Pan-Optics: Perspectives on Digital Privacy and SurveillanceAdvances in drone aircraft, networked cameras, and recent disclosures about the NSA's international and domestic surveillance activities have stimulated public protests, outrage from activists, and new policy discussions among elected leaders. This symposium will highlight emerging perspectives on visual privacy and consider the state of the art from a variety ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $20 General, $10 Faculty and Staff, $5 Students
Institutions and Environmental Politics: Or Why the Keystone XL Pipeline Is So ControversialColloquium lunch followed by talk at approximately 12:30. RSVP. This paper explores the politics surrounding the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta, Canada to the US Gulf Coast. It highlights the importance of political institutions and the failure of those institutions to include environmental opponents to oil/tar sands exploitation in ...
What is Metabolic Syndrome And Why Are Children Getting it?Robert H. Lustig, M.D. is Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF and Director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH) Program at UCSF. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist, with basic and clinical training relative to hypothalamic development, anatomy, and function and author of NY Times best-seller, Fat Chance.Room 120
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Introduction to the Botany SeriesNew to plant science? This class aims to be a fun introduction to the world of plants, and features short lectures, hands-on activities and educational games. We will survey other classes in the Park Academy botany series, and cover topics such as plant parts, using plant keys, scientific plant names, ...
The South Pole is the driest place on Earth. The lack of water vapor allows astrophysicists to see through the atmosphere in microwave frequencies to study the left-over radiation from the early universe, known as the cosmic microwave background radiation. Dr. Kuo will describe the BICEP/Keck series of experiments, an ...
Symbolic Systems Distinguished SpeakerDouglas Hofstadter, Indiana University
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Svante Pääbo: Neanderthal Man - In Search of Lost GenomesWhat can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Come hear the story of geneticist Svante Pääbo's mission to answer that question, beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2009. From ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 non-members, $8 members, $7 students
After Dark: Extended CinemasJoin our cinematic celebration, the passive act of watching films turns active through listening, peering, touching, and interacting throughout the Exploratorium.Play voyeur by immersing yourself in cinema created by artists from near and far, presented on screens big and small.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $10 Members
Cafe InquiryMeet up with rationalists, skeptics, and freethinkers south of San FranciscoCafe Inquiry is a social event hosted by the Center for Inquiry|San Francisco. We'll meet in Menlo Park at Café Borrone http://www.cafeborrone.com/ between Kepler's Books and the British Banker's Club! Look for someone wearing a CFI (Center for Inquiry) T-Shirt. Café Borrone
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Outdoor Adventure NightLife Wanna get out? This week, NightLife explores the exciting, earthy fun that awaits you in the great outdoors.Learn about BIG cats-and see a live mountain lion and bobcat (rawr!)-from Wild Cat Education and Conservation Fund.View a curated selection of short films from Mountainfilm, a Colorado-based independent film festival. Screenings include ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
The water supply is in the tank in more ways than one. Climate change and reckless use of water are conspiring to run us dry. Agricultural practices, corporate disregard for the environment and poor public planning are all part of the problem. Transition Berkeley invites you to join us for ...
Why Dolphins Are SmartRide alongside the author and her scientific team and meet a cast of dolphin characters large enough (and charismatic enough) to rival a Shakespearean play-Puck, Piccolo, Flute, and Dodger among them. Ms. Turner will share her book's story of Georgetown University professor Janet Mann and her research conducted at Western ...
Where: Walnut CreekCost: $15 non-member ($10 member) $5 students with ID
Join us for an encore evening with Doug Fine ("America in the Drug Peace Era," Fall quarter) as he describes his decade-long adventure living off the grid on a remote solar-powered ranch in New Mexico. Ten years ago, Fine says, he rediscovered his "indigenous gene"-the part of every one of ...
Jonathan Franzen's ascent from literary to public acclaim came in 2001, with publication of his novel The Corrections. The book was awarded the National Book Award and endorsed by Oprah's Book Club. In 2010 after publication of his novel Freedom, he was featured on the cover of Time. Freedom rocketed ...
