Tides combines lyrical prose, colorful adventure travel, and provocative scientific inquiry into the elemental, mysterious paradox that keeps our planet’s waters in constant motion.After nearly losing his 65-foot wooden schooner in a large Alaskan tide, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White vowed to understand the tide. He knew the moon ...
Pass-Through of Solar PV Incentives to Consumers: The Early Years of California’s Solar PV IncentivesThis study examines the early years of California’s most recent wave of distributed solar PV incentives (2000-2008) to determine the pass-through of incentives to consumers. Examination of this period is important due to the high level of incentives provided and subsequent high cost to ratepayers; policymakers’ expectations that price declines ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Creating World-Class Computer Science at Stanford: 60 Years of InnovationThe seeds of Stanford’s currently most popular undergraduate major, computer science, grew from the university’s administrative needs, and those of science and engineering research. Provost Fred Terman’s prescient vision of an emerging disciplineâ€"the science and engineering of computationâ€"led to the 1957 hiring of George Forsythe to fill a Math Department ...
Where: StanfordCost:
Ars Technica Live: 15,000 years of evidence for climate change (location has been changed)In case you hadn't heard, weird weather is here to stay. California, after years of drought, is now lighting up with flash flood warnings. This is just one aspect of climate change that's been spurred on by human activity.How do we know that the climate is changing dramatically, and that ...
Where: OaklandCost: free
Is Anyone Out There Among the Stars: The Hundred-Million Dollar Breakthrough Listen ProjectWhat is the possibility of other intelligent life in the universe? Can we detect radio, infrared, or light signals from alien civilizations? Current and future projects searching for such signals, including the new $100-million Breakthrough Prize Foundation Listen project, may provide an answer. Dan Werthimer will describe the plans for future searches and ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking)
Nerd Nite SF #82: ET Eavesdropping, Cyborg Senses, and Aging!This month we have a feast for your super-senses! First, we’ll turn our mightiest eyes and ears skyward in search of alien communications. Then we’ll learn how close we all are to becoming cyborgs, although it’s taken a lot more than six million dollars to get there. And we have ...
