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 ...
Where: LivermoreCost: Free
Saturday, 06/20/15
Elkhorn Slough Safari on Pontoon BoatJoin MSI and our friends at Elkhorn Slough Safari to learn first-hand about one of California's most spectacular estuaries. Nationally recognized and protected as an Estuarine Research Reserve, Elkhorn Slough is naturally bountiful as a migratory bird flyway, otter and seal habitat - and home to thousands of other plant ...
Recent Advances in Stem Cell ResearchLearning the mechanisms that regulate stem cell behavior is critical for understanding the role of these powerful cells in normal function as well as for harnessing them to repair tissues damaged by disease or injury. In particular, discovering the signals that regulate whether stem cells replicate themselves or mature into ...
Join us for our Summer Maker Series. Come make, share and learn with hands-on activities. Bring your creativity and ideas, we'll supply enough projects to keep you busy making things all summer. This free, family-friendly series for all ages is hosted by Bon Air Center and Marin Maker Mobile.
Where: GreenbraeCost: Free
Super Nova !Please join Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society for an astronomy program in the Lower Summit Parking Lot of Mt. Diablo State Park. The program starts at 8:00pm (enter the park at least 45 minutes earlier) until 11:00pm. Although there is no fee for this program there is a $10 park entrance ...
Using spectacular images from space probes and the world's largest telescopes, we will explore the most intriguing future "tourist destinations" among the planets and moons in our cosmic neighborhood. Our stops will include the 4,000-mile lava channel on Venus, the towering Mount Olympus volcano on Mars (three times the height of Mount ...
Spring is a wonderful time to enjoy the influx of birds to the Marin Headlands. Join volunteer Jane Haley for an easy walk to discover our spring visitors. Meet at the Marin Headlands Visitor Center. Bring field guides and binoculars; dress in layers. For ages 8 and up; no pets ...
California ranks as the eighth largest economy in the world supporting a vast array of tech, entertainment, government, research, and of course agricultural industries. Sustaining that economy demands water. Water is diverted from its historic course through a network of storage reservoirs and conveyance and pumping systems known as the ...
