From museums to monuments and texts to traditions, the 3rd Int'l Congress on DigitalHERITAGE brings together leaders from across the cultural heritage world to explore the science and technology of saving the past.  Being held for the first time in North America here in San Francisco, this summit on digital tools, 3D, VR, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $400 - $620 + fees
The Brain is a Social Organ: Neuroscience in PsychotherapyUnderstanding the science of the brain can be the key to understanding the biological power of the "talking cure," according to Dr. Louis Cozolino, our Fall Symposium featured speaker. A facile lecturer, Cozolino elucidates complex scientific ideas using anecdotal clinical material and stories, making neuroscience relevant to psychotherapists of all ...
Where: OaklandCost: $140-$180.
Guided Nature Walk Experience the beauty and rich natural history of this 535-acre preserve. Our guided nature walks are on Saturdays throughout fall and spring. Participants are divided into small groups and paired with a trained Bouverie volunteer to explore the mixed evergreen forest and flower-carpeted oak woodland. Guided Nature Walks begin at 10:00am ...
Come enjoy a showcase of science, technology, and engineering from businesses, museums, and universities throughout Contra Costa County. Over 25 interactive exhibits and demos! Attendees will explore the STEM fields, discover new interests, and create lasting memories. Plenty of free parking available! Event is held Rain or Shine!
This celebration will be the high point of the Bay Area Science Festival in the North Bay. Families are encouraged to attend this fun interactive event - it’s all designed to get kids excited about STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Examine formula racer engineering and race your own ...
Where: Santa RosaCost: FREE
Science Saturday: Bats, Spiders, and SnakesOur most popular Science Saturday of the year is back! Join us for Bats, Spiders, and Snakes; an up close look at some of the misunderstood and helpful creatures of the night! We will have live bats and spiders on display at the Museum, and will be an official partner ...
The fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) have been around for generations, and will continue to grow, expand, and shape our world and future in the years to come. In order to give daughters and granddaughters the tools that they need to succeed in a STEM career, parents, ...
Start your Halloween celebration early with special Halloween-themed activities in the Ingenuity Lab and Animal Discovery Room. Pumpkins will fly during this annual outdoor event featuring our friends from UC Berkeley’s Pioneers in Engineering (PiE) program. Join us on the Hall’s C-level lawn and watch as a giant trebuchet sends ...
You are invited to a behind-the-scenes tour of our Parasitology Lab where you’ll have the chance to see live parasites (worms and protozoa)! You’ll also get to hear about our research to discover drugs to treat parasitic diseases that affect millions of people worldwide.Please enter Genentech Hall from the Koret ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Hawk TalkThe Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and what we do here at the GGRO. Conditions permitting, a banding volunteer will bring up a newly banded hawk, talk about the banding program, and release the hawk in front of the crowd. ...
Come explore the EcoCenter at Heron’s Head Park and learn how solar panels, a living roof, and other green technologies make this facility a functioning example of sustainable solutions. The tour will focus on the history of Heron’s Head Park, the sustainable systems of the EcoCenter, and the restored wetlands ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
The History of SausalitoIn commemoration of the 125th Anniversary of Sausalito. But, the best place to start is at the beginning. Sausalito changed with the times, rolled with the punches, reinvented itself multiple times and became a quaint slice of Americana with all the right ingredients for a really good story. Meet Ranger ...
Join local author Betty-Ann Kissilove in a group reading of Great Ball of Fire! A Poetic Telling of the Universe Story. For readers from 8 to 80, this beautifully illustrated book tells in verse the story of our universe, from the Big Bang to the formation and emergence of life ...
Are we alone in the Universe? How did we get here? What does a giraffe have in common with a mosquito? What makes extremophiles extreme? Who’s to say? Join us for an exciting discussion of these and many other questions around understanding the survival of life in the Universe with ...
Do you sometimes see paw prints in mud or scat (poop) on the trails and assume that a dog left it? It could be from something else. Come along with me and I will show you how to distinguish and identify the markings of a gray fox. Gain some insights into the fox’s nature and ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Giacomini Wetland Restoration Project - 10th Anniversary Celebration Please join us as ACR Avian Ecologist Scott Jennings gives a short talk on shorebird responses to the Giacomini wetland restoration as part of the afternoon science symposium of the 10-year anniversary celebration of the creation of the Giacomini Wetlands in Point Reyes. Click here for more information on all ...
