Celebrating Elephants DayFamily friendly activities include exciting elephant stations such as touching gigantic pachyderm bones, holding an eleven-pound tooth, and stepping into an elephant-sized footprint. Grab binoculars and participate in a mock research camp, where observers are invited to watch and record behaviors, and learn how to tell Oakland Zoo's four elephants ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
iGEM 2015 Bay Area Biohackers team onboarding meetingThis is our inaugural team onboarding meeting for the upcoming 2015 iGEM synthetic biology competition. Last year, we won a Gold Medal and the prize for Best Community Labs Project with our Real Vegan Cheese project.iGEM is the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, which is in its 11th year. iGEM ...
Where: OaklandCost: free
Trekking the ModelJoin a Ranger guided tour of the Bay Model, a 1.5-acre hydraulic model of San Francisco Bay and Delta. Discover the stories of the two major operations that took place at this location between 1942–2000.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Planets of our Solar SystemHere's your chance to explore THREE planets PLUS our Moon through the telescopes. Make a Pocket Solar System and imagine what it would be like to live on other worlds.Excitement for the whole family! Participate in hands-on astronomy activities followed by supervised observing through the many different telescopes of MDAS ...
Where: Walnut CreekCost: Free ($10 park entrance fee)
What Wonderful Worlds: Exploring our Solar SystemOur knowledge about our own Solar System has increased by leaps and bounds over the past few decades due to a combination of spacecraft missions and technical advancements on ground based telescopes. Why do we explore our Solar System? Review the numerous bodies now known to orbit the Sun, now ...
Join Exploratorium scientist Ron Hipschman for colorful explorations of the physical world.What is sound? How high a pitch can you hear? Can you measure the speed of sound with a yardstick? Can two sounds add up to no sound? Explore these questions and more in this resonant presentation.Presented at 11:00 ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Earth History and GeoscienceProfessor Katryn Wiese will discuss what science tells us about earth history and earth processes. This brief review will cover such things as how scientists identify what coastlines are prone to tsunami and landslides, and which aren't -- how we measure risk of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions -- and how ...
Nerd Nite East Bay #30: Mars, Robot Sage Grouse, and JugglingNerd Nite East Bay has moved to a newer, larger venue this month and our pre-sale tickets will have no transaction fees! Club 21 is a fantastic space that is close to BART that has a full bar, lots of screens, and a lot of seating (first come/first serve). Our ...
Where: OaklandCost: $8 in advance; $10 at the door
Tuesday, 05/26/15
Giant planet interiors studied with ab initio computer simulationsDr. Militzer will briefly review the interior structure of different types of planets and discuss how it is affected by the miscibility of various planetary materials. Results from recent ab initiocomputer simulations will be presented that focus on the miscibility properties of four systems: hydrogen-helium mixtures in gas giant planets, hydrogen-water mixtures ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Hands-On GeologyStudents become geologists as they explore Earth's layers with clay models, and investigate Earth's crust by performing tests on igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.Homeschool classes at the Lawrence Hall of Science engage students in experimenting, developing ideas, and working together as they learn and build new skills.Registration is now open ...
Is California Losing the Race for Global Innovation?Growing threats to California's leadership in global innovation pose urgent challenges for Bay Area firms as well as national, state and local policymakers. California has already fallen to third position behind other U.S. states in innovation competitiveness. California's biotech leadership is under threat from higher government R&D investment in countries ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Member, $7 Student
Regeneration and Learning in a Single Cell with Wallace Marshall of UCSFWe generally think about cells as small, stupid building blocks, with the idea that to build anything complicated, or do any sort of complex behavior, one needs large numbers of cells. But in fact cells can have highly complex forms, both internal and external, and are capable of an amazing ...
Where: OaklandCost: free
Biohacking Book Club: Kim Stanley RobinsonLet's use science fiction as a tool to think creatively about the connections between fiction, science, and society. Get inspired, or get philosophical; this book club will focus on speculative fictions with a biohacking theme. This month, we'll be discussing 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson."And then there's Kim Stanley Robinson, whose ...
The vaquita (Phocoena sinus) of Mexico's Gulf of California is the most endangered cetacean in the world. This tiny porpoise is in immediate danger of extinction, due to gillnet mortality. In 1978 the IUCN redlisted the vaquita as Vulnerable, in 1990 as Endangered, and in 1996 as Critically Endangered. What ...
Where: SausalitoCost: $5
The Age of the universePlease join Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society general meeting. 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 Jeff Adkins.Check our web site www.mdas.net, call 925-979-5694 or email outreachinfo@mdas.net
Science, the scientific process, and the value that both bring to the well-being of the nation have been under attack in Washington, D.C. and beyond. Federal funding for science has been declining over the last several years, with seemingly disproportionate cuts being proposed for the ocean and geosciences budgets across ...
