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...Created by Linden Lab in 2003, Second Life is a “3-D online digital world imagined, created, and owned by its residents” that is free to join. Its roughly five million users create avatars, which are virtual character representations of themselves that can be anything from men and women to butterflies. Second Life is not a game so much as it is an “online community” because there is no specific goal or winner. Users are able to interact, create buildings, and buy land on the Second Life globe...
...Business Week profiled Anshe Chung, a Second Life user who had made $250,000 USD in virtual Linden Dollars. Chung could exchange this for American dollars on the LindeX Currency Exchange that Linden Lab operates through PayPal. Such singular concern for profit does not make Second Life a good teaching tool, even though companies have claimed to use it as such. In an effort to teach young people how to manage money, Wells Fargo & Co. created an amusement park island on Second Life in 2005 where users could withdraw money from ATMs. Underlying this supposedly instructive intent, was, of course...
...talk to someone. And when the topic of Mental Health Services (or Room 13, the BSC, OSAPR, etc.) comes up, we should not just recount the juicy details of what (might have) happened to our roommate’s boyfriend’s teammates’s lab partner. Instead, we might offer that many people (say, eight people in every twenty person section) use them, and most find them helpful...
...David Mou ’08 said that he found the presentation interesting. “I’m taking a class on sleep right now. So [the discussion] was really helpful,” he said. As he rushed out the door to get to lab on time, he added that he’d try to follow Lockley’s advice...
...would show high calcium levels, which haven't been found. Says an FDA spokesman: "Our analysis of the premix indicates that vitamin levels were appropriate." Other theories floated to explain the bizarre deaths are aminopterin, or rat poison, which would cause the kind of kidney damage seen. An Albany lab found the substance in two pet food samples of canned foods, but the FDA has ruled these out because no other lab has been able to confirm the results...