The Cleantech Open StoryMany Bay Area entrepreneurs are taking on the challenges of global climate change. Each year some of the best local clean tech entrepreneurs look to the Cleantech Open to help them refine their business plans, sell their concept to investors and customers, and build a successful clean tech enterprise. The ...
Where: SaratogaCost: Free
The Bay Model Wants You!!! Become part of Sausalito's very own attraction known around the world! We have a variety of volunteer positions that are suited for people just like you! Greet visitors, lead tours, work with school groups, and more! Come and be a part of one of the largest working hydraulic models in ...
The Law of Artificial Intelligence"OFFICER, ARREST THAT ROBOT!"Humans have rights, animals have rights, corporations have rights ... but what about artificially intelligent systems?Sound ridiculous? Jerry Kaplan, Visiting Lecturer in Computer Science and Codex Fellow, will argue that it makes perfect sense to accord sufficiently capable AI systems rights and responsibilities, in order to control ...
Design, the process of artifact creation, has historically been a qualitative art. But that has changed. We now understand the cognitive and communicative basis of artifact creation and diffusion. We can measure artifact creation at the human interaction level, and can measure its diffusion at the economic, ecological, and sociological ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Noise Pop NightlifeBeauty is in the ear of the beholder this week as Noise Pop Festival takes over NightLife for an evening that explores the science of ear candy.In the Piazza, catch a live DJ set from Northern California's own !!! (pronounced chk chk chk, for those in the know) as they ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
Sugar and Health -The Sweet, the Sour, and the Sticky!We will examine the role of sugar in our food supply, how sugar in the diet affects our health, and the many controversies surrounding this nutrient.Speaker: Alison Ryan, RD, MS, CSO, CSNC
The 2.4 square miles of Midway Atoll host over a million nesting Laysan Albatrosses each year, along with tons of marine debris. Nets, buoys, and plastic trash wash onto beaches. Albatross parents often swallow plastic pieces and regurgitate them to their young. Yet, amazingly, the albatrosses thrive.Susan Scott, a volunteer ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
It's ComplicatedWe're celebrating the return of the Museum of Broken Relationships to San Francisco with an event we're calling It's Complicated, because… well, relationships are exactly that. Confirmed presenters and performers:UCSF neuroscientist & science podcast host Sama Ahmed will talk about how animals make mating decisions, and about the brain circuits that ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Mastering the Pixel, 25 Years LaterAdobe Photoshop is one of the most successful pieces of software ever written. Now used by millions of graphics and photographic professionals worldwide, Photoshop has come to shape the entire visual environment of 21-century culture. Gum wrappers, subway signs, billboards, book covers, Hollywood special effects, posters, portraits, product packaging, brochures, ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost:
A new field guide to California MushroomsDennis is lead author on an all-color field guide that treats over 1,100 species of CA mushrooms, with complete descriptions of 650 species, and over 750 color photographs. It is published by Timber Press in large format (8.5" x 11"), hardcover, about 580 pages. He will present what the field ...
The periodic table outlines the fundamental building blocks of all known matter in the universe. Composed of irreducible atoms, these elements arrived from the earliest reports of the Big Bang, the fusion wombs of stars and supernova, and collisions between interstellar matter and cosmic rays-as well as through artificial production ...
SF Carbon Cycles, Humans & the ClimateJohn Wick is making great strides in organizing around carbon with everyone from the mayors' conference to the White House. Come hear what you can do, what the city is planning, and how the Randall Museum will be part of a demonstration project on carbon dioxide. We'll discuss the whole ...
What happens when a UC Santa Cruz astronomer meets a playwright on the garden path of faculty housing? A wildly successful collaboration of the arts and sciences.Join us for a behind the curtain look at an original theatrical production that explored the life of the stars and those that gaze up ...