Come take a closer look at the sea cliffs at New Brighton State Beach. The rocks forming these dramatic cliffs are part of the the Purisima Formation, which is exposed along the California Coast from Point Reyes to southern Santa Cruz County. The rocks at New Brighton Beach were deposited ...
Where: CapitolaCost: $10 per vehicle park entrance fee
Black holier than thou!I will explain how supermassive black holes are the root cause of a wide range of phenomena seen in galaxies and I will point out examples of these things that you can see with your own telescope.Speaker: Martin Gaskell, UC Santa Cruz
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Sensory Tricks and Science TreatsWe will trick your senses and dazzle your mind. Come share with us the joys of inquiry through illusions, magic tricks, logic puzzles and philosophical exploration, while drinking special concoctions from our cash bar.We welcome you to bring your own math puzzles, games, illusions, or magic tricks to share!This is ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $5
Sunday, 10/28/18
Fall Birding Walk at the UCSC Farm Join us for an introductory birding walk at the UCSC Farm. This guided walk along the Farm's trails and roads will feature a leisurely pace with frequent stops to observe, identify, and appreciate the local birds and their interesting behaviors. All levels of birding experience are welcome. Bring binoculars if ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: $10 General, $5 Members, Free students
From museums to monuments and texts to traditions, the 3rd Int'l Congress on DigitalHERITAGE brings together leaders from across the cultural heritage world to explore the science and technology of saving the past.  Being held for the first time in North America here in San Francisco, this summit on digital tools, 3D, VR, ...
This month we celebrate Halloween with a creepy collection of stories about the animals that live in the deepest parts of the ocean! Learn how elephant seal's can dive to 5000 feet and stay underwater for 2 hours at a time without imploding (!), find out how a sperm whale ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Hawk TalkThe Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and what we do here at the GGRO. Conditions permitting, a banding volunteer will bring up a newly banded hawk, talk about the banding program, and release the hawk in front of the crowd. ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Full-Spectrum Science with Ron Hipschman: Science Fiction Turned FactScience fiction has predicted many things. Some have come true (think touch screens, submarines, bionic limbs), others, not so much - or at least, not yet. If you’ve ever wondered where your flying car or rocket belt is, or why you don’t yet have a robot servant, find out at ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Admission to the Exploratorium
Want to make your imagined world become true? Want to create your own fantasy world and play with it? Holographic Augmented Reality (HAR) can make it happen for you! Learn how to create your own holographic AR experiences in this introductory workshop hosted by Integem Inc. (www.integem.com). This event is ...
The so-called “fine-structure constant†is a deeply important number in physics. It describes the strength of the electromagnetic force between fundamental particles. This means, among countless other things, that it gauges the interaction between all the atoms and molecules in our bodies. Of the fine-structure constant, physicist Max Born said, ...
Where: AlamedaCost: Free
TEDxPaloAltoSalon: Imagine AnewHear from great minds re-imagining the future and driving change with projects such as levitating cars, life-saving medical discoveries, the future of leadership.Dr. Anita Sengupta is a rocket scientist and aerospace engineer who developed technologies to explore Mars, asteroids and deep space. She teaches spacecraft, entry and landing system design ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $70.
Meteorites in AntarcticaMeteorites fall all over the earth, but they are best preserved and recoverable from the blue ice areas of Antarctica. The combination of relentless katabatic winds and slow movement of glacial ice in these areas concentrates meteorites that have fallen over tens to hundreds of thousands of years. Meteorites hold ...
From museums to monuments and texts to traditions, the 3rd Int'l Congress on DigitalHERITAGE brings together leaders from across the cultural heritage world to explore the science and technology of saving the past.  Being held for the first time in North America here in San Francisco, this summit on digital tools, 3D, VR, ...
Offered annually since 2013, Aero Design Challenge explores the engineering design process with an aerospace-themed project and competition for Grades 5-12. Each program includes a series of foundational experiences in the Hiller Aviation Museum’s exhibit gallery and lab spaces, after which teams of 3-4 students work together to design, build, ...
Where: San CarlosCost: Free
The abundance and dark matter structure of galaxies in alternative dark matter modelsStrong dark matter interactions are proposed to alleviate the tension between observations and theoretical predictions in CDM. Among different interaction channels, self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models have received considerable attention. However, most models and simulations have so far neglect the contribution of the baryons. First, I will present a combination ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Fate of Supernova-Heated Gas in Star-Forming Regions of the LMC: Lessons for Galaxy Formation The Magellanic System is an excellent, nearby case-study in galaxy formation and galaxy dynamics. As the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) orbit around each other, they fling material behind them, forming the Trailing Magellanic Stream, an immense reservoir of gas that may someday fall into the Milky ...
