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Election 2020 - Critical Technology Policy Issues - LivestreamThe 2020 Presidential election in the US comes at a critical juncture for technology, innovation, politics, and policy. From aeronautics to space exploration, and from semiconductors to the internet, history shows in no uncertain terms the fundamental connections between government policy, political priorities, and technological innovation. What are the key ...
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SETI Talks: Who is the SETI Institute? - LivestreamYou’ve heard about us. Maybe you’ve noticed we were mentioned in a blockbuster Hollywood movie or in a sitcom on TV. Perhaps you used to run SETI @ home on your computer back in the day (for the record, we’d love to take credit, but that wasn’t us). If someone ...
A long-standing debate in the Earth Sciences bears on the question of whether top-down erosion processes govern mountain building processes, but how do we measure the topographic signature of the climate drivers independent of tectonics? We use two natural experiments to detangle a potential signature of climate and drivers of ...
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Basic Science: Seeing Cells in a New Light - LivestreamRecent breakthroughs in biological imaging using adaptive optics and novel types of ultra-high-resolution microscopes have enabled watching live cells in action in the brain and other tissues. Pioneers of these approaches describe how Berkeley’s new Advanced Bioimaging Center will be a visualization and data-processing powerhouse for the biological sciences.Please register ...
In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and author Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions - clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips - and reveals how they shaped the human experience.Ramirez shows not only how materials were shaped by inventors but ...
Supermassive black holes are the most powerful persistent sources of energy in the Universe. They power the emission of radiation in every waveband that humans have learned to study, from long, low-energy radio waves to blistering gamma rays. Humans have learned to study these immense, mysterious objects using instruments designed ...
