500, have noted several ideas about the mystery fruit's identity, but - spoiler alert - apple is not one of them, Zivotofsky said. Rabbis commenting on the Hebrew Bible in the Talmud, a collection of rabbinic teachings and biblical law, and other writings completed by around A.D. So, if the forbidden fruit wasn't an apple, what was it? (It does appear in other, later biblical texts.) In biblical times, "tapuach," was a word for generic fruit. The modern Hebrew word for apple, "tapuach," on the other hand, does not appear anywhere in Genesis or in the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, Zivotofsky said. The Hebrew word used in that verse is "peri," a generic word for fruit in both biblical and modern Hebrew, according to Zivotofsky. We don't know what kind of tree, we don't know what fruit." She also gave some to her husband, and he ate" (Genesis 3:6), according to the Jewish Publication Society's translation at .Īs for the type of fruit, it's described as "just the 'fruit of the tree,'" Zivotofsky said. With the right tools, games are a powerful source of good in the world."When the woman saw that the tree was good for eating and a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable as a source of wisdom, she took of its fruit and ate. "We are constantly reminded that the EVE community is like no other." No other, apart from Borderlands’, it seems. "Since beginning Project Discovery we have seen our players band together as one to affect incredible change," says Bergur Finnabogson, EVE Online’s creative director at CCP. So far, over 1.5million players have engaged with the minigames, leading to hundreds of millions of submissions to the scientific projects. “We solve the virtual problems that game designers create, and as we move more of our lives into these virtual worlds, it is almost an imperative for us as a society to find more and more value in this time we are spending in games." "Games are huge, and games will be with us for a long time," Szanter says. With a potentially huge impact on the health system." I get the feeling we’ll be seeing more of these minigames make their way into videogames. It’s a huge field, and probably one of the most interesting in biology these days. "You have a lot of papers recently trying to draw a potential connection between the microbes in your gut and Alzheimer’s-the idea is that what you eat now may trigger something, or not, years from now. "To some extent we are more microbes than human," says Szanter. The more puzzles players solve, the more they help decode the human gut microbiome. There are partnerships here with researchers and scientists at McGill University, Quebec, and The Microsetta Initiative at UC San Diego School of Medicine, while Big Bang Theory star Dr Mayim Bialik lent her voice to the project. The more puzzles players solve, the more they help decode the human gut microbiome, all while earning rewards that can be used in Borderlands 3. Players connect those coloured shapes to help scientists estimate the similarity between each microbe. Meanwhile, over in the looter-shooter, Borderlands Science encodes the DNA of each gut microbe as a string of bricks of four different shapes and colours. Take part, and you can earn exclusive cosmetic customisations for your EVE character. EVE calls this Project Discovery, and you access it by clicking the logo in the Neocon menu. Indeed, what started life as a project to map human proteins in EVE Online in 2016 has, via the classification of exoplanets in 2017, come right down to Earth with a project to detect and measure the chemical characteristics of cells-known as flow cyclometry-which has a bearing on the body’s response to COVID-19. We recoil from anything labelled as ‘educational’, but there’s an opportunity here to do real good. Integrating science into a videogame is tricky. And while sites such as Artigo ( unless you want a Portuguese flooring company) gamify things a bit by having you assign tags to paintings while paired with another player, scoring points when your tags match, it’s not exactly AAA. What none of them involve, however, is playing PC games. You can even get paid for doing them through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk programme. These citizen science projects are, essentially, experiments in human computation. You can get our glossy mag fired through your letterbox each month by subscribing (opens in new tab). This article was originally published in PC Gamer UK 351.
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