BERCshop: Solar Cells and Other Fairy Tales: Symbols and Expectations for a Clean Energy FutureThe seductive tales of wind turbines, solar cells, and biofuels foster the impression that with a few technical upgrades, we might just sustain our current energy trajectories without consequence. Media and political coverage lull us into dreams of a clean energy future juxtaposed against a tumultuous past characterized by evil ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Technology-enabled Programs for Improving the Management of Chronic Care for Older AdultsThe capacity of the U.S. health care system is rapidly being tested by the demands of a growing aging and disabled population. The challenges posed by the shear increase in population aging, combined with the disproportionate level of chronic illness among older adults, projected shortages in the long-term care work ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Managing California's Water: From Conflict to ReconciliationIn much of the world, water has become a source of increasing conflict. Current policies are failing to meet the economy's demands for water supply reliability, water quality, and flood protection; meanwhile, freshwater aquatic ecosystems are in sharp decline despite several decades of well-intentioned, but insufficient and poorly coordinated policies ...
Innovation in Open Networks and the MIT Media Lab The combination of Moore's law and the Internet has changed everything. Innovation happens on the edges in ecosystems where standards are developed in non-governmental bodies, where intellectual property can become more of a burden to agility than an asset and where planning can cost more than doing. This massive reduction ...
NASA Family Night: Destination StationDestination Station is NASA Johnson Space Center's national awareness campaign that promotes research opportunities, educates communities about activities preformed on the International Space Station, and communicates the real and potential impacts of the station on our everyday lives. This special NASA visit to Chabot will include astronaut presentations, autographs, demonstrations ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
'The Tipping Point: The End of Oil'Film by Niobe Thompson and Tom Radford. The easy oil is gone. The age of the tar sands has begun. Yet as a pristine wilderness and a Native people are being wiped out to feed the world's hunger for energy, what no one expected was for them to fight back. ...
Where: OaklandCost: $5 Donation
Astronomy and Evolution: From the Death of the Dinosaurs to the Stardust in your BonesAlmost 14 billion years ago, the Big Bang created the seeds of the vast structures that we see in the present-day Universe. But how did a sea of scorching hot gas evolve to form the cosmic web of galaxies, clinging together in huge filaments and sheets and separated by enormous ...
Speaker: Paul Davies, Arizona State University Time travel makes great science fiction, but can it really be done? Travel into the future is already a reality, but visiting the past is a much tougher proposition, and may require fantastic resources such as a wormhole in space. Nevertheless, if going back in ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Turing's Cathedral. Author George Dyson in conversation with John HollarLegendary historian and philosopher of science George Dyson vividly re-creates the scenes of focused experimentation, incredible mathematical insight, and pure creative genius that gave us computers, digital television, modern genetics, models of stellar evolutionâ€"in other words, computer code.In the 1940s and '50s, a group of eccentric geniuses -- led by ...
