Blossoms and Bugs Bioblitz at Potrero Meadows, Saturday, June 1, 11AM to 2PMIt’s that time of the year when the mountain is blooming and buzzing. Join us for a closer look at the flowers and bugs of this special meadow habitat. We will photograph and identify the living things we see using iNaturalist with the goal of contributing new scientific knowledge for ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Neurobiology of MoralityUntil recently, morality and religion have been closely linked. From well before the time of the ancient Greek philosophers, religion has guided our moral judgments. Contemporary moral psychologists provide compelling evidence that humans - whether male or female, atheist or religious, American or Aboriginal - make remarkably similar moral judgments. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Monday, 06/03/19
A first look at a super massive black holeOn April 10, 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a very long baseline interferometry experiment, released the first image of a black hole resolved to event horizon scales. I will discuss the image of M87 and aim to convince the audience that a flux depression in the image is necessary ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Yes, Your Research May Indeed Be Useful... Many graduate students may wonder whether their research may one day be useful to industry. This presentation offers hope to current students (in a touch-in-cheek manner) that yes, your research may indeed be useful beyond your degree and the ERE Department. In fact, it may have greater impact than you ...
Fueled by advances in software, computation, microelectronics, and large optics fabrication, a novel type of sky survey will begin in 2022. In a rapid campaign of 30 second exposures, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will cover the southern sky deeply for ten years, opening a movie-like window on objects that ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 general, $12 members and seniors
Join us at Public Works SF for six stories of compelling evidence and undeniable corroboration, of credible theories and inferential arguments, and the measure of truth and spiritsStories from the odd corners of history, science, art, and adventure.WHAT: Six storytellers bring strange-but-true stories from history, science, art and adventure, to the stage, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 - $25
David Byrne: Good News & Sleeping BeautiesDavid Byrne has become a scholar and promoter of new good ideas that work in the world.He finds them in health, education, culture, economics, climate, science & technology, transportation, and civic engagement. He has great examples and great slides--as you might expect from an acclaimed visual as well as musical ...
How do we represent ourselves through the literal-and metaphorical-filters of popular culture, and how much control do we have over our own image? Ponder the ways popular culture can shape us as individuals by reflecting, forming, or refracting our concept of self, then consider the spaces where we take back ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 17.95 advance, 19.95 door, AD members free
Cafe InquiryCenter for Inquiry San Francisco's monthly get together to talk about whatever interests us.
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Under the Sea Prom NightLifeYou’re invited to have the time of your life at NightLife’s inaugural prom! Come dressed to go “Under the Sea†and celebrate World Oceans Day and the beauty and wonder of coral reefs.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
Interpretation of Juno measurements of Jupiter's compositionPreliminary Juno Microwave Radiometer measurements have confirmed observational constraints over the past two decades on Jupiter's O/H ratio, finding a modest supersolar enrichment. The Juno O/H ratio is consistent with supersolar enrichments of other volatile species previously measured by the Galileo Probe. Although the O/H ratio is an important cosmochemical ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Astronaut Q&A with Daniel BurschNASA Astronaut Daniel Bursch, will be visiting the Pleasant Hill Library. Join us as he shares his experiences on the International Space Station, moderated by NASA Scientist, Dr. Margaret Race! As a former Naval Test Pilot and NASA Astronaut Mr. Bursch is a veteran of four space flights. He has logged ...
Where: Pleasant HillCost: Free
Astronaut Q&A with Daniel BurschFormer NASA astronaut Daniel Bursch is coming to Danville to talk about his experiences in space and to answer your questions! Bursch has been on four space flights, logging over 227 days in space, including 196 days as a flight engineer on the International Space Station, one of the longest ...
Where: DanvilleCost: Free
$5 First Friday: Dinosaurs!Meet paleontologists, uncover fossils, participate in a giant dig and understand what life was like for animals in prehistoric times!See weblink for full event schedule
Where: OaklandCost: $5
Algorithms and the LawThis panel will explore the contemporary promises and challenges of computer algorithms from the perspectives of lawyers, ethicists, philosophers, and computer scientists. What is missing from the current technological debates on the fairness and privacy of algorithmic decision making and their impact on the social fabric? What are promising tools ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Silicon Valley Skeptics in the PubWe'll meet up, drink, and socialize. All while not believing in ridiculous things! We are a group of skeptics, freethinkers, and nonbelievers in Silicon Valley. We enjoy intellectually stimulating conversations and provocative debate.Join us on the 1st Friday of each monthÂ
As Director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts and MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow, Kade Crockford works to protect and expand core First and Fourth Amendment rights and civil liberties in the digital 21st century, focusing on how systems of surveillance and control impact not ...
Dr. Amy Furniss received her PhD in Physics from UC Santa Cruz in 2013 where she studied extreme galaxies, some of which she observed with the Shane 3-meter telescope at Lick Observatory. Currently, Dr. Furniss' research aims to understand the physics happening within some of the most extreme galaxies within ...
