Water Conservation ShowcaseSince 2004, the Water Conservation Showcase has brought together experts, innovative products and services, and the sustainable development community to address one of the largest concerns of Californians: water. USGBC-NCC partners with PG&E and East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) to bring together local and national experts to address water ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
The comings and goings of San Francisco BayAn informal talk in the UC Museum of Paleontology's Tuesday "Fossil Coffee" series.Speaker: Doris Sloan, Adjunct Professor, Earth and Planetary SciencesRoom 1101
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
A new perspective on the driver of space weather: the Sun's corona as a globally coupled system The Sun's dynamic magnetic field is the origin of all of the variability in the heliosphere and in geospace that we refer to as space weather. This variability occurs on a hierarchy of time scales ranging from the full 11-year solar cycle that determines the Sun's global dipole field down ...
Skeptics in the StudioNorth Bay Skeptics are: humanists, atheists, freethinkers, agnostics and undeclared, who embrace modern skepticism. We celebrate the scientific method, and the application of logic and evidence to all claims. As in the tradition of many Skeptical groups world wide, we like to gather for lively discussion on current topics and ...
When thinking about the future, it is easy to forget to look behind you. Enter George Dyson, "an historian among futurists", who does deep research into the history of computing to understand the trends that will bring us into the future.One of his persistent themes is taking the "digital universe" ...
