Stanford's Genetics department leads hands-on activities every day of the festival. Try your hand at DNA spooling from animal cells and look at your own DNA from cheek cells under a microscope. Figure out what 1000 letters of your DNA look like. Solve a mystery by looking at "DNA" patterns ...
We like to think that intelligent aliens would have the same basic ideas about numbers and geometry as us, but, even if they do, they might express those ideas very differently. To illustrate what different forms a concept can take, I will show how differently the law ab=ba has been ...
Join David Ewing Duncan, bestselling author and chief correspondent of public radio's Biotech Nation in conversation with three leading UCSF researchers as they discuss the prospects for retraining the brain to perform better. Their explorations range from investigations of how the brain works, to the development of practical remedies for ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
There's nothing as practical as a good theoryTheoretical analyses of the development of numerical representations suggest that playing linear number board games, akin to Chutes and Ladders, should enhance young children's numerical knowledge. Consistent with this prediction, playing such a game for roughly one hour increases low-income, urban preschoolers' proficiency on a diverse set of numerical tasks: ...
Santa Clara University encourages and supports scientific and technological research that is performed responsibly within ethical guidelines, promotes engagement in scientific discussions with a desire to explore the facts, and foster thoughtful debate on the ethical and societal implications. This serves as a model by which students can examine and ...
Join astronomer Jill Tarter, whose work and life was a key model for the character Jodie Foster plays in the film Contact, for a very special evening of science fiction and cutting-edge science. We will screen the full-length film about the discovery of intelligent life among the stars, and then ...
Economic prosperity in the coming decades will depend on innovations built on scientific and technological breakthroughs. Unfortunately, findings from international assessments show that the U.S. no longer has an edge over other countries in educating its young people. This dialogue will take a critical look at current educational policies and ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Fermentation Lecture w/ Gordon Biersch Brewing Co.You're cordially invited to attend our lecture series on Beer FermentationSpeaker: Master Brewer Dan Gordon, Cal Alumni, Co-founder and Director of Brewing Operations of Gordon Biersch Brewing Company http://www.gordonbiersch.com/You'll have the opportunity to ask any question at the end of the lecture during Q/A session.Room 126
What happens when one of the funniest and smartest authors around gets interviewed by a MythBuster? Hear which space legends might be as combustible as urban ones when Mary Roach and Adam Savage chat it up about Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, San Francisco's ...
Sip on a glow-in-the-dark Cosmo as you enjoy the cosmic music stylings of the Physics Chanteuse. Learn about cosmic dynamics with hands-on activities by UCSC astrophysicists. Journey through the universe in the Holt Digital Starlab. Explore the museum under moody lighting, play space-themed video games on our giant IMAX screen, ...
The Marin Math Circle is a weekly math meeting for students. Manystudents come each week and are presented with difficult, original and always fun mathematical puzzles. As part of the Bay Area Science Festival, the math circle will be open to new members this night only.
Where: San RafaelCost: Free
Can we make it to Mars? - a film introduced by Katie BerryhillCan humans survive a trip to Mars that would take two to three years? Among the innovations covered in the film are meteoroid-proof materials, new space foods and spacesuits, and novel modes of transport. PBS; 53 minutes, 2011. Katie Beryhill is assistant professor of space studies at American Public University ...
Ready to put your science smarts to the test? Ask a Scientist will be celebrating the Bay Area Science Festival the best way we know how - with a boisterous science trivia contest hosted by Robin Marks of Discovery Street will be celebrating the Bay Area Science Festival the best ...
Environmental Defense Fund marine ecologist Dr. Rodney M. Fujita will moderate a panel of scientists, ocean explorers, futurists, and communicators who first gathered for an inquiry summit called BLUEMiND this summer at the California Academy of Sciences. The panel will explore cutting edge ideas of how gratitude and feelings of ...
Almost 14 billion years ago, the Big Bang created the seeds of our present-day Universe. Modern astronomers use telescopes and computers as time-machines, compressing millions of years of history into the blink of an eye to study the inexorable forces at work during that process. Material from space – the ...
The San Jose Math Circle (SJMC) is a weekly math meeting for middle school and high school students. Over 30 students come each week and are presented with difficult, original and always fun mathematical puzzles. As part of the Bay Area Science Festival, the math circle will be open to ...
Kelp forests are found throughout the world; however, their histories in the northern and southern hemispheres are dramatically different - from the timing of their formation to the origin of the key species that inhabit them. For example, in the North Pacific, the sea otter is the youngest component in ...
As neuroscientists are learning more and more about our body¹s hidden frontier, we have gained fleeting insights into our own intuition, habits and seemingly unexplainable preferences. Can we solve those mysteries by creating a complete compute model of our brain? Or is the brain an unsolvable puzzle? Two leading neuroscientists ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members & Seniors
dorkbot San FranciscoAs always, dorkbot brings "people doing strange things with science." Swiss Ph.D. student Philipp Reist joins the roster to describe his Blind Juggler robot and other projects. If you would like to give a presentation in the future or host a dorkbotSF meeting, please contact Karen Marcelo at dorkbotsf@dorkbot.org.(Dial #230 ...
Get your geek on! From the lighter side of helium to the darker side of the moon, join science comedian Brian Malow on a rocket ride through the humorverse. Brian will dispel myths & misconceptions about science, explore the science in science fiction films, and exercise your brain as well ...
Find out what happens when artists spend nine months in a science lab. This exhibition features eight works developed during the Swiss artists-in-labs residency, which places artists in scientific settings.
