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Concert & Dinner
25/06/2022 @ 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
Free
What an eventful year we have had!
– Phil opened the year with “Ingenuity: First Aircraft on Mars!”.
– Jes who has started to provide Asia and Oceania with its own program.
– Beragon who has started his Bistro discussions.
– More SC Opensim region owners and field trips.
– A week-long Christmas program.
– Linda Kelley & Keith Grant collaborated on a climate presentation called “Too hot! Too dry! Too wet! The roller coaster of extreme weather in a climate-changing world”.
– Merrill Johnson who debuted “A Political Geographer’s Perspective on Ukrainians and Their Territory”.
– Mike Shaw and collaborators received a NSF revolving funding 2022-2025 for The Science Circle region.
– Two new board members, Natalie Foster and Stephen Gasior.
– A new Concert Organiser, Ael.
– Mike Shaw & Bill Schmachtenberg who co-presented “The Chemistry and Geology of Gold”.
– The move to Eduverse.
– And at 10 AM PDT today, the opening of the Archaeology Exhibition.
But before that, we offer you a Classical Concert by Ael, at the Scarlett Hotel, an underwater location. Join us for breakfast, lunch, dinner or midnight snack and share your memories of the past year with us.
Below all activities of the West calendar September 2021 – June 2022. How many presentations have you attended in the past year?
| September – December 2021 | ||||
| September | PDT | |||
| Sat 4 | 10 AM | Phil Youngblood | Ingenuity: First Aircraft on Mars! | 33 |
| Mon 6 | 10 AM | Matt Burr | Discussion: ‘Oumuamua & UFO’s | 16 |
| Sat 11 | 10 AM | Alex, Greg, Linda | Titanoboa + Fireside Chat | 29 |
| Sat 18 | 10 AM | Simon Bignell | The Past and Future of Virtual World Psychological Research and Development CANCELLED | — |
| Sat 25 | 10 AM | Fireside Chat | Bias | 20 |
| October | ||||
| Sat 2 | 10 AM | Chantal Jager | What is it about The Science Circle and Second Life? | 27 |
| Mon 4 | 10 AM | Matt Burr | Discussion: Psychology & Personality | 12 |
| Sat 9 | 10 AM | Bill Schmachtenberg | Precambrian-Cambrian Explosion of Marine Organisms | 31 |
| Sat 16 | 10 AM | Steven Van Hook | Alien Exosociology: Our Transgalactic Commonalities | 38 |
| Sat 23 | 10 AM | Giuseppe Longo | Artificial Intelligence? The truth behind a fascinating buzzword | 30 |
| Sat 30 | 10 AM | Robert Hendrix | Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Failure in Human Disease | 26 |
| November | PST | |||
| Sat 6 | 10 AM | Fireside Chat | Museums | 20 |
| Mon 8 | 10 AM | Matt Burr | Discussion: Mars exploration | 10 |
| Sat 13 | 10 AM | Steven Van Hook | Virtual Teaching Tactics to Help a Divided World | 34 |
| Sat 20 | 10 AM | Stephen Gasior | Choking on Red Pills: A Biological Take on Modern Dating Dynamics | 38 |
| Sat 27 | 10 AM | Mike Shaw | Organic Chem Basics: Diels-Alder and similar reactions | 20 |
| December | Field trips in SL or OpenSim | |||
| Sat 4 | 10 AM | Marion Smeltzer | Archaeology in OS | 15 |
| Mon 6 | 10 AM | Matt Burr | Discussion: Science / Sci Fi Movies and books | 8 |
| Sat 11 | 10 AM | Mary Anne | Open Sim Genome tour | 17 |
| Sat 18 | 10 AM | Stephen Gasior | FC Dating Dynamics | 26 |
| Christmas | ||||
| Sat 25 | 10 AM | Chantal Jager | Cirque du Mystere | 9 |
| Sun 26 | 7 AM | Earl Kiech | Concert | 12 |
| Mon 27 | 7 AM | Stephen Gasior | Climate vids | 9 |
| Tue 28 | 7 AM | Chantal Jager & Jes Stannard | Chouchou | 9 |
| Wed 29 | 7 AM | Earl Kiech | Concert | 10 |
| Thur 30 | 7 AM | Stephen Gasior | Follow Your Food | 8 |
| Fri 31 | 7 AM | Chantal Jager & Jes Stannard | David Rumsey Map Islands | 10 |
