Science Circle

Late Ordovician extinction
2019-09-07 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Auditorium
This presentation has since taken place, you can view the film recording here.
William Schmachtenberg

Abstract:
There have been at least 5 mass extinctions in the geologic past and some say there was a sixth. Multiple theories from volcanism, plate tectonics, biotic interactions, and changes to ocean chemistry have been proposed for these extinction events. Local field studies in Virginia has shed light on the Late Ordovician extinction when 86% of animals in the ocean perished. These data will be given in the presentation. Studies like this one are important in answering the question will there be another mass extinction in the future?

by Dr. William F. Schmachtenberg (Dae Miami SL)
Previous work in the Film Collection

Related Hypothesis article “The Cracks in Time”

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SC Benefit Concert
2019-09-01 07:00 - 08:00 | Auditorium
The quarterly Sunday concerts by Earl, Piano & Carle, Cello.
Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 65 28:51
Franck: Sonata for Violin (arr for Cello) 27:54
Grieg: Wounded Heart, Op. 34-1 (From Elegiac Melodies) 2:29

Thank you for your interest and participation in our objectives.
The quarterly classical concerts on the first Sunday by Earl and Carle are a social addition to our regular program. At the same time, we want to draw attention to the possibility of also providing financial support so that we can continue to implement our Mission Statement.

There are three options for financial support from our organization, namely;

In Second Life with Linden Dollars, the donation box can be found at the landing point.
With your Linden Dollars we provide our region with all the conveniences and facilities for our events.
Via PayPal, by means of a one-off or recurring payment in your own currency.
And by ABN Amro Bank, the official bank account of The Science Circle.
The income on the last two bank accounts is used to keep our organization running; Second Life Region, website, server, Microsoft license and recruiting staff.

Donation page
In recent years we have developed a variety of activities and your participation has made this a huge success.
We hope that our program for the coming year will once again guarantee your attendance.

Staff meeting and vacancies
2019-08-10 07:00 - 08:00 | Auditorium
Over the past eleven years we have built a loyal international science community together.
Now the number of volunteers is considerable, we want to provide everyone with sufficient information about our organization and plan a meeting in SL to get to know each other. This will hopefully result in new friendships, ideas for the future, a pleasant collaboration and new colleagues.
We are looking for volunteers for the following departments;
– Social media manager Twitter
– Social media manager LinkedIn
– Auditorium Hosts at events
– Documentary host for American evening hours
If you are interested, come by for more information!

Glimpse of September 2019

Sunday 1st – New article Hypothesis
Sunday 1st 7 AM PDT – Benefit Concert Earl & Carla (Opening the new season)
Saturday 7th 10 AM PDT – Late Ordovician extinction by William F. Schmachtenberg

Monday 9th 7AM PDT – Mandatory Board Meeting
Tuesday 10th 6 AM PDT – Documentary
Saturday 14th 6 AM PDT & 10 AM PDT – “Explore Science in Second Life!” by Phil Youngblood
Sunday 15th – New article Hypothesis
Saturday 21st 10 AM PDT – The Face of Dementia by Robert A. Hendrix, MD
Saturday 28th 10 AM PDT – Panel: Unanswered questions in Mathematics, Astrophysics and Astronomy
Monday 30th 7 AM PDT – Casual Board Meeting (all staff invited)

Exploratorium Live from Chile
2019-07-02 13:00 - 14:00 | Auditorium
Join us at the auditorium to share this Live experience with us!
For those who are wondering what time this is in their own time zone, there is Time Zone Converter

TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE: LIVE FROM CHILE
JULY 2, 2019
This July 2, the Exploratorium continues its 20-year tradition of bringing live images of eclipses to you—we’re travelling to the National Science Foundation’s Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile to broadcast a total solar eclipse visible overhead from parts of South America. Experience the wonder wherever you are: enjoy our live broadcast, available in both English and Spanish on our free iOS and Android apps and this website, or come to the museum in San Francisco to enjoy the big-screen broadcasts in person, in addition to a data-driven sonification of live telescope images by composer Wayne Grim and other eclipse programming.
How to Build a Sun Viewer
There are many ways that you can safely enjoy a partial or total solar eclipse using items from around your house! Dr. Paul Doherty will show you a few of the easiest methods for safe solar viewing. Let us make this perfectly clear: Don’t EVER look directly at the sun, even when it’s mostly covered during a solar eclipse. If even 1% of the sun is showing around the moon, it’s enough to damage your eyes! Just as a magnifying glass can focus enough sunlight onto a leaf to start a fire, the lens in your eye can also focus a sliver of light onto your retina to burn it. And because retinas have no pain receptors, you can permanently damage your vision without even feeling it happen.

