Second Life can be a place of wonder in the hands of imaginative and skilled builders. When those hands belong to people from different parts of the world or different cultures, the sense of wonder can turn into awe and can be an education and even transformative experience. The best way to explore Second Life […]

DECEMBER FIELDTRIP ROULETTE Every Saturday in December we will visit a random location picked from a pool of beautiful locations found by Jes and Chantal! Round and round we go, where we'll stop? Nobody knows...   Is this the first time you will attend a presentation with us? Follow this link first.

  We will have a bit of discussion about the resources expended at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in the attack that started just before 8 AM local time on December 7, 1941. This will be an examination of the costs of starting a war in terms of human lives, equipment and munitions, energy, and collateral environmental damage.         […]

Second Life can be a place of wonder in the hands of imaginative and skilled builders. When those hands belong to people from different parts of the world or different cultures, the sense of wonder can turn into awe and can be an education and even transformative experience. The best way to explore Second Life […]

DECEMBER FIELDTRIP ROULETTE Every Saturday in December we will visit a random location picked from a pool of beautiful locations found by Jes and Chantal! Round and round we go, where we'll stop? Nobody knows...   Is this the first time you will attend a presentation with us? Follow this link first.

We will celebrate the BIRTHDAY of Danish mathematician and astronomer, TYCHO BRACH and discuss his life including - his founding with the help of his smart little sister, SOPHIE BRACH, of the URANIBORG OBSERVATORY on the island of VEN (named HVEN prior to 1959).  - the first custom-built observatory in modern Europe, and the last […]

Second Life can be a place of wonder in the hands of imaginative and skilled builders. When those hands belong to people from different parts of the world or different cultures, the sense of wonder can turn into awe and can be an education and even transformative experience. The best way to explore Second Life […]

DECEMBER FIELDTRIP ROULETTE Every Saturday in December we will visit a random location picked from a pool of beautiful locations found by Jes and Chantal! Round and round we go, where we'll stop? Nobody knows...   Is this the first time you will attend a presentation with us? Follow this link first.

At 7:27 PM PST (Second Life time) is the moment of Winter Solstice with maximal tilt of the southern axis toward the sun for all on planet Earth. Since this is the LONGEST, DARKEST NIGHT in the Northern hemisphere, we will discuss LIGHT: light as a transverse wave as described by Scottish physicist, Clerk Maxwell who […]

You are invited to an open house at the Colorado State University Department of Anthropology and Geography sim on December 23.  Meryl McBride will spend several minutes at the outset describing what people see, and why; and will explain the purpose of the project.  While the current structure is very much a work in progress […]

Like every year, we visit a number of beautiful locations for 5 days during Christmas week, ending with a joint game of Madpea. Today we visit The Nature Center, developed to help us live in balance with our planet and learn everything about healthy nutrition.

Like every year, we visit a number of beautiful locations for 5 days during Christmas week, ending with a joint game of Madpea. Today we visit the Confederation of Democratic Simulators, the oldest democracy in Second Life.   The Confederation of Democratic Simulators (CDS) is the oldest democracy in Second Life. Originally founded in 2004 […]

Like every year, we visit a number of beautiful locations for 5 days during Christmas week, ending with a joint game of Madpea. Today we visit the zoo, Ariadne Zoo.

Like every year, we visit a number of beautiful locations during Christmas week for 5 days, ending with a joint game of Madpea. Today we visit a Portuguese village, developed for a Geocaching Game.     This estate is owned by the University of Aveiro (Portugal) for the purpose of developing the LOCUS Amiais project […]

As the NEW YEAR and transition to year 2024 CE approach, we will focus on TIME, including: - limitations in measurement of time (Planck Time) - TIME DILATION in Special Relativity and the difference between a mathematical proof and a physics derivation based on a model; - Exploration with Tagline's thought experiment as to the […]

Like every year, we visit a number of beautiful locations for 5 days during Christmas week, ending with a joint game of Madpea. Today we visit MADPEA!

Second Life can be a place of wonder in the hands of imaginative and skilled builders. When those hands belong to people from different parts of the world or different cultures, the sense of wonder can turn into awe and can be an education and even transformative experience. The best way to explore Second Life […]