Science 上一篇文章：The Scientific Research Potential of Virtual Worlds。via：姬十三

Online virtual worlds, electronic environments where people can work and interact in a somewhat realistic manner, have great potential as sites for research in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences, as well as in human-centered computer science. This article uses Second Life and World of Warcraft as two very different examples of current virtual worlds that foreshadow future developments, introducing a number of research methodologies that scientists are now exploring, including formal experimentation, observational ethnography, and quantitative analysis of economic markets or social networks.

听起来挺有趣的。记忆中，已经有过不少以社会性软件为对象的研究论文了。自己做一个网站，然后以它的统计数据来发表研究论文，这似乎挺酷的。

一个相关的信息，也许有人还不知道：如果想在 second life 上做一点科学相关的探索，可以联系自然出版社，他们可以给你一点 second life 的土地。说明在这里。

在进行了将近 1 年的时间後, stardust@home 计画已经完成了第一阶段的任务. (如果你还不了解这项计画, 请参见这里).

组织者说已经取得了巨大的成功, 特别是首次发现采集到了来自太阳系以外的固体物质样本微粒.

现在组织者准备重新处理图像, 以得到更大的图像分辨率, 新扫描的图片将可以发现更细微的星际尘埃轨迹. 这個新的计画即将上线!

由于要为第二阶段做准备, 7 月 27 日至 8 月 9 日, 虚拟显微镜 (VM) 将暂时下线, 不过你仍然可以进行训练和测试. . 网站的论坛也会照常运行.

暂时停止 Stardust@home VM 後, 星尘计画的第一阶段也就此结束. 参与者的分数, 排名等将被保留, 不会被清除. 新的 Stardust@home 第二阶段将在 8 月初开始, 更多信息请访问 http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1858.

$E=mc^2$

$t=\frac{t^’}{\sqrt{1+\frac{v^2}{c^2}}}$
输入成功！小小兴奋一下~~~~

我建了个《理论物理论坛》，还学了latex,我想把latex加到论坛上面，这样就能在论坛上编辑公式了，技术上应该怎样操作呢？请高手教我！

欢迎指教
http://theoreticphysics.5d6d.com/

感谢 72pines 的 Kingler，帮我们安装了 LatexRender，这样子如以前承诺的，赛族终于可以输入公式了。输入法说明参见这里。

kingler 同时升级 wpmu 到 1.2.3，并在插件方面与 72 松同步了。

顺便推荐一下赛族上下列朋友的 blog：Cheng Meng；path2math；王一。

自然出版社又发布了一个新网站：Nature Precedings，a place for researchers to share pre-publication research, unpublished manuscripts, presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and other scientific documents. 类似物理科学领域的 arXiv。

The traditional way for scientists to share their research results is through journals. These have the benefit of being peer-reviewed, citable and archival, but as a communication channel they are also relatively slow and expensive. As a complement to this, scientists also use more immediate and informal approaches, such as preprints (i.e., unpublished manuscripts), conference papers and presentations. The trouble is, these usually aren’t easy to share in a truly globally way (most repositories are institution- or funder-specific), and you can’t formally cite them (which is important because citation underlies the scientific credit system).

Nature Precedings is trying to overcome those limitations by giving researchers a place to post documents such as preprints and presentations in a way that makes them globally visible and citable. Submissions are filtered by a team of curators to weed out obviously inappropriate material, but there’s no peer-review so accepted contributions appear online very quickly — usually within a couple of hours. The content is all released under a Creative Commons Attribution License, and each item is made citable using a DOI or Handle (the same systems used for peer-reviewed scholarly papers).

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