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I’m not a gamer.

And I confess, I’ve held some of the myths myself about video games.

Game over.

Just found this powerful 3-minute animated documentary that tells the story of social innovation and how the Foldit group was involved in solving the Mason Pfizer Monkey Virus (MPMV) structure.

Biologists spent ten years trying to map the structure of the Mason Pfizer Monkey Virus, a problem that could unlock the cure for AIDS. The Contenders solved it in three weeks using the online puzzle game Foldit.

Some of you may have seen this already (worth watching again, don’t you agree?) because it premiered at Sundance this past January.

I only came across it because I follow Upworthy on Facebook and they posted it today.

I clicked and was blown away.

Foldit is a new game that’s described by the creators as a game, “in which YOU just play to solve puzzles, and WE test your solutions to work on curing cancer, AIDS, and a host of diseases.”

My world just got bigger.

I wasn’t a gamer.

I might become one now.

Follow them on Twitter @foldit and this hashtag for the video #contendersdoc

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/57394084 w=500&h=281]

The Contenders | Lucy Walker from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo.

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Jhpiego: 40 years of saving women's lives

Jhpiego: 40 years of saving women’s lives

When a woman dies, the likelihood of her children dying within two years of her death will increase 10-fold. And women around the world are dying at an unacceptable rate: a woman dies every two minutes to pregnancy-related causes alone.

Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization that aims to improve these statistics by designing and implementing low-cost, innovative solutions, including initiatives to improve reproductive health. Tonight on Healthstyles, producer Diana Mason, PhD, RN, interviews Leslie Mancuso, PhD, RN, the President and CEO of Jhpiego, about the work of this organization and its impact on the health of families and communities. So tune in tonight at 11:00 PM to listen to Healthstyles on WBAI, 99.5 FM (www.wbai.org) or click here to listen to the program at any time:

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:17 — 23.2MB)

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Healthstyles is sponsored by the Center for Health, Media and Policy at Hunter College, City University of New York.

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This is reposted from HEALTHpopuli, the blog of Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, a health economist and management consultant. Her company, THINK-Health is a strategic health consultancy that serves clients at the intersection of health and technology in the U.S. and Europe.

…and I’m not talking about [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3PXucLotXk] here (or [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAjIy3uPmv4]).

Most people (75%) still view phone calls as the communication mode that best bolsters their relationships compared with texting (66%), picture messaging (35%), sharing on social networks (31%), emailing (25%), , and video chatting (9%). U.S. Cellular, the mobile phone company, surveyed 527 customers in April 2013 to learn about how wireless communication can bring “Better Moments” to peoples’ lives. In particular, people say that mobile phones help them:

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This is reposted from HEALTHpopuli, the blog of Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, a health economist and management consultant. Her company, THINK-Health is a strategic health consultancy that serves clients at the intersection of health and technology in the U.S. and Europe.

…and I’m not talking about [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3PXucLotXk] here (or [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAjIy3uPmv4]).

Most people (75%) still view phone calls as the communication mode that best bolsters their relationships compared with texting (66%), picture messaging (35%), sharing on social networks (31%), emailing (25%), , and video chatting (9%). U.S. Cellular, the mobile phone company, surveyed 527 customers in April 2013 to learn about how wireless communication can bring “Better Moments” to peoples’ lives. In particular, people say that mobile phones help them:

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