This summer, the California Air Resources Board is set to finalize the state’s plan to achieve its most ambitious climate targets yet: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. What will this take? Come hear about the biggest components of that plan and how specific ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for Members
Join a live chat with scientists and educators on board the Exploration Vessel Nautilus as they explore just offshore the San Francisco Bay Area in the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary. The cold California Current that flows through it and the jagged undersea topography on the bottom combine to support a rich ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Included with museum admission.
7:00-7:25: Andrew Blanton(San Jose State Univ) on "Networks as Art and Extended Interface"A philosophical look at the relationship between alchemy and cyberpunk aesthetics of the 1980's...Read more7:25-7:50: Erling Wold(Composer) on "The Descent of Opera"Trends in modern opera...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Richard Dawkins: Science in the Soul: NEW EVENTIn 1976 Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene caused a seismic shift in our understanding of biology by proffering the gene-centered view of evolution and was called “The best work of popular science ever written†by the New York Review of Books. Then in 2006, Dawkins wrote The God Delusion, transforming ...
Where: Corte MaderaCost: $32, including book
Richard Dawkins: Science in the Soul: Selected Writings - CANCELEDIn a world grown irrational and hostile to facts, Science in the Soul is an essential collection by an indispensable author.Richard Dawkins' latest book is Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist. In it the legendary biologist, provocateur, and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense ...
