Dr. Snyderman is a board certified Otolaryngologist-Head and Neck Surgeon and Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. She is a Visiting Consulting Professor in the School of Global Health at Stanford University and co-founded the Stanford University-NBC News Global Media Fellowship. She is also a Consulting Professor of Medical Communication ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Stressed! How plants cope through dynamic responsesWhile plants are sedentary, their bodies often traverse long distances as they explore their local environment in search of resources necessary for growth. The biology of root systems is governed by both micro-scale and systemic signaling that allows the plant to integrate these complex variables into growth and branching decisions ...
Exposure to environmental stressors is highly prevalent and unequally distributed along socioeconomic and ethno-racial lines. While the effects of stress on children and adults are well documented, less is known about the long-term consequences when exposure to stressors occurs before birth. This project combines a natural experiment and a longitudinal ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Brain & Body NightlifeJoin NightLife for an on-going event series that explores the brain and body with mind-expanding talks, cutting edge demos, and yoga sessions around the museum.All workshops presented by Yoga Tree and Yoga Works.In African Hall, join Wonderfest for a night of brainy talks by experts from UCSF: Dr. Elissa Epel on obesity and the brain, and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
The Importance of Diversity in the Environmental Movement for the 21st CenturyThe importance of local, national and international people of diversity throughout the world and the environmental movement is critical to maintaining and building safe and healthy environments for our planet. How will the tone set by the current administration impact efforts to build greater involvement and representation of women, people ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, Free for students
Off the Deep EndWe have the pleasure again of having Steve Gottlieb give a talk focused on observing deep sky objects: Off the Deep End -- Challenging Observing Projects for the Intrepid Amateur. Steve will be giving a version of this talk in Cambridge, UK, to the Webb Deep Sky Society in June. ...
As the largest and most popular reference work on the Internet, Wikipedia MIGHT be the source of much pseudoscientific misinformation. It isn’t, however, due in large part to the Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia (GSoW) project. Since 2010, GSoW has reviewed and corrected or wholly created Wikipedia pages concerning scientific skepticism. ...
Find out how the Bay Area’s busiest international airport serves ~53 Million passengers, employs 36,000 workers, contributes over $1B in regional economic impact AND will be carbon neutral, zero waste-to-landfill, and use net zero energy by 2021. Erin Cooke’s career has focused on assessing how climate risks affect varied businesses, nonprofits and ...