Since its purchase of Fayetteville shale from Chesapeake in 2011 and Eagle Ford, Haynesville and Permian shale from Petrohawk,  BHP has invested billions of dollars in developing and applying new technologies for unlocking these resources. My focus in this talk would be around BHP’s efforts in subsurface characterization and production ...
Get a special guided tour of our newly opened Habitarium and CA Trail exhibits. Guests will learn all about our interactive learning space and our new resident animals.Registration required, and opens on October 19 at weblink
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is an experiment that is being performed on a global array of millimeter wavelength telescopes that span the Earth from Hawaii to Chile and from the South Pole to Arizona. With the full array, it is capable of imaging the event horizons of the supermassive ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
ELECTRONS IN NANOSTRUCTURESDavid Goldhaber-Gordon, Stanford, studies how electrons organize themselves and flow on the nanoscale. He will discuss how in such submicron devices, quantum effects and electron interactions are important, which confounds intuitions gleaned from larger-scale electronics and opens new regimes of physics.
Physics at LHCb (Large Hadron Collider Beauty Experiment)I will describe the LHCb experiment that studies decays of baryon quarks (mass of 5 GeV), and charm quarks (1.5 GeV), and show how studying these particles we are sensitive to physics and new particles at very large mass scales of several TeV and up. Specific measurements of CP violation ...
Claudia Perlich advises Dstillery’s machine learning efforts that power digital intelligence and programmatic advertising for marketers and media companies. With more than 50 published scientific articles, she is a widely acclaimed expert on big data and machine learning applications, and an active speaker at data science and marketing conferences around ...
A discussion surrounding several more controversial topics related to power generation:the ongoing role of coal in the global fuel mixthe modest global contribution to CO2 emissions from California and the U.S.the true cost of renewables and the faster declining cost of natural gas powered generationthe impact on CO2 levels of ...
How can artists, scientists, and designers collaborate to develop new methods of public engagement around marine conservation awareness? swissnex San Francisco will host a conversation with Marie Griesmar, artist, diver, and science communicator, currently based in San Francisco as a Pier 17 Science Studio fellow. Marie will provide insights into ...
Why do we need natural history museum collections? The millions of specimens contained in the six natural history museums at UC Berkeley have provided the building blocks of data from which scores of researchers have described new species, unraveled complicated kinships among organisms, and discovered how organisms evolve and adapt ...
Join UCSF neuroscientists for a deep dive into our most complex and fascinating organ. Hands-on activities will spark your brain, inspiring talks will inform your brain, and food and drink will fuel your brain!
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It The internet as it exists might destroy our world. In the developed countries, its arrival has corresponded to bizarre political dysfunction, while in the developing world, ethnic rivalries that had been waning have been re-ignited in the most grotesque fashion. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The internet was ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free, registration required
Nerd Nite East BayDoing the Devil’s Work: Bay Area Satanism and Political Activism.Modern Satanism has a long history in the Bay Area, from Anton LaVey to decades of left wing political work. Far from being baby-eating devil worshippers, modern Satanists act as an adversary against the mainstream, combining occult aesthetics with activism to ...
Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen is the founder of Openwater whose goal is to see deep into the body with the detail of a high resolution 3D camera. The implications are broad for both healthcare and for communication directly with thought .Previously she was an engineering executive at Facebook, Oculus, Google[x] ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Tuesday, 10/30/18
Splitting growth and geometry to test ΛCDMIn my talk I plan to discuss some work in progress I've been doing in the context of DES, which we call a growth-geometry split analysis. The goal of the analysis is to perform a consistency test of LCDM by comparing constraints from large scale structure growth and expansion history. ...
Maximizing LSST science with probabilistic data products LSST will produce massive catalogs including detected objects down to unprecedented floors in signal-to-noise ratio, opening the door to a new space of potential discoveries, from illuminating the dark energy accelerating the expansion of the universe to revealing the physical processes underlying transients and variable stars. The anticipated deluge of ...
Explore what you eat: do you know about the biology, chemistry, physics and even math of your food? Get hands-on with science to find out! Join Cal scientists for some fun, food-related (and spooky!) investigations at the South Berkeley Farmer’s Market.
