By Wesley Regenbogen
Genome
Island is an island in Second Life that handles about genomes and our
human DNA.
Max
Chatnoir, AKA Dr. Mary Anne Clark, Professor of Biology for Texas
Wesleyan University in real life, created
the island herself in another location other than today's in 2004.
In 2007 the island moved to its present location in the SciLands region
of Second Life, where all the science related themes are located
today.
Max
Chatnoir also made the design of the island, but most of the scenery
was purchased from other content creators in Second Life.
When
you enter the Genome Island sim, you are offered a Genome Island
T-shirt as a gift, free to accept or discard it. Later on, you
can get a T-shirt with your favorite chromosome and you can
wear it.
In
my personal opinion, this place is worth exploring. You don’t need
to be scientist to understand what it’s about. Since
I have beta thalassemia minor ( or trait ) in real life, it’s nice
to learn more about the human DNA and stuff like that.
I created my group about real life blood disorders recently, so I find
this place very interesting.
I
will end this article with a science quote from Dr. Norval Kneten,
Dean of Science and Humanities at Texas Wesleyan (Now President of
Barton College) who used to say "Science is the next best thing
to recess!"
More
information about Genome Island can be found at following link :
You
can find Genome Island in-world at this location :
Wesley
Regenbogen
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