Dark matter is now widely accepted to dominate the matter density of the universe. This non-luminous, non-baryonic substance is a new form of matter that has thus far escaped direct detection. I will describe our knowledge of dark matter and the evidence for its existence from several different types of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Open Source CartographyThe CCA Department of Architecture URBANlab and the CCSF GIS Education Center are inviting to a shared lecture and discussion on Open Source Cartography. Compared to traditional data sources such as government data, crowd-sourced data provides so far unavailable information on identification, perception/emotion and social interaction. Yet, fundamentally new approaches are ...
Personal and scientific curiosity draw Wade Davis to remote cultures, where an astonishing fund of knowledge exists about plants and animals, at least until the culture itself disappears. In association with the Harvard Botanical Museum, he spent three years in the Amazon and the Andes collecting more than 6,000 botanical ...
