Electricity and Magnetism with YSI Experiment with electricity and magnetism! Make an electromagnet, investigate circuits, and discover how electricity and magnetism are used in our daily lives. Grades 3-6.
Where: San JoseCost: Free
It Pays to Do the Right Thing: Incentive Mechanisms for Societal NetworksIn many of the challenges faced by the modern world, from overcrowded road networks to overstretched healthcare systems, large benefits for society come about from small changes by very many individuals. Researchers in the societal networks group at Stanford University are running a series of pilot projects aiming to develop ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
May LASER Event6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.7:00-7:25pm: Shan Shan Sheng on "Reinterpreting the Great Wall of China for the Age of Globalization"An artist's view of the critical intersection of Chinese and Western culture.7:25-7:50pm: Sean Gourley (Quid) on "A global intelligence platform: the new AI - not Artificial Intelligence, but instead Augmented Intelligence"How to Augment our ...
Elizabeth Kolbert traveled the high Arctic visiting top scientists to get at the heart of the debate over global warming. Field Notes from a Catastrophe, the best-selling book based on her findings, asks what can be done to save our planet. She draws parallels to lost civilizations, separates science from ...
