Second Life News: AIDS Day and a new Scifoo lives on session December 1, 2007
Posted by Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0, Second Life, Web 2.0, science.trackback
I’ve found some interesting news about Second Life. First, it’s my pleasure to announce that a new Scifoo lives on session will take place on the Second Nature island at 17:00 GMT on Monday. The idea is based on my 10 Reasons Why Nature is the Best in Science 2.0 post. Several members of the Nature group will attend and give slideshows about their projects (Nature Network, Connotea, etc.). Everbody is warmly invited!
- Wear a skin disease! (A Sexual Health SIM in Second Life (University of Plymouth))
Below is a snapshot of a very ‘quick-and-dirty’ AIDS-related Kaposi Sarcoma “skin” for use in-world (it’s actually a transparent undershirt with the lesions). People wearing it are able to see and experience on their own avatar how Kaposi Sarcoma looks/feels in AIDS patients. Of course the same principle can be expanded, refined and used to role-play patients with various skin conditions/presentations and at various stages of their disease (to show progress, worsening or healing).
- Sculptie Earth (found on sim Areumdeuli): It features a topographic Earth model with cloud layer that displays real time weather patterns streamed from satellite data. Stills are taken 3 hours apart and 2 days of data is visible in the animation.
Hi,
You should have properly attributted the first item to the originator (a HONcode requirement): The University of Plymouth (Devon,UK) Sexual Health SIM in Second Life. This way your reader could also know where to try out the clothing in-world (it’s at our SIM–look for our new ‘AIDS-related Kaposi Sarcoma Experience’ dispenser inside the glass building).
SLurl:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Education%20UK/33/63/22
Blog:
http://www.sl-sexualhealth.org.uk/
Also a copyright requirement–Photo credits (we see you have uploaded it on your server without originator’s permission)
I thought I could help your work by promoting it. I removed the image…
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Hey!
I am the creator of the Kaposi Sarcoma skin - I donated it to the Sexual Health SIM in Second Life. Thanks so much for writing about it!! Grr them for making you take the image down for copyright..
Also, that sculptie earth is just amazing!! If you do a flikr search, some people have found some really unique ways to photograph it, such as Simondo Nebestanka who took some nice photos with the cloud layers removed. Anyway, thanks again for writing about my Kaposi Sarcoma skin
Bailey, it was my pleasure!
I thought if I linked to their article and posted your image, then I could promote your work. But that’s how copyright works…
Let me know please if you have any kind of new work. I’d love to write about it.
Berci