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The April 1 edition of The Metaverse Messenger (a weekly newspaper covering the Second Life virtual world) has the University of Denver’s Science School sim as their ‘Sim of The Week’. You can read it here (starting on page 10).
Physics World just came out with an article about how SL is being used for physics, and more generally, science. The writer, João Medeiros, did extensive research for the article and it shows.
The cover story in this week’s (Jan 29, 2009) edition of the Metaverse Messenger is all about the SciLands. The story will be continued in next week’s edition. The Metaverse Messenger is one of SL’s oldest and most respected weekly newspapers.
Click here for links to archival copies of the paper.
Cory Ondrejka (formerly Cory Linden), a co-founder of Second Life who recently left Linden Lab, wrote about his predictions for 2007, grading his prognosticating record. In item 6 of his blog entry, he mentioned the science-based discussions held by the SciLands (although he misspelled it “SciIslands”) and Science Friday as an unexpected alternative mixed reality […]
Ivan Semeniuk, the US Bureau Chief for New Scientist, posted an article about astronomy in SL on the New Scientist space blog. It mentions Chaac’s planetarium and telescope at the ISM, among other things.
The Washington Times did an article that talked about the SciLands, particularly the University of Denver and their new NRC project, in an article on August 2. Other organizations in the SciLands are also mentioned.
The US State Department’s publication, USINFO, published an article on June 27th about the NASA islands in the SciLands, NASA CoLab and JPL’s Explorer Island. See the article here.
The July/August issue of Technology Review has an 11-page cover story that features several islands in the SciLands: Science School, ISM’s Spaceport Alpha, and NOAA’s Meteora. The online edition also has several video clips from these islands.
The SciLands put out its first press release today, to announce its existence to the world. You can read it here.
Here’s a map of the SciLands region, as it stands today:
Photo credits: Ta Da! by audreyjm529 on Flickr Creative Commons, SciLands map by Troy McLuhan
Tectonic Nabob made a neat ant simulation on Elon sim. Wagner James Au (formerly Hamlet Linden) wrote about it on his famous New World Notes blog, and that got pointed to by BoingBoing. Very cool! Check it out.
