In December, the California Air Resources Board adopted a cap-and-trade program covering approximately 85% of statewide emissions of greenhouse gases. This regulation sets a limit on emissions of greenhouse gases and then allows trading of pollution permits by entities covered under the program. The design of California's system is both ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Strange Bedfellows-Quantum Mechanics and Data MiningOne often hears that physics not only benefits the world by increasing our knowledge of how the world around us works, but through the social benefits of spin-off technologies. Next Monday, Weinstein will talk about a very surprising form of spin-off that comes from understanding how quantum physics works and ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Play When Reality is Broken: Videogames and the Recovery of the Future A talk by Jane McGonigal, author of "Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Happy and How They Can Change the World" (Penguin 2011) and director of game research and development for the Institute for the Future.More than 174 million Americans are gamers, and the average young person in the ...
