Shah Selbe is an engineer and conservation technologist who works with communities, NGOs, and developing countries to identify and deploy technologies that can help with their greatest conservation challenges. His projects have integrated crowdsourcing, smartphone apps, drones, satellite data, and sensors to address such conservation issues as illegal poaching and ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Discovery Station: Corn and TeosinteDiscover fun facts about corn (Zea mays) and its ancestor Balsas teosinte. Learn how the people of Mesoamerica began the domestication of corn and the differences and similarities between teosinte and modern day corn. You will gain a new appreciation for corn, how it grows, and why without human intervention, ...
Activists and environmental defenders in the Global South promote transformations against dispossession in a variety of fields, from food to energy production. Ecological economic scholars argued in favor of an obvious alliance between environmental justice movements in the South and criticism of economic growth. Yet, collaborative research unveiled activists’ concerns ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Physics vs. Time TravelEveryone loves a good time travel story, but given what we know -- and don’t know -- about physics, is time travel in any way plausible? Using popular movies as a framework, Professor Ken Wharton will outline several distinct categories of consistent time travel stories, and discuss possible connections with ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Purity and Pollution: Cannabis as Matter Out of PlaceEncounters between humans and psychoactive substances are loaded, often fraught, affairs. They are not just liminal moments of experience but are bound up with social dynamics of danger, pollution, purification, and transformation. Cannabis is no exception. Based on nine years of anthropological research, Dr. Polson will share observations on cannabis, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Using AI in Marketing Analytics and Predictive ModelingWhen it comes to moving people and making deliveries, few companies are more widely spread and more widely recognized than Uber. Uber is part of the logistics fabric of more than 700 cities around the world, and whether it's a ride, a sandwich, or a package, they use technology to ...