| January – June 2022 | ||||
| January | ||||
| Sat 1 | 10 AM | Stephen Gasior | A Biological Perspective on Mating Dynamics in a Sex Ratio Imbalanced Population | 27 |
| Sun 2 | 7 AM | Earl Kiech | Concert | 14 |
| Sat 8 | 10 AM | Bill Schmachtenberg | The role of the Greeks in Science and Math Concept | 34 |
| Sun 9 | 7 AM | Earl Kiech | Concert | 19 |
| Sat 15 | 10 AM | Steven Van Hook | 2020s Vision: The Future is Nearly Now | 29 |
| Sun 16 | 7 AM | Earl Kiech | Concert | 13 |
| Sat 22 | 9.30 AM | William Wall | The James Webb Space Telescope: A Summary | 30 |
| Sat 22 | 10 AM | Matt Burr | Beragon’s Bistro: Webb Telescope | 21 |
| Sun 23 | 7 AM | Earl Kiech | Concert | 15 |
| Sat 29 | 10 AM | Stephen Gasior | 2021 CRISPR Year in Review | 35 |
| Sun 30 | 7 AM | Earl Kiech | Concert | 14 |
| February | ||||
| Sat 5 | 10 AM | Matt Burr | Beragon’s Bistro: Comparative Education. How do different countries approach education? | 32 |
| Sun 6 | 7 AM | Earl Kiech | Concert | 19 |
| Sat 12 | 10 AM | Stephen Gasior | Darwin Day, Heroes of Evolution: E. O. Wilson | 38 |
| Sun 13 | 7 AM | Earl Kiech | Concert | 13 |
| Sat 19 | 10 AM | Phil Youngblood | History & Future of SC | 35 |
| Sun 20 | 7 AM | Earl Kiech | Concert | 15 |
| Sat 26 | 10 AM | Linda Kelley & Keith Grant | Too hot! Too dry! Too wet! The roller coaster of extreme weather in a climate-changing world | 34 |
| Sun 27 | 7 AM | Earl Kiech | Concert | 16 |
| March | ||||
| Sat 5 | 10 AM | Bill Schmachtenberg | Geology and Palaeontology of Greece | 29 |
| Sun 6 | 7 AM | Earl Kiech | Concert | 17 |
| Sat 12 | 9 AM | Merrill Johnson | A Political Geographer’s Perspective on Ukrainians and Their Territory | 25 |
| Sat 12 | 10 AM | Phil Youngblood | What’s In Our Water: The Science of Water Quality and Testing | 38 |
| Sun 13 | 7 AM | Earl Kiech | Concert | 12 |
| Sat 19 | 10 AM | Robert Hendrix | On Expectation and Prediction of Events | 27 |
| Sun 20 | 7 AM | Earl Kiech | Concert | 15 |
| Sat 26 | 10 AM | Matt Burr | Beragon’s Bistro: Gender | 30 |
| Sun 27 | 7 AM | Earl Kiech | Concert | 15 |
| April | ||||
| Sat 2 | VWBPE | VWBPE | – | |
| Sun 3 | 7 AM | Earl Kiech | Concert | 16 |
| Sat 9 | 10 AM | George Djorgovski | Galaxy Formation | 27 |
| Sun 10 | 7 AM | Earl Kiech | Concert | 15 |
| Sat 16 | 10 AM | Matt Burr | Beragon’s Bistro: Second Life vs. The Metaverse | 32 |
| Sun 17 | 7 AM | Earl Kiech | Concert | 15 |
| Sat 23 | 10 AM | Phil Youngblood | The Dynamic Geology of Asia-Oceania | 26 |
| Sat 30 | 10 AM | Stephen Gasior | What’s Happening in the World of Synthetic Biology: A Report From A Global Conference | 31 |
| May | ||||
| Sun 1 | 7 AM | Ael | Concert | 13 |
| Sat 7 | 10 AM | Phil Youngblood | Plankton – Drifting Through Life | 24 |
| Sun 8 | 7 AM | Ael | Concert | 13 |
| Sat 14 | 10 AM | Matt Burr | BB: Lessons for the Next Pandemic | 26 |
| Sun 15 | 7 AM | Ael | Concert | 12 |
| Sat 21 | 10 AM | Mike Shaw & Bill Schmachtenberg | The Chemistry and Geology of Gold | 26 |
| Sun 22 | 7 AM | Ael | Concert | 15 |
| Sat 28 | 10 AM | Mary Anne Clark | Telomere to Telomere: Completion of the Human Genome | 19 |
| Sun 29 | 7 AM | Ael | Concert | 12 |
| June | Field trips in SL or OpenSim | |||
| Sat 4 | 10 AM | Steven Van Hook | Educare Region Tour | 27 |
| Sun 5 | 7 AM | Ael | Concert | 18 |
| Sat 11 | 10 AM | Skip Dahlgren | Open Sim Abyssinia Tour | 14 |
| Sun 12 | 7 AM | Ael | Concert | 11 |
| Sat 18 | 10 AM | Phil Youngblood | 19th Second Life Birthday 2022 | 21 |
| Sun 19 | 7 AM | Ael | Concert | 14 |
| Sat 25 | 9 AM | Ael & Phil Youngblood | Concert & Dinner | |
| Sat 25 | 10 AM | Marion Smeltzer | Opening Archaeology Exhibit | |
| Sun 26 | 7 AM | Ael | Concert |