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121 " Foldit is another game that is making waves. Users solve puzzles for science by designing proteins. It turns out that humans’ pattern-recognition and puzzle-solving abilities are more efficient than existing computer programs at pattern-folding tasks, so the scientists behind Foldit are using players’ answers to teach computers to fold proteins faster and predict protein structures. The combined effort of players actually helped solve a problem related to HIV that had puzzled scientists for more than 10 years. "
― Philip G. Zimbardo , The Demise of Guys: Why Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It
122 " Time even influenced postmodern artists such as Picasso, Braque, and Dalí. Picasso and Braque’s cubist style, for instance, depicts people and objects as they exist from all perspectives simultaneously, while Salvador Dalí’s Persistence of Memory depicts the malleability and relativity of time. "
― Philip G. Zimbardo , The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life