After Dark: Everything Matters: FlourineCome be in your elements with Exploratorium host and scientific raconteur Ron Hipschman. Follow tales of intrigue and invention, join in dynamic demonstrations, and uncover fascinating connections between individual elements and our collective human experience.18+ Only6:00–10:00 p.m. • Galleries and bars open8:00 p.m. • Everything Matters: Fluorine6:15–10:00 p.m. • Tactile ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $10 Members
As global temperatures slowly rise, ice caps at the north and south poles are melting. This is bad news for walruses, Weddell seals, and other animals that live on the ice. Whale species that frequent the Arctic Ocean are beginning to change their migration patterns. Join a conversation about how ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free w/RSVP
How you can save pollinators in your community!Join Tora Rocha, Park Supervisor for all of Downtown and the Lake Merritt Districts including the Gardens at Lake Merritt, to learn how landscaping practices are impacting the pollinators in our communities. She will discuss how she and the Pollinator Posse of Oakland are making a difference on public land, ...
Where: OaklandCost: FREE!
Saturday, 12/19/15
The Bay Model Wants You!!! Become part of Sausalito's very own attraction known around the world! We have a variety of volunteer positions that are suited for people just like you! Greet visitors, lead tours, work with school groups, and more!Come and be a part of one of the largest working hydraulic models in existence. ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Volunteering
Explorables: Handmade ScienceStretch your perception with anamorphic mirrors, Möbius strips, and spinning thaumatropes.Use everyday materials to create models and other tools for exploring the world around us. Run by a highly skilled, dedicated team of volunteers, these drop-in workshops mix classic activities with open-ended investigations, encouraging participants to follow their hunches to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Included with museum admission
How to be Really Good at Not Finding Dark MatterAstronomers have found evidence for something that exerts a gravitational pull on stars, galaxies and even large parts of the Universe, but that doesn't otherwise seem to do anything interesting. Knowing little more about it, they call it Dark Matter. Physicists want to detect and study something strange like that, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: 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
Beyond Creation and Evolution: Human Origins Studies in a Secular, Media-Saturated WorldReligion and science battled through the Renaissance and Age of Reason. In this struggle, science overcame, and the discovery of evolution by means of natural selection and speciation (nicely coincident with the discovery of the human fossil record) has been cast as the long-sought, final proof of a naturalistic human ...
Where: MilpitasCost: Free
Zoovie Nights: Frozen!Put on your jammies and enjoy an evening of Zoovie magic with the whole family. Bring your pillows, blankets, and chairs and snuggle up in our auditorium for a specially selected family movie. Meet some of our education animals and Roosevelt, Oakland Zoo's costumed alligator mascot. Hot chocolate (with marshmallows, ...
Where: OaklandCost: $7
Why Eating Good Food Makes for Good EcologyChef and founder of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Alice Waters is an author and world renowned food movement leader. After helping to change the American food landscape, Alice introduced her ideas into public schools with The Edible Schoolyard, a program that involves students in all aspects of growing, cooking, and ...
Where: AthertonCost: On sale 12/1
Winter Solstice CelebrationCome revel in the stories of the nights sky as we celebrate the Winter Solstice with the Octopus Literary Salon. Illuminating storytellers, poets and musicians will recount the myths and legends from around the world that mark the season, followed by a Planetarium show that will explain the astronomical science ...
Where: OaklandCost: $15
Monday, 12/21/15
Winter Camp Session 1: Step Into the Shoes of a Scientist (FULL)Step into the shoes of a scientist and design, build and test simple machines and structures, including ones to bring home! Meet live animals and observe them like biologists. Explore space in our planetarium and create compounds and concoctions like chemists. Please remember to pack lunch for your camper. Activities ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
Tuesday, 12/22/15
Winter Camp Session 1: Step Into the Shoes of a Scientist (FULL)Step into the shoes of a scientist and design, build and test simple machines and structures, including ones to bring home! Meet live animals and observe them like biologists. Explore space in our planetarium and create compounds and concoctions like chemists. Please remember to pack lunch for your camper. Activities ...
While we've changed what we put into our bodies, we have not been engaged with what is being done to our bodies. Roughly 70 percent of all medical decisions are based on clinical lab test results, yet we don't know what medical tests are ordered or how results are interpreted. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Wednesday, 12/23/15
Winter Camp Session 1: Step Into the Shoes of a Scientist (FULL)Step into the shoes of a scientist and design, build and test simple machines and structures, including ones to bring home! Meet live animals and observe them like biologists. Explore space in our planetarium and create compounds and concoctions like chemists. Please remember to pack lunch for your camper. Activities ...
