Second Astronomy

Adrienne J. Gauthier of Steward Observatory, University of Arizona had an interesting seminar at ESO last Thursday. The title of the seminar is Astronomy in Second Life. She introduced some basic facts of Second Life, and showed some of the current astronomy themed spaces and education and public outreach activities in Second Life. She has published a paper on this topic, which can be freely downloaded.

Scifoo Lives On

Jean-Claude Bradley set up an area called Scifoo Lives On on one of Nature 's Second Life islands, as an extension of Scifoo Camp 2007 in virtual world. There are three sessions scheduled:

Aug 20, 2007 9:00 PT/16:00 GMT, Tools for Open Science

Aug 27, 2007 9:00 PT/16:00 GMT, Medicine and Web 2.0

Sept 4, 2007 9:00 PT/16:00 GMT, Definitions of Open Science

Science-Related Places in Second Life

This list is maintained by T. Troy McConaghy. I copy it here just for easy reference. You can also get this list (a notecard full of landmarks) by clicking on the sign at the Science Center on Info Island II. If you don't know what is Second Life, you may check this WikiPedia article.

Early hack that connecting first and Second Life

Linden Lab made the Second Life client open source. Soon after that, Matt Biddulph demonstrated a connection between first and Second Life.