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Science Fair 2019
2019-06-29 07:00 - 10:00 | Science Fair
During one of our last events until September, Matthew Burr will guide the visitors past all market stalls where every owner informs us about their past, current and future work in SL and/or SC.
What can you expect:
– Posters of lectures
– URLs towards PDF’s, YouTubes, Podcasts
– Objects created
– Information about classes or lectures they have planned
– Landmarks towards their work in SL
– Free gifts for visitors

First tour at 7 AM to 8 AM PDT
Coffee break 8 AM to 9 AM PDT
Second tour at 9 AM to 10 AM PDT

Participants:
Deepthinker Oh
Fumon Crystal
Greg Perrier
James J. Woods
Linda Morris Kelley
Mike Shaw
Phil Youngblood
Robert Brown
Rob Knop
Stephen Gasior
Steven Van Hook
William Schmachtenberg

The Coast and Waters of the Sub-Arctic
2019-06-23 07:00 - 08:00 | Abyss Observatory
Get up with us! Up to the coast and waters of the Sub-Arctic that is. All at The Abyss Observatory.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed but the Arctic has been in the news a lot recently. They’ve had a heatwave with above freezing temperatures on the very northernmost shores of Alaska. Why is this important? It is becoming increasingly apparent that the Arctic is experiencing a colossal breakdown in fundamental climate and ecosystem processes, and what happens weatherwise in the Arctic affects all the rest of the globe as well.
While we don’t pretend that virtual can fully represent the physical world, we have produced a set of environments to give you a taste of what the coastal and marine habitats are like in the Sub-Arctic, Temperate, and Tropical zones.
We’ll be starting our tour in the Sub-Arctic shore and ocean habitats, seeing and talking about some of the animals and plants that live there and the interdependencies of that habitat. We’ll then move south along the shore into a Temperate area, and finally into the Tropics.
If you’d like to swim with us, please do. Whales and seals will swim with you. If you’d rather not get wet, we have a transparent walking tube that circles our Abyss island so swim flippers, bare feet, or walking shoes, it’s your choice.
Please join us for this tour and discussion. We’ll gather at the Abyss Observatory welcome gallery then walk across the bridge and north to the Sub-Arctic.
Cheers,
Linda Morris Kelley (Delia Lake in SL)
Habitat Curator
Previous tour on film

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A Tour of Chemistry Lab Experiments
2019-06-21 10:00 - 11:00 | Chemistry World
A Tour of Chemistry Lab Experiments in Second Life
We will take a tour of Chemistry World, a landscaped island with space for pre-lab training, a chemistry building with briefing room and, most importantly, lab facilities for students to complete two virtual chemistry experiments. I will explain the ways that the SL environment enables us to improve students’ educational experience and some of the challenges we encountered when developing and implementing the experiments. Attendees can perform the experiments just as actual students did (without turning in a lab report next week).
By Kurt Winkelmann
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Florida Institute of Technology

Previous related talk
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Tour of the Geology Museum
2019-06-15 10:00 - 11:00 | Geology Museum
Title: Tour of the Geology Museum and discussion of Bill Schmachtenberg’s current and past research
ABSTRACT: A few years ago, James Madison University gave Bill Schmachtenberg (Dae Miami SL) permission to create a virtual geology museum on their sim. Unfortunately, the JMU campus on SL shut down. The Science Circle stepped in and has generously permitted Bill to recreate the museum on their region. On June 15 we will tour the maps in the global geology museum and then have a talk about Bill’s past and current research projects concerning palaeography, palaeontology, and extinction events.
by Dr. William F. Schmachtenberg (Dae Miami SL)
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Mars & Opportunity rover
2019-06-08 07:00 - 08:00 | Explorer Island
“Mars and Opportunity rover”
Tour guide: Hajime Nishimura (JAMSTEC)/ Yan Lauria (Abyss Observatory and Education Portal)
Date/ Time: 8th June (Sat), 2019 at 7 am PDT/ 14:00 GMT/ 23:00 Japan

