California Climate Policy - A New Template for the Americas?California's pathbreaking climate policies could increase both cooperation and tensions in the Americas. The state's cap and trade policy is being eyed as a model by Canadian provinces and Mexico; its low-carbon fuel standard is a direct challenge to extra-heavy petroleum in Alberta and Venezuela; and influential U.S. foundations are ...
Berkeley Rep Talk Sheds 'New Light on Dark Energy'A panel of Lab scientists along with Andrew Fraiknoi, the Bay Area's most popular astronomy explainer, will gather at the Berkeley Rep on Monday, April 25, from 7 to 9 p.m. for a discussion about "New Light on Dark Energy." Topics will ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
High Anxiety: The Science behind Meditation and AnxietyOnce reserved for Tibetan monks, meditation has become popular especially here in the Bay Area. This practice of bringing one's attention to the present has been said to provide tremendous well-being and emotional balance. Scientists have also begun to bring their attention to meditation for its affects in "re-wiring" the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Paul Allen, and Jose Antonio VargasIn 2007 and 2008, Time named Paul Allen one of the hundred most influential people in the world. His impact has been felt in science, technology, business, medicine, sports, music, and philanthropy. His passion, curiosity, and intellectual rigor--combined with the resources to launch and support new initiatives--have literally changed the ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: $32 Individual, $40 for Two, includes book
The Great Tohoku, Japan DisasterThe first of two evenings devoted to an examination of and conversation about the March 11, 2011 Tohoku Earthquake in northern Honshu, Japan, and the subsequent nuclear accident. Speakers on the first evening are Greg Beroza of the School of Earth Sciences, Greg Deierlein of the Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Pure Engineering: Decoupling Technical Innovation from Utility and ConsumerismThe human need to create is elemental. Whether this is an inevitable, evolutionary consequence of being the descendants of tool-making ancestors, or the cultural means by which we serve memes much bigger than our individual selves, we are compelled to execute the designs concocted by our imagination.In the context of ...
