Summer Fun Day: EcoFest!Learn about the ecology around us and what role we play in our environment.
Where: BerkeleyCost:
Using the topography of icy satellites to understand their internal structure and thermal historyThe icy moons of Saturn boast a wide variety of topographic features, including the deep Herschel crater on Mimas, the prominent equatorial ridge on Iapetus and the famous "tiger stripes" of Enceladus. The lesser known moons, Rhea and Dione also display complex topography, including impact basins, normal faults and ridges. ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
August LASER (corrected date and location)Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous of August 20126:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.7pm - 7:25pm: Sydell Lewis on "Why Upside Down? Paintings that Rotate"Sydell Lewis's abstract paintings, mounted on rotating devices, allows the viewer to examine and interpret a work to its full potential. Her thesis is that we do not totally perceive an abstract ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Skeptalk: 'In God We Teach'This month's Skeptalk from the Bay Area Skeptics features the presentation of "In God We Teach," a controversial new movie. The evening is hosted by Eugenie Scott, president of the National Center for Science Education. "In God We Teach" is the story of Matthew LaClair, a student at Kearny (NJ) public ...
Doodles are the fun, surprising and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries and the lives of famous artists, pioneers and scientists.In 1998, before the company was even incorporated, the concept of the doodle was born when Google founders Larry Page and Sergey ...
