Welcome Home the BatsJoin Park Rangers on this first-ever opportunity to welcome home the bats to the Calero Bat Inn. Take a sleepy ride to the Inn where we'll kick back and say hello to the day and to the bats as they return from a night of feasting. Enjoy their aerial gymnastics ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Climate Action Tour at the EcoHouseCome hear about the EcoHouse's many features and draw inspiration to lower your climate impact. We'll present ideas for do-it-yourself projects with a tour that features our toolshed built with 4 different natural building methods--strawbale, rammed earth, clay, and cob--all topped with a living roof; our ground-breaking constructed wetlands and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Explore the Weep with Microbial Ecologist Dr. Wayne Lanier Explore the WeepJoin expert Microbial Ecologist Dr. Wayne Lanier on a short van ride to study microbial communities. The Weep is a shallow persistent pond fed by seepage. Throughout the year, it undergoes very wide swings in salinity, and the result is a uniquely rich microbial community of Cyanobacteria, Archeabacteria, ...
Where: AlvisoCost:
Gold Fever: How the Gold Rush forever changed SF BayIn 1848 gold was discovred in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, luring people by the thousands to California. Join Ranger Tammi to find out how this event changed San Francisco Bay forever.
Alex Warren, artist and founder of Sinopia Pigments and Materials, shows how to create particular hues from natural and artificial ingredients.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
The Science in Your Step Walking Tour The physics and physiology of your pedestrian selfTeetering toddlers know that putting one foot in front of the other involves some serious biomechanics. Learn all about walking once again while scaling some scenic inclines and sauntering through hidden alleyway flats. You'll get to experiment with balance, work, and motion, and ...
Ron Hipschman, Exploratorium staff physicist, talks about ways to make color-from neon signs to oil slicks to rainbows. Ron demonstrates concepts about light, and you'll get materials to build a spectroscope (which separates light into its component wavelengths).
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
How To Become a Really Good Pain in the AssA really good pain in the ass is empowered with the ability to spot faulty reasoning and, by asking the right sorts of questions, hold people accountable not only for what they believe but how they behave. Dr. Christoper DiCarlo presents a witty and incisive guide to critical thinking that provides ...
