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History. Astrology. Work. Music. Gaming for a cure: Computer gamers tackle protein folding. Computer scientists and biochemists at the University of Washington two years ago launched an ambitious project harnessing the brainpower of computer gamers to solve medical problems.

Gaming for a cure: Computer gamers tackle protein folding

The game, Foldit, turns one of the hardest problems in molecular biology into a game a bit reminiscent of Tetris. Thousands of people have now played a game that asks them to fold a protein rather than stack colored blocks or rescue a princess.

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Food. Ufology. TV. Are all meditation techniques the same? As doctors increasingly prescribe meditation to patients for stress-related disorders, scientists are gaining a better understanding of how different techniques from Buddhist, Chinese, and Vedic traditions produce different results. A new paper published in Consciousness and Cognition discusses three categories to organize and better understand meditation: Focused attention—concentrating on an object or emotion; Open monitoring—being mindful of one's breath or thoughts; Automatic self-transcending—meditations that transcend their own activity—a new category introduced by the authors.Each category was assigned EEG bands, based on reported brain patterns during mental tasks, and meditations were categorized based on their reported EEG.

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