Friday, November 9, 2018

Announcement: This Week At The Science Circle : "Recent Developments in Solar Cells" and "Art History Tour"


"Art History Tour"

Saturday, November 10,
7:00 to 8:00 AM SL time.

by Hajime Nishimura

Title: Liberalism vs. Conservatism in Art? – Art History part.3

I presented twice about Art History before.

Part 1

Part 2

I and comet Morigi installated The Modern Museum as a collaboration platform for finding cross-disciplinary relation in modern history. And motoko Moonwall expanded my idea, introduced 2nd axis, “Left eye’s Art” vs. “Right eye’s Art” in her Art history museum but she died by lung cancer in 2015 before completion.

She introduced “Mannerism/ Baroque” vs “Classicism/ Renaissance”, combined two Art historians, Heinrich Wolflin and Gustav Hocke, but both studies are based mainly on Eastern Art and not enough for finding relations between Eastern world and Western world.

So I proposed new hypothesis, memory of “Hunting (migratory) life in glacial period” vs. “Agricultural (Sedentary) life in Holocene”.

It is interesting that several researchers in evolutionary psychology, cognitive neuroscience, etc. have similar idea for “Liberalism” vs “Conservatism” in politics.

Location guided tour Motoko Museum of Art History

Tour in voice, in English and Japanese.

Presentation Nov 3rd

Presentation is in voice chat in English and Japanese.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Science%20Circle/157/78/22

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"Recent Developments in Solar Cells- Perovskites"

Saturday, November 10,
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

By Mike J. Shaw

Harvesting energy from sunlight continues to be an active area of research which has the potential to benefit society at large. The best silicon-based solar cells have efficiencies around 25% after decades of research. Recently, solar cells based on materials which adopt a structure analogous to the mineral perovskite have shown the potential for high-efficiency conversion of light to electricity. This talk will illustrate the basics of how a solar cell works, why the perovskite structure seems to work for this application, and the various pros and cons of the particular varieties of perovskite used in such cells.

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Science%20Circle/61/127/32

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