CSO TalkTalks Monday March 9!

CSO TalkTalks opens quietly for a friendly shared experience amongst science educators on Monday, March 9 at 6 pm SLT! Sometime between now and then, please visit the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach HQ in Second Life and when you rez in click on the Vanderbilt teleporter. Once at the CSO building, enter and vote for the TED video you'd like to share and talk about. Only one vote per avatar! Then we'll see you Monday night at 6 pm SLT to view and chat!

There will be a brief period at the beginning of the one hour session to give the folks who haven't yet voted to express their opinion, then we'll all count down together and click to play the video. Chatting allowed in text during the event--ENCOURAGED, in fact!

While you're there feel free to look around the Center HQ!

Here are the options for Monday and their corresponding polling object colors. See you on Monday, March 9!
Red:
Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid itCambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease -- and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of which can be averted.

Green:
Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seenYou've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world." and the more recent follow-up,

Yellow:
David Keith:
A surprising idea for "solving" climate changeEnvironmental scientist David Keith proposes a cheap, effective, shocking means to address climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere to deflect sunlight and heat?

Blue:
Juan Enriquez: Why can't we grow new energy? Juan Enriquez challenges our definition of bioenergy. Oil, coal, gas and other hydrocarbons are not chemical but biological products, based on plant matter -- and thus, growable. Our whole approach to fuel, he argues, needs to change.