Second Nature Lecture Series
Second Nature is Nature’s home in the virtual world of Second Life and features scientific exhibitions, ongoing projects and regular events. The Second Nature Lecture Series is an ongoing series of free events featuring presentations by scientists of various disciplines followed by Q&A sessions. Second Nature also hosts occasional mini-series of talks on topical issues. Events on Second Nature are on-going: details of how to attend can be found on the Second Nature website.
Enhancing me – hope or hype?
Many people talk about human enhancement as if it is about to happen. Some suggest that it already has. To join in the debate you need to distinguish between social, personal and species enhancemen…
Received 15 August 2008 00:54 UTC; Posted 19 August 2008
Posted to: Biotechnology, Genetics & Genomics, Neuroscience
How Britain became an island
Island Britain is separated from the European continent by the English Channel and the North Sea. But it was not always so. The floor of the Channel provides evidence for two catastrophic floods ar…
Received 03 October 2007 20:33 UTC; Posted 03 October 2007
Posted to: Earth & Environment
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Geological Storage of CO2
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the collection of carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial point sources such as power plants and its injection underground. Much of the technology necessary to cap…
Received 12 February 2008 14:05 UTC; Posted 12 February 2008
Posted to: Earth & Environment
The Importance of Patents for Scientists
Patents have become a hot topic and the subject of much media attention. If your main source of information about patents is the newspapers, you could be forgiven for having an extremely distorted…
Received 16 June 2008 10:47 UTC; Posted 16 June 2008
Posted to: Biotechnology, Pharmacology
Through Birds’ Eyes: What does vision tell us about foraging in cormorants?
Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo are regarded as visually-guided, pursuit-dive foragers, so it would be expected that they have excellent vision much like aerial predators, such as hawks whic…
Received 28 September 2007 15:43 UTC; Posted 28 September 2007
Posted to: Ecology
