Webinar: An Updated Look at Utility Wildfire Risk and MitigationAs wildfires become an increasing threat across the United States, it's crucial for electric utilities to create plans to mitigate the risk of their infrastructure sparking disaster. Join us for our upcoming webinar featuring insights from Stanford researchers and industry experts. We'll be sharing new findings from their expanded survey ...
What Earth’s Technosphere RevealsWhat Will Earth Look Like in 1000 Years? Will humanity collapse, thrive, or colonize the stars - and could alien civilizations detect us?Join senior planetary astronomer Dr. Franck Marchis for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra, astrobiologist and lead author of a groundbreaking study exploring 10 possible futures for Earth’s ...
Where: Cost: Free
Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love ThemPseudoscience has been with us for a very long time and has taken many forms throughout the years, from the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, wishful thinking to straight-up hucksterism. Humanity’s fascination with pseudoscience is incredibly persistent and even today attracts passionate supporters to all kinds of nonsensical ideas. ...
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark: Adventures in AIOne of the summer’s most illuminating and entertaining exhibitions opens at After Dark! Leap into the wild new world of artificial intelligence withAdventures in AI, featuring surprising exhibits, playful art, and interactive programs. Understand how AI really works and explore its real-world science and research. Whether you’re an AI expert ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95
NightLifeWhen the lights dim, the museum comes alive at NightLife. With live DJs, hand-crafted drinks, glowing lights, and 60,000 live animals (including familiar faces like Claude, our alligator with albinism), the night is sure to be wild.Plus, you can:Explore our two newest exhibits, Dino Days and Unseen Oceans: Roam among ...
Marilyn Latta will share information about living shorelines efforts in San Francisco Bay, including design and monitoring data from the San Rafael Living Shorelines Project, a mix of oyster reefs and eelgrass bed plantings in a multi-objective and experimental living shorelines design. Marilyn will share updates on how this and ...
2025 is 100 years after the Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, and 20 years after the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover court case, in which I participated while working at the National Center for Science Education. The Kitzmiller case included extensive expert testimony on the science of evolution, and the ...
