Mini Monday - Home in the WaterJoin us to explore animals that call water their home. Meet a pond turtle and a tiger salamander. Encourage your young naturalist's curiosity at Mini Monday, a special day for children and their caregivers. Animal encounters, activities, and craft help connect your child to our natural world and all its ...
Where: Walnut CreekCost: $15 for 1st Child ($8 member)
Quantifying the Influence of Climate Change on Human ConflictA rapidly growing body of research examines whether human conflict can be affected by climatic changes. Drawing from archaeology, criminology, economics, geography, history, political science, and psychology, we assemble and analyze the 60 most rigorous quantitative studies and document, for the first time, a striking convergence of results. We find ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
THE DARK UNIVERSE THROUGH EINSTEIN'S LENSDr. Deborah Bard from SLAC and KIPAC will be talking about how gravitational lensing was first observed and how it is used for studying exoplanets to Dark Matter and much more.
This talk will follow the rough outline of Robert's recent book, Powering the Future: How We Will (Eventually) Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow. Robert will take the audience past contemporary politics through a mental journey to a time, several centuries from now, when nobody uses ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Richard Kurin presents American History in 101 ObjectsRelics grip us. They anchor stories that matter by giving a visceral sense that they really happened. Look, here is the actual chain used on an American slave. What ended its use? Abraham Lincoln was tall in so many ways, and he stood even taller in his top hat---this hat ...
