UNCHARTED: The Berkeley Festival of IdeasUncharted was founded in 2013 as the Bay Area's first ideas festival. It brings together some of the world's great thinkers, designed to engage and inspire. It's an interactive, eye-opening two days of discussion, debate, workshops, and good food, beer and wine. Chris Anderson, Brad DeLong, and Masha Gessen are ...
Climate science tells us that our climate is changing. The question is, why aren't we? Research shows that more than half of all Americans believe in anthropogenic climate change yet energy consumption remains high and introducing sustainable solutions has been limited. Every good coach knows that the players on the ...
Where: OaklandCost: $26 General/$23 Members Advance, $30 at door
Third Annual LAST FestivalThe LAST (Life Art Science Technology) festival celebrates the confluence of art with the multiplicity of new media technologies and nascent sciences emerging from the intense cultural ecosystem of the Bay Area.See web link for activites and details.
James "The Amazing" Randi is a world-famous magician and escape artist who has devoted the past 40 years to debunking charlatans of all stripes, including self-described psychics, homeopaths and other medical frauds, claims of occult phenomena, and all manner of flim-flam. He's a bestselling author, an educator, as well as ...
Where: FremontCost: $15 general; $10 Students with ID
Not Quite Alone in a Sea of StarsWith the recent "buzz" surrounding our recent visits to Pluto, Ceres, and the discovery of surface water on Mars, just as The Martian hit the big screen, it is an opportune time to reflect on what we have learned in recent years about our place in the solar system, and ...
Where: LivermoreCost: Free
The Birth of StarsWe've all learned that space is an empty vacuum, but it's not. The space between the stars in our Galaxy contains, on average, about 1 atom per cubic centimeter. That's a better vacuum than the best vacuum chamber we know how to make, but there are a lot of cubic ...
