MEASURING CLIMATE CHANGE USING EARTH-SENSING SATELLITESDr. Carl Mears, a Senior Scientist at Remote Sensing in Santa Rosa, will be speaking about how measurements made using microwave sensors on satellites monitor changes in Earth's climate and test the predictions of climate simulation models.
DripTECH PresentationIn the spring of 2008, three Stanford graduate students from the schools of business, engineering, and design joined forces in a course called Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability. The team traveled to Ethiopia to see where they could apply their talents to help, arriving in the middle of the worst ...
Pauline W. Chen, a liver transplant and liver cancer surgeon, is the author of Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality, a New York Times bestseller. Dr. Chen graduated from Harvard University and Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, completing her surgical training at Yale University, the National Cancer Institute ...
How does location affect the taste of your food? Food and environment writer Jacobsen explores the connection between these two, extending the French wine-growing concept of terroir out to a variety of foods from the Western Hemisphere. Learn where the best-tasting honey comes from; why Alaska's Yukon River produces the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, Free Members, $7 Students
Science at the Theater: Cool Cities, Cool Planet featuring Art RosenfeldArthur Rosenfeld, Professor of Physics Emeritus at UC Berkeley, was the last graduate student of Nobelist Enrico Fermi. In 1955 he joined the Physics faculty at UC Berkeley and the research group of Luis Alvarez. In 1974, in response to the OPEC oil embargo, Rosenfeld switched to the new field ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
Mediation, Performance, and the Public SphereIn 1968, protesters outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago chanted "The whole world is watching," and shortly thereafter their images appeared on the evening news. These days, protesters bring their own cameras and post their clips on YouTube. Has participatory media effected a structural transformation of the public sphere? ...
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