Reader Brian explains:
Folding@Home is basically a distributed computing project designed to cure diseases like cancer and Alzheimers. It works by borrowing spare CPU cycles from people who install the program on their computer.
If you’d like to help out, just download the software and type in #182116 in the “team” box during setup (so that your points get counted toward the Atheists, Skeptics, & Humanists team).
They’re currently ranked 88 — can we make it any better?