Future Trends in Health Care TechnologyIn an increasingly connected world, Dr. Chow discusses future technologies and services that can help the healthcare consumer and those with chronic disease manage their healthcare needs outside the traditional hospital setting.Dr. Yan Chow, with Sylvia Paull
Makers, Hackers and the Personal Computer Revolution Things are changing in the field of product development. Bottom-up, open-sourced and crowd-funded efforts are creating a Cambrian-type efflorescence of software and hardware products. People are creating and patronizing institutions like hackerspaces, open-source hardware manufacturers and open machine shops. This maker movementappears to be a logical extension of the open-source ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Interaction between Longevity and Aging Genes in HumansDr. Nir Barzilai is the director of the Institute for Aging Research, the director of the Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging and the Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Chair of Aging Research. Dr. Barzilai, an endocrinologist, discovered the first "longevity gene" in humans. His ...
Lucy and Selam are famous skeletons that belong to Australopithecus afarensis, a direct ancestor of humans that lived between 4 and 3 million years ago. When the Lucy skeleton was discovered in 1974, it helped establish that this creature was an upright walking species pushing the then accepted date for ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
Saturn V: The First 700 SecondsAs we witnessed each launch of the Apollo program, we would forever remember the countdown, ignition sequence, images of the Saturn V rocket engines billowing out vast, fast and furious hot gas...and then lift off.We'll never forget those sheets of ice breaking off the exterior and raining down on the ...
Where: Santa RosaCost: Free
Skeptalk: The Twisted Logic of the War on TerrorFrom George W. Bush declaring war on a tactic (terror) in 2001, to current airport-screening measures that actually compromise the security of passengers, the hallmark of the United States' eleven-year war on terror has not been sound reasoning.So asserts Richard E. Wackrow, author of the recent book Who's Winning the War on Terror. Wackrow will look at ...
