Moon Express 2017 - A Private Lunar Mission Enabling Science & CommerceThe health of our home planet and the survival of our species will only be secured through the use of space resources and the expansion of Earth's economic sphere to the Moon and beyond. Creating an off-Earth economy and multi-planet civilization will safeguard the long term prospects of humanity.Bob Richards ...
Quantifying the Resilience of Civil Infrastructure SystemsProfessor Bozidar Stojadinovic, Ph.D., Chair of Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, will present a supply/demand approach to modeling the resilience of a civil infrastructure system that involves component vulnerability and recovery functions and a model of system operation. Using this model, Prof. Stojadinovic will evaluate the seismic resilience of ...
Breast cancer is among America's most feared diseases, and also one of its most politicized. Decades of public education have encouraged women to get annual mammograms, and diagnoses typically trigger surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. But not everyone agrees that this conventional approach serves women best. The U.S. Preventive Services Task ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
After El Nino: Now What?Does this year's wet winter mean we can go back to having green lawns and eating almonds in the shower? History suggests people quickly snap back to their regular ways after a drought. The state has loosened water restrictions this year and it might appear that the drought has eased ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Nerd Nite goes part biology, part philosophy and part Moby Dick with lessons on cultivating your own unique obsession and eccentricity. From the firetruck-chasing (and possibly insane) star athlete who become a huge media sensation in the early 1900s, to the navigator who dragged himself to the brink of death ...
