Toxic Flame Retardants: A Global ConcernThe Green Science Policy Institute brings, government, industry, and citizen groups together to change policy to protect health and global environment. Blum's research and policy work on cancer-causing flame retardants in children's sleepwear has contributed to preventing the use of millions of pounds of toxic chemicals in consumer products. ...
As society struggles to continue to make strides in basic biological research and to continue to meet global demand for medical care at decreasing cost, optical technologies offer compelling solutions by providing detailed chemical and structural information about biological samples, often without the need for costly chemical consumables or labor ...
History of the U.S. Army Corps of EngineersJoin Ranger Bill to learn about the "When/Where/Why/What/How," the diverse, complex, many faceted missions, goals and objectives of the USACE's "Birth" in 1775 under General George Washington.
Emerging Memory DevicesConventional memories such as SRAM, DRAM, and FLASH have set a very high cost/performance standard. Yet, recent advances in new materials, device technologies and circuits have made many emerging memories attractive candidates for a new generation of memories.The worldwide research and development effort on emerging memory devices can be understood ...
Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged From Matter Join us tonight as we co-launch the brand new Wonderfest Book Club with Terrence Deacon's Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged From Matter. Professor Deacon's presentation will focus on the idea that key elements of consciousness (values, feelings, meanings, etc.) emerge from specific constraints on the physical processes of a nervous ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Privacy in the Age of Augmented RealityIn his talk, Alessandro Acquisti will try to link two streams of research he is conducting at Carnegie Mellon University: the "behavioral economics of privacy," and the study of privacy and disclosure behavior in online social networks. First, he will highlight how research in behavioral economics can help us make ...
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, has begun its study of physics at distances 10,000 times smaller than an atomic nucleus. This accelerator and its experiments are enormous in many respects---in the physical size of the facilites, in the sizes of the experimental teams, but also in ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #23: Insect eating, desirous cannabis, and sexual selection!Another month, and another awesome lineup at your favorite lecture-in-a-bar series! Get ready to eat bugs, to be seduced by Mary Jane, and learn what your period might have to do with hooking up. Be there and be square!"Edible Insects: Finger-lickin' Grub" with KQED's QUEST, Don Bugito, and Girl Meets ...
