show #86

back in the glorious days of ’08 the scilands archipelago of sims was home to MICA which stands for meta-institute for computational astrophysics. among many thriving exhibits run by a number of other institutions, MICA held public lectures and was focused on communicating with the enthusiastic science “amateur”.

our guest today is curious george aka caltech professor george djorgovski who was instrumental in popularizing [at least temporarily…] the concept of using virtual worlds for science outreach.

enjoy a special show, partially recorded in empty physical rooms/virtual sims & one vibrant european city:

now go on, dear listener and read:

• george was in munich because he is active in the e-science community

escience in drax’ hometown

• “the mica experiment” a paper by the mica folks about their experience [2008-2012]

curious george presenting in sl

data visualization in sl

public lecture at mica

• scilands empty? only if YOU don’t go there and check…