{"id":4546,"date":"2015-01-07T20:02:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T20:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2015-01-07T20:02:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T20:02:21","slug":"enjoy-weird-science-at-the-exploratoriums-second-life-auditorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4546","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy Weird Science At The Exploratorium&#8217;s Second Life Auditorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Science Exploratorium by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/16223763082\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8627\/16223763082_41449de0ef.jpg?resize=500%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Science Exploratorium\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned before that there&#8217;s a lack of Science Fiction in Second Life. There&#8217;s also a lack of Science Fact. However both genres do exist in Second Life, just not to the degree I&#8217;d have expected.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to real science, <a title=\"Exploratorium in Second Life\" href=\"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4301\" target=\"_blank\">as I&#8217;ve mentioned before<\/a>, The Exploratorium is a good place to go. The Exploratorium is also the home of the podcast <a title=\"Virtually Speaking Science\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/virtually-speaking-science\" target=\"_blank\">Virtually Speaking Science<\/a>. The latest edition is going to be all about humour :\u00a0<a title=\"Science And Humour\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/weird-science\/science-humor-winning-formula-laughing-thinking-n281526\" target=\"_blank\">Science + Humor = A Winning Formula for Laughing and Thinking<\/a>. The show will be hosted by Alan Boyle of NBC News and will\u00a0feature <a title=\"Marc Abrahams Improbable Research\" href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/about\/people\/MarcAbrahams.html\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Abrahams of Improbable Research<\/a> reviewing some of weirdest tales of Science from 2014 and furthermore, you can watch the show live in Second Life :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Marc Abrahams will review the past year&#8217;s weirdest scientific tales with NBC News&#8217; Alan Boyle during Wednesday&#8217;s installment of &#8220;Virtually Speaking Science,&#8221; an hourlong talk show airing at 8 p.m. ET via <a title=\"Blog Talk Radio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/virtually-speaking-science\/2015\/01\/08\/alan-boyle-marc-abrahams-ig-nobels-annals-of-improbable-research\" target=\"_blank\">BlogTalkRadio<\/a>.\u00a0You can also watch the show as part of a live virtual audience in the <a title=\"SLURL To Exploratorium\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/Exploratorium\/147\/52\/26\" target=\"_blank\">Exploratorium&#8217;s Second Life auditorium<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By Wednesday they mean today, unless you live in a timezone whereby 8pm ET is tomorrow of course, which would be the very early hours of the morning in Europe alas. I also think Alan Boyle needs to embrace SLT as a timezone to assist us all!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Marc Abrahams writes and talks about Science in a way that is meant to make people laugh and then think. Bringing humour and to Science is important in terms of making it more attractive,\u00a0especially if the humour involves a u, but we can forgive them for that if laughing does indeed make people think.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RA-imyU9je0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you fancy popping along the SLURL is :\u00a0<a title=\"SLURL To Exploratorium\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/Exploratorium\/147\/52\/26\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/Exploratorium\/147\/52\/26<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However even if you can&#8217;t make the show, The Exploratorium is well worth a visit, especially if you have an interest in Science.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4546\" data-via=\"Ciaran_Laval\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned before that there&#8217;s a lack of Science Fiction in Second Life. There&#8217;s also a lack of Science Fact. However both genres do exist in Second Life, just not to the degree I&#8217;d have expected. When it comes to real science, as I&#8217;ve mentioned before, The Exploratorium is a good place to go. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4546\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Enjoy Weird Science At The Exploratorium&#8217;s Second Life Auditorium&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[19,1022,771],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rJUK-1bk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4547,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions\/4547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}