Video Games (feat. Meg Pusey)

This episode, Kate and Matt are joined by the amazing Meg Pusey to talk all about video games. Meg introduces us to a wildly cool concept: using video games to do SCIENCE! We learn about a whole category of video games out there being used to do either data collection or data analysis for real scientific research. We talk about some super cool examples you can go play yourself, such as Fold it (https://fold.it/) or Eye Wire (https://eyewire.org/explore), and about science mini-games embedded into big, popular, commercial games. We also chat about educational games: do they work? Why aren’t they more of a thing? As always, we also answer a listener question! This episode we talk about sensing magnetic fields. Can animals do this? Can HUMANS? If you liked what Meg had to say and want to find more of her, you can find her on Twitter @scienceninjagal (https://twitter.com/scienceninjagal). And, as always, you can find us @curiosityrat on twitter, instagram, and facebook, and send your listener questions in to curiosityrat@gmail.com We also now have a Patreon! If you love our content and want to support us you can jump on to https://www.patreon.com/curiosityrat and become a patron. There is absolutely ZERO pressure but if you have as little as $1/month you can chuck it our way to help us out and show you appreciate all the time and effort that goes into making this show. Listener Question References: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2018/10/20/448449.full.pdf https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/can-humans-sense-the-magnetic-field--65611 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00359-005-0627-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn1745 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1742-9994-10-80 https://peerj.com/articles/6117/?fbclid=IwAR0GzUtEXZBhCAnxYzY3-l5sscwOt_HrgV1TY5PGHkLuEpQv7ooUeFuy3mo https://youtu.be/tdXb_4EkYtU