Young Gas-Giant Planets and their Brown Dwarf Cousins: From 1 Arcsecond to 30,000 Square Degrees The year 1995 was the annus mirabilis for substellar astronomy, with the discovery of both brown dwarfs and gas-giant exoplanets. In the 20 years since, study of both classes of objects have flourished, with the discovery of thousands of the objects and a concomitant leap in characterizing their properties. Direct ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Medical Innovation: How Can We Get the Right Technology at the Right Price?Innovation is the engine that drives improvement in quality of health care, but also the unsustainable growth in expenditures. Industry creates a remarkable pipeline of new drugs, devices and diagnostics, but critics contend that these are too often used on the wrong patient, at the wrong time or at the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
After Dark: TimeAs springtime ebbs and the summer solstice approaches, Exploratorium After Dark considers Time. Come experiment with and experience time-stopped, slow, quick, slow, quick, detectable, and undetectable-through enticing exhibits, suspenseful artworks and installations, and special performances and presentations, including a discussion of the 10,000-year clock with Alexander Rose, Executive Director of ...
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 at Café Borrone http://www.cafeborrone.com/ next to Kepler's Books. Look for CFI t-shirts.For more information or if you have questions please email sf@centerforinquiry.net ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Sustainable Catch NightLifeDiscover the science behind your sushi as NightLife dives into the world of sustainable seafood-above and below water!Join chefs from some of the Bay Area's hottest restaurants for sizzling cooking demonstrations-including La Mar, Twenty Five Lusk, Fog Harbor, and Scoma's Sausalito.Learn how to responsibly enjoy the bounty of the sea ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
Nutrition, The Forgotten, Maligned ScienceNutrition is a misunderstood concept for most people. But newer evidence shows that nutrition intervention – when done right – may resolve a broader spectrum of health problems more effectively than any other medical intervention. Application of this view could prove essential to resolving societal problems like the cost of health ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, Free for members, $7 Students
Parent's Night OffAges: 4-10 (must be potty trained)Summer break is approaching fast! Get your night off before the kids are around ALL. THE. TIME.Let us look after your kids for you, while you take some quality time for yourselves! Even though they are for kids, Parent's Nights Off are designed with adults ...
Where: OaklandCost: $45 per child and $30 for each addt'l sibling
Solar Eclipse Chasing and Astronomical TourismSolar eclipses have been observed by humans for thousands of years and have been recorded in the archives of the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, and Chinese going back 4000 to 4500 years ago. Precise predictions of their occurrences in space and time only date from the 19th Century when the dimensions ...
SkeptiCal is the Northern California conference of science and skepticism, a day-long event with "Angst in the Grocery Aisle: The Debate over Genetically Modified Foods" by Dr. Peggy Lemaux, UC Davisspeakers, panels, and discussions on a wide array of subjects."Towards Other Earths, Other Life: NASA's Kepler mission" by Dr. Natalie Batalha, ...
Where: OaklandCost: $42.39 (regular admission including fees)
World Oceans Day Beach Cleanup at Aquatic ParkShow some love for the ocean this World Oceans Day! On June 6, we'll be hosting a beach cleanup at Aquatic Park. Join us as we scour the beach and surrounding areas, picking up everything from discarded bottles, to cigarette butts, and more. Coffee will be provided by Biscoff Coffee, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: FREE
Hayward Fault Walking TourOver the last million years, the natural beauty of Fremont has been shaped by the Hayward Fault. Instructors will be leading these 'ground breaking' tours and exposing the science and beauty of the Hayward Fault. This fault is one of several active faults in the world actually creeping at 5 ...
Where: FremontCost: $15
World Oceans Day at the Marine Science InstituteThe Marine Science Institute invites you to celebrate World Oceans Day with us on June 6th, 2015! We will be offering two boat trips aboard our 90 foot Research Vessel, the Robert G. Brownlee. Each two hour voyage features a unique window into San Francisco Bay. We'll deploy our net ...
