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The Second Life insider reports in
http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2006/08/18/noaa-comes-to-second-life/
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Earth System
Research Laboratory (ESRL) have arrived in Second Life, and they brought all
the fun and excitement you have naturally come to expect from fluid dynamics!
In case you haven't been on any submarine rides lately, the NOAA is the
governmental agency tasked with researching the oceans, climate, weather, and
anything else having to do with gigantic masses of air and water. (Full
disclosure, I was part of this project.) The NOAA's sim is called Meteroa,
which is derived from the Greek adjective meteoras which means 'suspended in
the air' (Full disclosure, I'm Greek). On this lovely island sim you can find
fully interactive educational demonstrations about the ocean and weather.
Examples include a sea life submarine ride created by The Magicians, and two
different tsnuami demos by Aimee Weber Studios and Electric Sheep Company.
Other fun stuff includes a demonstration of a real-time temperature map powered
by Yahoo, narration by Exploratorium Chief Scientist Paul Doherty, an airplane
ride into a hurricane, and a melting glacier demonstration.

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Gwyneth Llewelyn

Instead, it congregated the current universities and colleges who are doing
serious research using Second Life — from education to pedagogy, sociology,
architecture, journalism, and also the odd computer science doctorship

Oh yes — around here, people are getting their master’s thesis and doctorships
in Second Life.

only 50.000 users on SL

The Portuguese love technology; however, with the same strong feeling,
they hate to pay for it.

The Portuguese mistrust credit cards and would never use the Internet to buy
anything

This also means that universities here have no funds for anything (except
salaries).

The University of Oporto uses a room on a popular mall; the Univerisity of
Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro rents a skybox from Anshe Chung; the University of
Rio Maior uses one of the social areas of the University of Aveiro (their soccer
field!) to do their in-world classes…

March 29, 2006

a total eclipse of the sun as viewed from Side, Turkey

We streamed the program into several locations in SL and created a companion set
of in-world exhibits. The combination of live streaming video, a unique viewing
environment, interactive exhibits, and in-world hosts to answer questions
provided a virtual-world experience that mirrored our real-world museum
programming. The 65 SL residents who attended remained actively engaged
throughout the one-hour presentation.