How has time been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries - and how it might bring peace?Horologist David Rooney tells the hidden story of timekeeping and how it continues to shape our modern world. From medieval water clocks to monumental sundials, and from coastal time signals to satellites in ...
Snowy Plover Conservation in the Bay Area: Successes and Challenges in a Shifting Landscape - LivestreamThe Western Snowy Plover (Charadrius nivosus nivosus) is a federally threatened, ground-nesting shorebird species that breeds, roosts, and forages along the Pacific Coast from Southern Washington down to the tip of Baja California. While their typical habitat across the range is sandy beaches, within the San Francisco Bay, where up ...
While science fiction is primarily a genre of imagination, there's a tradition of sci-fi speculations slowly emerging as fact. At this After Dark program, dig into technological innovations that, though now familiar (or soon to be familiar), were once the stuff of imaginative conjecture. Learn how these technologies have, or ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Evening Tours of Lick Observatory - SOLD OUTThe event will last approximately 4 to 6 hours. Visitors should be prepared to walk about one mile during the evening, including taking stairs. Events are held rain or shine.The tour will start at the main building’s Visitor Center. Participants can learn about the unique history of the world’s first ...
Explore the museum while enjoying live, acoustic performances by San Francisco Conservatory of Music.See weblink for details.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19 - $16.50 depending on entrance time
Micromitigation: Fighting Air Pollution with Activated Carbon - LivestreamWe would like to invite new members to join Counter Culture Labs' Micromitigation Meetup alternate Thursdays. We will be discussing ways to deploy existing adsorption technology using commodity granulated activated carbon for the mitigation of air pollution. We welcome those interested in both the environmental justice and technical engineering aspects of ...
For more than 10 years, Richard Saunders has been compiling and researching psychic predictions made in Australia covering the years 2000 to 2020. With over 3000 predictions in the database, what conclusions can we draw about those who claim to be able to see into the future? How many of ...
Where: Cost: Free
Friday, 09/10/21
Deep Learning-Assisted Analysis of Anomalous Nanoparticle Surface Diffusion in Liquid Phase TEMBeginning with Robert Brown’s original observation in 1828, various techniques have been developed to study the hydrodynamics and interactions of particles in solution. These techniques have inspired or been followed by development of theories that are capable of describing these fundamental aspects of micron-scale particles. Yet, many of the underlying ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Saturday, 09/11/21
Animal Tracks - LivestreamJoin guest speaker Aimee Murillo and the Environmental Volunteers in learning all about the tracks and traces (including scat!) that animals leave behind. Learn how to identify what animals have walked the trails that you do!Register at weblink to receive Zoom link
Where: Cost: Free
Afternoon Walk at Pillar Point BluffJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for an afternoon Hike at Pillar Point Bluff just north of Half Moon Bay! You will be guided by a POST representative who will share details about the area’s interesting natural history, from the coastal scrub habitat to the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve that hosts tide ...
Ground-based telescopes have come a long way in recent decades. Today they can take advantage of adaptive optics systems that reduce the effect of atmospheric image distortion, and, also, of fast compact computers that allow small telescopes to reach the capability of large telescopes. The result is a lively community ...
Join our resident astronomers on Facebook Live every Saturday evening live from Chabot’s Observation deck!Each week, our astronomers will guide us through spectacular night sky viewing through Nellie, Chabot‘s most powerful telescope. Weather permitting we will be able to view objects live through the telescopes and our astronomers will be ...
Where: Cost: Free
Sunday, 09/12/21
Evening Tours of Lick Observatory - SOLD OUTThe event will last approximately 4 to 6 hours. Visitors should be prepared to walk about one mile during the evening, including taking stairs. Events are held rain or shine.The tour will start at the main building’s Visitor Center. Participants can learn about the unique history of the world’s first ...
At the LHC Experiment, each proton collision creates thousands of particles. Extracting information from a high dimensional space such as the space of collisions requires algorithms that take advantage of particle symmetries while being capable of handling high dimensional inputs. Point cloud processing methods, often applied to robotics and self-driving ...
