SynBioBeta 2018: The Global Synthetic Biology SummitSynBioBeta 2018 comes to San Francisco, uniting biological engineers, entrepreneurs and investors for the Global Synthetic Biology Summit.Meet over 1000 attendees and 100 speakers, sponsors and exhibitors who are applying engineered biology to revolutionize agriculture, medicine, energy, and the production of food, consumer products, chemicals and materials.Take part in over ...
Discovery Station: SeedsMost plants are rooted in place, which makes dispersing their fruits and seeds particularly important. Discover how plants have adapted to distribute their seeds using wind, water and animals to help the next generation flourish and spread. Meet the hitchhikers, helicopters, parachutes, and boats of the plant world!
Our understanding of the planet suffers from a profound geophysical observation bias - seismometers and other sensors are sparse and clustered on dry land. A new seismic recording technology, called distributed fiber-optic acoustic sensing (DAS), transforms standard telecommunication fiber-optic cables into arrays of single-component ground motion sensors. The distance between ...
Scientists are often puzzled when members of the public reject what we consider to be well-founded explanations. They can’t understand why the presentation of scientific data and theory doesn’t suffice to convince others of the validity of “controversial†topics like evolution and climate change. Recent research highlights the importance of ...
Join us for a conversation with Maureen Fan, co-founder and CEO at Baobab Studios, an Emmy-award winning virtual reality animation studio. Before Baobab Studios, Fan held several senior production and project management roles, including VP of Games at Zynga. With interests in film, gaming and the consumer web, she’s been ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Arlie Hochschild and Eliza Griswold: Tales of Prosperity and ParadoxRenowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild’s best-selling book, Strangers in Their Own Land, takes her deep into Louisiana, where she meets with conservative communities near the heart of America’s oil industry. There, she meets Lee Sherman and many like him. Sherman works for a chemical company that, while dumping toxic waste into the Bayou, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
IMPACT Speaker Series - 'STROOP'Join us for the East Bay Premiere Screening of STROOP - Journey into the Rhino Horn War. A documentary film screening with live Q&A from the filmmakers Bonne De Bod and Susan Scott. This hard-hitting film explores the dangerous and intense world of the illegal wildlife trade with both stunning and harrowing ...
When light from space enters the Earth’s atmosphere, it is distorted and displaced, something our eyes perceive as “twinkling.â€Â A new technique, called adaptive optics, can remove a great deal of this distortion, essentially restoring much of the detail we’ve been robbed off in our view of the star and ...
