Free First WednesdayFree museum admission all day, to anyone from anywhere, at Bay Area Discovery Museum
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Free Wednesday at UC Botanical GardensEnjoy free admission to the UC Botanical Garden on the first Wednesday of the month. Parking is limited. Docent-led tours for groups are not available on Free Wednesdays. No admission after 4:30 pm. In order to minimize the impact on the plant collection, ensure the safety of visitors, and to ...
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. Cancer care is a complex and complicated process involving diverse practitioners, multiple specialists, and a range of inpatient, outpatient, and home care services with numerous transitions for the patients. In order to achieve the triple aims of cost, ...
The future of energy holds fascinating challenges and opportunities. The challenge: As society's size and energy appetite grow, we must seek solutions that facilitate penetration of renewable energy and enhance efficiency across the transportation, building, and power system sectors. The opportunity: Low-cost sensing/actuation and the pervasiveness of Internet-access enable a new ...
A leading global health researcher and former journalist, Professor Gavin Yamey will speak with Paul Costello, Stanford Medicine's chief communications officer, on timely and pressing issues in global health. Gavin Yamey is associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the UCSF School of Medicine and is Lead of the Evidence to ...
Kidney cancer is diagnosed in more than 330,000 people each year worldwide, and accounts for 2.4% of all adult cancers and over 140,000 deaths annually. Incidence rates have been increasing sharply with unexplained variation in different countries and ethnicities. Epidemiological studies have identified several lifestyle and host risk factors, among ...
NVIDIA's first 64-bit ARM processor, code-named Denver, leverages a host of new technologies to enable high-performance mobile computing. Implemented in a 28-nm process, the Denver CPU can attain clock speeds of up to 2.5 GHz. This talk will outline the Denver architecture and describe some of its technological innovations. In ...
Humans are a unique species among the 5 million species on this planet. More specifically we represent an extreme outlier species on many easily measured dimensions from our fraction of earths biomass and nutrient cycling, to levels of social complexity, to extra somatic phenotype, energy capture, and cumulative technological evolution. ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The handiwork of imagining the submicroscopic:Embodied performances as interactional resources for learning chemistryAbstract: Both practicing scientists and students alike use gestures and their bodies to share and develop new ideas with others. Embodied performances are a particularly useful resource for collaboratively imagining the submicroscopic, three-dimensional, and dynamic phenomena of chemistry. In this talk, we'll explore how creating spaces for, attending to, and ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Speaking Public Health... Publicly!A lecture on effective ways to communicate public health issues to the general publicSpeaker: David Tuller, UC Berkeley
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
California Drought PanelWater in the West is convening three experts to discuss the causes, policy implications and possible responses to California's ongoing drought, including what a fourth year of drought will mean for the state. Topics will include:The current state of the drought and its physical causes;The role of climate change on ...
From the dawn of the Space Age in the 1960s that led to the Apollo Landing on the Moon to the cosmological discoveries captured visually by space observatories and satellites, advances in our understanding of the universe have stimulated the imaginations and curiosities of people from around the globe. Beyond ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Sentinel Mission: Finding the Asteroid Headed for EarthAsteroids, which hit our planet at least twice each year, are the only natural disaster for which we have a technological solution. We are all living with the threat of a three-minute experience that could transform our lives and our planet forever. On Feb. 15, 2013, for example, an asteroid impact ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking)
The Coming Ice AgeThe Global Warming Myth has been conflated with climate change, air pollution and rising CO2 levels despite the lack of real evidence to support it. The bottom line: Competition in international markets is not good for American business. So, do your damndest to keep the developing countries in their place. ...
Where: SebastopolCost: $5
The Martian: The Future of Manned Missions to MarsNew York Times bestselling author of "The Martian", Andy Weir, joins Dr. Pascal Lee, Chairman of the Mars Institute, to discuss the science, both fact and fiction, of this sci-fi thriller. Don't miss this far reaching conversation moderated by NASA Scientist, Dr. Margaret Race.See weblink for registration and box meal ...
What is a human being? One short answer is that it is an individual that started out as a fertilized egg with genes from a male and a female that has developed into a fully functional biological being. But now, there is a growing group of scientists that would say ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $27 General, $24 Members
