Davis blows the lid off what she asserts is the cell phone industry's abuse of science. It isn't just about brain cancer, says Davis: cell phones damage DNA, break down the brain's defenses, reduce sperm count, and increase memory loss. Radio frequency radiation from phones is especially threatening to children, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members
Nonprofits and Innovation: How Technology, Social Media and Community are Transforming How We Solve Social ProblemsSpeaker: Perla Ni, CEO, GreatNonprofitsPerla Ni, CEO of GreatNonprofits and Founder of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, will present a brief history of the role of nonprofits in social innovation – including some social innovations that had significant downsides. Many of these social innovators brought together ideas from different fields, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Mars dichotomy: Brought to you by a mega impact One of the largest features on Mars is its hemispheric dichotomy: the difference in crater density, elevation (~4 km), and crustal thickness (~30 km) between the Northern Lowlands and the Southern Highlands. Recent impact cratering simulations show that the ~10,000 km diameter Lowlands can be formed by a single large ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
CANCELED - A Clean Energy Future for the AmericasDaniel M. Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $10 general, at the door, free members
Interactive Evolution of Camouflage Computational models of complex natural systems, even if quite abstract, can help to understand the natural system and can lead to new bio-inspired computer techniques. This talk describes an abstract model simulating the evolution of camouflage due to vision-based predation. For a given background image, it synthesizes camouflage patterns which ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Grand ChallengeSpeaker: Franklin M. ("Lynn") Orr, Jr. became the director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford upon its establishment in 2009. He served as director of the Global Climate and Energy Project from 2002 to 2008. Orr was the Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford ...
Join tech pioneer, sociologist and provocative author, Ted Nelson, in a free reading, lecture, Q&A, and book signing at the release of his latest work "POSSIPLEX: Movies, Intellect, Creative Control, My Computer Life and the Fight for Civilization". Nelson, who has worked for more than fifty years to make computers ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free with admission
Civilization on Six Legs: The Complex Societies of Ants and HoneybeesCan human beings really improve our group decision making by imitating the democracy of honeybees? Are ants truly considered the highest form of insect evolution? Join Litquake and the California Academy of Sciences as we present two leading experts for a fascinating and thrilling discussion of our planet's smallest and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 Members, $12 Seniors & Members
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)Most American processed foods now contain new aberrant proteins from Recombinant DNA technology. Are GMOs contributing to our health crisis? Come find out the facts in this talk by Jeffery Smith. Jeffery is an authority on GMOs and the author of Seeds of Deception and Genetic Roulette. Q&A will follow.
Where: San RafaelCost: $10
Mountain Lion Community Meeting Zara McDonald, the Executive Director of Felidae Conservation Fund will discuss the Mountain Lion Incident that occurred on August 31 in North Berkeley. She will also discuss the research and educational work currently underway with the Bay Area Puma Project, the first major study of mountain lions in the Bay Area.Marian Zimmer ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Using fossils to help predict the response of ecosystems to climate changeHuman activity has direct and indirect effects on the biosphere. The direct effects are due to immediate disturbance, such as the making of dam, the building of a city, or the clearing of a forest. The indirect effects can be global (climate change) or local (ecological fragmentation due to growth ...
Where: AlbanyCost: FREE
The Cosmic Distance LadderProfessor Terence Tao, Fields medal winner, answers the question: How do we know the distances from the earth to the sun and moon, from the sun to the other planets, and from the sun to other stars and distant galaxies? In this talk, he presents some methods of measurement that ...
