Links for Monday, May 23 ,2011

• The Daily Galaxy: Is Dark Energy “Antigravity” Leakage from an Adjacent Universe? – “Burt Ovrut, most famous for his work on string theory, currently Professor of Theoretical High Energy Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, imagined two branes, universes like ours, separated by a tiny gap as tiny as 10-32 meters. There would be no communictaion between the two universes except for our parallel sister universe’s gravitational pull, which could cross the tiny gap.“
• Training Magazine: Avanade Creates a Virtual Campus in Second Life – “During the pilot period, 300 Avanade employees created avatars and attended one or more of 17 one-hour presentations or one of the two-day training courses on project management or consulting skills.“
• Study Hacks: How the World’s Most Famous Computer Scientist Checks E-mail Only Once Every Three Months – “For some jobs, e-mail hinders your ability to perform at your peak. In such situations, it would seem, as Professor Knuth has concluded, you might have an professional obligation to stop using highly distracting electronic communication.“