Coho on the Brink- Brown Bag!Endangered coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) live in several of the coastal streams within the Golden Gate national Recreational Area and Point Reyes National Seashore. Though once abundant, their population numbers have plummeted over the past century, and they are now teetering on the brink of extinction along the central California ...
Since Fall 2002, the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering has hosted the Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium (SVLS). The Symposium hosts industry and technology leaders to talk about business and technology trends. It also features prominent leaders who discuss broader societal and political issues that shape our life and society.Speaker: ...
'Dive!' Film ScreeningDive! is an award winning documentary following a team of Los Angeles dumpster divers as they explore and expose the ever growing issue of food waste and its relationship to hunger. Room 132
Test the limits of your cerebral cortex on a night dedicated to brain power. Gather up a team and compete in a pub-style trivia showdown hosted by Brainstormers, or outsmart your friends in a game of oversized chess or checkers provided by homefrys. Explore the big questions in neuroscience-how our ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
Latest Advances in Lung Cancer Screening and TreatmentLung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in both men and women. This talk will address new lung cancer screening guidelines for former heavy smokers as well as the newest approaches to lung cancer treatment including minimally invasive surgery, targeted medical therapies and highly precise radiation therapy.Panel: Bill ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Ray Kurzweil: Inventor, Futurist and Author of 'How to Create A Mind'For decades pioneering inventor and theorist, Kurzweil has explored how artificial intelligence can enrich and expand human capabilities. Now, he takes this exploration to the next step: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works, then applying that knowledge to create vastly intelligent machines.Drawing on the most recent neuroscience ...
American pikas are denizens of rocky talus and lava-flow habitats in mountain ecosystems across western North AmericaMountain environments, cauldrons of climatic harshness, exhibit sharp topographic, vegetative, and climatic gradientsPikas are providing scientists with a model for assessing species vulnerability to warming temperaturesAre other species and indicators in the animal kingdom ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
What Now? A Post-Election Panel on Politics and the EnvironmentThis conversation will focus on the implications of the election results on our environment, and features Assemblymember Nancy Skinner, former EPA regional administrator and current CA Water Resources Control Board Member Felicia Marcus and Earth Island Journal editor Jason Mark, and Michael Marx, Ph.D., Director, Beyond Oil Campaign, Sierra Club ...
Bird-watchers owe a hidden debt to history: the scientific study of birds took a specific route in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that dictated how birds were understood and enjoyed. For example, the ways that both common and scientific names were standardized caused a great deal of passionate ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $5 General, Free Members
Everything ExplainedJoel Pomerantz presents a dozen or more secret windows into San Francisco's natural history and infrastructure.Editor's Note: The talk originally scheduled for this night, "Forgotten Landscapes: California 500 Years Ago" will be held in 2013.
