{"id":7536,"date":"2011-10-05T09:22:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T16:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=7536"},"modified":"2011-10-05T09:22:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T16:22:56","slug":"fire-up-your-virtual-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/fire-up-your-virtual-realities\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Up Your Virtual Realities"},"content":{"rendered":"

To celebrate my birthday today, I’m heading back into Second Life<\/a> to do a chat with Alan Boyle of MSNBC.com fame. Alan has previewed some of the topics we’ll be discussing in a post at Cosmic Log<\/a>. It’s possible the Nobel Prize will be mentioned. (The physics one<\/a>. Don’t expect any insight from me on quasicrystals<\/a>, except that they’re awesome.)<\/p>\n

We’ll be chatting at 9pm Eastern\/6pm Pacific, at the Stella Nova Theater<\/a>. If you’re not already on Second Life, it’s super easy (and free) to join. (Here’s some very useful information for beginners<\/a>.) And you get to design an avatar that looks like you would want to look, rather than your inevitably-disappointing real self.<\/p>\n

The chat is part of the Virtually Speaking<\/a> series hosted by FireDogLake, in this case co-produced with the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics<\/a>. Alan does a regular series of interviews on science, so you may get hooked. Our chat will be a multi-media extravaganza, so you can choose to listen in various ways:<\/p>\n