Fungus FairThe Fungus Fair will have lectures, cultivation workshops, cooking demos and a variety of fabulous soups for sale.Details on the website.Discount two day tickets available.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 Adult, $8 Srs/students, $5 age 5-12
Sharing Day - Free day at the ExploratoriumAdmission to the Exploritorium is free today, sponsored by UNIQLO USA.In collaboration with the Exploratorium, UNIQLO will make 700 advance tickets available for pick-up at their Bay Area locations beginning one week before the Free Day.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Free First SundayFirst Sundays of the month are free at the Oakland Museum of California. Pick up a treat for yourself or a loved one in the OMCA Store, or enjoy a lunch or snack in Blue Oak café. Take your pick and join an OMCA Docent for the Architecture Tour at ...
Thousands of planets orbiting other stars have been discovered since the 1990's. The existence of extrasolar planets confirms that planets are commonplace, but closer inspection of these planetary systems reveals that they are completely different from our Solar System. Cowan will discuss how we can observe the atmospheres of exoplanets ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $8 Members
Tuesday, 12/09/14
Rosetta: Wild Bounce at comet Churyumov-GerasimenkoRosetta is the third cornerstone mission of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Horizon 2000 Programme. It's goals are to examine some of the original material of the solar system with a comprehensive evaluation of the minearologic, isotopic, and organic constituents of a comet; understand how the body works as a machine to absorb and ...
In her new book, pioneering photographer Susan Middleton offers us a rare glimpse into the mysterious and beguiling world of marine invertebrates. A unique blend of art and science, Spineless: Portraits of Marine Invertebrates, the Backbone of Life.reveals the hidden beauty and remarkable diversity of hundreds of sea creatures--many seen ...
Jared Diamond, UCLA Professor of Geography, is a scientist known for drawing from a variety of fields: from anthropology to evolutionary biology. He has published several very popular science books, including Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs and Steel and, most recently, The World Until Yesterday. Diamond's conclusions are critical and provocative, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: See web link for pricing options and discounts
Theranos Founder & CEO Elizabeth Holmes in Conversation with KQED's Michael KrasnyElizabeth Holmes believed from an early age that starting her own company would afford her the greatest opportunity to make change in the world. She left Stanford at 19 to found Theranos – an amalgam of the words "therapy" and "diagnosis" in 2003. It's now worth more than $9 billion, ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost:
Wednesday, 12/10/14
Three presentations at Romberg Tiburon CenterApplications of AIS ship tracking for marine mammal conservation; Nathan GriegMigratory Seabird Habitat in the Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank NMS; Anna StudwellEffects of ocean acidification and atmospheric temperature warming on the growth of juvenile porcelain crabs; Carley Turner
Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor, and author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, Or How to Build the Future. He will be speaking on his philosophies on creating truly innovative startups and how to navigate a future marked ...
7:00-7:25: Lily Alexander(UC Santa Cruz) on "Counterculture, Collectivity, and the Aesthetics of Early Communications Art at the Western Front and Beyond"Abstract forthcoming...Read more7:25-7:50: Carlo Sequin(UC Berkeley) on "Hyperbolic Hexagon to Evolving Trefoil"How a 20-year collaboration between a physicist and sculptor Brent Collins resulted in large-scale commissioned sculptures...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. ...
Dr. Rodney Jackson has devoted nearly 35 years of his life to protecting the iconic cat of central Asian mountains, the snow leopard. Arguably the world's foremost snow leopard expert, Dr. Jackson has developed relationships with a myriad of people throughout the cats' range with the goal of empowering them, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Senior, Free members
What Was the Star of Bethlehem?The Biblical Gospel of Matthew describes a star appearing in the East at the time of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. For millennia, both believers and unbelievers, skeptics and the curious have wondered about the Biblical account of the Star of Bethlehem.Join Saint Mary's College's astrophysicist, Ron Olowin, to ...
Prof. Werner will be talking on his research into the largest objects in the universe. Giant eliptical galaxies, groups, and clusters of galaxies. He will show observations which reveal how the enormous amount of energy when matter falls into supermassive Black Holes at the center of these systems.Speaker: Norbert Werner, ...
7:00-7:25: Catherine Radford Zoi (Stanford/ Energy Transformation Collaborative) on ""Abstract forthcoming...Read more7:25-7:50: Lucia Jacobs(UC Berkeley Psychology) on "How the Brain Evolved from a Nose"The first fundemental revolution in the evolution of the mind was the ability to map space...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in ...
The news is full of dire predictions for our future: peak oil, peak food, over-population, climate change, disease pandemics, and more. To top it off, social media connects us to an overwhelming number of opinions on these subjects. How do we know which sources to trust? How can we best ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: FREE
Friday, 12/12/14
$5 FridaysOn select days, enjoy the entire Center, including planetarium shows, for the price of a lunch value meal.General Admission includes: • Two Digital Dome Planetarium Shows (First come, first serve basis) • Access to interactive exhibits featuring Bill Nye's Climate Lab and the Touch the Sun exhibit • Access to ...
Secrets of the Sleeping BrainWe all know that sleep is essential, but after years of scientific research, we still don't know exactly why. Wonderfest and Ask a Scientist join us for an eye-opening discussion on sleep. Dr. Matthew Walker, associate professor of psychology at UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory, presents cutting-edge discoveries suggesting ...
Where: OaklandCost: $15 Presentation only, $25 museum admission
Saturday, 12/13/14
Trekking the ModelJoin a Ranger guided tour of the Bay Model, a 1.5-acre hydraulic model of San Francisco Bay and Delta. Discover the stories of the two major operations that took place at this location between 1942 – 2000.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Science RevealedDo you like watching things go "BOOM"? Have you been mesmerized by the dancing flame of a campfire or fireplace? What is Fire? Why do things explode? Find out as we demonstrate the reactions which cause flame to burn and create explosions. This show is perfectly safe, but some small ...
Where: OaklandCost: $5 Adult, $3 Ages 3 - 12
Kitchen Chemistry: The Science Of FoodEveryone's a chemist in the kitchen! It's time to play with your food and explore the microbiology, nanoscience, physics, and chemistry of the edibles we love. Enjoy demonstrations and hands-on experiments on everyday treats and ingredients – from yogurt to yeast, oobleck to ice cream!
