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Going Negative to Create Positive Futures - Livestream2020 has been a historic year. While the world has experienced a major economic downturn during a global pandemic, there has been, however, explosive growth in carbon friendly strategies, initiatives, and rounds of funding whether large banks, multinationals, and venture investors. These opportunities in the growing regenerative economy value human ...
Alex Szalay is a Distinguished Professor in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, where he is also a professor in the department of Computer Science, and the director of the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES). He also leads the Open Storage Network ...
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AI and ML to Support and Improve Health Among African American Caregivers - LivestreamYoon will present her recent AI and machine learning projects to support and improve health among African American and Hispanic dementia caregivers using Twitter and public population-level data. Yoon will briefly discuss the lessons learned, challenges, and potential solutions for executing AI and machine learning projects.11:50 am - 12:00 pm ...
In this new series Behind the Scenes, from Truhlsen-Marmor Museum of the Eye, we’ll examine curious medical objects in the museum’s storage cabinets.If you’re interested in medical oddities, you’ll want to join Museum Director Jenny Benjamin for the launch of Behind the Scenes. In this new series, we’ll examine curious medical ...
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Big Tech vs. Healthcare wearables: A Goliath and Goliath Story - LivestreamConsumer wearables have been at the forefront of ‘quantified self’ trends over the last several years, and vendors have taken strides in the depth, breadth and accuracy of the data they feed back to consumers. With wearable stakeholders such as Apple, Fitbit, Google and Garmin all seeking to navigate a ...
Jill Tarter has spent more than 40 years trying to answer the question, “Are we alone in the universe?” An astronomer and co-founder of the SETI Institute, she was the inspiration for Ellie Arroway, the alien-hunting protagonist made famous by Jodie Foster in the 1997 Robert Zemeckis film adaptation of ...
How do scientists go from OMG to PhD? How do they turn their passion for science into their profession? What advice do they have for future scientists?If you are a 5th-12th grade student, undergraduate, teacher or parent, join us to ask these questions and more in a Q&A session. Parents ...
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New kids on the block: Emerging contaminants in aquatic systems - LivestreamChemicals from human sources such as agriculture, urban runoff, and waste from domestic and industrial sewage are pervasive in freshwater and coastal systems. New chemicals are continually being developed, but testing for toxicity prior to use is typically done under controlled laboratory conditions on one or a few species. When ...
DIGITAL DEPUTY ACT: A commitment to digital ethics by Software Professionals - LivestreamCalifornia Preposition 24 tries to add more fines, to create more data rules and to approve more agency to over a basically software professional's ethic practice when one creates applications for a client either it is a large or small corporation, or uses consumers' data. DIGITAL DEPUTY ACT is a ...
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Life on Venus? Or much ado about nothing? - LivestreamFor decades, we thought of Venus as a completely uninhabitable planet because of the hellish environment on its surface. Yet, several scientists have championed the idea that life could exist in the thick cloud decks that shroud the planet.Several weeks ago, a team of astronomers reported the detection of phosphine ...
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Peninsula Gem and Geology Society General MeetingCliff Imprescia will give a talk on the Plumas County collecting locality called the MT Pit #1. Found in 1979 by Charles Trantham and Jeanne Mager, the site has produced numerous specimens of Quartz, Epidote, Albite, Axinite-Fe, and Titanite. The photo presentation will include locality info, site details and mineral ...
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Science on Tap: A New Tool to Map Entire Galaxies - LivestreamAll the popular images of galaxies, while beautiful, do not provide the information that astronomers need to measure the galaxies’ inherent properties, like the dynamics and composition of their stars and gases. Using the latest technological advances, Dr. McGurk is building a new, custom-designed instrument for Carnegie Observatories' Magellan Telescopes ...
A single gamma ray carries millions of times the energy of a single photon of visible light. This means that gamma rays are produced only in the most convulsive environments in the universe; pulsars spinning inside magnetic fields, stars in binary systems devouring their partners and black holes at the ...
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Stop Walking on Truffles: The Cryptic Life Underground - LivestreamCalifornia has an amazing diversity of hypogeous fungi (truffles and false truffles), and was the birthplace of North American truffle taxonomy. Although truffles are renowned for their culinary properties, very few species are highly prized edibles. This talk will highlight some of the common species, and how to find and ...