to develop software-based training exercises. But this is about the most accessible game-to-real-world stuff I&#8217;ve heard of. <a title=\"the competitive sport of protein folding\" href=\"http:\/\/fold.it\" target=\"_blank\">Foldit<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0purports to turn protein folding into a competitive sport. This <a title=\"University of Washington News\" href=\"http:\/\/uwnews.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Univeristy of Washington<\/a> article compares Foldit to Tetris, a\u00c2\u00a0dinosaur fart of a game that my son&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0discovered lately and seems to play quite well. Maybe he can get famous. Maybe you can, too.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mediumHeadlineArial\"><a title=\"University of Washington News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/archive\/id\/41558\" target=\"_blank\">Computer game&#8217;s high score could earn the Nobel Prize in medicine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard the stories about young doctors, with plenty of computer-gaming hours behind them,\u00c2\u00a0wielding laparoscopic surgical tools with skill far beyond older, game-deficient peers. And the military adaptations of gaming engines to develop software-based training exercises. But this is about the most accessible game-to-real-world stuff I&#8217;ve heard of. Foldit\u00c2\u00a0purports to turn protein folding into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2008\/05\/25\/game-your-way-to-a-nobel-prize\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Game Your Way to a Nobel Prize<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[34,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}