The regular monthly ASCI Metaverse Meeting will be held online, Sunday, August 26 [10am PDT, 1pm EDT]. Topics for discussion:
Does science have dogmas?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD2qScZlvYE (Thanks to Alyce Santoro for the suggestion.)
Writing books in DNA code:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/08/written-in-dna-code.html (Thanks to Richard Minsky for the suggestion.)
Share your thoughts about our favorite Martian:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.htmlIf we have time:
50 years after the paradigm shift:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/19/thomas-kuhn-structure-scientific-revolutions(Thanks to Alyce Santoro for the suggestion.)Will the James Webb Space Telescope find ET?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120808-will-we-ever-find-life-in-space?selectorSection=science-environment
We hope you can stop by to join the fun and share your Metaverse experiences, along with your virtual gaming, computer geek adventures, cyber art projects, and dorkbot stories. If you’re already registered you can teleport to the meeting via
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Quat/137/88/54/ Otherwise there are directions for registering at:
http://www.solidstatelight.com/ASCI