Location: Start from Mars field of Explorer Island
TP to Mars Victoria Crater
Bonus: Astreroid Ryugu and Hayabusa2, International Spaceflight Museum
(You need to select TP destination at the arrival point of International Spaceflight Museum)

Abstract:
On February 2019, NASA announced the end of 15 years Mars exploration by the Opportunity rover at last.
At first, NASA thought Opportunity’s life is only 3 months due to dust on the solar panels, but it is found Mars Dust Devils blow away the dust on the solar panel.
It is known Mars wind can be more than 120 km/h, so Sci-Fi novels and movies describe astronauts are blown even in recent movie “The Martian” (2015).
But there is a trick that Mars air density is only 0.75% of the Earth. Its thin air annoyed Mars landing.
At Explorer Island, you can ride on Opportunity, Landing air bags and even Dust Devil, and you can feel empathy with Opportunity when he/she entered in the Victoria crater.
As a bonus, I’ll introduce a new exhibit of the spacecraft “Hayabusa2” and sample return mission from asteroid “Ryugu” using markup language Markdown.

Remarks
I’ll use voice in English.
The Mars sky is rather red at noon and rather blue at sunset/ sunrise.
Please change your environment setting by yourself.

Hajime Nishimura / Yan Lauria

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The NEW Interactive brain
2019-05-31 09:00 - 10:00 | Whole Brain Health
How Your Brain Works: This is an interactive experience created by Osangar, an fmri researcher.
The NEW Brodmann’s Brain allows visitors to explore how 52 regions of the brain are correlated with body processes that occur when, for example, meditating, driving a car, having various kinds of thoughts and feelings.
Osangar will demonstrate how this virtual brain works and what you can learn about your own brain from it. She will be in text only and will be assisted in voice by Wisdomseeker and Tooyaa.
This Field Trip is being sponsored by The Science Circle and Nonprofit Commons.
It will start at this landing point on Inspiration Island
OsanGar’s Bio: BA Philosophy Yale, MA Stanford counselling psychology, MD and Neurology Albert Einstein, post doc in fMRI lab

The NEW Interactive brain
Inspiration Island – Whole Brain Health Programs
This year the interactive brain tour has been totally upgraded with brain cortex regions imported from brain MRIs with the technical assistance of Brain Voyager in Maastricht, Netherlands and Ghaelen D’Lareh.

Previous work from Lynne Berrett (Lissena Wisdomseeker)
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Film Collection

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What is the biggest/most significant Unanswered Question in your field right now?
2019-05-25 10:00 - 11:30 | Auditorium
Monthly panel discussion
With this week as subject “What is the biggest/most significant unanswered question in your field right now?”

Panel participants:

Alex Hastings, Palaeontology
Mike Shaw, Chemistry
Stephen Gasior, Biology

Host scientific debates: Matthew Burr

Tchaikovsky, a concert for Jes Stannard
2019-05-19 07:00 - 08:00 | Auditorium
In honor of the birthday of Jes Stannard, a classical concert for members and non-members.
Take a guest with you, or come and enjoy a private hour of beautiful classical music.
Arisia Vita, Piano
Carle, Cello

Playlist
Ravel: Vocalise – Etude (en forme de habanera)
Gluck: (Orfeo ed Euridice) Act 2 Dance of the Blessed Spirits
Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op.28-6 in B minor
Faure’/Maisky: Apres un Reve, op.7-1
Casals: Catalan Folksong
Lully: Gavotte
Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 ‘Traumerei’
Saint-Saens: Le Carnaval des Animaux ‘The Swan’, R.125
Massenet/Maisky: Les Erinnyes, Elegie (Invocation)
Kreisler/Maisky: Liebesleid
Mendelssohn: Lied ohne Worte, Op.109
Handel/Maisky: Violin Sonata in D major, Op.1-13, III
Schubert/Palaschko: Ave Maria, Ellens Gesang III, Op.52 No.6, D.839
Tchaikovsky: Nocturne in D minor, op. 19-4
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker-19 Waltz of the Flowers

First Image of a supermassive Black Hole
2019-05-18 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
Photo: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
“Staring into the abyss: the first image of a supermassive black hole”
On April 10 of this year, the Event Horizon Telescope team released a radio image of the black hole at the core of the galaxy M87. The image is a ring of light, brighter on one side. What does it mean? What does it tell us about the black hole? Why are people so excited about it?
In this talk, I’ll discuss what black holes we know are out there, including supermassive black holes like this one. I’ll talk what it really means to take a picture of something that no light escapes from, and I’ll talk about how the image we see is just as much affected by the gravity of the black hole as it is by the plasma that actually emitted the light we’re looking at.

