Many of the natural resource challenges we face today around food, water, equity, energy, invasive species, fire, climate change, biodiversity - are complex problems that impact diverse public groups across multiple scales - and they require a spatial approach to make an impact. Addressing these challenges requires innovative and resourceful ...
Ophthalmic drugs are almost always delivered via eye drops in spite of many deficiencies including low bioavailability and poor compliance, particularly in patients requiring multiple eye drops daily. Only about 1-5% of the drug in eye drops diffuses into the cornea and the remaining 95-99% enters systemic circulation through multiple ...
As we approach another golden age for the field of computer architecture, David will review the landscape since the 1960s, current challenges and identify future opportunities. Much like David did in the 1980s, he will discuss his research in delivering gains in cost, energy, security and performance. The backbone of ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Understanding How Women Travel“Understanding How Women Travel†is a groundbreaking study completed by LA Metro in 2019. The study included a creative approach to better understand women’s mobility in LA county; framed by core social justice principles and methods, including both traditional and non-traditional data collection methods to effectively capture “hard-to-reach†populations and ...
Author Christian Schwartz will be presenting from his book which was written for beginning and experienced mushroom hunters alike to find and identify mushrooms. Common and conspicuous species, delicious edibles, toxic and deadly species, and distinctive rarities are all covered in this user-friendly reference, which covers the diversity found in ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost:
Nerd Nite SF #117: Baroque, Bones, and Badasses!At this month’s show, we go for baroque, bone up on a bone collector, and blow the lid off an incredible open source archive during a very special evening curated by our friends, stalwart stockpilers and disseminators of San Francisco history - the Western Neighborhoods Project! As always, we’ll bring ...
Around the world, people recognize that E=mc^2 oozes cosmic insight. But what does this "most famous equation" really say? What are energy and mass? And what makes the speed of light, c, so important? [Hint: mass, moving at speed c, doesn't turn into energy!] Using little more than common experience ...
This presentation explores the historic voyage of the New Horizons spacecraft. After 10 years and more than 3 billion miles, New Horizons has served as an ambassador to the planetary frontier and has shed light on new kinds of worlds and the outskirts of the solar system.In this talk Dr. Moore will discuss ...
