Virtual Teaching Tactics to Help a Divided World Educators can be Covid-challenged to keep students and funds flowing, while promoting healthy and enriching academic options. Virtual World learning may provide immersive hands-on experience for engaging students and offering a sense of place and belonging, so important to student success and retention in online education.This presentation […]

Organic Chem Basics: Diels-Alder and similar reactions The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Dr. Benjamin List (Max PLack Institute)  and Dr. David MacMillam (Princeton University) for "the […]

Is nationalism beneficial or dangerous in the context of globalization? "While globalization will make the world smaller and more accessible, we must continue to appreciate its vibrant diversity." -Jean-Philippe Courtois […]

Archaeology in Open Sim   Introduction to Aspiring Archaeologist region Aka Altun Ha  The region features three main components. #1 The Jonson site: A reproduction investigation site of the Monongahela, used for field school on land owned by the Army Corps of Engineers in Blairsville, PA #2 The Prehistoric Overview: A museum style exhibit displaying […]

Open Sim Abyssinia Tour Abyssinia, which is intended as a living museum & educational resource on the Science Circle’s OpenSim grid, is my reconstruction of ancient archaeological sites in Tigray (northern Ethiopia) & Eritrea that date from at least 1000 BCE through roughly 800 CE. I excavated at several of these sites decades ago (1969-1972), […]