Join us for our Summer Maker Series. Come make, share and learn with hands-on activities. Bring your creativity and ideas, we'll supply enough projects to keep you busy making things all summer. This free, family-friendly series for all ages is hosted by Bon Air Center and Marin Maker Mobile.
Where: GreenbraeCost: Free
Saturday Cinema: Primary VisionRed, green, and blue: These primary colors of light add up to the myriad hues brightening computer, television, and smart phone screens. They're also the foundation of color film experimentation, and a source of inspiration for creative cinema artists. Join us for a vibrant afternoon of unusual and unexpected film ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Included with museum admission.
Mountain Lake Mussels: The importance of Native Mussels for Improving Water QualityJoin Niveen Ismail as she will be discussing the importance of restoring native mussels in Mountain Lake. She will also be discussing her planned demonstration experiments at Mountain Lake and the improvements in water quality that can be achieved through the use of mussels.See web link for map and registration ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Family Sundown SafariAges; 4 and upGrab your tent, sleeping bag, your family, and a few friends and get ready for an overnight adventure at Oakland Zoo. This unique program includes dinner, a nighttime and morning guided tour of the Zoo, a special behind the scenes, live animal presentations, interactive and educational activities, ...
Music of the Spheres concert and astronomy lecture - SOLD OUTOur Music of the Spheres Concert series is held annually in the summer. Join us and observe through the Great Lick Refractor and the Nickel Reflector.Performers: Oscar Reynolds TrioSpeaker: Aaron Romanowsky, San Jose StateTickets on sale starting April 17.
Where: Mt. HamiltonCost: $40 General (see website for other options)
Screening of 'Contact'Book by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan, Directed by Robert Zemeckis Post discussion lead by Dr. Carolyn Porco, Science Advisor on the film Jodie Foster portrays the film's protagonist, Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway, a SETI scientist who finds strong evidence of extraterrestrial life and is chosen to make first contact. The film ...
Program:7:00-7:25: Yael Braha(Designer, Filmmaker, Fine Artist) on "Interactive Installations for public participatory experiences"Abstract forthcoming...Read more7:25-7:50: Melanie Swan(Founder, Institute for Blockchain Studies) on "Bitcoin/Blockchain Technology Explained"Not just Cryptocurrencies, Economics, and Markets; Applications in Art, Health, and Literacy...Read more8:10-8:35: Leedjia Svec(NASA Ames & Navy) on "Respecting and Protecting the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Science of CheesemakingJoin us to dive into the Science of Cheese!Cheese making predates recorded history. It is a fantastic way to preserve milk and has been an essential part of civilization. The techniques can involve high tech equipment or tools you have at home. This workshop from our Real Vegan Cheese team will ...
Where: OaklandCost: $10 Donation suggested
An Exceptionally Simple Theory of EverythingGarrett Lisi is an unusual physicist. After getting his Ph.D. from UC San Diego, he moved to the island of Maui to find an optimum balance between enjoying the outdoors and pursuing his own theoretical research. While chasing an unanswered question at the heart of Quantum Field Theory, he soon found ...
You're invited to discover the New Horizons mission to Pluto!The event will feature presentations by experts about exploration and the New Horizons mission, informational booths staffed by researchers and scientists, hands-on activities and a NASA TV broadcast from New Horizons mission control.After nine years in flight, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will reach its primary mission destination to flyby the ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Got Planets? We See Them and We Can 'Make' Them!In the known universe, there are 1,931 planets orbiting other stars (source: http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/, 6/15/15), 484 multiple planet systems, and many more planet candidates awaiting confirmation. With improved detection technology and more searching missions, this total will continue to grow. Olenka Hubickyj, Ph.D., lecturer of physics and astronomy at San Jose State ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Nerd Nite North Bay #9: Sea Lion Strandings, Plant Inventions and Making Monster Movie Makeup MoviesSea Lion TsunamiSausalito's Marine Mammal Center is investigating the alarming increase in local whale and sea lion strandings to help prevent the next disaster. Learn how marine veterinarians are able to determine the exact cause of death of a multi-ton cetacean and what studies of mass strandings, biotoxins and epilepsy ...
Catalysts are the unsung heroes of chemistry: Widely used in industry, they speed up chemical reactions used to make everything from fertilizers to fuels to consumer products, and they do this by making those reactions much more efficient. Many important reactions related to global issues, such as climate change and ...
I have always loved fish and I have an intense interest to understand how things work. I attended graduate school to pursue my passion in both. But with productive research and journal articles aside, what I learned from my studies extended well beyond my experimental results and drove me to ...
Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband T.J. and their toddler Daniel holding down the home front, Melinek threw herself into the fascinating world of death investigation – performing autopsies, investigating death ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Member, $7 Student
HTTP/2 is here, let's optimize!HTTP is, hands down, one of the most important and successful protocols. That said, the use cases it was originally "designed" for have evolved, and the very success of the protocol has also exposed many of its 1.x limitations - e.g. forcing developers to invent many application workarounds (sharding, concatenation, ...
Exploring SF's Natural Springs & CreeksWhich is more likely in San Francisco: wading through a creek or through traffic? Under the right circumstances, either is possible to do. Sometimes, when atmospheric rivers slam the region, we can do both at once, as street gutters fill to capacity. But San Franciscan residents have few if any ...
"Converting Labor Abuse to Sushi" by Brendan RogersNobody signs up to commercial fish for free. It's dangerous, grueling work, with long stints far from home. Yet many job-seeking migrants are basically tricked or forced into becoming slave fishermen. "Sorry, Charlie", indeed. We'll look at how this system works, how this ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $8
Thursday, 07/16/15
How-To NightlifeYou're never too old to learn new tricks, so why not learn a few? Back by popular demand, NightLife is serving up a host of how-to workshops, demos, and talks. In African Hall, grab a seat for a live recording of Big Picture Science, a nerd-centric podcast that explores some ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
Sramek is an inventor, innovator and entrepreneur who came by his career as a farm boy who had to learn how to operate equipment and tools, to fix, mend, predict, nurture, listen, focus and get things done. He has numerous pending and issued patents in fields as diverse as stem ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Member, $7 Student
Greening AsiaAsia's booming economies have thrived following the well-trodden path of "industrialize now and clean up later." Citizens and companies realize that the time to clean up is now. Dirty air, foul water and hellishly overcrowded cities are threatening to choke the continent's impressive prosperity. From solar and wind power to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Many birds are brightly colored, while others use patterned feathers for camouflage. How do these colors originate? What's the difference between colors from pigments and physical colors? From Yellow Warblers to Anna's Hummingbirds, from Snow Geese to Brewer's Blackbirds, each species makes unique use of the feather colors it possesses. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Friday, 07/17/15
Mayan Mathematics, Astronomy, and CalendricsWe will ask the questions of how and why did the Mayans create great calenders by exploring: Mayan mathematics, Mayan astronomy, how the Mayan viewed the universe, and how the Mayan calender worked. Talk by Christian Heavner. There will be a free public stargazing event at the Montgomery Hill Observatory after ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Free Public Stargazing at Montgomery Hill Observatory, Evergreen Valley College, San JoseEnjoy a free public by star gazing night at the Montgomery Hill Observatory.View the skies with a 7" refractor telescope Observatory, 14" Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope observatory and several telescopes set out for the public. Bring your kids, friends and relatives. We will be viewing Planets – Venus, Saturn and Jupiter with its ...
