Want to make a real contribution to science?  Don’t have the time to get a degree in Human Genetics?  Want to let your significant other know that all of that time playing video games isn’t a waste?  Well then Massively Multiplayer Online Science might be just the thing for you.

As part of EVE Online, Project Discovery was developed to help with the Human Protein Atlas, an effort to catalogue proteins and the genes that encode them.  Check out this article in the New Yorker about this amazing project.  Become a citizen scientist, all in the comfort of your own couch.

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Welcome to the abandoned island.  You will receive very little guidance to prepare you for your journey on the island. There are few explanations or instructions.  Instead, you must discover the paths for yourself. Use your mind to open new doorways. Patterns are everywhere. Through the use of these patterns, you move through different areas of the island, with each pattern getting more and more difficult.  You must build from your past knowledge, never quite the same, always challenging you to think beyond the limits, finding new ways to recognize solutions, often thinking that this time you may have reached your limit, only to recognize that the solution was right in front of you.  Welcome to The Witness.

Jonathan Blow’s latest creation is a twisting puzzle that will make you think.  By design, it is different from many of the games on the market.  I invite you to share in the annotation of the Vanity Fair article –In the Wake of Gamergate, Jonathan Blow Is Still Out to Make Video Games Smarter

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