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This project has been ongoing for about 25 years now: https://foldingathome.org/faq/how-it-works

I'd discourage claiming any biological process is "solved." But to your point: No--AlphaFold is an amazing machine learning approach to predicting protein structure but Folding@Hom…

The distributed compute part of the project has turned off but data analysis continues. I know what you mean these types of projects inspired me to contribute as a young citizen sc…

While the other recommendations are great, they are more psychologically focused. Check out Eric Kandel's "In Search of Memory". I really can't recommend it enough. He talks about …

J&J tries to weasel out of paying compensation. If a half-trillion dollar company can't afford to pay restitution to its victims then maybe jail-time for the executives involved wo…

Seaman for dreamcast utilized a microphone in which you would talk to your fish (that also would develop to grow a human head). It relied on voice commands. You could praise it, sc…

Kudos to the editors for taking a stand. Absurd cost for publications was a major reason I left academia as a postdoc. Senior scientists with large grants and salaries write it off…

If one's goal is a revolution of thought, than perhaps being immersed in the past process is ultimately constraining. Deference to past authority is an easier road to follow than d…

Ask and ye shall receive....a stabilized version of the link https://imgur.com/gallery/PImiVMC

BF Skinner approached the military during WW2 with a proposal to use pigeon-guided missiles. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/bf-sk... There are also programs…