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Weekday Morning Walk at Pillar Point Bluff - FULLJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a morning walk at Pillar Point Bluff just north of Half Moon Bay! You will be guided by a POST representative who will share details about the area’s interesting natural history, from the coastal scrub habitat to the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve that hosts tide ...
Enhancing the sustainability of agricultural systems requires insight into how these complex techno-environmental-behavioral systems are likely to respond to changes in production technologies, anthropogenic environmental shocks, and public policies. Yet integrated models of food-energy-water systems tend to draw primarily on economic models, omitting site specific biophysical and environmental process details ...
Ever since the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898, miners in Canada's Yukon Territory today have been regularly finding the remains of animals tens thousands of years old. In an online lecture for Smithsonian magazine, Yukon paleontologist Grant Zazula will share some astonishing new finds, including woolly mammoths, prehistoric North American ...
The fascinating qualities of fungi are manifold and sometimes mind-blowing. Tonight at After Dark, discover some fun facts about the beautiful, diverse, and curious fungus kingdom, including mushrooms, yeasts, and molds. Get up-close views of majestic microscopic fungi, see the surprising ways fungi can be used as art materials, and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
NightLifeCalling all creatures of the night: explore the nocturnal side of the Academy at NightLife and see what's revealed. With live DJs, outdoor bars, ambiance lighting, and nearly 40,000 live animals (including familiar faces like Claude the albino alligator), the night is sure to be wild.Step inside the iconic Shake ...
Is DNA sequencing really the last word in our two hundred year old quest to classify and name mushrooms “correctly”? What does it mean and how does it work? What are some of the biggest surprises we’ve learned? Danny will take a stroll through the history of the biggest fungal ...
Skeptics usually approach fake science armed with a diagnostic checklist, asking whether the claims in question are falsifiable, naturalistic, parsimonious, and so forth. Philosophers of science, however, have long pointed out that fake sciences need not exhibit such features. Creationist claims, for example, are very often false, not unfalsifiable. Moreover, ...