You and your two friends are working in a multinational company. How can you three find out the average salary of you all without disclosing your own salary to the other two?
In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years. The gamers solved it in three weeks.
