SciLands

We’ve Moved!

Troy — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:43:21 +0000

The SciLands blog has moved to http://blog.scilands.org/

Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds.

Further Coverage of SciLands Members

Troy — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:40:31 +0000

There’s a good article about government agencies getting into Second Life over at GovernmentExecutive.com.

Education World columnist Doug Johnson also wrote a nice “One-Afternoon Second Life Tour” on the TechProof blog, where he points to NOAA’s Meteora, the International Spaceflight Museum and Genome sim.

Very In-Depth Blog about a SciLands Build

Kat Lemieux — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:26:09 +0000

James Dearnley, who moderated the SciLands panel discussion at SLCC 2007, recently posted a link to this blog on Facebook. I’m taking the liberty of reposting it here:

Second Health and the SciLands is a comprehensive look at both the Second Health project and NOAA’s new Second Earth installation. Tara5 Oh (SL name) has written a very thoughtful and informative piece that covers the SLCC panel in Chicago as well as these two builds. Check it out!

Video of the SciLands Panel at SLCC 2007

Troy — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:33:56 +0000

zazen Manbi has posted an audiovisual recording of the SciLands panel, which occurred at 4:30 PM Chicago time on Saturday, August 25, 2007. Check it out.

Aleister Kronos Ambles into the SciLands

Troy — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:04:32 +0000

Aleister Kronos gives a whirlwind tour of the SciLands, including a nice review of the orientation experience, over on his blog. Check it out.

SciLands at the SLCC

Troy — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:37:08 +0000

The 2007 Second Life Community Convention (SLCC) was last weekend (August 24-26). There was a panel by SciLands members, chaired by James Dearnley.

Here is James Dearnley’s blog about the panel

Dave Taylor also announced the existence of the Second Health sims, which he later wrote about on his blog. The Second Health website is also live now.

The UgoTrade blog also has a great article about the SciLands panel and Second Health.

A Hungarian medical student (Bertalan Meskó) also discovered the Second Health sims on his own (before they were announced at the SLCC) and he wrote a bit about them on his blog.

Paradox Olbers — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:45:12 +0000

Here is a view from NASA-CoLab (lower half) to ISM’s Spaceports Alpha & Bravo (at the upper left), NASA-JPL (center), and Elon U to the right.

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Paradox

Article About University of Denver Project in SL

Troy — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:00:53 +0000

Here.

A Cool Picture by Torley

Troy — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:31:52 +0000

Torley Linden (formerly Torley Torgeson) took a great 360 degree panorama photo of the SciLands sims NASA CoLab, Elon, Explorer Island (JPL), and Spaceport Alpha (International Spaceflight Museum). Torley then passed it through some filters to give it a lovely Ansel Adams look…

You can see larger versions on Flickr.

SciLands in New Scientist Space Blog

Troy — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:22:35 +0000

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.