The Challenges of Science Communication: What Does Storytelling Have to do with Climate Change?A fundamental of scientific analysis is the rejection of stories. Anecdotes can mislead you and solid analysis of the data is needed to ensure that coincidence is not mistaken for correlation. But one of the fundamentals of communication is the human need for stories to make an emotional connection to ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
VISUALIZING PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS & LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS WITHIN INDIVIDUAL NANOPARTICLESIn Pixar's Inside Out, Joy proclaims, "Do you ever look at someone and wonder, what is going on inside?" Dr. Dionne's group asks the same question about nanomaterials whose function plays a critical role in energy, biology, and information-relevant processes. In this presentation, Jen will describe new techniques that enable ...
Modern technology has enabled massive innovation in our models for developing and scaling digital technologies, but the institutional ecosystem for advancing physical science innovations remains highly constrained. To support top technology innovators in addressing the world's most pressing problems, we need to build new habitats for hard technology: environments that leverage ...
T-Minus Zero: Why Space Startups Are Taking OffJoin Dan Berkenstock, co-founder of Skybox Imaging (acquired by Google), Peter Platzer, CEO and co-founder of Spire Global, and Barry Matsumori, SVP of Business Development at Virgin Galactic for this exciting event sponsored by the Computer History Museum NextGen Advisory Board. For details and registration, visit http://bit.ly/1Qqobjm and use discount code ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: $15 - $20. Early bird and tickets-for-2 discounts
Charging AheadCalifornia creates more wealth per puff of carbon pollution than anywhere else on the planet, and its largest electric utility, PG&E, has become one of the cleanest power providers in the country. Now the state has laid out ambitious new goals for generating an even greener and smarter economy. That ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Gathering LightWith digital cameras in every cell phone, everyone is a photographer. But people still aspire to the better zoom, the lower noise, and the artistic bokeh effects provided by the digital SLR cameras, if only these features were available in as convenient and light-weight a package as a cell phone ...
Maria Popova's wildly popular blog "Brainpickings," which started as a weekly e-mail to seven friends, now has fans like William Gibson, Drew Carey, Mia Farrow and Biz Stone and is included in the Library of Congress permanent web archive. A recent sampling includes Sylvia Bornstein on Pablo Neruda, 19th century ...
7:00-7:25: TBAAbstract forthcoming...Read more7:25-7:50: Andreas Weigend(Stanford and former chief scientist at Amazon) on "Data of the people, by the people, for the people: How the Social Data Revolution changes (almost) everything"Abstract forthcoming...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections ...
Our ability to identify birds by sight has grown dramatically since the early 20th century. Meanwhile, technical advances in optics and photography continue to change the way we see birds. Joe Morlan will present a history of bird identification, starting with early pioneers like Ludlow Griscom and continuing with a personal ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $5 donation
Everything Matters: NitrogenThe periodic table outlines the fundamental building blocks of all known matter in the universe. Composed of irreducible atoms, these elements arrived from the earliest reports of the Big Bang, the fusion wombs of stars and supernova, and collisions between interstellar matter and cosmic rays-as well as through artificial production ...
