Teddy Bear Tea with Friends!Ages: 4-8 plus their stuffed animal/doll and an adultIt's tea time at Oakland Zoo and you are cordially invited! Bring an adult, bring your stuffie, and learn all about one of our Zoo's special animals. Enjoy a morning of snacks, activities, books and play while making and delivering an enrichment ...
Where: OaklandCost: $12 - $26
5th annual, Green Kids ConferenceThis is a conference dedicated to children ages 5 to 18 years. Come with your family and friends, explore your passion, and be inspired to take action!Learn * Innovate * Take Action * ShareCome prepared to learn and have fun; there are lots of hands-on-activities and information that is sure ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
And the Darwinner Is…Discover how the greenhouse effect works and explore how animal and plant species adapt to changing environments, identifying the winners and losers in our rapidly warming planet along the way. Target audience: 3rd grade and up.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
The BayMobile Visits the Bay Model Visitor CenterAquarium of the Bay's BayMobile is coming to the Bay Model! Using our mobile Bay Lab, visitors can experiment with the science of climate change and meet some of Aquarium of the Bay's animal ambassadors. All Bay Model visitors are welcome to stop by for these hour-long programs.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Science Fiction Arts and Film Festival- Arts and Film Workshop Science, Engineering and Mathematics Link Inc. (SEM Link) through its Math and Science Career Academy is partnering with the African American Museum and Library at Oakland to host a Science Fiction Arts and Film Festival on June 12-13, 2015. The two day festival includes family friendly films, arts and crafts, ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Big Feet? Let's Shrink our Carbon Footprint! Join us for this activity to learn about the basics of climate change. Find out what your impact is on local habitats by calculating and analyzing your own carbon footprint, and discover the easy ways you can make a difference. Target audience: 7th grade and up.
On April 18, 1906, the San Andreas shook our city down. The quake was a disaster socially, but from a science perspective, it was a magical moment. Join this special tour and find out what geologists learned from the '06 quake that gave birth to the science of seismology.We'll ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 adults $25 under 18
A Lake Through the Years: The History and Archaeology of Mountain LakeJoin Presidio Trust Archaeologist Kari Jones to learn about the ongoing research into the cultural and natural history of Mountain Lake. Kari will discuss core samples taken from the bottom of the lake, and what they can tell us about the formation of the lake and its prehistoric environment. By ...
Evening with the Stars - SOLD OUTLick Observatory hosts the Evenings with the Stars, inviting the public to observe through both the 36-inch Great Lick Refractor and Nickel 40-inch Reflecting Telescope. Each evening also features two "star" astronomer speakers, who present programs even if clouds or fog prohibit viewing.Lick astronomers present multimedia lectures on their ...
Where: Mt. HamiltonCost: $20 General
Sunday, 06/14/15
BAASICS.6: The Edge EffectOfficially, we are living in the geologic epoch known as the Holocene, meaning "entirely new." But some scientists and commentators have proposed another name for the epoch: the Anthropocene, or the "new era of man," owing to the significant and often detrimental influence human beings have had on Earth's systems ...
Ultra-lightweight Probes to Catalyze Interstellar ExplorationBased on present space science and engineering, interstellar travel remains highly unlikely. Applying synergistic emerging technologies to enhance capabilities for accelerated space development in the solar system may catalyze possible steps to the stars. A stepwise sequence of plausible projects will be proposed. The remarkable present progress in diverse applied ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
The Future of the Internet: What's Next?It has been only 25 years since the World Wide Web appeared as the leading application for the Internet, allowing us to share every aspect of our lives with each other, with our governments, and with the big businesses that have sprung up as part of the new digital world. ...
Roger Sramek is an inventor, innovator and entrepreneur who came by his career as a farm boy who had to learn how to operate equipment and tools, to fix, mend, predict, nurture, listen, focus and get things done. He has numerous pending and issued patents in fields as diverse as ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Student
Christiana Figueres: Going to ParisCan world leaders cut a climate deal when they meet in Paris in December? Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama have energized the negotiations with their pact to grow the two biggest economies while cutting carbon pollution. Other countries are advancing their plans to do the same. California ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
The Wright Brothers David McCulloughTickets are available at Kepler's and online at Fox Theatre Box Office Join us for a very special evening with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian, David McCullough. He is the author of numerous acclaimed books, including 1776, Brave Companions, The Johnstown Flood, The Great Bridge, and The Greater ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: $45; $20; $10
Cosmology with Strong Gravitational LensesSan Franicsco Amateur Astronomers host Dr. Phil Marshall, research scientist at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and member of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIRPAC) for a presentation on Cosmology with Strong Gravitational Lenses. Strong gravitational lenses have become an important astronomical tool: they allow researchers to make accurate ...
