I’ve found some interesting news about Second Life. First, it’s my pleasure to announce that a new Scifoo lives on session will take place on the Second Nature island at 17:00 GMT on Monday. The idea is based on my 10 Reasons Why Nature is the Best in Science 2.0 post. Several members of the Nature group will attend and give slideshows about their projects (Nature Network, Connotea, etc.). Everbody is warmly invited!

• Wear a skin disease! (A Sexual Health SIM in Second Life (University of Plymouth))

Below is a snapshot of a very ''quick-and-dirty'' AIDS-related Kaposi Sarcoma "skin" for use in-world (it''s actually a transparent undershirt with the lesions). People wearing it are able to see and experience on their own avatar how Kaposi Sarcoma looks/feels in AIDS patients. Of course the same principle can be expanded, refined and used to role-play patients with various skin conditions/presentations and at various stages of their disease (to show progress, worsening or healing).

• Sculptie Earth (found on sim Areumdeuli): It features a topographic Earth model with cloud layer that displays real time weather patterns streamed from satellite data. Stills are taken 3 hours apart and 2 days of data is visible in the animation.

Posted by: Bertalan    Source

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