To celebrate my birthday today, I'm heading back into Second Life 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. It's possible the Nobel Prize will be mentioned. (The physics one. Don't expect any insight from me on quasicrystals, except that they're awesome.) We'll be chatting at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific, at the Stella Nova Theater. If you're not already on Second Life, it's super easy (and free) to join. (Here's some very useful information for beginners.) And you get to design an avatar that looks like you would want to look, rather than your inevitably-disappointing real self. The chat is part of the Virtually Speaking series hosted by FireDogLake, in this case co-produced with the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics. 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:
Audio on BlogTalk Radio. This is an archived podcast, available on iTunes, so you can listen later if you like.
There is also live chat on IRC. Enter #vspeak into the channel field.
Yes I know, very complicated. If simplicity is more your bag, here's a guest video on dark energy that I did for the wonderful Minute Physics series. [embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6o2bUPdxV0[/embed]
