With activities like bubbly sidewalk painting, rocket launching, meeting rescued wild animals, and making your own ice cream, you'll have a wonderful time learning and exploring together at Summer Fun Days. All events are free with your admission! June12 | Bubbly Sidewalk Painting Make your own chalk and create masterpieces ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with admission
Tabletop Scanning Electron Microscope DemoMerritt Microscopy and Hitachi High-Tech are proud to present a hands-on demo of the Hitachi TM3000 Tabletop Scanning Electron Microscope. The event is open to the general public, with absolutely no prior microscope experience needed, and looking at whatever samples you wish to bring. Simply email us (link below) to ...
Mussels are key aquaculture species and often dominate temperate rocky shores worldwide, forming dense aggregations firmly tethered by byssal threads-extracellular fibers molded by the mussel foot. Field studies with Mytilus spp. have shown byssus strength, or tenacity, follows a strong seasonal cycle, rendering both wild and farmed populations prone to ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
IRIS Televised Launch Viewing at NASA's Ames Research Center - SOLD OUTOn Wednesday, June 26, NASA's newest mission, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph or IRIS, will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. IRIS will take flight using a Pegasus XL rocket, carried aloft by an Orbital Sciences L-1011 aircraft from Vandenberg. This exciting launch will broadcast live at the ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Free Movie Screening: San Francisco – Still Wild at HeartPlease join us for a screening of San Francisco–Still Wild At Heart, the award winning documentary directed by Melissa Peabody. Still Wild at Heart is a virtual case study of the arrival of coyotes in our urban communities. This film has been described as "uplifting, lyrical, moving" and "an absolute ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Menopausal Hormones: Still a HOT TopicAs female Baby Boomers continue to move through the perimenopausal transition, controversies regarding who should or shouldn't start estrogen (with or without progestin) therapy continuesSpeaker: Marcia Stefanick, PhD
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Science and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub, West BaySkeptics in the Pub, West BayFiddlers Green, MillbraeIf ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the film-flam man, and if ye drink, drink with us, your friends. If ye shun the brewer's art, at least help us lay waste to bangers & mash!Skeptics in the Pub is a monthly ...
Where: MillbraeCost:
Santa Cruz Puma Project: Investigating Mountain Lion Behavior in a Human-Dominated LandscapeJoin Ph.D. candidate Yiwei Wang to discuss what it means to be next door neighbors with a large carnivore, the mountain lion or puma. Yiwei will talk about how these elusive predators navigate the Santa Cruz Mountains and try their best to steer clear of humans. However, as the human population of the area grows ...
