Golden Gate park is a canvas on which the city's ambitions were sketched. San Francisco was the first major city on the coast. We'll discover many firsts in the Park because it was where ideas were tested. We'll see where a major railroad came right into the park, where the ...
Where: CACost: Pay what you wish!
Somatic Robots: Neural-Structural Integration - Time ChangeSomatic Robotics approaches the design of physical structure and control intelligence as a single integrated task. The Mind / Body duality of western thought, and the associated separation of control theory from mechanical engineering, are inadequate at providing insight to biology or future robotic systems. To understand how we control ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver? Evidence from the Weatherization Assistance ProgramConventional wisdom suggests that individuals and firms often fail to undertake energy efficiency investments that are predicted by engineering models to have private returns greatly in excess of their costs. Policymakers have seized on this so-called energy efficiency gap with a wide variety of interventions that promise both private benefits ...
As part of the 2015 Faculty Arist Recital Series at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, neuroscientist and soprano (and Inquiring Minds podcast host) Indre Viskontas is joined by Grammy-nominated pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi in an exploration of the mind through music. Why does one piece 'go viral' while another languishes in obscurity, ...
We are quite literally not who we were years, weeks, or even days before. The stuff that makes our body is being replaced all the time, from the chemicals in our cells to the very cells themselves. What lasts is not our literal substance but rather a pattern that is ...
