Science, the scientific process, and the value that both bring to the well-being of the nation have been under attack in Washington, D.C. and beyond. Federal funding for science has been declining over the last several years, with seemingly disproportionate cuts being proposed for the ocean and geosciences budgets across ...
Dr. Laurel Braitman is a writer and historian of science whose work explores the intersections of history of medicine & psychiatry, animal behavior, the history of natural history and the ways we die. She is author of the New York Times bestseller Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs. Compulsive Parrots, and ...
Modern networks are undergoing an exciting transition toward a paradigm of greater programmability and dynamic flow management. For the network security community, this transformation is opening attractive opportunities for more innovative forms of threat mitigation. It is also raising interesting challenges in how to reconcile our legacy notions of well-defined ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Rise of the RobotsArtificial intelligence is already well on its way to making "good jobs" obsolete: many paralegals, physicians and even – ironically – computer programmers are poised to be replaced by robots. As technology continues to develop, more and more traditional jobs will be shed. Unless we radically reassess our economic and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Member, $7 Student
One Big OceanDr. Sylvia Earle – fondly dubbed "Her Deepness" by The New York Times – holds the women's record for the deepest ocean dive and has led more than 100 undersea expeditions, logging more than 7,000 hours underwater. Formerly chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Dr. Earle has ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members
Basic protein purification and characterizationWe'll be extracting protein from a plant source and doing some basic purification and characterization. There may be a small fee for materials (TBD before the meetup).
Where: OaklandCost: small fee TBD
CANCELLED! Science and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub, West BayWe are sorry to have to cancel at such late notice. It was fully expected that the basketball frenzy would have ended in Texas on Monday May 25. The fans will have Fiddler's Green to celebrate their victory.If ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the flim-flam man, join ...
Where: MillbraeCost: Free
The Semi-Secret Lives of SF's RavensPeople often describe ravens in San Francisco as ubiquitous – ubiquitous enough to be generally ignored. Adrian has been following them around they city for about 5 years now, finding their nests in all sorts of odd places, and observing their lives from nest to juvenile flocks. These intelligent birds ...
