YTH Live 2015YTH Live is the premier conference for trailblazing technology that is advancing the health and wellness of youth, young adults, and other underserved populations.Each year, the brightest minds in youth advocacy, health, and technology gather at YTH Live to showcase what works, share ideas and learnings, and launch new collaborations. ...
Shape dynamics: a relational view of the UniverseShape Dynamics is a new theory of gravity which removes the notion of local relativistic time from the guiding principles of gravity in the universe. It is a very promising approach which has been shown to be equivalent to Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, without being embedded in time. It ...
The 21st century is barely underway, and with it, the field of epigenetics has become the century's first evolutionary leap into health optimization. Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, a renowned integrative oncologist, uses epigenetic modalities with his patients, and they are the focus of his latest book, The Gene Therapy Plan: Taking ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Member, $7 Student
Wind TurbinesDesign, build, and test a high-efficiency wind turbine that can harness the power of the wind. Experiment with the length, weight, number, and angles of the blades, and then test your design to see how much electricity it generates.Homeschool classes at the Lawrence Hall of Science engage students in experimenting, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $25 ($20 for members)
The Adorned and Adorning SpeciesWhat makes us distinctively human? Religion, morality, and art are all strong candidates. But in this talk Prof. Davies will argue that our propensity for ornament – painted faces and eathers in the hair – is no less characteristic. It is similarly ancient and pervasive. This is understandable because adornments ...
A Civilization of Discontents: Social Media DemystifiedFirst as Tragedy. Then as Farce. Then as Tweet. – Social Media Demystified.Join us for a conversation with Eric Jarosinski, Editor of @NeinQuarterly, the Internet's leading "Compendium of Utopian Negation," about Critical Theory, culture, social media, German grammar, and other assorted specters haunting Europe.Of the many academics who have turned to ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Reimagining America's InfrastructureOnce a point of national pride, America's infrastructure is showing its age. Yet even in their heyday, the big infrastructure projects of the past were not always mindful of the communities in which they were built, nor did their designs appropriately reflect the varying regional needs of our broad nation. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Successful companies use computing power (sometimes even High Performance Computing, HPC) to build better products, faster, cheaper. They often need to chose between workstations, clusters, and cloud computing resources. This talk will address the benefits and challenges which each of these approaches bring. As a part of his talk, Burak ...
Astronomy Lecture April 28th, With Speaker – Chris FordPlease join Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society for the April 28th general meeting. The meeting starts at 7:15 and ends at 9:15. Our monthly meetings begin with a short "What's Up" presented by one of our members, followed by a speaker. This month's speaker is Chris Ford. The topic this month ...
