The Cognitive Surplus, Ctd

The online game "Foldit,"
released in 2008, "enlists the help of online puzzle-solvers to help
crack one of science's most intractable mysteries - how proteins fold into
their complex three-dimensional forms."

Some new data on the effort:

When the researchers analyzed the strategies employed by a group of 57,000 Foldit players,
they found that humans were better at some aspects of pattern
recognition and protein structure prediction than current computational
software.

As Bubble might s...