Every first Friday of the month, we hold an open board meeting for the benefit of our members. Here you can contact us with your questions, create ideas and hopefully together with us, give substance to our plans for the future. During every open board meeting you will find a screen above the water with […]

WHAT IS ENTROPY? "Entropy is disorder." You've learned this from popular culture, you've learned this in your physical science, chemistry, or biology class. But what does that *mean*? We have an intuitive sense for what "disorder" is, but how do you really define it rigorously for a scientific concept? There are two ways to approach […]

A tutorial on "Optics for photographers”. This tutorial is intended to teach practical optical concepts to persons who are photographers but have not had formal training in optics and may have acquired misleading notions from camera advertisements, the common talk on forums, and the like. The tutorial outline is shown below. Optics for Photographers by […]

Photo: JAMSTEC Where? Abyss Observatory in JOGrid (OpenSim) Enable your OpenSim access here hop://jogrid.net:8002/Abyss Observatory/491/302/140 Who? Hajime Nishimura, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC),           Yan Lauria, Museum director of Abyss Observatory in SL/OpenSim   Abstract: I was working on development of ultra deep science drill ship “Chikyu” (“the Earth” in English) from 2001 […]

Monthly panel discussion With this week as subject “Climate Change” Moderator: Matthew Burr - Beragon Betts       Panel participants: Keith Eric Grant Phil Youngblood William F. Wall   Listen to the podcast episodes of Phil Youngblood & Matthew Burr Episode 1 & Episode 2   To make your questions visible to our host […]

Every first Friday of the month, we hold an open board meeting for the benefit of our members. Here you can contact us with your questions, create ideas and hopefully together with us, give substance to our plans for the future. During every open board meeting we display a screen with our current statistics, updated […]

Photo: Voyager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA   ALIEN EXOSOCIOLOGY: OUR TRANSGALACTIC COMMONALITIES Some astronomers predict that we will have made contact with advanced civilizations on other worlds within 25 years. What might they be like, and -- more importantly – how might they act? Dr. Steven R. Van Hook, a researcher in transcultural relations, will […]