Your East Bay lecture-in-a-bar series powers into the summer! Mary Roach will discuss her new book, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War. Then, J. Kenji López-Alt will share some myths about cooking steak and his James Beard-winning book The Food Lab. Finally, Simone Giertz will share the why ...
Where: OaklandCost: $8 Advance, $10 at door
Tuesday, 06/28/16
The Evolution and Explosion of Massive StarsMassive stars (at least ~8 solar masses) play an essential role to the evolution of the universe. They lose energy in radiation and neutrinos as they evolve, to create elements necessary to life and to stir the interstellar medium. Upon their death, they experience a dynamical instability that often creates spectacular explosions, which are ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Does Strategic Ability Affect Productive Efficiency? Evidence from Electricity MarketsStandard oligopoly models of short-run price competition in oligopoly settings predict that large firms can exercise market power and generate inefficiencies. However, productive inefficiency can also arise from other sources as well, such as in the presence of heterogeneity is strategic sophistication. This paper studies such a setting in the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver at the Right Time?Electricity cannot be cost-effectively stored even for short periods of time. Consequently, wholesale electricity prices vary widely across hours of the day with peak prices frequently exceeding off-peak prices by a factor of ten or more. Most analyses of energy-efficiency policies ignore this variation, focusing on total energy savings without ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Binocular Workshop: Learn about your optics and how to maintain them!Learn about your binoculars, and how to maintain them! This 2.5 hour workshop will guide you through the basics of optics as well as the repair and maintenance of binoculars. Bring your own binoculars to tinker with, or if you don't have any binoculars (or any that you want to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 (ticketed in advance)
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 ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Volunteering
Edward F. Ricketts and Jack Calvin: The publishing of Between Pacific Tides, First Edition (1939)There is a story behind Edward F. Ricketts and Jack Calvin's effort to have their seminal work, Between Pacific Tides, published. Upon being presented an outline of the manuscript, it took 10 years for Stanford University Press to publish the book. Was the publication slowed by then Director of Hopkins ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Making Sense of Complex Real-World Memory Consistency ModelsIn the shared memory parallel programming model, data values in memory are made visible to the threads of a program following the rules of a memory consistency model. In the past, memory model definitions have relied on natural language descriptions, programmer intuition, and/or sets of examples to specify how memory ...
Murder. Ship wrecks. A plane crash. A war over eggs. Great White Sharks and hundreds of species on land, sea and air. Join ACS for presentation by Peter White, author of The Farallon Islands: Sentinels of the Golden Gate, long considered the seminal book on the islands' history. America's love ...
Where: PacificaCost: $5 donation
The future of agriculture - precise, or ecological?The setup is prime for a well-worn cliche: big data, machine learning, venture capital, accelerators. Silicon Valley is moving in to the Central Valley. As a "second wave" in agricultural development, "AgTech" and "precision agriculture" seek to transform how modern agricultural systems operate. This growing, tech-savvy field claims to offer ...
Do you have something that you love but it no longer works or is damaged and wish you could repair it?How do we fix broken things we use and love in our "disposable" world?Where can go to figure out if something is worth repairing?Our dumps are filling up with stuff ...
Where: SaratogaCost: Free
Designing for Longevity: The 10,000 Year Clock ProjectHuman civilization is about 10,000 years old. If you wanted to build something that would last the next 10,000 years, as an icon of long-term thinking, what materials would you use? How would you prototype and test the design? Alexander Rose is part of the team that's building a mechanical, ...
Celebrate World Asteroid Day with an evening of space talks, space rocks, and out-of-this-world science. Hear from Asteroid Day founders from the B612 Foundation about how they're working to promote asteroid awareness around the world.Then, catch the Academy's latest original planetarium show Incoming!, narrated by George Takei-an immersive, all-digital show ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
According to a 2015 North American study by McKinsey & Company, women are almost four times more likely than men to think they have fewer opportunities to advance because of their gender. How can we change this? During this candid discussion, you'll join three leading women in tech as they ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Wetlands are hotspots for mercury methylation and export of methylmercury to aquatic foodwebs.Rice is the most abundant wetland type in California and globally in temperate and tropical latitudes.Physical, chemical and biological Hg transformations are temporally pulsed in agricultural wetlands, due largely to seasonal water management practices.Monitoring methylmercury at the right ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Friday, 07/01/16
Birds & Botany Hike the forests, meadows and hills around Pine Flat and up Redhill with ACR Volunteer Patrick Woodworth & ACR Resource Ecologist Dave Self. We'll be watching (and listening) for birds on the hike out. After lunch, we'll botanize as we consider the seasonal interplay between bird foods, habitat history and current activity ...
For this seminar, I will present two studies from my dissertation research on mesopelagic fishes, with an overview of NOAA's ocean exploration activities. In the first study, I investigated the potential physiological vulnerability of mesopelagic fishes to ocean deoxygenation by measuring their metabolic enzyme activities in varied oxygen conditions throughout ...
Where: Moss LandingCost:
Saturday, 07/02/16
Volunteer Day at the Rotary Nature Center at Lake Merritt!Come to Lake Merritt and help out at the nature center- there's plenty to do! Help with watering all the native plants we've recently put in the ground, weeding, trash pickup, and generally making our park nicer for all the humans and non-humans around Lake Merritt. Come show some love ...
Where: OaklandCost: FREE!
Sunday, 07/03/16
Evenings with the Pigeon Point Lighthouse Fresnel lensThe Pigeon Point Lighthouse is currently under repair, but that doesn't mean that the First Order Fresnel Lens can't shine! The Fresnel lens, the original lighthouse beacon, will light up once again from its temporary home in the Visitor Center. As dusk settles, the 24 beams of light provide a ...
