Alcatraz Gardens Class Series: Herbarium and Plant PressingAn Herbarium is a collection of preserved plant specimens used for scientific study. These sheets may be whole plants or plant parts and are mounted on a sheet of paper. These are used to reference and describe plant taxa as a much more accurate than drawings. Recently, herbaria have been ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donations encouraged
Printing Nanoscale Things: Metals, Oxides, and Quantum DotsThis talk will introduce deep-nanoscale fabrication technologies based on synergic combinations of self-assembly, photolithography, and transfer-printing applicable to a variety of material systems including polymers, oxides, metals, quantum nanostructures for high-performance sensors, photovoltaics, and displays. In particular, this talk will report on our recent innovation: highly precise patterning ...
Do you know the science behind America’s national pastime? Why is a ball stitched, what’s inside, and how does its makeup affect the physics of throwing the ball? How does a pitcher throw a curveball or a knuckleball, and how can a ball be either “dead†or “juiced� Then delve ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 17.95 advance, 19.95 door, AD members free
Desert NightlifeCan’t stand the heat? Chill out and explore some of the coolest creatures from some of the planet’s hottest climates at Desert NightLife.Catch a screening of The Devil’s Road: A Baja Adventure, about a group of adventurers on a 5,000-mile journey across Baja California to recreate the century-old expedition of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
'Science Fair' DocumentaryWinner of the audience award at Sundance and SXSW, Science Fair offers a front seat to the victories, defeats, and motivations of an incredible group of high school students on a path to change their lives, and the world through science.First showing on 8/28 is sold out.RSVP required
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Pliocene World: Earth's Climate 3 Million Years Ago and How it Relates to our FutureThree million years ago, during the late Pliocene, CO2 levels were similar to today, but global temperatures and sea level were much higher.Find out how we use microfossils to reconstruct temperature, salinity and more across the globe from this geological interval just before ice ages began. Using our reconstruction of the ...