— Rob Knop
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Precambrian-Cambrian boundary Explosion II
2019-05-11 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
ABSTRACT:
Dr. Shuhai Xiao will talk about animal evolution in the Ediacaran Period or on the eve of the Cambrian explosion, from a paleontological perspective. Specifically, he would like to discuss the significance of Ediacaran microfossils and macrofossils, and the geological and environmental context of early animal evolution. This is a follow up to the panel discussion we had months about by Bill Schmachtenberg and Alex Hastings.

Speaker: Dr. Shuhai Xiao is a paleobiologist and geobiologist who studies the interactions between the biosphere and its environments at critical transitions in Earth history, particularly during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. He integrates paleobiological, sedimentological, and geochemical data to shed light on important evolutionary events (such as the origin and diversification of eukaryotes, multicellular organisms, and animals), their environmental contexts, and their geobiological consequences.
More information about Dr. Xiao

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Panel: Science Fiction
2019-04-27 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
Monthly panel discussion
With this week as subject “Science Fiction”
Panel participants:

Myron Curtis
Robert Hendrix
William Wall

Host scientific debates: Matthew Burr

"Luna: The Earth's Moon"
2019-04-21 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
On very short notice
“Luna: The Earth’s Moon”
By Dr. William Wall (Syzygy Asymptote SL)

Dr. William Wall has participated 3 times in Panel Discussions, namely;
– Fermi Paradox
– Science Fiction in Movies & Series
– The sequel to Science Fiction in Movies

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Top-Ten Science Circle Podcast Takeaways
2019-04-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
Top-Ten Science Circle Podcast Takeaways
This presentation features background and audio excerpts from premier episodes of the Science Circle Podcast. Recorded guests include Phil Youngblood (SL: Vic Michalak), Stephen Gasior (SL: Stephen Xootfly), Rob Knop (SL: Prospero Frobozz), Greg Perrier (SL: Dodge Threebeards), Michael Shaw (SL: Shawza Tunwarm), Matthew Burr (SL: Beragon Betts), Robert Hendrix (SL: Tagline), and Budd Turner (SL: Josain Zsun).
Their interview topics range from molecular genetics, astrophysics and entropy, education innovations, new tactics in teaching chemistry, protecting your ideas with patent and copyright law, transgalactic relations, doctor’s tips for a healthier life, protecting your digital legacy, and the past/present/future of The Science Circle.

Bio: Steven R. Van Hook (SL: Kip Roffo) is host/producer of The Science Circle Podcast. He has a doctorate specializing in transcultural education and new learning technologies, and has taught communication classes for 20 years at universities in the USA and abroad. Steven spent two decades as a broadcast journalist, radio talk show host and educational webzine publisher, and is also experienced in international economic development and social services.

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Science of Science: big data, A.I: and the future of science
2019-04-13 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
Abstract
Big data and artificial intelligence have become a new mantra in the media and in the government’s agendas.
The talk will address two main topics: on the one hand, it will try to explain why the hype about AI is completely unmotivated (AI is still far to come) while, on the other, it will emphasize some aspects of the revolution which is taking place focusing on the impact that both Big Data and Machine learning methods are already having and even more will have in the near future on the scientific discovery process.

— Giuseppe Longo
Professor of Astrophysics

Accademico Pontaniano
Associate – California Institute of Technology
Associate . INFN and INAF

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Dickens Project exemplifies virtual collaboration
2019-04-06 10:00 - 10:50 | VWBPE Lecture Area A
Photo: Dickens Festival Deventer, Netherlands

Dickens Project exemplifies virtual collaboration

Distance Connections Presentations

Charles Dickens Constructivism Historical Simulation

SPOTLIGHT
Presenters: Valerie Hill (SL: Valibrarian Gregg), Peninsula College; Breiana Theodore (SL: Jodie Landon); Mary Pat Lynch (SL: Aoife Lorefield)
Description: The Dickens Project, a virtual simulation of A Christmas Carol and the life and times of Charles Dickens built by Seanchai Library, has been held annually in Second Life for six years. The Community Virtual Library partnered with Seanchai Library for the past three years to enhance the educational simulation with research and the Urchins of London game was added in 2018. The collaborative process illustrates best practices for virtual world learning.
Participants will observe successful virtual world collaboration for deep learning across distance.
Participants will interact with librarians, educators, and artists working together.
Accessibility: Voice and SpeakEasy HUD Tool

