May Butterfly Walk - Second SectionJoin Sally Levinson, ‘caterpillar lady’, and Sarab Seth, ‘butterfly guy,’ for a guided walk through the Botanical Garden in search of butterflies. Bring binoculars if you have them. Registered children welcome. Pre-registration is required, space is limited.Includes admission to the Garden.
Morphogenesis is a developmental process through which plants and animals acquire their shape and form. Although Biology has identified many of the key genes and cellular mechanisms of morphogenesis, the question of how Living Matter encodes the geometry of the shapes that it generates remains an open problem. This talk ...
It is intuitively obvious that our conscious experiences play a part in rationalizing our behaviors, at least sometimes. How is this possible? Theories that explain consciousness in terms of mental representation have an easy answer. If conscious states are reducible to mental representations, then it is the contents of these ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Destination: Moon - LivestreamThe Artemis missions will include a mix of crewed and robotic landings. Thirteen regions near the South Pole of the Moon have been identified as candidates for human exploration. Some of these same regions have also been targeted for precursor robotic landings through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program. ...
Where: Cost: Free
Nutritional EpigeneticsNutritional epigenetics is the science of how nutrition affects genes. Stanford researcher Dr. Lucia Aronica investigates how environmental factors can affect the function of genes and one's health and longevity. Unlike genetic factors, epigenetic modifications are flexible and can store cell memories of life exposures such as diet, stress or ...
Join us for an evening with award-winning wildlife photographer, Jodi Frediani who introduces us to Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago located north of the Arctic Circle, not far from the North Pole. This cluster of islands is home to polar bears, walruses, reindeer, and arctic foxes, and provides breeding and nesting ...