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COVID-19 Impacts and Equity: Berkeley's Computing and Data Science In Action - LivestreamThis event will be the second in a series of conversations hosted by Berkeley's Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society, and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) to provide an early look at what researchers are investigating and discovering as they mobilize computing and data science to take on the ...
Where: Cost: Free
2020 City Nature Challenge Livestream 1 - How to be a 21st Century Naturalist - LivestreamGet ready for City Nature Challenge and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day by learning more about community (citizen) science and the importance of being a naturalist in the 21st century. The interactive portion of this workshop will be an in-depth introduction to iNaturalist to get you ready to make observations for City Nature Challenge on April ...
Virtual Summit: Climate Resiliency PanelJoin Stanford's Office of Sustainability and regional sustainability leaders for a 90 minute panel discussion to showcase best practices in climate resiliency and action plans. This online learning summit will help to connect the dots on the complex problem. Moderated by Office of Sustainability Director Fahmida Ahmed Bangert, the session ...
It’s 2040, and you stroll into the Center for Mind Design where you can buy a variety of brain enhancements. How far do you want to go? The human calculator promises to give you savant-level mathematical abilities. The Zen garden can make you calmer and more efficient. Or you can ...
Filmed over 23 years, Rise of the Warrior Apes is an award-winning documentary that tells the epic story of an extraordinary troop of chimpanzees in Ngogo, Uganda - featuring four mighty warriors who rule through moral ambiguity, questionable politics, strategic alliances, and destroyed trust. Join director James Reed and primatologist ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: TBA
Creating Superhumans - LivestreamJody Medich is a futurist and product designer helping define how humans and machines work together. Working with organizations like DARPA, IBM, and Toyota, Jody creates new tools that leverage sensors, robotics, artificial intelligence, and AR/VR that dramatically extend, augment, and amplify human abilities - creating superhumans, rather than supercomputers. ...
The bulk of biomass on Earth is plant material. Plant cell walls are composed in large part of cellulose and hemicellulose, making them the most abundant carbohydrates on Earth. In the process of decomposition, wood-decay fungi such as Laetiporus, Pleurotus and others, produce cellulolytic enzymes capable of breaking down these ...
