Oakland EarthEXPOEarthEXPO is a FREE annual environmental fair hosted by the City of Oakland Public Works Department. The fair highlights transportation, environmental health, waste reduction, water, energy, urban design, nature and community themes. Approximately 100 exhibitors will gather to showcase their contributions for a sustainable environment. The goal is for Oakland ...
Speaker: Gilbert Passin, TeslaNote: This event has been canceled.
Where: San JoseCost: Free
The State of the DeltaThe Sacramentoâ€"San Joaquin Delta is a rich and complex place studded by islands and utilized for shipping, agriculture, recreation, housing and more. Together, these uses contribute billions of dollars to the state’s economy. The waterway has also proven to be highly controversial, with groups continuously arguing over how it should ...
Where: OaklandCost: $10 General, Free for Members
Why We Invest in StartupsSpeaker: Dr. Patrick Pfeffer, Sr. Director of Growth Strategy and Venture Investments, Juniper Networks
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Pollution, the Political Divide and the Possibility of Common GroundARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD is one of the most influential sociologists of her generation. She is the author of nine books, including The Second Shift, The Time Bind, The Managed Heart, and The Outsourced Self. Three of her books have been named as New York Times Notable Books of the Year ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Cafe InquiryMeet up with rationalists, skeptics, and freethinkers south of San Francisco
From the rare and weird to the historically important and just plain cool, Collectible NightLife celebrates the art of collecting.Get lost in cabinets of curiosities as Emily Graslie, Chief Curiosity Correspondent for The Field Museum in Chicago and creator and host of the YouTube show, “The Brain Scoop,†shares tales ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
New immersive and object-based multichannel audio formats for cinema, entertainment and cinematic VRIn recent years, several audio technology companies and standardization organizations (including Dolby, Auro, DTS, MPEG) have developed new formats and tools for the creation, archiving and distribution of immersive audio content in the cinema or broadcast industries. These developments extend legacy multi-channel audio formats to support three-dimensional (with height) sound ...
Shifting to a cleaner energy system will require money -- to scale up new energy sources and to soften the economic blow to people whose livelihoods have depended on the old ones. Jenna Nicholas is working on both those capital flows. As an advisor to Divest-Invest Philanthropy, she has worked ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Astronomy Night: Getting the Most out of a Black HoleEvery large enough galaxy, including ours, hosts a supermassive black hole at its center, and we also know of many smaller black hole candidates in and around our Galaxy. Dr. Tchekhovskoy will explain what are black holes and how they manage to curve space around them. He will discuss their ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Wonderfest: Magic vs. Quantum EntanglementEntanglement phenomena are the closest thing we have to reproducible magic, and even physicists can't agree as to what’s really going on. Is it spooky action at a distance, or retrocausality, or conspiracies that govern our choices? And what is a good skeptic to do when every explanatory option seems unacceptable - when nature forces ...
