gamers crack protein folding puzzle

Interesting, and not entirely irrelevant, news story:

• http://goo.gl/ktdDd

Virus

From University of Wisconsin's "Wisconsin Institute for Discovery" is an article about their approach towards game design for teaching science and specifically talks about their Virus game for iPad. I like their attitude towards games  for education. I wish I had an iPad so I could try it out.

PS: Hopefully someday soon I will have time to generate actual content in this blog instead of just posting cool links

Code Hero: a programing learning game

This game looks pretty cool. Your gun fires computer code that changes behavior of its target.  You can load you gun with different kinds of code. (eg:  Move(0,0,400) or AddForce(100,0,0). ) that you either write your self or copy from other objects.