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Engineering FestivalEveryone can build a hydraulic system, a wind turbine, or a bridge at this celebration of engineering. Engineering Festival is part of Summer Fun Days at the Lawrence Hall of Science. Every Wednesday enjoy a unique event with your family-from trapeze arts to bubbly sidewalk painting.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with admission
Whatever Happened to Homo erectus?Who's your (ancient) daddy? Did he walk upright? Could he control fire? Did he have a brow ridge that wouldn't quit?! Then maybe he was a Homo of the erectus - not so sapient - type. Many new Homo erectus specimens have been added to the global repository in the past decades, and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Monster 'El Gordo' Galaxy clusterThe "El Gordo" Cluster of several hundred galaxies is one of the largest and oldest known clusters in the earlier universe, at 7 billion light years distant. With the impressive shockwaves observed on the outskirts of the galaxy cluster, El Gordo appears to be a titanic collision between a pair ...
"Hearing Loss (or: The Science of 'What?')" by Brian SeitelFor most people, hearing is effortless, simply another of the five main senses. But for 10% of the population, it's a struggle just to tease out the lyrics to "Wrecking Ball" in a crowded bar, much less the voice of the ...