Free Wednesday at Cal AcademyFree admission is available to visitors on the third Wednesday of every month, through the generosity of The Bernard Osher Foundation. Admission is on a first come, first served basis, and early arrival is recommended due to the likelihood of high demand. Also, please note that final entry to the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Methamphetamine: An American EpidemicThis Stanford Health Policy Forum will focus on the ravages of methamphetamine in the United States and how policymakers should respond to the epidemic.This forum will be a conversation with Nick Reding, the best-selling author of "Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town," and Dr. Keith Humphreys, ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Evolution of Saturn's F RingSaturn's F ring has brightened markedly in the last 25 years. It is twice as bright in the Cassini data as it was in the Voyager data from 1980 and 1981. We attribute this change to increasing perturbations by nearby Prometheus, which passes closer to the ring now that it ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
History of the DeltaJoin Park Ranger Bill Cope as he facilitates and overview and historical perspective of the Delta -- and its history, levees, sloughs, waterways, islands, and bridges over the years.
Probabilistic Simulation of Fatigue Processes in a High-Strength Aluminum AlloyMost of the fatigue life of high-strength aluminum components in aircraft and some wind turbine blades is spent in the microstructurally small length-scale. Therein cracks are small relative to the grain size (microns) of the material, and their evolution is controlled by the geometry and property distributions in the microstructure. ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
'California Water: Crisis or Crossroads'Water has become one of California's most polarizing issues, pitting North vs. South, farms vs. cities, and Democrat vs. Republican. Recent news is dominated by stories of drought, shortages, and pollution. Should the state spend billions on new dams and a Peripheral Canal? What can be done to reverse the ...
Where: OaklandCost: $33 for dinner. Free for the Presentation.
Making Technology Meaningful: Bridging Research & PracticeA major disconnect in social impact is the meaningful application of technology to complex problems. Gobee is a small, agile consultancy working to develop impact-oriented technology solutions through holistic design approaches. The talk will highlight the Gobee model of linking research and practice through presentation of current social impact engagements.Speakers: ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Sacrifice Zones and Environmental JusticeAcross the United States, thousands of people, most of them in low-income or minority communities, live next to heavily polluting industrial sites. Many of them reach the point where they say that enough is enough. Lerner tells the stories of 12 communities that rose to fight and had some success ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members
What Technology Wants : Very Long-Term Trends in TechnologyKevin Kelly discusses "What Technology Wants", a view that technology as a whole is not just a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kelly looks out through the eyes of this global technological system to discover "what it ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Bookworms Club: Explorations in EvolutionRemarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species by Sean B. CarrollFocusing on the scientists who studied evolution, Remarkable Creatures celebrates the "pursuit and the pleasure of scientific discovery."This is a book discussion group and participants are strongly encouraged to read the book before attending. Please ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had it Coming!The controversial "demotion" of Pluto was mainly the result of discoveries by a team of astronomers led by Michael Brown. In this talk, Dr. Brown will share the inside story of how he discovered "other Pluto's" out there beyond Neptune, including Eris, larger than Pluto,which he later named for the ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free
The Clotho SystemSynthetic Biology is the next wave in genetic engineering in which biological systems are constructed ground-up to perform new and useful functions. Moreover, synthetic biology seeks to develop a theory-grounded engineering discipline for genetic engineering. However, the field is still in its early days, and experimentalists continue to use software ...