Reconsider cultural difference in online education
2019-04-05 12:00 - 12:50 | VWBPE 2019 Quadrivium
“Reconsider cultural difference in online education”

Ethics & Responsibility Presentations

Cultural differences learning Online education

Compass Point Discussion Presenters: Hsiao-Cheng (Sandrine) Han (SL: Kristy Handrick), University of British Columbia; Kwesi Yaro (SL: Banapeh); Diana Ihnatovych (SL: dianaihn); Jennifer Zhao (SL: JenniferZhao); Peisen Ding (SL: AAADeanAAA)
Description: Have educators considered online education in relation to students’ cultural differences? Does that even matter? In MOOCs with students coming from different cultural backgrounds, do students learn differently because their cultural background? Should educators address it? Should courses be designed differently based on students’ different cultural backgrounds? Why or why not? This roundtable discussion will talk about how and why it is important to consider culture differences in education.
Cultural difference in learning
Cultural difference in online education
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Innovators in global science education
2019-04-04 10:30 - 11:20 | VWBPE 2019 Quadrivium
Compass Point Round Table Discussion at Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2019

Presenters: Mike Shaw (SL: Shawza Tunwarm), Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Matthew Burr (SL: Beragon Betts); Robert Knop (SL: Prospero Frobozz); Phil Youngblood (SL: Vic Michalak); Stephen Gasior (SL: Stephen Xootfly)
Description: The Science Circle is a 10 year old alliance of scientists, educators, students, and science enthusiasts who collaborate to share knowledge and promote open source education worldwide. Our mission is to enhance science understanding through interdisciplinary dialogue via virtual environments and social media. We continue to collaborate with educators and researchers to re:envision innovative ways to attract and engage a diverse people and ideas, while working to solve technological and user issues.
Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to see how Virtual Worlds can facilitate open-source STE(A)M education.
2. Participants will be able to consider the interplay between VWs and the toolbox of social media.
Location

Animal behaviour: Ability to learn
2019-03-30 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
Monthly panel discussion
With this week as subject “Animal behaviour: Ability to learn”

Moderator: Matthew Burr – Beragon Betts

Panel participants:

Linda Morris Kelley

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Human Papillomavirus
2019-03-23 10:00 - 11:00, 2019-03-23 07:00 - 08:00 | Auditorium
Illustration: Picture of the Neighborhood – Anatomy of the upper airway & upper digestive tract from Anatomy and Physiology Author: OpenStax; 22.1 Organs and Structures of the Respiratory System by Rice University, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

GOAL: to raise public awareness and understanding of disease consequent of HPV infection in the upper airway and upper digestive tract.
Summary:
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) refers to a collection of viruses, some of which cause transmissible disease in humans and have the potential to progress to malignancy (e.g., cancer of the uterine cervix in women). These viruses can also cause serious disease processes of the mucosa of the oral and nasal cavities, pharynx, larynx, trachea and esophagus. This presentation will review some of the more prominent of these conditions including;
Juvenile Laryngeal Papillomatosis;
HPV+ palatine tonsil & base of tongue carcinoma;
inverted Schneiderian papilloma of the nasal cavity;
including presenting symptoms, diagnosis (with appropriate radiographic images as well as microscopic images demonstrating pathological morphology),
and treatment and prevention.
By Robert A. Hendrix, MD
Podcast interview with Robert

Lab Experiments in SL
2019-03-16 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
“Design and Effectiveness of Laboratory Experiments in the Virtual World of Second Life”
By Kurt Winkelmann
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Florida Institute of Technology

In order to explore the feasibility, challenges, and benefits of replacing real world chemistry lab experiments with a virtual experience, students at a large public university performed experiments in both the real world (RW) and Second Life (SL). Students in either the control group or SL group performed analogous RW and SL versions of two experiments by working in pairs and using the same laboratory manual. The SL group and control group were evaluated the same way as well. Results demonstrate that students learned just as much from the virtual experiments as they do in a real world laboratory based on pre-/post-experiment quizzes and lab report grades. A hands-on lab practicum showed that both groups learned kinesthetic skills to the same extent overall but there were subtle differences in individual skills that each group mastered. Students in the SL group report that the virtual experiments are fun and less stressful than the real world experiments. Teaching assistants provided a useful perspective about implementation and ideas for future virtual lab development plans.