Learn to identify unknown mushrooms and other kinds of fungi with Alan Rockefeller et al using microscopy techniques. Do you want to know what that unknown mushroom growing in your backyard is? This meetup will be a mixture of lecture and hands-on and lab. Techniques for identifying samples will be explored. Microscopes will ...
The Spitzer Space Telescope was launched into space in 2003 and has been studying everything from asteroids in our solar system to the most remote galaxies at the edge of the observable universe including taking pictures of the disk, or plane, of our Milky Way galaxy in infrared light. Our ...
The biological reprocessing of organic nitrogen into dissolved inorganic forms, termed remineralization, is an important component of the marine nitrogen and carbon cycles. Inorganic nitrogen (e.g. nitrate) availability commonly limits primary production in the ocean, therefore, where and how much nitrogen remineralization takes place in the water column has important ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Avoiding the End-of-Life Medical Conveyer BeltThirty percent of Americans die in ICUs hooked up to machines, despite their preferences to the contrary. Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter practices the seemingly contradictory specialties of critical care and palliative care. She sees a medical system geared toward treating individual organ systems rather than caring for whole patients. Dr. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Do WIMPs rule? The LUX and LZ Experiments and the Search for Cosmic Dark MatterDark Matter remains a profound mystery at the intersection of particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. One of the leading candidates, the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle, or WIMP, may be detectable using terrestrial particle detectors. Recent technological advances are enabling very rapid increases in sensitivity in the search for these particles. ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Inspiring Science and Math Learning: Cultural ConnectionsUC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science – A University Museum Case Study University museums are noteworthy for their location, resources, audience, and academic prestige. Join us June 9 "up on the hill" at UC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science for a rare opportunity to learn what it's like running ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $15 General, see weblink for members
Pegged Software evaluates 3 million job applications per year across 130 institutions. Mike Rosenbaum, founder and CEO of Pegged, will talk about lessons learned from developing the technology that allows Pegged to reduce employee turnover dramatically in every single deployment, improve outcomes across healthcare and software engineering, and have measurable ...
Where: San JoseCost: $5 General, $3 Members
Big Data Use Cases for Energy: Connected Cars – Driving Humankind Towards Greener PasturesThe advent of motor vehicles ushered in a new wave of productivity for humankind. It created economics of scale never or known seen before. Unfortunately, it also silently started to hurt the very environment that we live in. Increasing carbon emissions around the world have created irrecoverable damage on Mother ...
Nature has solved virtually every problem that humans are facing while being clean, green, and, sustainable. There is literally no better place to look for solutions that work to create brilliant conditions conducive to a better life for ourselves and our planet. Identified as a new scientific discipline less than ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
John Reber, the Man with Grand IdeasBack in the 1940s, John Reber would look out over the San Francisco Bay and visualize a massive civil works project of dams and locks to harvest fresh drinking water, and barriers that would support railway systems and highways. His intention was to improve the quality of life for Bay ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Colonizing Mars with Pioneering TechnologiesHow can we easily colonize Mars and its moons? Jim Brown, Chairman of the Northern California Chapter of the Mars Society, presents innovative technologies, including the Phobos-Mars Supersonic Elevator, Mars Homestead Project, Phobos Solar-Thermal Turbogenerator, Earth-Mars Cycling Large Habitat, Terawatts Laser Push and more.
In this class we'll discuss the steps and techniques involved in modern crystallography. The class will be followed by an optional workshop where we'll set up crystal trays and you'll grow your own protein crystals. There may be a small fee for crystal growing materials (TBD before the meetup).
What (the order of the speakers might change):7:00-7:25: John Edmark(Stanford Univ) on "Geometric Patterns of Change"Transforming and kinetic works from an ongoing exploration into spatial patterns of symmetry and growth...Read more7:25-7:50: Robert Lang(Origami Artist) on "From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes"Origami has undergone a renaissance over the last ...
