NightLife - the Physics CircusCome one, come all: the Physics Circus returns to NightLife this week. Ringmaster Zeke Kossover will dazzle and delight with a wide array of physics demonstrations. Can you really break the bottom out of beer bottle just with your hand? Are personal hovercrafts the wave of the future? Can you ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
Annie Leonard and Raj Patel: In ConversationAnnie Leonard refreshed the national discussion about the dangers of our consumer-driven society when her smart and funny film, The Story of Stuff, became an Internet phenomenon. With his bestselling book, The Value of Nothing, Raj Patel showed how we've let economics take over our lives. Each author has offered ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $10 - $20 Suggested donation
July LASER event6:30pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking. Anyone in the audience is welcome to describe in 30 seconds what they are working on.6:45-7:10pm: Linda Gass (Artist) on "Can Art Change Our Water Consciousness?"A visual presentation on textile-based art informed by site, maps, aerial photography and environmental activism. The artwork portrays aerial views of the human ...
Driving Safely into the FutureAdvances in sensing and computing have led to dramatic changes in the ways cars react to their environment and interact with their drivers. Already some production cars possess the capability to recover from spins, assist the driver in tracking a lane, or keep an appropriate following distance behind the car ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Sandy Harcourt, primate lectureSandy will speak/do a book signing, possibly on some aspect of gorilla behavior. She coauthored 'Gorilla Society: Conflict, Compromise, and Cooperation Between the Sexes' with Kelly J. Stewart.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Sex and the Single GorillaSandy Harcourt and Kelly Stewart will be speaking on and signing their book, "Gorilla Society: Conflict, Compromise and Cooperation Between the Sexes". Alexander H. Harcourt is a primate conservation biologist and Professor of Anthropology at U.C. Davis. Kelly Stewart is a research associate at UC Davis, and will also be ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Ori Brafman & Rom Brafman discuss and sign their new book: Click: The Magic of Instant Connections From the bestselling authors of Sway, Click is a fascinating psychological investigation of the forces behind what makes us click with certain people, or become fully immersed in whatever activity or situation we’re involved in. From two co-workers who fall head over heels for each other while out to dinner ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: free
Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in a Networked Society -- the 20th annual CFP conferenceComputers, Freedom and Privacy is the leading Internet policy conference, exploring the impact of the Internet, computers and communications technologies on society. The CFP audience is as diverse as the net itself, with participants from government, law enforcement, business, and education, including computer professionals, hackers and engineers, non-profits, and the ...
