Perseids Meteor ShowerHang out on the hill and watch one of the best annual astronomical events unfold before your very eyes. The Perseid Meteor Shower will make its annual trip through our atmosphere and light up the night sky. Our astronomy experts will be on hand to answer your questions and help ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Trapeze Arts FundayShows at 11:00 a.m., 1:00 and 2:30 p.m.Bring your sunglasses and the whole family to watch a high-flying display of physics as Les Aerielles takes over the Hall’s C-level lawn.Make sure to stop by the C-level lawn before each show and test your balancing skills with guided tightrope and stilts ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with admission. Free for Members.
The Sky Event of the Decade: August’s Eclipse of the SunOn Aug. 21, there will be an eclipse of the Sun visible throughout North America. People in a narrow path from Oregon to South Carolina will see a spectacular total eclipse, with the Moon briefly covering the Sun, and day turning into night. Everyone else, including those in the Bay ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Monday, 08/14/17
Critical Thinking in a Changing WorldWith the rapid rise of new technologies, critical thinking takes on a more central role filtering hype from emerging scientific paradigms. Critical thinking has always been and will continue to be crucial to the scientific method; however, since the Enlightenment teaching critical thinking has become an isolated practice at many ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Tuesday, 08/15/17
A Tale of Two Krill in the Central California Current EcosystemEuphuasiids (krill) comprise an essential component of pelagic ecosystems worldwide as they play a key role in transferring primary productivity to higher trophic levels. Within the Central California Current Ecosystem (CCE) two species of krill, Euphausia pacific and Thysanoessa spinifera, constitute the bulk of the krill biomass, and while both ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
How the Health Risks of GMOs Have Been Underestimated and MisrepresentedThough it’s routinely claimed that producing new foods through genetic engineering is no riskier than traditional breeding - and that questioning the safety is tantamount to denying the reality of climate change - many experts assert that the facts do not support such claims; and according to the analysis in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Functional programming, Reactive streams and CQRS can be used to build functional reactive domain models. It uses function algebra and stacking of effects to build domain algebra which can be executed on a FAAS platform. The resurgence of parallel computation and GPU programming exposes the shortcomings of the Von Neumann ...
What is "dark matter"? This is a question that has preoccupied astrophysicists for many decades. Observations show that 80% of the matter in our universe is in this mysterious, invisible form. In this talk, Dr. Hezaveh discusses how ALMA, the world's most sophisticated radio telescope, is used to observe some ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Wednesday, 08/16/17
Integration of Arctic seafloor observatories and 4D seismic: Detecting fluid migration pathways from the deepVast amounts of the greenhouse gas methane are stored under the ocean floor as ice-like, crystalline compounds called hydrates. These naturally occurring structures form under high pressure and in low temperatures, when water molecules encage and stabilize gases. These hydrocarbon gases originate from thermogenic sources deep below the ocean floor ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
CRISPRcon - Day 1Hosted at the University of California, Berkeley, the mission of CRISPRcon is to bring together a broad selection of diverse voices to discuss the future of this groundbreaking technology across all applications. Through keynotes, panels, interactive discussions, and networking opportunities, CRISPRcon will create a unique forum in which everyone with a stake ...
Children's Author of 'Beauty and the Beak' Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and a 3D-Printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle is the true, heart lifting story of Beauty, the injured bald eagle whose story made world news. Beauty and the Beak is being published in celebration of the 10th anniversary of bald eagles no longer ...
Where: LafayetteCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #87: Ticks + Bacteria, Apocalypse Ethics, and TBA!We need you now Wednesday night. We need you more than ever. And if you only hold your beer tight, we’ll never be dumb together. A total eclipse…of the smart! Yes, folks, we have arthropods and their bacterial friends, as explained by a microbiologist. We have a genuine philosopher waxing ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $8
Thursday, 08/17/17
CRISPRcon - Day 2Hosted at the University of California, Berkeley, the mission of CRISPRcon is to bring together a broad selection of diverse voices to discuss the future of this groundbreaking technology across all applications. Through keynotes, panels, interactive discussions, and networking opportunities, CRISPRcon will create a unique forum in which everyone with a stake ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
Modeling and Characterization of Fracture Roughness and its Impact on Mass Transport ProcessesFaults and fractures are the main conduits for flow for reservoirs found in tight rocks, such as shale gas and geothermal resources. Real fractures have rough surfaces that create complex local aperture distributions and tortuous flow pathways. The overall objective of this study was to provide a better understanding of the impact of fracture roughness on fracture flow behavior. This ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Feline NightlifeWhat’s the purrr-fect way to proclaim your love of all things feline? By joining other cat lovers for a tribute to our whiskered friends of all shapes and sizes.Laugh up a hairball or two with NightLife’s very own cat video festival, featuring the internet’s funniest feline antics and presented by ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
Good Health Starts in Your HomeWhat if you could get healthy by simply changing your home environment? Every day, we’re exposed to hundreds of untested chemicals: additives in food, endocrine disruptors in soap and shampoo, fumes in household cleaners. These chemicals comprise your “body burden†and can exacerbate allergies, asthma, fatigue, cough, headache and more ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
The Web is the most powerful communication medium and the largest public data repository that humankind has created. Its content ranges from great reference sources such as Wikipedia to ugly fake news. Indeed, social (digital) media is just an amplifying mirror of ourselves. Hence, the main challenge of search engines ...
The recovery of California Condors from near-extinction is one of the inspiring stories of American conservation. Richard Neidhardt will describe the California Condor Recovery Project’s past and present work restoring populations of this iconic raptor. He’ll also share his personal experiences working as a volunteer with the condor program at ...
Modular origami combines individually folded “units†into complex shapes. Learn how to make a cube with six units, and find out how they can be modified for building other shapes.Meenakshi Mukerji (Adhikari) was introduced to origami in early childhood by her uncle Bireshwar Mukhopadhyay. She rediscovered origami in its modular form ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Included with museum admission.
Saturday, 08/19/17
Hayward Fault Walking TourOver the last million years, the natural beauty of Fremont has been shaped by the Hayward Fault. Instructors will be leading these 'ground breaking' tours and exposing the science and beauty of the Hayward Fault. This fault is one of several active faults in the world actually creeping at 5 ...
Come join us as we experiment with different recipes for making soy and cashew based vegan cheeses!Depending on how many participants show up, and how ambitious we feel, we will be doing at least 2 or 3 different recipes, including a soy-based meltable cheddar, and some cashew based recipes by ...
In 2012, the Higgs boson was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Heather Gray will explain what this Higgs boson is and why it is so important that we had to spend 10 billion dollars to build an enormous collider (and detectors) to find it. She ...
Play around with paper in three activities inspired by our new Wildcard exhibition.Paper CircuitsUsing copper tape and surface-mount LEDs allows you to make fully functional simple or complex electrical circuits on a flat surface, such as a piece of paper. You can make light-up greeting cards, origami animals come to life, or ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Included with museum admission.
