The Temple of Science at the GMG sim has officially opened. The build does look a bit like a temple, but it's not a house of worship. Rather, it presents interesting scientists and concepts in an unexpected way. As you would expect in a museum, there are exhibits with informational placards, but the unique part of the exhibits are the links to video and webpages with more in-depth articles. Even for a fairly unscientific person, the exhibits offer an interesting perspective for learning about science.

"I'm married in RL, and I have a boyfriend in SL, so am I considered to be cheating on my husband?"

I was once asked this question by a resident in Second Life who prefers to remain anonymous.

Mandy Matfield, owner and designer of Mandy's Manors, found Second Life^® in a magazine article while she waited at the dentist's office. A former player of the PC game "The Sims," she found a similarity. "Now," she quips, a "sim" means something different.

 Erik Goff leads the lively discussion on Saturdays at noon SLT on Edutopia (SLurl) at Geekspeak. The group has been small and not geeky so far, but happily engaging in discussions of various contemporary and sometimes controversial topics. Last Saturday, for example, the main topic was "the end of oil."

You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the topics and you won't feel uncomfortable expressing your opinion. It's a relaxed and accepting group. Join the group at Edutopia to receive notices. Perhaps you would even like to suggest a topic for next week. The topic for June19 is singularity or the point in time where technology goes so fast we cant keep up anymore.

The time is almost approaching to Second Life's® 7th! Birthday. There are many celebrations taking place, including the availability of land for residents to show their creative side with exhibitions.

This year's theme for the celebration is Unexpected Collaborations. I sure many of you have had many interesting experiences with people in second life. The whole of second life is based on meeting people, working with people. Second life is a huge social network, so I am sure they will be many great exhibitions for the theme.

There was a time in the history of the ‘Information Superhighway’ when the internet as we know it today didn’t exist.  Today, when we talk about the internet, we can relate to terms like ‘http’ or ‘www’ but this wasn’t always the case.  Back in what I like to call the stone age, most online services were presented through portal sites such as AOL or Compuserve.  As more people became accustomed to the idea of ‘crawling the web’ these mega-portals’ popularity decreased and the new age of internet service providers (ISPs) emerged.  This is where we stand today with Linden Lab’s 3D virtual world platform the Second Life Grid™ but with a unique twist.

Dancers at Club Zero

Every passing day I´m more and more amazed by Second Life®. Second Life or SL, the world of parallel lives, which has grown to an incredible speed through the years, and already has more than 15 million residents, of all countries and ages. Second Life has gone from being just a game for some, to adopting a unique morphology that other sims lack or fail to evolve to the same degree of realism offered by SL. Thousands of analogies with the real world has made this metaverse become a meta-reality for some, where you can live, have sex, marry, have kids, prosper and even die, just like the real world. As you notice, this allows endless opportunities, and in this article I would like to highlight some of them.