Photo: Pathfinder Lester “Augmented Mind” available in the library   Anyone who entered Second Life Education between 2005 and 2010 undeniably came across Pathfinder Linden. Pathfinder Linden was the customer market development in Education and Healthcare at LL.  His office hours were phenomenal and many a teacher took advantage of John’s knowledge. Within Second Life […]

This presentation has since taken place, you can view the film recording here Our current times are bad. But where are we headed? Some of the world’s smartest people in government, research, academia, business, economics, science, and other fields have looked 20 years into the future, and seen a time of abundance and shared opportunities. […]

Pathfinder's Office Hours at the Science Circle   Are you interested in immersive learning, art and education in virtual worlds? Want to join an engaging discussion with a roundtable of friendly people? If so, please join us at my weekly Office Hour every Wednesday @ 10am Pacific at the Science Circle in Second Life. Hope […]

Take a break. Join us for a walk along the beach…feel the sand squish between your toes. Warm sun spreads across your shoulders and back. Smell the salt in the air. Breathe deeply as you relax into the moment. A walk along the beach can be a soul-restoring experience, a small human in connection to […]

Pathfinder’s Office Hours at the Science Circle   Are you interested in immersive learning, art and education in virtual worlds? Want to join an engaging discussion with a roundtable of friendly people? If so, please join us at my weekly Office Hour every Wednesday @ 10am Pacific at the Science Circle in Second Life. Hope […]

This presentation has since taken place, you can view the film recording here Aging, infertility, neural degeneration, cancer, genetic variability. What could they all have in common? An underappreciated source of their cause in little genomic parasites known as retrotransposons. Retrotransposon exist in our genomes and live a life of copying and pasting into new […]

This presentation has since taken place, you can view the film recording here   Image: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA   Weather Models, Climate Models, Observations, and Parallel Earths Weather models and climate models share some core algorithms. They also share algorithms with the models used to obtain properties of the atmosphere and surface from […]

Pathfinder’s Office Hours at the Science Circle   Are you interested in immersive learning, art and education in virtual worlds? Want to join an engaging discussion with a roundtable of friendly people? If so, please join us at my weekly Office Hour every Wednesday @ 10am Pacific at the Science Circle in Second Life. Hope […]

This presentation has since taken place, you can view the film recording here   People experience a 3D virtual world through an avatar representation of their real world self. A virtual world avatar can be distinguished from a static social media thumbnail or handle in that a VW avatar is dynamic and 3-dimensional. Typically, the […]