TEDxHaywardTEDxHayward: The theme for this year's TEDxHayward is Peace Innovation where we cast a spotlight on how technology and emerging social behaviors and insights are promoting new paths to global peace. Please join the CSUEB Peace Innovation Lab, the Stanford Peace Innovation Lab and CSUEB Associated Students from 12-6 for ...
Where: HaywardCost: FREE (food and drinks as well!)
Traveling Reptile Program by the East Bay VivariumThis one hour program features between 20 and 30 reptiles and other CREEPIES, CRAWLIES and CRITTERS (ex. Tarantula, frogs, lizards, snakes). They teach natural history, animal husbandry and safety.
Where: San JoseCost: Free
THE MICROWAVE THERMAL ROCKETIn 1924, K.E. Tsiolkovsky wrote "there is a third and most attractive method of acquiring velocity. This consists in the transmission of energy from the outside, from Earth." He envisaged a "parallel beam of shortwave electromagnetic rays" directed from the ground to power spaceships into orbit at a future time ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
America and The Pill - A History of Promise, Peril, and LiberationFifty years ago, the FDA announced approval for the birth control pill. The pill quickly became the most popular form of contraception in the country and on of the best-selling drugs in the U.S. It was hailed as a magic bullet that would halt the global population explosion, eradicate war ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Community Solar is Taking RootA national movement is brewing to develop an alternative to the big corporate central-station renewable power model. It's called Community Solar and it's embodied in many local cooperative/collective solar initiatives from coast to coast. Come learn about this movement from representatives of three Community Solar projects: Dan Rosen: Solar Mosaics; ...
Where: OaklandCost: Small donation requested
'Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction'Earth Island Institute along with Species Alliance and the Video Project will be presenting the East-Bay premiere of the award-winning documentary Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction, the first feature documentary to investigate the growing threat to Earth's life support systems from this unprecedented loss of biodiversity. Through interviews ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $10-20 General, half price for youth
A Tale of Three Cities: The Quest for Energy Efficient Street Lighting As energy and maintenance costs begin to sky rocket, outdoor lighting has recently been targeted as a huge potential in cost reductions. In addition, the impacts of outdoor lighting on circadian cycle disruptions, nocturnal animal habitat, light trespass and sky glow have also been hot topics. Can current lighting designs ...
Amanitas: From Deadly to DeliciousBAMS co-founder Debbie Viess will bring her fascination for amanitas alive in this richly illustrated, informative and entertaining presentation. Amanitas are some of the most feared, as well as some of the most coveted of all edible mushrooms. Come learn about the realities of this often maligned but never boring ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Who Killed off the Oysters of SF Bay? Marine Biologist, Andrew Cohen, will talk about the once-abundant SF Bay's native oysters, with excursions into history, biology,, geology, and archaeology. The answers are not what people expected.
