Innovative approaches to technology-mediated health care require holistic, patient-centered interventions to address health challenges. Emerging telepresence and social robots have the potential to transform the health experiences of people who are restricted to their homes due to medical conditions or disabilities. Use of these robots may promote social inclusion and ...
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What the Clean Air Act needs to get right about wildfire - LivestreamThis month, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed tightening the national standards for soot pollution (PM2.5). Strengthening controls on PM2.5 has, second to banning lead additives in gasoline, provided the greatest public health benefits of any action taken be EPA over the past 3 decades and the action proposed ...
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Glider Discovery DayDiscover the world of flight in a special outdoor family event!Learn the names of the different parts of the airplane, then join in the fun the help build a full-size Penguin airplane! Then, assemble a balsa wood glider and join a fun festival of flight outdoors in the museum’s Courtyard. ...
Where: San CarlosCost: Free with admission
Januray LASER Event - LivestreamTherese Lahaie (Media Artist) on "Analog and Digital Migration" Annie Kritcher (Lawrence Livermore Lab) on "The State of Nuclear Fusion Research" Primavera De Filippi (National Center of Scientific Research, Paris) on "Do blockchains dream of electronic flowers?" Register here
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Meet COSMIC: An Alien Hunter Instrument at the VLA - LivestreamCOSMIC SETI (the Commensal Open-Source Multimode Interferometer Cluster Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is about to survey of 40 million stars for technosignatures using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). The VLA is the world’s largest radio telescope array operating at microwave frequencies. It’s also where ...
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SitePassword: A Different Kind of Password Manager - LivestreamDo you use a password manager? You should. How else are you going to have a different strong password for every site you log into. There are plenty to choose from. The problem is that they remember your passwords for you, which means you are dependent on them. What if ...
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Over A Century of Valley FeverSan Joaquin Valley Fever is a human disease caused by the fungus, Coccidioides immitis. This fungus and its sister species, Coccidioides posadasii, are found in hot, dry regions from the San Joaquin Valley of California, through Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Mexico, Central America and South America. Coccidioidomycosis was ...
