Imaging a habitable planet at Alpha Centauri with a small space telescopeIn 1990, at the request of Carl Sagan, Voyager 1 turned and took a picture of Earth from a distance of 6 billion kilometers. This produced the famous "pale blue dot" image of our planet. Several mission concepts are being studied to obtain similar images of Earth-like exoplanets (exo-Earths) around other stars. ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Ashlee Vance on Elon Musk, Tesla, Space-X and the FutureCan the nation of inventors and creators, which led the modern world for a century, still compete in an age of fierce global competition? Vance argues that Elon Musk is a contemporary amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes and Steve Jobs. Vance is ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Creative Collisions: 3D Printing + The Body + YouJoin us for Creative Collisions: 3D Printing + The Body + You, where we'll explore how 3D printing is being used today. The event will feature:Anatomage, a company that 3D-prints versions of the human body for educational purposesE-nable the Future, a global network of volunteers creating free 3D printed prosthetic hands ...
In the past five years, science has made great strides in better understanding the emotion of awe. UC Berkeley psychologist Craig L. Anderson will help us understand state-of-the-art findings about how awe promotes curiosity and pro-sociality, including the physiological processes that support these behaviors. We will explore important implications that awe research has ...
Cetacean morbilliviruses have the potential to cause explosive outbreaks with high mortality, and have emerged as the cause of die-offs of striped dolphins in the Mediterranean, harbor porpoises in the UK and Netherlands, and bottlenose dolphins along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Interestingly, large-scale mortality has not been documented in the ...
Where: SausalitoCost: $5 Donation
Astronomy Lecture July 28th. with Dr. Stephen Kane (SFSU)This month's speaker is Dr. Stephen Kane, a Professor of Astrophysics at San Francisco State University. He has devoted most of his professional career to examining the hundreds of new planetary systems that have been discovered by the Kepler Mission and similar efforts. He will discuss several Kepler planet candidates, ...
