With activities like bubbly sidewalk painting, rocket launching, meeting rescued wild animals, and making your own ice cream, you'll have a wonderful time learning and exploring together at Summer Fun Days. All events are free with your admission! June12 | Bubbly Sidewalk Painting Make your own chalk and create masterpieces ...
As organisms swim in their natural environment, they are constantly striving to successfully forage, escape from predation, and search for mates to reproduce. Marine organisms are accomplishing these tasks while interacting with their fluid environment, generating hydrodynamic signatures in their wake and around their bodies. The resulting hydrodynamic signatures are ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Science and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub, West BaySkeptics in the Pub, West BayFiddlers Green, MillbraeIf ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the film-flam man, and if ye drink, drink with us, your friends. If ye shun the brewer's art, at least help us lay waste to bangers & mash!Skeptics in the Pub is a monthly ...
Where: MillbraeCost:
What Every Woman Needs to Know About Breast ReconstructionBreast reconstruction is performed to build a complete new breast or to correct breast problems that may arise from breast cancer, trauma, congenital abnormalities, or cosmetic procedures. This talk will cover the newest techniques.Speaker: Gordon Lee, MD
Intel Museum - Free Binary Beading Class Engages KidsTwo class times: 10-11am, 3-4pmWhat are all those 1s and 0s that make up binary code? And for that matter, what's binary code? Students ages 7 and up learn how computers use this 'digital' language to send, process, and receive information. By using beads to represent a switch's on and off ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Free
Long Term CareAs aging adults look to the future, questions regarding long term care abound. This talk will address long term care options, including the types of plans available, payment options, the role insurance can play, home care and facility-based care. Nothing is being sold or referred.Speaker: Don Rush, HICAP Counselor
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
'Air: The Restless Shaper of the World'Author William Bryant Logan will give a talk on his book "Air: The Restless Shaper of the World," followed by a book signing.From the book description: "Air sustains the living. Every creature breathes to live, exchanging and changing the atmosphere...With the passionate narrative style and wide-ranging erudition that have made ...
Therapy Dogs in Medicine Part II Bob Higa will bring his highly experienced therapy German Shepherd, Kobuk, for a demonstration. Robert will cover desirable dog & handler characteristics, the training process, and the ever-growing venues where therapy animals are being effectively utilized. For the final, half hour question & answer session, Robert and Bob will be ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
CROWDSOURCING CRITICAL THINKINGWhy hasn't the internet brought about the scientific rational revolution we all expected? If everyone is connected to all human knowledge, why are so many people so poorly informed? Why do so many people still believe in so many crazy things? More importantly, how can we fix it?The speaker presents ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Friday, 07/26/13
The Mercury SevenSoon after the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) introduction of the first seven American astronauts, these men became instant celebrities of their time. With each launch of a Mercury capsule, we left the starting blocks and entered into a fierce space race with the then Soviet Union. ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
Two Views of the Moon - SOLD OUTLick Observatory hosts a Summer Visitors Program (SVP), inviting the public to observe through both the 36-inch Great Lick Refractor and Nickel 40-inch Reflecting Telescope. Each evening also features two speakers, who present programs even if clouds or fog prohibit viewing.Lick astronomers present multimedia lectures on their research or ...
Where: Mt. HamiltonCost: $9.50
Saturday, 07/27/13
Intel Museum - Free Circuitry Class Engages KidsTwo class times: 10-11am, 3-4pmSchematics, Switches and CircuitsFrom doorbells to karaoke machines, kids ages 9 and up will be introduced to reading schematics and building circuits. After a quick introduction to the basics, they will work in teams to build a variety of electronic devices that ring, beep and play songs! ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Free
The Search for Other Earths - SOLD OUTPrograms include concert, a talk by a University of California astronomer about current research, and (weather permitting) viewing through the historic Great Lick Refractor and the Nickel 40-inch telescope. Knowledgeable local amateur astronomers outside the buildings provide additional telescopes and informal astronomy discussions.Due to safety concerns, children under the age ...
Where: Mt. HamiltonCost: $40 General, prefered options available
Sunday, 07/28/13
Naturalist Know-how Do you know a young person interested in nature? Take them to Junior Academy: Naturalist Know-how!Each month a new nature skill will be presented. (July's skill is Observation Basics.) Variations of the monthly skill will be available each week. This is a 45-minute program. This program is designed for youth ...
What happens when you are "Chasing Ice" with the Big Green Bus? An incredible evening of powerful imagery, haunting stories and determined advocacy! Join us as we are joined by the Big Green Bus and the 12 Dartmouth students who are driving it around the country, stopping in different communities ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $21.95 Adults, $12.94 Age 4-12, 65+
Monday, 07/29/13
Craig Childs presents Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending EarthCraig Childs is a professional adventurer. When not living off-the-grid with his wife and two young sons at the foot of the West Elk Mountains, he is off exploring nature and writing about his excursions. Subject matters range from near-death encounters and the most remote places in the world to ...
Where: SanCost: $15
Tuesday, 07/30/13
Intel Museum - Free Class Lets Kids Explore the World Inside of a FabTwo class times: 10-11am, 3-4pmKeeping it Clean (ages 7 and up)Explore what it's like inside an ultra-clean, highly automated silicon chip fabrication facility (fab) - from particles of contamination to bunnysuits - and get an inside glimpse into a Class 1 Fab from the museum. Space is limited and reservations are ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Free
Mapping Io's Surface Topography Using Stereo Images and PhotoclinometryNo instrumentation specifically designed to measure the topography of a planetary surface has ever been deployed to Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the Solar System. Available mapping techniques that exist to perform such a task in the absence of the relevant instrumentation include stereo and photoclinometry ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
HAPPY HOLLOW EDZOOCATION presents Go Wild!Happy Hollow Park and Zoo comes to your library! Join us with yourwhole family for a fun filled program with live crittersand learn about adaptations, habitat, diet,and more.
Where: San JoseCost: Free
The Ultra Friendly Gray Whales of San Ignacio Whale LagoonNaturalist Jerry Loomis of "Journeys with Loomis and Jone"s will be telling us of his experiences in Baja after 15 trips to see Gray Whales in the calving lagoons of Laguna San Ignacio and Laguna Magdalena. His base of operations is now in marine life rich LoretoBay where an incredible ...
Please join naturalist Jerry Loomis of "Journeys with Loomis and Jones" as he tells us of his experiences Whale Watching in the Sea of Cortez , Laguna Magdalena, and Laguna San Ignacio.He and Dana Jones created "Journeys with Loomis and Jones" and in so doing began exploring the interior of ...
