Inviting all Science Teachers: How to teach PCRAlways wanted to teach PCR? …Now you can!Learn how to teach the Alu PV92 Polymerase Chain Reaction Lab to your students• An introduction to teaching PCR: Tips and tricks for making the message stick• How to use common laboratory equipment: Pipettors, thermal cyclers, gel electrophoresis rigs, & more!• A walk-through ...
Where: San BrunoCost: Free to Science Teachers
Geology Hike with Iain Jamieson Led by Bouverie Preserve docent and retired geologist Iain Jamieson. Be prepared for a moderate hike with many stops to discuss the rock formations and geological history.Registration Required through the Modini Mayacamas Preserves Meetup page. Limit 15 participants.Bring Lunch, water, magnifying glass, binocularsMeet Iain and ACR Resource Ecologist Dave Self ...
Where: GeyservilleCost: 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
Teddy Bear Tea with Friends!It's tea time at Oakland Zoo and you are cordially invited! Bring an adult, bring your stuffie, and learn all about Meerkats. Enjoy a morning of snacks, activities, books and play while making and delivering an enrichment gift straight to the zoo's Meerkats. When the fun is done, your child ...
Where: OaklandCost: $12 - $26
The Delta, Where Two Rivers MeetHow did a collection of tranquil farming communities become a hot bed of contention? Is California on the brink of another Water War? Is life in the delta on the verge of collapse? It all depends on who you talk too. Meet Ranger Linda in the Delta section of the ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
'The Drunken Monkey': Why do we Drink?The holidays are a time for celebration. For many, these celebrations include drinking alcohol. But why do we drink? And why do we sometimes drink too much?According to Author Robert Dudley, the reason may have deeper roots than one might think.Dudley, a professor of Integrative Biology at the University of ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $5 General, Free for members
Headlands Nightlife: Family Night Hike & CampfireExplore the mysterious lifestyle of nocturnal animals that start their day just as you're going to bed! Learn about special adaptations that allow owls, bats, and other nighttime critters to hunt by moonlight. This program features an Environmental Science Educator led hike in the Marin Headlands. Our evening hikes are usually ...
Where: SausalitoCost: $12
Sunday, 12/06/15
Annual Fungus FairHands-on activities at the Fungus Fair include crafts, mushroom dyes, and do-it-your-self mushroom growing kits.We have many educational tables on varied subjects such as: Identification table - bring your specimens to find out what you found!medicinal mushroomsmyco-remediationcultivationecologylichenspsychedelic fungitoxicologymicroscopes and spore printsThere will be a naturalistic woodland display of more than 300 ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, $8 Students and 65+, $5 age 6-12
Come create your very own Ghost Heart!Decellularization is a tissue engineering technique designed to strip out all the cells from a donor organ, leaving nothing but the connective tissue that used to hold the cells in place. This scaffold of connective tissue - called a "ghost organ" for its pale ...
Constrain Galaxy Formation Physics from Large-Scale Structure Measurements and Weak Lensing Galaxy formation is one of the most intractable phenomena in astrophysics due to the enormous complexity and diversity in the assembly histories of individual galaxies. Modern galaxy surveys provide a unique avenue to understanding galaxy formation physics in a statistical context, through various large-scale structure measurements and the weak gravitational ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Tuesday, 12/08/15
Pinpointing the Search for Life in Ancient Martian Hot SpringsThe recent explosion of Martian surface data is set to revolutionize the way we explore that planet. Until now, mission science has had to catch up with the imposed engineering constraints. With this data, we can plan exciting new missions to specific locations with enough precision to allow engineers to ...
Annette Russell (Manager of Presidio Nursery), this class will provide insight into the delicate art of how to grow ferns from spore. Primarily a hands-on workshop, activities will include cleaning and sowing spores, as well as dividing gametophytes and sporophytes.
The last decade of the 20th century witnessed a revolution in the application of mathematical techniques to origami, the centuries-old Japanese art of paper folding. In this lecture-demonstration, Robert Lang, who is recognized as one of the foremost origami artists in the world, will describe how geometric concepts led to ...
Where: StanfordCost:
Wizard of ElectricityKen Miller, the self proclaimed Wizard of Electricity will delight our audience with the crackling sounds of electricity. Demonstration will be followed with four activities to reinforce the principals.
All human cultures process food extensively by cooking and non-thermal means, a feature that makes us unique among species. Why is food processing so universal? When did it begin? And why might it threaten our health today? In this lecture, Rachel Carmody presents evidence from diverse fields, showing that food ...