In a world with increasingly fractured political discourse, public universities are poised to play a critical role in modeling democratic discourse and debate. Institutional commitments to academic freedom, freedom of expression and a respect for divergent points of view allow political and ideological passions to be tempered enough for productive ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, Free for students
Transforming Chaos to Clarity: Making Your Software Development HumPrepare to engage in an interactive session where you will learn to:• Take the temperature of your product development organization and efforts• Assess your product organization's chaos• Diagnose its sources• Look for the gaps that are holding you back• Change the elements that are sapping your organization's potential and limiting productivity• Reflect on your organization's strengths ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #61: Internet Archive, Plasma, & AddressesBehold a digital wonder of the world, a modern Library of Alexandria! Marvel at the 4th state of matter (chronologically-speaking, it's actually the 1st)! And get lost in the intricacies of processing address data! All this plus beers, DJ Alpha Bravo, librarians, tamales, and learned conversation. Be there and be ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $8
Thursday, 06/18/15
Color of Life NightlifeThere's more to color than meets the eye-see why in the Academy's brand new, eye-popping exhibit Color of Life.Come decked out in your favorite colors (the brighter the better!) and discover a world of dazzling live animals and shimmering scientific specimens.Take a cue from nature and learn how animals use ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
From high above Earth, satellites are tracking the health of the oceans in startling detail by precisely measuring the color of the water. The water's color may reveal blooms of plankton that nourish marine ecosystems, or that can harm fish and wildlife. Scientists use satellite color data to track ocean ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Discovering What Cosmetics to Use: During and after Oncology TreatmentsPresented by Stanford Cancer Supportive Care ProgramWe will discuss what skin changes will occur, the ingredients to stay away from, sun protection, and websites and resources to do your own research.Speaker: Lana Vorrises
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
'Pelican Dreams'Pelican Dreams (2014, 80 min.), an intimate portrait of an iconic species by filmmaker Judy Irving, follows a wayward, starving California brown pelican from her "arrest" on the roadway of the Golden Gate Bridge into care at a wildlife rehabilitation facility, and from there explores pelicans' nesting grounds, Pacific coast ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Museum Admission ($15 Gen/ $10 Mem)
Explore the lives of birds through a presentation of sound recordings from Cornell's Macaulay Library, the world's largest archive of bird sounds. From the stunningly beautiful to the bizarre, from drumming to mimicry, from the Nightingale to the Musician Wren… we will listen to sounds that birds use to communicate, and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Everything Matters: CarbonCome be in your elements with Exploratorium host Ron Hipschman. Follow tales of intrigue and invention, join in dynamic demonstrations, and uncover fascinating connections between individual elements and our collective human experience.From the moment of its discovery, each element embarks on a journey into our culture. -Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Periodic TalesHail carbon, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Friday, 06/19/15
The Computing Universe: Towards the Third Age of ComputingExplore the origins of computational thinking and the rise of computer science as a discipline in this fascinating lecture by theoretical physicist Tony Hey. As outlined in his new book with Gyuri Pápay, Hey will begin by paying homage to the early pioneering work on computer hardware and programming in ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost:
It's Tough to be Heard in the City: Adaptations of Bird Song in Ruban EnvironmentsModern, high-density urban environments are an evolutionarily recent habitat in which urban features such as uniform grey cement surroundings, tall buildings with reflective surfaces, and loud low frequency ambient noise pose a variety of novel selection pressures to animals that live in this environment. The ambient noise environment can affect ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donations encouraged for non-members
Space DebrisLLNL has been working for the last few years on ways to mitigate the space flight safety problems caused by orbital debris in low Earth orbits. Anyone who has seen the recent movie 'Gravity' will have a sense of what is at stake. While the movie does not paint an ...
