Ever wonder how plants live? Or how worms produce compost? Curious about solar beads and solar cookers? Get hands-on with science to find out! Join Cal scientists for some cool, food-related investigations at East Bay farmers' markets during the Bay Area Science Festival. (Subject to reduced hours or cancellation in ...
Join George Phillips and Jim Cartan, Save Mount Diablo's Stewardship Team, for a hike of our Wright Canyon property. This 76-acre property was a key location for Morgan Territory's rich history and offers wonderful views of Mount Diablo's peaks – the summit, North Peak, Windy Point, and Oyster Point. The ...
Join Save the Redwoods League and park rangers from Muir Woods National Monument as we hike the trails and conduct a mini BioBlitz. We will identify and document as many different plant and animal species as we can. Come learn about the natural history of a redwood forest, how to ...
Come explore and learn about the pump and lock system that keeps the sedimentation process active to help build wetlands with Park Ranger Jose Garcia. Easy bike tour from the Environmental Education Center to pond A17, near Drawbridge. Approximately 3 miles round trip flat well maintained trail. Beautiful area with ...
Where: AlvisoCost: Free
Conflicts of Principle and How they Change PhysicsEinstein thought we should look for conflicting principles: two things which are so deeply engrained that they must both be right, but when taken together seem to lead to a contradiction. When those conflicts of principle are resolved, science makes its greatest strides. In this talk, Professor Susskind will discuss ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Happy Creepy HalloweenParticipate in Halloween-themed activities at the Lawrence Hall of Science. Meet some of the slimiest, scaliest, and hairiest creatures you'll ever see, in our Animal Discovery Room. Do Halloween-themed engineering activities with a haunted robot developed by UC Berkeley's Pioneers in Engineering (PiE).
This month we celebrate Halloween with a creepy collection of stories about the animals that live in the deepest parts of the ocean! Learn how elephant seal's can dive to 5000 feet and stay underwater for 2 hours at a time without imploding (!), find out how a sperm whale ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free with admission
The Extreme Life of the SeaThe Extreme Life of the Sea: What are the fastest creatures in the ocean? The oldest? Where are the hottest, coldest, or deepest places that life thrives in the sea? Ocean science over the past century has uncovered an amazing collection of extreme species, living in amazing ways. This session ...
Our walk will take a cue from the western tiger swallowtail, San Francisco's largest butterfly. This fantastic creature has taken up residence along Market Street and in the parks and plazas nearby. The western tiger, like other swallowtails, has made Market Street an unexpected habitat! The lay of the land ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Full-Spectrum Science with Ron Hipschman: Science Fiction Turned FactScience fiction has predicted many things. Some have come true (think touch screens, submarines, bionic limbs), others, not so much-or at least, not yet. If you've ever wondered where your flying car or rocket belt is, or why you don't yet have a robot servant, find out at Full-Spectrum Science.18+ ...
Our Hawk Talk and Banding Demonstration begins at noon, when docent Bridget Bradshaw will speak about hawk migration and identification, and what we do here at the GGRO. Midway through, she will present a newly banded hawk, talk about the banding program, show everyone the hawk, and let it go ...
Come to the beautiful Marin Headlands to get involved in real-life botany! We will tour the native plant nursery and take a short hike. You will learn how genetic diversity is being protected in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, gain the skills you need to contribute to national citizen ...
Long before the silicon chip, some of the world's most influential inventions were dreamed up by San Franciscan tinkerers. Explore seven surprising stories of innovation from tech to tunes to treats that exemplify San Francisco as a hotbed of creative thinking for nearly two centuries. We'll investigate the science behind ...
Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA, pronounced "karma") has been on the scene of electronic and computer-generated sound, since, well, before there was a scene. We are proud in 2014 to be celebrating three important moments in the history of CCRMA and of computer music: ...
Join us as we celebrate the life and work of Martin Gardner on Sunday, October 26, 2–5 pm at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, located at 17 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720.Why the Celebration?Martin Gardner was a prolific author who pursued a playful and fun approach to Mathematics, Science, Art, Magic, Puzzles ...
Visit SF State's Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, the only academic marine lab located on the shore of San Francisco Bay. The Center is normally closed to the public, so this is a very unique opportunity to see what goes on in the laboratories dedicated to studying the health ...
At Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, researchers use virtual reality (VR) to study the behavioral effects of immersive media. Visitors should be prepared to walk a virtual plank, fly around a virtual city, and travel to virtual Spain.Requirements/RestrictionsAll ages are invited. Not recommended for users that experience regular symptoms of ...
You are invited to a behind-the-scenes tour of our Parasitology Lab where you'll have the chance to see parasitic worms and protozoa! You'll also get to hear about our research to discover drugs to treat parasitic diseases that affect millions of people worldwide. We are located at the Mission Bay ...
Come take a closer look at the sea cliffs at New Brighton State Beach. The rocks forming these dramatic cliffs are part of the Purisima Formation, which is exposed along the California Coast from Point Reyes to southern Santa Cruz County. The rocks at New Brighton Beach were deposited under ...
NPR's hit show Snap Judgment is back to electrify the Nourse Theater in San Francisco. It's an ALL-NEW special performance created in association with the Bay Area Science Festival. Led by Snap's Glynn Washington, the world's top storytellers are coming to rock the Snap stage with brand new stories on ...
