The Influence of Scientific Knowledge and Thinking on Classroom TeachingIn many higher education courses students are judged with the help of certain objective but also subjective criteria by the teachers. Yet, this may be not sufficient for equal appraisal of idiosyncratic ways of acquiring knowledge. After an analysis of thinking styles and tacit knowing of scientists, the presentation will ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
How 'Clean' is Natural Gas? - Hydrofracking, GHGs, and the Lack of Federal OversightJoanne Spalding, Managing Attorney in the Sierra Club's San Francisco office, will discuss the regulation and environmental impacts of the natural gas boom going on across America. While natural gas burns cleaner than other fossil fuels (and therefore contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions), natural gas exploration and production come ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Using eye movements to probe brain function and dysfunctionThe saccadic eye movement system is extremely well understood and flexible control of saccades requires brain areas from the brainstem up to prefrontal cortex. Patients with damage or dysfunction in these eye movement circuits have abnormal control of eye movements that can be exploited to understand diseases processes. This talk ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Two Mysteries of SuperconductivityProf.Louis Taillefer of the Candian Institute for Advanced Research will give the Mar. 8, 2011 Applied Physics/Physics colloquium entitled, "The Two Mysteries of Superconductivity."
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Stereoscopic-3D: looking at the next decadeAfter multiple decades of wand waiving and fizzling, 2010 felt like a real inflection point for Stereoscopic-3D. Significance of this major transition in visualization from 2D-to-3D is profound. After all, nature has equipped human kind with binocular vision – it is the limitation of technology that has kept our civilization ...
Where: San JoseCost: $2 for food
The Panic Virus – The Story Behind Autism & VaccinesIn 1998 Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist with a history of self-promotion, published a paper with a shocking allegation: the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine might cause autism. The media seized hold of the story and, in the process, helped to launch one of the most devastating health scares ever. In the years ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
The Selam and Lucy Species Used Tools: Cutting Edge Research on Some Ancient Cuts Pritzker Lecture: Humans evolved as a result of a series of key anatomical and behavioral transformations following their divergence from the chimpanzees, about 7 million years ago. Understanding what makes us human today therefore depends on how much we know about the processes and evolutionary mechanisms that made us who ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Seniors, Free Members
Small planets are common: evidence from the Eta-Earth Survey and the Kepler missionMost planets are thought to form through the 'core accretion' process. This process can be probed by comparing the occurrence rates of extrasolar planets of different masses and orbital distances. Until recently, the evidence was limited to massive, Jovian planets. This talk will focus on recent results that probe much ...