Dr. Laurel Braitman is a writer and historian of science whose work explores the intersections of history of medicine & psychiatry, animal behavior, the history of natural history and the ways we die. She is author of the New York Times bestseller Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs. Compulsive Parrots, and ...
Modern networks are undergoing an exciting transition toward a paradigm of greater programmability and dynamic flow management. For the network security community, this transformation is opening attractive opportunities for more innovative forms of threat mitigation. It is also raising interesting challenges in how to reconcile our legacy notions of well-defined ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Rise of the RobotsArtificial intelligence is already well on its way to making "good jobs" obsolete: many paralegals, physicians and even – ironically – computer programmers are poised to be replaced by robots. As technology continues to develop, more and more traditional jobs will be shed. Unless we radically reassess our economic and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Member, $7 Student
One Big OceanDr. Sylvia Earle – fondly dubbed "Her Deepness" by The New York Times – holds the women's record for the deepest ocean dive and has led more than 100 undersea expeditions, logging more than 7,000 hours underwater. Formerly chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Dr. Earle has ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members
Basic protein purification and characterizationWe'll be extracting protein from a plant source and doing some basic purification and characterization. There may be a small fee for materials (TBD before the meetup).
Where: OaklandCost: small fee TBD
CANCELLED! Science and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub, West BayWe are sorry to have to cancel at such late notice. It was fully expected that the basketball frenzy would have ended in Texas on Monday May 25. The fans will have Fiddler's Green to celebrate their victory.If ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the flim-flam man, join ...
Where: MillbraeCost: Free
The Semi-Secret Lives of SF's RavensPeople often describe ravens in San Francisco as ubiquitous – ubiquitous enough to be generally ignored. Adrian has been following them around they city for about 5 years now, finding their nests in all sorts of odd places, and observing their lives from nest to juvenile flocks. These intelligent birds ...
Modeling the Physical Connection Between the Solar Interior and AtmosphereUnderstanding how magnetic flux and energy emerges from the Sun's turbulent interior (where it is generated) into the solar corona is of great importance to a number of challenging, unsolved problems in solar and heliospheric physics. The solar magnetic field provides the energy for eruptive events such as solar flares ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Community and Computing: The Arduino ExperienceNow a decade old, the Arduino computer platform has captivated hundreds of thousands of hobbyists, artists, and experimenters around the world. This credit card-sized computer powers projects as diverse as digital mosquito killers, wearable tech, flame-throwing jack-o'-lanterns, and Twitter-enabled coffee pots. Infinitely versatile, Arduino can be found in the bedrooms ...
Soil is the most complex biomaterial on Earth. Really! Join the very knowledgeable Stephen Andrews (UC Berkeley Professor, specializing in soils) for a hands-on class to discover the basics of creating a successful compost, and how the soil foodweb drives the sustainability of nearly all living things on Earth. Prepare ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donation encouraged for non-members
Prepare to get grossed out at NightLife's first-ever tribute to all things icky-from the creepy and crawly to the downright disgusting.Ever wonder about where your poop goes? Us too! Chat with local experts from the SF Public Utilities Commission about the science of sewage-a story that just might surprise you!Plus, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
'Butterfly Town, USA'Butterfly Town USA follows a community in Pacific Grove, California, working to protect the Monarch Grove Sanctuary, an urban preserve located near the city center.Internal disagreements about how to best take care of this beautiful habitat are escalating at a time when climate change, deforestation, and pesticides are decimating the ...
Join us for a virtual thru-hike on the stunningly wild 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). A long-distance backpackers and authors of the PCT thru-hiking book - A Blistered Kind of Love; One Couple's Trial by Trail. will host a fascinating evening slideshow, reading, and question-and-answer session.From the chaparral-lined desert floor ...
Where: SonomaCost: $8
Innovative Treatment of TendinitisSpeaker: Eugene Roh, MD Clinical Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center
Where: StanfordCost: Free
New Insights into Autism Research DiscoveriesAutism is rapidly increasing in frequency such that 1 in 68 children born today will be diagnosed with this disorder. Advanced genomics and other "omics" technologies have been used to both understand the biological processes involved in autism, and the areas of the brain affected. Learn about the very promising ...
Join Exploratorium scientist Ron Hipschman for colorful explorations of the physical world.What is sound? How high a pitch can you hear? Can you measure the speed of sound with a yardstick? Can two sounds add up to no sound? Explore these questions and more in this resonant presentation.18+ Only
