In 1977, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed the burial of biomass as a scalable, economical solution to the carbon dioxide problem. Today we know that harvested vegetation should be buried in an engineered dry biolandfill. Plant biomass can be preserved for thousands of years by burial in a dry environment with ...
 With some simple geometry and some friends on Zoom, we can measure the polar circumference of the Earth. This task was first done by Eratosthenes (276 BCE. - 195/194 BCE). We will watch shadows along the meridian that runs north-south through San Mateo CA, Portland OR, Seattle, WA, and Prince ...
Where: Cost: $20 Suggested Donation
The John and Mary Louise Riley Seminar Series at Bodega Marine LaboratoryJoin us for the John & Mary Louise Riley Seminar Series, featuring speakers from within the marine sciences community and beyond.Please register to join us on Zoom.Speaker: Brian Hoover, Principal Scientist, Farallon Institute
Where: Cost: Free
Everything COVID from a Traditional Chinese Medicine PerspectiveAlthough we're coming out of the COVID pandemic, many of our lives have been forever changed by the event. Join us at the San Mateo Public Library for a talk by Dr. Brandon Lip about his work as a doctor who practices both conventional medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and ...
If you are considering building an LLM-powered product, such as customer support, internal document search, or a conversational assistant, how do you implement them? In this talk, I will review the basic components and the product pipeline. I will review the options of building in-house (using Llama 2) or using ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Unveiling the Secrets of Volcanoes in the Springerville Volcanic FieldThe Springerville Volcanic Field (SVF), located in east-central Arizona, erupted between 2.1 million and 300,000 years ago, and erupted over 500 distinct lavas. The volcanic products of the field have been mapped and sampled in great detail, which serves as the basis to unraveling the volcanic history to the field. ...
Where: San RafaelCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #136: Maggot Therapy, Waves, & Your Brain on Exercise! The World is Made of Waves by Yousef HindyWaves are all around us in ways that we may not even realize. They are how we humans perceive and interact with the world, yet many think of waves as restricted to the ocean or football stadiums. In this talk you will ...
