In this chemistry activity, learners will test the pH of various foods and household sustances using cabbage. The kids will explore the concept of acidic and basic chemicals, learn that pH is a common measure of acidity, and explore various common usses of acids and bases. Ages: 8-11. Classes need ...
The Manila Galleon San Felipe, 1576A slide series tells the San Felipe's saga, shows how she was rediscovered, and describes the contents and meaning of her recovered porcelains and other artifacts. Our ten Mexico-United States expeditions from 1999 to 2011 to a wreck site along the desert shore of Baja California, and study of newly ...
Where: Point Reyes StationCost:
How brains create knowledge and meaning from fragments of informationCommonly we sniff, glance, palpate, or hark some event or object and experience a sudden flash of meaning: we know what it is. This experience highlights the difference between sensation, which is the acquisition of fragments of information by intentional search, and perception, which is the contextualization of the acquired ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Nipah Virus: Emergence and Epidemiology of a Dangerous Zoonotic PathogenSpeaker: Dr. Steven Luby, Head, Programme for (IDVS)Infectious Disease & Vaccine Sciences Projects Health Systems & Infectious Diseases Division International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)Bechtel Conference Room
As the former emphasis on preventive care during the Maoist era has given way to a market-driven pursuit of high-tech interventions, changes in the political economy of health care have transformed China's urban medical system into a laboratory for entrepreneurial tactics. Despite critical scrutiny from scientific experts and tightening guidelines ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
No More Circling Around the Block: Evolving Ethnography to Guide Innovation in Parking Systems Parking. The biggest pain for many drivers and cities, and yet the least evolved in many ways... After many years with little innovation in parking technology, many cities are now exploring new systems meant to improve the use of limited parking real estate, increase parking convenience, and raise additional revenue.PARC ...
Just days before Halloween, NightLife will be overrun with zombies! Take a crash course in zombie neuroscience with Zombie Research Society's Brad Voytek, and learn how zombie-like symptoms would manifest themselves in real life. You won't want to miss horror maven and hostess Peaches Christ and her Zombie Drag Show and ...
Scientists are studying global migratory animal movements throughout their annual cycles to improve conservation efforts Changing climate conditions have accentuated this need, as species movements and their ranges are fluctuating every year Technology being used to study the migratory patterns ranges from leg bands to satellite telemetry and isotopic markers ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost:
Measuring the color of the seas from satellites and the fun science that followsDr. Cara Wilson, NOAA's Environmental Research Division By literally detecting the color of the ocean from satellites, scientists can measure and monitor the amount of chlorophyll at the surface of the ocean, which represents the base of the oceanic food chain. we now have a 14 year record of global ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: free to Museum Members; $5 for the general public
Once and Future GiantsWhat caused the megafauna die-out at the end of the last ice age? Sharon Levey tells that fascinating story from all angles. She even goes further and covers a plan to, in a strange way, replace the vanished species. She will give a short talk followed by signing her book.
