Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Seems there are a bunch of articles referring to Second Life™ and Project Sansar this week. The Australian in their LIFE section has an article titled Welcome to the virtual reality social revolution.
Seems a fair enough view of SL and the image used is recent.
As I write this there are only a couple of comments. If all the comments were like the first, I would conclude the Australians are far more civil than Americans.
I wouldn’t have thought of this…
I included this just for fun.
In 1915 Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity predicted there would be measurable gravity waves. One hundred years later they have been detected. This opens the door to new ways of studying gravity and the universe.
Quoiting news releases:
The gravitational waves were detected on Sept. 14, 2015 at 5:51 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (9:51 UTC) by both of the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors, located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, USA.
My first question is what’s a LIGO? (lī•gō)We know what a laser is, a device that produces collimated, monochromatic, and synchronized light, synchronized with itself. The meaning is each light wave is in step with all its sister waves, all waves are the same length, and all are going in the same direction, parallel. (Reference)
Occasionally a project takes me off on an unusual tangent. Researching for a recent project I came across Harvard University’s The Inner Life of the Cell. A medical illustrator David Bolinsky spoke at T.E.D. about the video he was working on in 2007. (A better copy of the video than I show here is at T.E.D., but I can’t embed that one.) I thought these too neat not to share.
The collection of animations created by Harvard for their project can be found here: Harvard Multimedia. The 8 minute video The Inner Life of the Cell can also be found at YouTube, which is what I have below. It is a poorer quality than you’ll find at the Harvard site. If you watch from the Harvard site I recommend you use Internet Explorer.
There is a lot of climate news we don’t hear about in the mainstream media. Finding reporters without an agenda willing to report facts going against their thinking is difficult. What I am betting you haven’t heard is this new information: Deserts ‘greening’ from rising carbon dioxide.