Nike Missile Site Veteran Open HouseVeterans of the Nike program come to the site to share their stories with visitors and give guided tours of SF88 between the hours of 12pm - 3pm The SF-88 Nike Missile Site is the most fully restored Nike missile site in the country. During the tense years of the Cold War, from ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Sunday, 07/07/24
Morning Hike at Skyline Ridge Open Space PreserveJoin POST for this guided hike at Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve! A POST Representative will share a few words about POST’s decades of conservation success before hiking groups leave to explore a moderate to strenuous 4.5 mile hike with 800 feet of elevation gain.POST has made many contributions towards ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Five Dollar Day at The Lawrence Hall of ScienceVisit The Lawrence and enjoy all the hands-on science we offer for just $5 per person. Put your engineering and design skills to the test, take control of the Planetarium dome, meet live reptiles and amphibians in our Animal Discovery Zone, and more! $5 Days are part of our efforts ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $5
Why Tides MatterJoin us to learn about all things tides. What are they? How do they affect wildlife? How have humans reshaped the Bay's tidal lands?This program starts in our covered, open-air pavilion at the Environmental Education Center of the Don Edwards SF Bay NWR and will be followed by an easy ...
Where: AlvisoCost: Free
Tuesday, 07/09/24
The Science Behind 'Inside Out 2' - LivestreamJoin us to explore the science behind Pixar’s highly anticipated new film, Inside Out 2, and delve into the complexities of emotion and the teenage brain.This illuminating one-hour event will feature a conversation with GGSC Faculty Director Dacher Keltner, Ph.D., and Lisa Damour, Ph.D., who both served as scientific consultants ...
The Wood Lab of Avian and Urban Ecology at Cal State L.A. is a group of conservation-minded individuals who work to understand the effects of global and environmental change on biodiversity. In his Birdy Hour presentation, Dr. Wood will share about the group's research - which is centered on terrestrial ...
Speculative fiction authors predicate their stories on creative “what-if†questions. Ray Nayler will demonstrate the close relationship of this process to scientific thinking. Using examples from his debut novel The Mountain in the Sea, Ray will discuss how he used a “what-if†question - “what if a species of octopus ...
Where: Cost: Free
New Directions in Property TestingProperty testing algorithms seek to determine whether an unknown massive object has some particular property of interest, or is “far†from having the property, while inspecting only a tiny portion of the object. Recent years have witnessed significant progress on both classic property testing problems and the development of several ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Thursday, 07/11/24
Twists and Turns in Teaching Evolution - LivestreamMultiple controversies over the teaching of evolution in public schools have rocked the nation over the past century. Evolution’s foes have consistently used the same arguments, but their ambitions have shifted: from outright banning the teaching of evolution to “balancing†it with a supposed alternative to blunting it through claims ...
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark: See for YourselfUpend your perception this Thursday night at After Dark! Shoes become faces, cardboard whispers, and LEGO - pieces are the stuff of legends in our special exhibition ExtraOrdinary!. Bring your friends to decipher the secret behind Building Blocks and make new ones at Bamboo Weaving Star. Plus, hands-on workshops where ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Making Cancer Non-lethal in Our LifetimeWhat will it take to make cancer non-lethal in our lifetime? What advancements in medical research are underway to achieve this goal and what are we still working to discover about the "emperor of all maladies"? Joining us at Manny's to discuss his work in the field and goals for ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General
NightLifeConGear up for the first ever NightLifeCon! Featuring all things anime, comics, and sci-fi.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
Multimedia Forensics: Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of Large Models - LivestreamWith the implementation and wide application of related tools such as ChatGPT and Sora, people realized that seeing is indeed no longer believing. More recently, the emergence of diffusion models with powerful generation capabilities has driven this topic forward. Subsequently, as the powerful tools for deepfake generation, corresponding detection technologies ...
Nour Skaf is a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Department with a focus in instrumentation and data analysis for exoplanet direct imaging. She received her PhD in exoplanet science in 2023 from Observatoire de Paris. Her PhD research was a cooperative effort ...
