Botany Series: Basic BotanyHow do plants work? If it’s been way too long since that high school biology class, come take a step back with Annette Russell (Presidio Nursery Manager). We will learn the basic processes that plants go through in life, how they have adapted to the changing earth environment over time, ...
Noise Pop NightlifeBeauty is in the ear of the beholder this week as Noise Pop Music and Arts Festival takes over NightLife for an evening exploring the science of sound�"just in time for Noise Pop’s 25th anniversary.In the Piazza, catch a DJ set from acclaimed experimental pop band Animal Collective.At 7:30 pm, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
Our Constitution, Our Climate, Our Kids: Is There a Right not to Be Harmed by Climate Change?Climate change has an immediate, disproportionate effect on our youth, present and future generations. As with the civil rights movement, young people are turning to courts and regulatory bodies to require governments to implement plans to phase out pollution in line with science. The question is this: Do present and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, Free for students
Aging at Home with Chronic IllnessDr. Lin will discuss best practices and new technology to assist aging at home for patients and their caregivers focusing on challenges with mobility, memory loss, diabetes, heart disease and cancer. He will draw from the medical literature and his own experiences at Stanford leading a team of medical students ...
Program (the order of the speakers might change):7:00-7:25: Susan McConnell(Stanford/Biology) on "Conservation Photography: Putting Images to Work for the Environment"Nature photography with a mission...Read more7:25-7:50: Vanessa Sigurdson(Autodesk Artist in Residence) on "Autodesk Artist in Residence"The Pier 9 AIR program at Autodesk...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Unsupervised Machine Learning: Application to Data FusionFusion of information from multiple sets of data in order to extract a set of features that are most useful and relevant for the given task is inherent to many problems we deal with today. Data-driven methods based on source separation minimize the assumptions about the underlying relationships and enable ...
Alan Wallace, a world-renowned author and Buddhist scholar trained by the Dalai Lama, and Sean Carroll, a world-renowned theoretical physicist and best-selling author, discuss the nature of reality from both spiritual and scientific viewpoints. Their dialogue is mediated by theoretical physicist and author Marcelo Gleiser, director of Dartmouth’s Institute for ...
Time may be �" simultaneously! �" both the most mundane and the most mysterious feature of our universe. Wonderfest and Bookshop West Portal present The New Yorker’s Alan Burdick in discussion of his new book, Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation. What is time, really? Do children experience it ...
