What emotional state are you in about global warming? Shock, denial, anger, depression… or acceptance and readiness for action?Bring a brown bag lunch and help move yourself toward action.Meet Ranger Will Elder at the temporary visitor center, 105 Montgomery St. at Lincoln Blvd.Fully accessible.
As changing weather patterns create uncertainty about the future, farmers and ranchers, like many other business owners, are facing the question of how to both reduce their contribution to climate change and adapt to its effects. Meanwhile, the implementation of California's cap-and-trade legislation is presenting both financial opportunities and challenges ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for Members
This talk will discuss ongoing research at the JHU Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (CISST ERC) to develop CIIS systems that combine innovative algorithms, robotic devices, imaging systems, sensors, and human-machine interfaces to work cooperatively with surgeons in the planning and execution of surgery and other ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Chopin and the Nature of Genius - Firinn TaisdealChopin was a musical genius. Yet what do we mean by "genius," exactly? Is genius only a matter of specialized brain function, or is it the result of specific character qualities operating over time? After all, in every era there are prodigies, but most prodigies only go on to become ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
River Management Challenges: a European perspective to 2020The need to advance an interdisciplinary approach to river management that incorporates hydrology, geomorphology, ecology, engineering and the social sciences is now widely accepted by both academics and policy makers. This talk explores what this means in practice for river management in an environment dominated by human-modified landscapes with uncertain ...
Paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin is famed for discovering the fossilized Tiktaalik roseae, the missing link between ancient sea creatures and land dwellers. His bestselling book, Your Inner Fish, shows parallels between human anatomy and the structures of the fish that first wriggled landward 375 million years ago. In ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $20 Members, $15 Students
Overconfidence and the Frailty of KnowledgeWhile self-confidence is a prized human attribute, too much confidence can be obnoxious, pernicious, and even deadly. This audience-participation skeptalk will present a simple 10-question quiz to measure an important aspect of individual self-confidence. With analysis and discussion of these measurements, audience members will be better able to calibrate properly their ...
Not long after the transit tunnels of Muni and Bart went in below Market Street in the '70s, a San Franciscan butterfly - the Western Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio rutulus) moved into an ecosystem freshly lined with one of her host trees: the London Plane sycamore (Plantanus acerifolia). She lays eggs ...
