Free First WednesdayFree museum admission all day, to anyone from anywhere, at Bay Area Discovery Museum
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Free Wednesday at UC Botanical GardensEnjoy free admission to the UC Botanical Garden on the first Wednesday of the month. Parking is limited. Docent-led tours for groups are not available on Free Wednesdays. No admission after 4:30 pm. In order to minimize the impact on the plant collection, ensure the safety of visitors, and to ...
This talk will focus on tools for mapping, monitoring and sharing information about environmental and human rights abuses.Speaker: Emily Jacobi, Digital Democracy
A National Research Council report, "Sea Change: 2015-2025 Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences" was released last week that recommends research priorities for National Science Foundation (NSF) funding in the ocean sciences over the next decade. The report was solicited by NSF to help them identify strategic research goals. The report ...
Deep Speech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognitionSpeech recognition is still an unsolved problem in AI. Humans transcribe speech substantially better than machines, particularly when the speech is noisy, accented or spoken in a natural, unaffected manner. Over the past half-century slow yet steady progress has been made in speech recognition punctuated with rare breakthroughs including the ...
Dodging Extinction - Power, Food, Money and the Future of Life on EarthPaleobiologist Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to offer a practical, hopeful plan for avoiding yet another mass extinction. His compelling evidence suggests that unless we rethink how we generate power, where we get our food, and how we make our money, we will trigger ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Member, $7 Student
Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind is an engaging and fascinating examination of this critical interface between our bodies and the outside world, between ourselves and others. David Linden explores every aspect of touch: how has touch come to be central to social interactions and in general health? ...
Danny Kennedy started Sungevity in 2007 and now leads international business development. He authored the book Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy - and Our Planet - from Dirty Energy in 2012. He also cofounded The SfunCube - the only incubator and accelerator supporting solar entrepreneurs to ...
In 1849 San Francisco was surrounded by wild animals and a flourishing sea and bay, from which most early food was taken. But what is our "wild menu" now? How do foraging, fishing, hunting, and gathering fit into modern life? What role does conservation and ecology play in a contemporary ...
