Every first Friday of the month, we hold an open board meeting for the benefit of our members. Here you can contact us with your questions, create ideas and hopefully […]

WHAT IS ENTROPY? "Entropy is disorder." You've learned this from popular culture, you've learned this in your physical science, chemistry, or biology class. But what does that *mean*? We have […]

A tutorial on "Optics for photographers”. This tutorial is intended to teach practical optical concepts to persons who are photographers but have not had formal training in optics and may have acquired misleading notions from camera advertisements, the common talk on forums, and the like. The tutorial outline is shown below. Optics for Photographers by […]

Photo: JAMSTEC Where? Abyss Observatory in JOGrid (OpenSim) Enable your OpenSim access here hop://jogrid.net:8002/Abyss Observatory/491/302/140 Who? Hajime Nishimura, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC),           Yan Lauria, Museum director […]