This is an abbreviated replay of June 5 presentation with a Fireside Chat attached.   The Science Behind Titanoboa Dr. Alex Hastings will lead part of the tour discussing the world of Titanoboa, 60 million years ago. How and why was the snake so big? What else lived in those murky waters?  Plus he’ll share […]

The Past and Future of Virtual World Psychological Research and Development Second Life is underutilised as a platform for wide-ranging psychological research and community development projects. That statement was also true in 2003 when Linden Lab created the virtual world. Although other virtual world platforms may offer advantages for academic research and community impact projects, […]

Bias Whether it’s in areas like data forecasting or classifying images, computer algorithms are vulnerable to bias. In areas like the medical field or cybersecurity, where the employment of artificial intelligence is being explored, bias can be severely detrimental. How can bias be measured, how can it be prevented? What are the consequences and threats […]

Second Life and The Science Circle has been going strong for over 13 years. That is a longer time than almost any of today’s social media platforms. What does Second Life and The Science Circle mean to you? How do they differ from social media? How is communicating or interacting with other people different in […]

Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Failure in Human Disease Some two billion years ago, a seminal, endosymbiotic event occurred: a larger, anaerobic bacterial cell ingested a smaller, aerobic prokaryotic 'germ'. This beneficial union of two life forms led to the evolution of more highly organized eukaryotic cells with mitochondria as subcellular organelles. These mitochondria still retain their […]