Newborns are more susceptible to bacterial pneumonia than older children or adults. In addition, the high rate of chronic lung disease in preterm infants (bronchopulmonary dysplasia) is likely due to infection or exposure to inflammation. Both situations may result from pathogens taking advantage of a window of opportunity as infants ...
Monitoring Bird Movement - LivestreamAvian EcologistDavid Lumpkin will review ACR’s recent and upcoming avian telemetry studies, including the latest details from Great Egrets carrying GPS tags, and collaborative efforts involving Long-billed Curlews and Western Sandpipers. Learn about how Motus towers recently installed at Toms Point and Cypress Grove Research Center will function as part ...
Where: Cost: $15 General, $10 Members
The Genetic Lottery - LivestreamScientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health - and in ways that matter for educational and economic success in our current society.In this talk, she will introduce the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and ...
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Microscopic evidence for a chiral superconducting order parameter in the heavy fermion superconductor UTe2 - LivestreamTopological superconductors represent a fundamentally new phase of matter. Similar to topological insulators, the non-trivial topological characteristics of a topological superconductor dictate the presence of a topological edge states composed of Bogoliubov quasiparticles which live inside and span the superconducting gap. The intense interest in these materials stems from the ...
Where: Cost: Free
May the Forces Be with You - Measuring Forces that Hold Molecules Together - LivestreamIn these interactive sessions, we will talk about the forces that hold solids and liquids together, fabricate our own force measuring apparatus, and quantify the strength of glues. Finally, we will talk about how to present, compare, and discuss the strength of tested glues. The suggested list of materials will ...
Where: Cost: Free
Evening Tours of Lick Observatory - SOLD OUTThe event will last approximately 4 to 6 hours. Visitors should be prepared to walk about one mile during the evening, including taking stairs. Events are held rain or shine.The tour will start at the main building’s Visitor Center. Participants can learn about the unique history of the world’s first ...
Where: Mt. HamiltonCost: $75
Wednesday, 09/15/21
Climate Conversations: Extreme Events - LivestreamAs a result of climate change, extreme events such as floods, wildfires, storms, and heat waves are already becoming more dangerous and destructive. Marshall Shepherd (University of Georgia) will moderate a conversation with Craig Fugate (former FEMA Administrator) and Marissa Aho (Washington State Department of Natural Resources) about the connections ...
Manual harvesting of fresh-market fruits is costly and labor-intensive. This presentation will discuss two different robotic harvest-aid systems and report results from their deployments during commercial harvesting. The first system comprises two mobile robots that reduce workers’ non-productive walking times by carrying full and empty trays in the field. The ...
How do scientists go from OMG to PhD? How do they turn their passion for science into their profession? What advice do they have for future scientists?If you are a 5th-12th grade student, undergraduate, teacher or parent, join us to ask these questions and more in a Q&A session with ...
Understanding a community’s ability to prepare for, respond to, and adapt to impacts of environmental, economic, or cultural change is an essential component of understanding social vulnerability. In the context of Ocean Acidification and associated environmental stressors, for this project we identified shellfish farms in California that were located in ...
Speaker: Kyle Lampe, University of VirginiaSee weblink for Zoom information
Where: Cost: Free
Quantum Computing: Theory to Application - LivestreamIn recent years, there has been a substantial amount of research on quantum computers - machines that exploit quantum mechanical phenomena to solve mathematical problems that are difficult or intractable for conventional computers. If large-scale quantum computers are ever built, they will be able to break many of the public-key ...
SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, operated by NASA, is a Boeing 747SP aircraft that flies into the stratosphere, above 99 percent of Earth’s infrared-blocking atmosphere, allowing research in ways not possible with ground-based telescopes.Ten years after her first flight on SOFIA, Marita Beard's stories about her experiences on ...
Where: Cost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #120: LSD Art, Redwoods, and Fish-Mediated Epilepsy Research! The lineup for all you nerds this month is a doozy! We’ll take a rollercoaster ride through the twists and turns of Mark McCloud’s mind as he tells us stories of his in-home museum of blotter art comprised of over 33,000 LSD sheets collected over the decades. If that’s not ...