These results are relevant to chemical education in a variety of ways. For on-campus courses, activities in virtual worlds can provide a means to address shortages in budgets and laboratory space. Existing online chemistry courses often lack a high-quality laboratory experience. Virtual worlds enable students to conduct interesting, realistic experiments which may be impractical to perform in a real world setting. Students can work independently or with lab partners, under the supervision of an instructor or autonomously.

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Archival & Digital Legacy, Preserving Your Digital Work
2019-03-09 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
Photo: Huffpost
Archival & Digital Legacy, Preserving Your Digital Work

Abstract:
Background:

When a person dies, their digital footprint persists.
Digital providers assume ownership of Intellectual property (IP) created on their servers.
Family and workgroup attempts to archive or maintain deceased works are blocked.

Approach:

We worked within system permissions shared by the creator.
We tested possible workarounds
We contacted providers for account/work access

Findings:

Limited Copy, Move, possible
Edit (update), Delete, not possible, without creator account access.
Providers reluctant to discuss or allow access to deceased work,(IP).

Conclusion:

Advance planning needed for adding Trusted Friends and/or family member access to digital accounts in Trusts and/or Wills
Everyone needs to learn provider policies and legal requirements for establishing a “Legacy” path of transfer of ownership.
Passing your digital footprint when you can no longer login

By Budd Turner

Color for Photographers
2019-03-02 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
Photo Wikipedia
Color for Photographers
Abstract: The colorspace of a camera or display or printer indicates the range of colors that can be recorded or reproduced. A colorspace is a subset of the range of typical human vision. In this tutorial, colorspaces will be defined and the consequences for image recording and reproduction discussed.
Robert Lawson Brown, Ph.D.
Physicist and Photographer

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Cyber Security
2019-02-23 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
Monthly panel discussion
With this week as subject “Cyber Security”

Moderator: Matthew Burr – Beragon Betts

Anyone who is interested in his security on the internet will soon come across worrying reports about phishing e-mails, cybercrime, industrial espionage, governments stealing each other’s data and cyber-terrorism. Closer to home, data mining affects us via Facebook, Google and Microsoft.
What started as a free sharing of data has gradually turned into an unsafe, lawless space where everyone is a target for malicious parties.
More information Harvard Cybersecurity Wiki

Panel participants:

Myron Curtis
Phil Youngblood
Sam Galus, Professor at St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas

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Pigments and Colors and Dyes, Oh My!
2019-02-16 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
Photo: Wikipedia
Some chemistry behind the colors we see: Pigments and Colors and Dyes, Oh My!
When we make new compounds, one of the first questions we ask is “What color is it?” The color of a substance depends on many factors, including its composition, particle size, and the physics of how light interacts with its surface. Even the ability to perceive color rests on chemical changes of compounds within specialized cells. This introductory talk will touch on purely physical means by which colors are generated, but will focus on how colors are the result of light absorption (and sometimes emission) by inorganic and organic substances.

— Mike J. Shaw
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Darwin day: Heroes of Evolution
2019-02-12 06:00 - 07:00 | Auditorium
Darwin Day 2019 Lecture
Heroes of Evolution: Kettlewell and Majerus: Of Moths and March of Science
This lecture will honor the accomplishments of two scientists who helped demonstrate “Evolution in Action.”
Dr. Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell spent time in the field counting moths in response to increasing amounts of pollution. This phenomenon of industrial melanism was an excellent demonstration of microevolution showing how a population of organisms change in accordance with environmental changes. Unfortunately, scientific criticism lead to junk science criticisms by anti-evolutionists.
Dr. Mike Majerus followed up on the scientific criticisms with his own updated experiments solidifying this basic concept of modern evolutionary theory. This talk focuses on the basics of the science and also the process of how science works.
It will, as is typical for the speaker, criticize the bad faith arguments of the anti-evolutionists and reflect on the challenges for rational thought in today’s culture.

Dr. Stephen L. Gasior
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