Ice Cream DayMake and eat your own ice cream with Chevron volunteers and a special ingredient that changes water's freezing point. Ice Cream Day is part of Summer Fun Days at the Lawrence Hall of Science. Every Wednesday enjoy a unique event with your family-from trapeze arts to bubbly sidewalk painting.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with admission
Wildlife Associates: It's a Wild WorldIn this special presentation of "It's a Wild World" by Wildlife Associates you will see an African Serval cat, an armadillo, a kestrel and other animals. Gain an insight into the secret lives of these intelligent and ecologically important animals.
Assessing Freshwater Vulnerability in a Water Stressed RegionProfessor Steve Gorelick will discuss his research in water-stressed regions of the world. He is a senior fellow with the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Cyrus Fisher Tolman Professor in the School of Earth Sciences. This class is part of a summer seminar series offered by the Department of Civil and ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Thin Ice: The Inside Story of Climate ScienceIn recent years climate science has come under increasing attack, so concerned geologist Simon Lamb grabbed his camera and set out to explore the inside story of climate research. For over three years he followed scientists from a wide range of disciplines at work in the Arctic, Antarctic, Southern Ocean, ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
A History of the Future in 100 ObjectsThinking about the future is so hard and so important that any trick to get some traction is a boon. Adrian Hon's trick is to particularize. What thing would manifest a whole future trend the way museum objects manifest important past trends?Building on the pattern set by the British Museum's ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15, free for Long Now members
The unprecedented sensitivity and resolution of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will significantly advance a broad variety of astrophysics soon after it is launched in 2018. It's large (6.5-m diameter) primary mirror and infrared instruments will allow it to see some of the very first luminous objects that formed ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #50: Emerging Pathogens, Wireless Disaster Response, and Paleo Art!A microbiologist, a wireless communications specialist, and a paleo-artist walk into a bar…THIS IS NOT A JOKE! This is what's going to happen on the third Wednesday of July and it's going to be awesome! So get your anti-heebie-jeebie meds ready and your smartphone charged–we're going to talk emerging pathogens ...
