Mathematics Club
2025-04-03 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-10 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-17 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-24 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-01 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-08 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-15 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-22 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Maths Club

VWBPE SC Moon Base Roundtable Discussion
2025-04-04 10:00 - 11:00
Confronting the Unknown: The SC Moon Base Project
Presenter: Vic Michalak (RL: Phil Youngblood, PhD, The Science Circle Foundation)
Discussants:
Sumo Itano (RL: Natalie Foster, PhD)
Syzygy Asymptote (RL: William Wall, PhD)
Tagline (RL: Robert Hendrix, MD)
Operative Phoenix (RL: Tomomi Ishihara)
Location Badland Wilds
The Science Circle Foundation is hosting this roundtable discussion to enhance their Immersive Experience.
Participants will experience firsthand how Moon Base Project members tackle difficult issues in weekly meetings to design and build a safe and sustainable lunar base.
The event will start with an open dialog about the guiding questions to exchange perspectives on these and more difficult questions, after which Project members will share how they communicate and collaborate effectively in a virtual world.

Guiding Questions:
Who owns the Moon? Who should live and work there? All participants can engage in these.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to engage in a discussion of a controversial issue with no correct answer.
Participants will be able to learn how a diverse international group collaborates in a virtual world
Accessibility: SpeakEasy HUD

Lifelong Learning Roundtable
2025-04-05 10:00 - 11:00
Lifelong Learning Roundtable
Presenter: Lissena (Lynne Berrett, Whole Brain Health)
Discussants: Tilly Harmony, Tagline, Regi Yifu, Finn Fairelander
Lifelong learning is crucial for wellbeing beyond formal education, and Second Life offers a wealth of opportunities for this kind of learning all in one place! The roundtable’s goal is to highlight the diversity of lifelong learning programs available in SL and the ways they have improved the lives of participants. The moderator will provide a framework for the discussion and introduce 4 panelists who represent some of the oldest and/or largest lifelong learning programs in SL. Each will share their personal journeys from newcomers to learners and eventually teachers’ transitions that have deeply enriched their own SL experience. Each will describe their approach to lifelong learning. This panel brings together people interested in lifelong learning in SL who are often not aware of each other’s existence or of the possibilities for collaboration as part of an expanded educational community.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to actively contribute to the list of LLL opportunities in SL
Participants will be able to network to follow up on their interests.
Location Desert Hinterlands

Classical Concert
2025-04-06 07:00 - 08:00, 2025-04-13 07:00 - 08:00, 2025-04-20 07:00 - 08:00, 2025-04-27 07:00 - 08:00, 2025-05-04 07:00 - 08:00, 2025-05-11 07:00 - 08:00, 2025-05-18 07:00 - 08:00 | The Lighthouse Café

The Moon Base
2025-04-07 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-04-14 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-04-21 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-04-28 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-05-05 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-05-12 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-05-19 10:00 - 11:00 | Moon base

The Height of the Roman Empire
2025-04-12 10:00 - 11:00
A Virtual Field Trip to Ancient Rome
Step back in time with us as we journey to the ancient splendor of Alexandria in AUC 754 (1 CE), during the height of the Roman Empire! This immersive virtual field trip will transport you to a world of marble villas, bustling estates, and the timeless grandeur of Roman life under Emperor Augustus.
Explore These Iconic Locations:
Antonius Family Estate: Wander the sprawling grounds of a noble Roman household.
Antonius Villa at Luxor: Marvel at the opulence of this riverside retreat.
Alexandria AUC 754: Experience the vibrant heart of this legendary city, a crossroads of culture and power.
Empire of Romanum: Witness the might and majesty of Rome’s imperial reach.
Dress the Part: To fully embrace the experience, we encourage participants to don Roman attire; think togas, tunics, and sandals! Whether you’re a senator, a citizen, or a scholar, come styled for the occasion.
Mark your calendars and prepare for an unforgettable adventure into the past. Join us as we bring history to life in this unique virtual exploration!

