Streams, Gardens, and Clouds: Visualizing Dynamic Data for Engagement, Education and the EnvironmentScientists, policymakers, business leaders, journalists-all seek to harness the deluge of data generated by the minute through sensing networks and social media. Aided by the increasing availability of high-speed Internet, wireless networks, and mobile devices, people with access to multimedia tools contribute to these data flows both intentionally and inadvertently. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Decoding Human Health Infectious Cures: Hijacking Viruses To Overcome Disease We've made substantial progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS over the past three decades, but the epidemic continues to ravage humankind-especially in the developing world. Everywhere, viruses such as HIV compete with their hosts in an evolutionary 'arms race'-building resistance to the latest therapies in order to maintain their deadly ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members
Jared Diamond, author of 'Gun, Germs & Steel' & 'The World Until Yesterday'Pulitzer Prize winning author Diamond draws extensively from his field work and examines how Amazonian Indians, Inuit, and other traditional societies have adapted and evolved for nearly 6 million years.He explains what we can still learn from these traditional societies regarding universal human problems like elder care, child rearing, physical ...
OMG, you've been colonized! But don't fret, this is nothing new. This week get to know the plethora of microbes that colonize our bodies at a series of hands-on demonstration stations manned by scientists from the Academy and Gladstone Institutes. Compare the hearts and brains of animals to those of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 members
Genomic MedicineDr. Thomas White, former Chief Scientific Officer of Celera will be giving a talk titled Genomic Medicine: The Development, Economic and Ethical Challenges of Translating Basic Research Into Clinical Practice. Reception immediately following.Room 105
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Origins & Evolution of Meaning: A Biological ViewDr. Herr will provide a naturalistic consideration of how sense-making may have originated and evolved on Earth. What does a close and considered observation of vertebrate mammals, insects, sessile polyps, or single-celled bacteria tell us about how each and all of these living creatures find and create functional meaning and ...
During the past century, scientists have dissected the outer layer of our planet with bold scientific investigations revealing the deep properties of the Earth's crustScientific creativity has fostered innovation in field measurements from the Tibetan Plateau to the deep Pacific Ocean, and beyondNew insights are providing clues to processes that ...
