This Saturday I’ll be presenting a lecture and a short Q&A thereafter about my book, “The War for Children’s Minds”, at The Open Habitat Project, a Second Life programme promoting science, reason and critical thinking.<\/p>\n
I’ll be discussing my book at Open Habitat on Saturday, 6 June, from 19:30 to 20:15 GMT (or 11:30 to 12:15 PDT). If you are familiar with Second Life then you can follow the SLURL link below to reach the island. If you are unfamiliar with how Second Life works, please see the information below:<\/p>\n
Open Habitat Amphitheatre SLURL:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/slurl.com\/secondlife\/Open%20Habitat\/132\/204\/25<\/p>\n
The organizers have provided the following information:<\/p>\n
Second Life is 3D interactive \u2018world\u2019 in which you are represented by an avatar. If you have ever played a computer game, or an X-Box or something to that effect where you have a character\/avatar within the game that you control \u2013 that is essentially what it is like in Second Life \u2013 the main difference being that you interact with other \u2018real\u2019 people within a virtual world. <\/p>\n Second Life is full of interesting and exciting places to explore and interact with. <\/p>\n 1. To start with you go to http:\/\/secondlife.com\/ and sign up (it\u2019s free) and create an avatar. Be careful in what name you choose as this cannot be changed!<\/p>\n 2. Once your avatar is set up, click on the following link to go to Open Habitat (http:\/\/slurl.com\/secondlife\/Open%20Habitat\/132\/204\/25) or simply run a search using the Second Life in world group search using the terms \u201cThe Open Habitat Project\u201d and you will find a link to the island.<\/p>\n 3. If you have any problems, please email Maria Hume (mhume@orange.fr) and\/or get in touch with her in world by running a search for Marya Blaisdale (Second Life name) and she will help you get to the right place at the right time.<\/p>\n NB: It is important to note that you do need a broadband\/cable connection to use Second Life and a \u2018decent\u2019 graphics card. You can find more information on specifications on the Second Life web site link above.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This Saturday I’ll be presenting a lecture and a short Q&A thereafter about my book, “The War for Children’s Minds”, at The Open Habitat Project, a Second Life programme promoting science, reason and critical thinking. I’ll be discussing my book at Open Habitat on Saturday, 6 June, from 19:30 to 20:15 GMT (or 11:30 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}