Oil AheadWhat impact will plunging oil prices have on California's efforts to cut carbon pollution? One result will be to ease the sting drivers will feel at the pump when gasoline is included in the state's cap and trade program starting January 1st. The oil industry and regulators have been sparring ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $7 Student, Free for Members
What do the color blind see?This apparently straightforward question is not straightforwardly answerable, but it remains irresistibly intriguing because of its theoretical connection to the nature of the neural representation of color and the physiological basis of color deficiency. Red-green color blindness (dichromacy) was originally conceived as a loss of one cone type, but in ...
Shell recognizes the importance of broadening the frame of the energy and climate change discussion. There needs to be substantial additional amounts of energy to meet growing population levels and increasing standards of living worldwide. At the same time, we recognize the need to reduce CO2. Energy is fundamental to ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Your Brain on Drugs: Novel Clinical ImplicationsGet an introduction to the latest scientific findings on addiction's effect on the brain in an incisive talk by UC Berkeley professor, Mark D'Esposito. Understand how certain circuits in the brain that normally guide goal-directed behavior are malfunctioning in the throes of addiction. Dr. Esposito also explains novel cognitive and ...
6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.7:00-7:25: Pireeni Sundaralingam(Poet and Neuroscientist) on ""Abstract...Read more7:25-7:50: Meredith Tromble(San Francisco Art Institute) on ""Abstract...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to share their work. Please present your work ...
