Global AI: Reframing the Conversation - LivestreamThis event will showcase diverse perspectives on human-centered AI with a focus on decolonial values, AI innovation that centers underrepresented languages in technology development, and the use of AI tools in tackling misinformation in global contexts.See weblink for presentation topics and speakers, and to register
Where: Cost: Free
Coastal Walk at Pillar Point BluffJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for an afternoon walk at Pillar Point Bluff just north of Half Moon Bay! You will be guided by a POST representative who will share details about the area’s interesting natural history, from the coastal scrub habitat to the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve that hosts tide ...
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is a major contributor to global sea level rise, with concerns about the possibility of the ice sheet becoming unstable and causing irreversible retreat on decadal to centennial timescales. While the timing of self-sustaining retreat is challenging to estimate, it is largely controlled by ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Behind-the-Scenes Look at Pupping Season - LivestreamIt’s pupping season at The Marine Mammal Center: a time when our pens are filled with starving, young animals in need of care that Center staff and volunteers work to provide.Please join Veterinarian Dr. Mattison Peters as she describes a typical day at The Marine Mammal Center during our busiest ...
Where: Cost: Free
Virulent: The Vaccine War - LivestreamRecent years have seen the dialogue around vaccines devolve into a highly contentious, emotionally fraught firestorm, an ongoing collision between scientists and charlatans, truth and lies. Virulent: The Vaccine War is an invitation to think again, exposing the myths and laying bare the facts about vaccine science, its history, and ...
Where: Cost: Free
Technology and Diplomacy: The Rise of Multilateralism in the Bay AreaWe will explore the practice of tech diplomacy and the impacts of geopolitics, the opportunities and challenges it represents both for diplomatic representations and tech companies, and their mutual interactions.In 2018, Diplo, in cooperation with Swissnex in San Francisco, the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco, and the Geneva ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
After Dark: See for YourselfThe Exploratorium is your playground after dark! Wander the galleries, sip a cocktail, and choose your own adventure with 600+ interactive exhibits. Can a garden transport you to another place? What memories are stirred by the scents of different plants? And how do sunflowers fit so many seeds in their ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
NightLifeCalling all creatures of the night: explore the nocturnal side of the Academy at NightLife and see what's revealed. With live DJs, outdoor bars, ambiance lighting, and nearly 40,000 live animals (including familiar faces like Claude, our alligator with albinism), the night is sure to be wild.Step inside the iconic ...
The modern “paleo†diet movement makes many assumptions about what our ancient human ancestors ate. But are these assumptions based on actual evidence? Presenting a variety of lines of evidence for prehistoric human diets including early human, animal, and plant fossils, ancient stone tools, DNA, and living human and chimpanzee ...
Where: Cost: Free
International Ocean Film FestivalThe 20th annual Internation Ocean Film Festival is dedicated to using film as a medium to increase public awareness of the environmental, social, and cultural importance of marine ecosystems and foster a spirit of ocean stewardship, IOFF is now the premier venue in North America for ocean-related films.Every year, IOFF ...
