Big Ideas Fest Big Ideas Fest 2010 Invent. Design. Discover. Share. This is the future of education today. The three-day Big Ideas Fest is an immersion into collaboration and design with the focus on inspiring and modeling cutting-edge thinking in K-20 education. Big Ideas Fest is the starting point for a movement that supports innovation ...
Where: Half Moon BayCost:
Microbial Dark Matter in Glacial Ice and implications for Martian life Life may have arisen independently on both Mars and Earth, may survive in subsurface niches on Mars, and may manifest itself via emission of gases such as methane. Microbes adapted to life in ice at low temperatures metabolize at a rate many orders of magnitude lower than their rate for ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Terrain-relative-navigation of AUVs: From the Seafloor to Drifting IcebergsOne of the key challenges to enabling an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to explore an unknown environment is the ability to navigate. In the past, navigation was typically done using either an acoustic array or by dead-reckoning based on inertial instruments. More recently, techniques have been demonstrated in which an ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Look Great, Live GreenAs the author of Look Great, Live Green and co-founder of Sumbody, a skincare company dedicated to all-natural, eco-friendly products free of synthetic chemicals, Burnes has become the go-to source for legions of fans. She shares her scientific knowledge to de-mystify label claims and ingredients in everything from soaps, lotions, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Passive and Low-Tech HVAC SystemsThis Guild presentation will cover passive and low-tech strategies for reducing energy consumption in residential space conditioning, including time-tested passive design strategies with a discussion on currents trends and new technologies. Our presenters will include case studies on the newer ones and will conclude with a glimpse of where we ...
Where: San RafaelCost: $10 Members advance, $15 General & at door
December LASER EventLASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST. LASER is sponsored by Arizona State University Art Museum, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, The University of Illinois eDREAM Institute, The University of Calabria Evolutionary Systems Group, and School of the ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Seahorses: Amazing, Threatened Fishes of the Coastal Oceans with Healy Hamilton, Ph.DSeahorses have done more to change the body plan of a fish than any other fish in the sea. With their upright posture, horse-like heads, monkey-like tails, effective camouflage, and amazing behaviors like pair bonding dances and true male pregnancy, seahorses are some of the world's most incredible fish. Although ...