Coral reefs are a highly dynamic system, where large variability in environmental conditions (e.g. pH and light) occurs on timescales of minutes to hours. Yet, techniques that are capable of monitoring net reef calcification rates (Gnet) without artificial confinement on the same frequency are scarce. Here, I will present a ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Bringing AI Out of the Lab and Into People's LivesMark Palatucci is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Anki. He is passionate about creating products that truly surprise and excite people. Prior to Anki, Mark launched his own embedded systems and mobile software company as well as held engineering and research positions at Google and Intel. Mark earned ...
What Does a Fifth Year of Drought Mean for California?California is poised to enter its fifth consecutive year of drought. While a powerful El Niño is expected to bring above average precipitation to the state and some modest drought relief, even a stormy winter won't end the drought. In January, Governor Brown declared a State of Emergency and directed state officials ...
7:00-7:25: Weidong Yang(Kinetech Arts) on "Data insights through gestural interactive 3D visualization"A gestural interface for "flying" through 3D graphs...Read more7:25-7:50: Lisa Wymore(UC Berkeley/ Theater) on "Improvisational Dance Within Computer Augmented Spaces: Dancing with the Unknowable"Abstract forthcoming...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
eMind Artificial Intelligence for SpaceJoin us and celebrate the Space Society of Silicon Valley's second-year anniversary in December 2015! Expand your thinking with the revolutionary eMind Artificial Intelligence to be used first in orbital space for experiment monitoring, updates, collaboration, references and learning.
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Thursday, 12/10/15
Native Plant LandscapingCome learn about landscaping with natives, with special emphasis on drought tolerant and habitat plants that do exceptionally well in the Bay Area. Rebecca Blanck-Weiss (Native Plant Nursery Specialist, Presidio Nursery) and Anna Murray (Interim Nursery Manager, Marin Headlands Nursery) will cover maintenance, pruning, and when and how to divide ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donations encouraged
What Lyman-alpha surveys tell us about neutrinos Although tiny, the signature that massive neutrinos leave on large-scale structures is today used as one of the most sensitive probes that can improve our knowledge on neutrino masses. After a brief introduction on the impact of neutrinos on the growth of structures, I will present constraints that were obtained ...
San Francisco Bay is an estuary-a place where fresh water from California's rivers and streams meets and mixes with salty ocean water from the Pacific. It's the largest estuary on the West Coast, and nearly half of California's freshwater drains into the Bay. But the Bay is largely seawater and the ocean ...
Tonight's Menu: Cinnamon Verité Is the cinnamon in your cupboard "real"? Cinnamomum verum, obtained from the inner bark of an aromatic evergreen, is considered "true" cinnamon, but most cinnamon we consume is known as cassia, and is derived from related trees. With several species in the genus, how do we determine which ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General; $10 Members; Free for Lab Members
7:00-7:25: Christine Metzger(California College of the Arts) on "Lights, Camera...Fiction?"How much science (mis)education do we get from movies?...Read more7:25-7:50: Sally Benson ((Director of Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project) on "Diet and Exercise: A Prescription To Cure The Planet's Climate Woes."Abstract forthcoming...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after ...
Scientists have long known that large earthquakes will inevitably occur along the Himalaya frontExperts had long feared that large earthquakes would take a devastating toll on NepalThe 2015 Gorkha earthquake killed nearly 9,000 people, but the toll was not as catastrophic as had been fearedAnalysis of available data is helping ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Sex, Love, and DNACan 21st-century molecular biology answer age-old questions about the human experience? Can studying proteins and DNA help us understand how we make our choices in sex and love? How we communicate? Where our emotions come from? Or why we age and die? Using stories of people and animals, Peter Schattner ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Friday, 12/11/15
In Search of Tomorrow: Data Science Lecture SeriesIf you were asked to imagine what computation will look like in 10 years, what would you say? Perhaps something to do with large-scale data analysis in R or functional programming. Maybe you imagine the rise of some of the more interesting nascent languages of today. That's where we started, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Solving the 'Developer Tool Problem' for High-Performance Managed RuntimesSoftware development tools that "instrument" running programs, notably debuggers, are presumed to demand difficult tradeoffs among performance, functionality, implementation complexity, and user convenience. A fundamental change in thinking about such tools makes that presumption obsolete. By building instrumentation directly into the core of a high-performance language implementation framework, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Effect of Saturday Driving Restrictions on Air Quality in Mexico CityPolicymakers around the world are turning to driving restrictions in an effort to address urban air pollution. The exact format differs across cities, but most programs restrict driving once or twice a week during weekdays, with no restrictions on weekends. This paper examines Mexico City's driving restrictions which were expanded ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Parent's Night OffParents! Need a night off to get some of that holiday shopping finished? Need a night off period? 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 in mind - ...
Where: OaklandCost: $45.00 per child and $30.00 for each add'l sibling