SC Formal Debate: Regulation of AI
2025-04-19 10:00 - 11:00 | Science Circle Forum
The Chamber is resolved that there should be an international legal framework enforcing the responsible use of AI in all applications. As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms industries, governance, and daily life, questions of ethics, safety, and accountability loom large. Should a unified global framework guide AI’s development and deployment, ensuring it benefits humanity while mitigating risks like bias, privacy violations, and autonomous misuse? Or does such regulation risk stifling innovation and creating bureaucratic hurdles in a fast-evolving field?
Join us for a dynamic debate exploring the balance between responsibility and progress, with implications for technology, policy, and society worldwide.

Generated with the assistance of Grok, an AI by xAI.”

How Quantum Biology governs Life
2025-04-26 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
The Robin’s flight, the smell of a rose and the oxygen around us : How QUANTUM BIOLOGY governs LIFE
In 1943, Erwin Schrödinger gave a series of talks in Trinity College Dublin which were later collected in his seminal 1944 book, What is Life? For the first time in the history of science, a physicist fished in unfamiliar water and speculated that quantum mechanics might play a role in genetic stability and biological order.
Today, experimental evidence evolved Schrödinger’s ideas into fascinating paradigms showcasing quantum effects not confined to physics laboratories but to the very fabric of life. These discoveries revamped classical biology into a deep, quantum-driven framework governing the processes of life itself.
The evolving field called “Quantum Biology” shows Life operating at the “edge of the possible”, harnessing the bizarre principles of quantum mechanics to drive fundamental biological processes.
My talk explores how subatomic phenomena shape the living world, with the most improbable real-world scenarios such as the uncanny navigational skills of migratory birds to the remarkable efficiency of photosynthesis.
Along the way, we look at how magnetoreception in robins relies on quantum entanglement, how photosynthetic systems exploit quantum superposition to maximize energy transfer, and how enzymes use quantum tunnelling to accelerate chemical reactions.
Additionally, we will see how quantum mechanics is what helps to smell a rose.
By Chandrakanth Emani
Research Scientist – Crop Transformation at MyFloraDNA – Plant Genetic Engineering/Plant TissueCulture/Genomics/Gene Editing/Agrigenomics

Transgalactic Relations
2025-05-03 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
Ongoing military reports of unexplained objects flying in our skies have sparked renewed interest in alien visitors. Some scientists predict that we will have contacted advanced civilizations on other worlds within years, if not already. What might they be like, and — more importantly – how might they act? Steven Van Hook, a researcher in transcultural relations, will consider what universal social traits we could share in common with our galactic alien neighbors, with developmental theories of exobiology and exosociology.
BIO:
Dr. Steven R. Van Hook has taught courses in transcultural communications and global affairs for the University of California and other universities in the United States and abroad. He’s been a newspaper columnist, radio talk show host, TV news anchor, and television bureau chief in Moscow covering the fall of the Soviet Union 1990-91. He has a PhD specializing in transcultural education, and is published in scholarly journals including SAGE, and UNESCO’s Prospects.

Department of Anthropology and Geography at Colorado State University
2025-05-10 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
Welcome to the Second Life campus of the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Colorado State University. We will tour the facility on May 10 at the usual Science Circle time. The purpose of the campus is to provide a basis for experimenting with, and developing, curricula focused on the types of experiential learning available in a social virtual world. A small test of this type of pedagogy was conducted in Meryl McBride’s (Merrill Johnson’s) fall semester, 2024, class in the Geography of Europe and the Americas (GR 102). We will tour the tropical rainforest display used by these students. Bring your snakebite kits!
Meryl McBride/Merrill Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor of Geography (Ret.)
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado

2020 in the Science Circle – Revisited 2
2025-05-17 10:00 - 11:00
A panel discussion following up on past topics from 5 years ago.
Phil Youngblood — The Biochemistry of Our Senses
Mike Shaw — Data into insight: Teasing out how molecules behave
Steve van Hook —The World 20 Years Ahead with 2020 Vision
Panelists will provide a brief summary of their past talks and context, provide a few updates, then we will open the floor for Q&A.
Moderated by Stephen Gasior/Xootfly
