Read about Pema Pera/Piet Hut and his work in Open Sim
http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/07/19/astrophysics-in-virtual-worlds-implementing-n-body-simulations-in-opensim/
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/08/princeton-astro.html
http://www.ugotrade.com/2009/02/11/people-meet-people-meet-big-data-sciencesim-explores-collaborative-high-performance-computing/
An interesting perspective on science in virtual world by George Djorgovski, who took over the directorship of MICA from Kira president Piet Hut (MICA stands for Meta Institute for Computational Astrophyics)."
http://cosmicvariance.com/2008/11/03/guest-post-george-djorgovski-a-new-world-overture/#more-1998
More on the MICA "Ask an Astronomer" Q &A Event
http://spindriftisland.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/scieye-scopes-the-1st-mica-ask-an-astronomer-meeting/
http://comlabjp.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-post_14.html
Adam Frank on the Kira Institute: "What Else Do we Know? Facing Forward in Transcending Science v. Religion"
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2009/02/25/what-else-do-we-know-facing-forward-in-transcending-science-v-religion/
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