Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures CountMany laypeople, and many scientists who study intelligence, believe that intelligence is highly heritable and for this reason is little modifiable by the environment. It is often assumed that the environment that families create for their children has little impact on intelligence. In fact, heritability is not as great as ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other Turkle will shed light on the ways our use of technology is encouraging disturbing levels of isolation. We use social networking technology to modulate our relationships and make relationships easier to handle. But, as Turkle says, we just end up debasing them by showing how easily we are "willing to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 members, $7 Students
REVIEW OF RECENT STYLES OF NETWORK/WEB ATTACKSSpeaker: Mr. Greg Edwards works full time in computer security and teaches computer/network/wireless security part time at the University of California Santa Cruz Extension and elsewhere. He has a BS in physics from the University of California at Davis. He also is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified ...
This week we explore where creativity, craft, and the natural world meet, with talented illustrators, artists and other partners throughout the Academy. A must for all lovers of art, science, and everything in between.Local Art supplier Flax Art and Design is will present an interactive station where you can try ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
Unlock the deepest mysteries of the human brain with the man Richard Dawkins has dubbed the "Marco Polo of neuroscience." Ramachandran reveals intriguing and profound insights into the evolution of the human brain tracing back the strange links between neurology and behavior. With innovative approaches to answer age-old questions, Ramachandran ...
Solving Common Human / Wildlife ProblemsDo you have questions or worries about backyard wildlife like raccoons, opossums and skunks? Want to know how to keep them from causing problems around your property? Learn how to make your home and yard less inviting to wildlife and safely and humanely evict wildlife from buildings.
Where: AlamedaCost: Free
TransForum with Peter Calthorpe: Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change, Chapter 1Responding to climate change and our coming energy challenge without a more sustainable form of urbanism will be impossible. World-renowned urban planner Peter Calthorpe will discuss his new book, Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change, which shows how combining more compact patterns of growth with conservation and new technology ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15
Capture and Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide to Mitigate Global WarmingIs Sequestration Necessary? Can We Do It at an Acceptable Total Cost? Combustion of fossil fuels currently releases approximately 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere annually Increased anthropogenic emissions have dramatically raised atmospheric CO2 concentrations in the last 100 years There is broad scientific consensus that ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Jane Smiley, Author of The Man Who Invented the Computer, in Conversation with CHM's John C. Hollar One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois-Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, com¬bined with an ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost:
Stress, Coping and Health: Lessons from Wild BaboonsDr. Robert Sapolsky is a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University, and a research associate with the Institute of Primate Research at the National Museum of Kenya. In 2008, National Geographic & PBS aired an hour-long special on stress featuring Dr. Sapolsky and his ...
