Mike Anuzis, Died in World War II.
I didn’t know there was another Mike Anuzis… Apparently he died in World War II… His name is engraved on a memorial in Georgetown, Illinois. I’d like to visit one day to pay my respects.
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What a clever idea - allowing gamers to leverage their skills to help solve protein folding: http://fold.it
Excerpts from the site…
Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research.
What big problems is this game tackling?
Protein structure prediction: As described above, knowing the structure of a protein is key to understanding how it works and to targeting it with drugs. A small proteins can consist of 100 amino acids, while some human proteins can be huge (1000 amino acids). The number of different ways even a small protein can fold is astronomical because there are so many degrees of freedom. Figuring out which of the many, many possible structures is the best one is regarded as one of the hardest problems in biology today and current methods take a lot of money and time, even for computers. Foldit attempts to predict the structure of a protein by taking advantage of humans’ puzzle-solving intuitions and having people play competitively to fold the best proteins.
Innovation Shot Caller!
I’m on a roll predicting social-impact entrepreneurial startups that should come into existence! First I nailed some green technology stuff. Now I see that the open-bounties on innovation idea I described last march has pretty much manifested in the form of innocentive.com.
It’s not quite there yet as they still need to find a way to open the bounties up so anyone can contribute their $50-2,000 to the innovative dilemmas challenging humanity, but aside from that they’ve pretty much got it. The incentive is there to open it up since it’d mean growing their revenues exponentially, but they’d probably no longer be able to take 40% of the cash, and would have to find a way to handle the complications that come up when multiple people with somewhat differing objectives pool money for a common innovative cause.
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