Are you familiar with World Community Grid (WCG)? If not, please consider joining—and earning some crypto, too!
WCG was established by IBM over a decade ago. The project works with universities and research institutes around the world to conduct scientific research. "Distributed Computing" is the method of search, and it means the division of a simulation into work units for individual computers to crunch/calculate. As someone who loves science, this has been a cool way to learn about different types of research—while also contributing to that research. It has been really neat to lend computing time to issues like finding novel compounds to cure HIV and studying the human microbiome (the bacteria that live in our bodies, like probiotics!)
Want to know more? Ask me here or https://join.worldcommunitygrid.org?recruiterId=144874
Oh, and I forgot to mention, for those crypto lovers: Byteball and Gridcoin currently allow you to earn their cryptos by linking your WCG work!
Photo caption: some of the projects my computers have worked on since joining WCG in 2005.