Join us as we discuss the basics of beekeeping and bee safety, as well honey bee biology and life inside the hive. Community members will have the opportunity to put on a bee suit and see inside a live beehive! Once suited up, watch as Planet Bee Educators open up ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
The Dynamic Local UniverseProf. Louis Strigari (Texas A&M Univeristy) will give the October 30, 2018 Applied Physics/Physics colloquium
We will handle molecules of living things like water, carbon dioxide, fat, aspirin, caffeine, chlorophyl, and break them, toss them, and modify them, using hologram virtual reality visualizations with HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headsets.Registration required. Sign up at weblink starting October 19th.This tour also offered on November 1
The Gladstone Institutes is an independent state-of-the-art biomedical research institution that empowers its world-class scientists to find new pathways to cures. It brings together over 350 scientists who use visionary science and technology in cardiovascular biology, immunology, neuroscience, and stem cell biology to overcome unsolved diseases. Discover how Gladstone labs ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
What Do the Midterm Elections Mean for the Environment, California and the Nation?The 2018 election will change the balance of power in California and the nation. While the factors that have driven climate change and drought are on the rise, environmental actions, policies and agencies face rollbacks and cutbacks. The outcome of the November vote on candidates and ballot initiatives will likely ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
Physics at Berkeley has a long history of game-changing research, pioneer scientists, world-class students, and Nobel prizes. Find out how we are learning about the fundamental physical qualities of atoms with mind-bending accuracy in the atom interferometry lab of Professor Holger Müller and the ultracold atomic physics lab of Professor ...
Come see how UCSF scientists are turning cells into superheroes by engineering immune cells to kill cancer! Researchers in Dr. Wendell Lim’s lab are programming T cells, the armed guards of the immune system, to kill cancer cells while leaving healthy tissues untouched. The Lim Lab will lead you through ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Mini-Med School: Blood Pressure: How High is too High and How Do I Lower it Safely?We all have concerns about our health, but when should we ignore them and keep fingers crossed, and when should we see the doctor? With the internet a part of our daily life, does ready access to information ameliorate or amplify these concerns? We have assembled a group of leaders ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15, students free with ID
Professor Jackson will discuss sources of methane and carbon dioxide and opportunities to reduce them. The methane work will describe a new global fluxnet synthesis for methane from wetlands and other habitats and measurements of natural gas released from oil and gas infrastructure. The CO2 component will include global trends ...
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on May 25. With it comes big responsibilities for organizations. Jeff Jonas, data scientist and Privacy by Design (PbD) advocate, will do a deep dive into this new law and its ramifications to the data management community, including some ...
Join us for a conversation with Adam Pisoni, founder and CEO of Abl Schools, an educational resource management software. Before founding Abl Schools, he founded a web-design startup, Cnation, which led him to join Geni, a genealogy website. From ideas rooted in his time at Geni, Pisoni later co-founded Yammer, ...
This halloween, as the sun goes down, Mission Science Workshop’s exhibits come to life and take over the Workshop for one haunted evening! Join us - if you dare - to explore the spooky side of science… Walk inside the belly of a (real!) whale, dissect an eyeball, meet the ...
Where: OrindaCost: $5 General, $1 students & K-12 Teachers
Thursday, 11/01/18
Magnetic reconnection in AGN jetsMagnetic reconnection is invoked as an efficient particle accelerator in a variety of astrophysical sources of non-thermal high-energy radiation including, but not limited to, the jets of active galactic nuclei (AGN). The energy dissipation and particle acceleration processes during magnetic reconnection can only be studied from first principles with fully ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Metabolic Syndrome and Mental HealthModern health means metabolic health. The main pathway to chronic diseases today is the breakdown of our finely tuned metabolic machinery inside, due to processed food, lifestyle and â€" mental health? Stress and depression have potent effects on our behavior and creating imbalance of hormones such as glucose, insulin and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
Have you heard about the Makers Lab in the UCSF Library? The Makers Lab is UCSF’s makerspace, or a creative, DIY space, where you can gather to make, invent, tinker, and learn. During the 60-minute pop-up, Makers Lab staff will provide an introduction to the space, technology, and supplies. Never ...
Neuroscape uses a cutting-edge approach to improving brain function -building a bridge between neuroscience and consumer friendly technologies.Take a peek inside our center to see how video games are being developed to support treatment of brain disorders such as ADHD, Autism, Depression, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease. Neuroscape Research ...
Shedding Light on Dark Matter with the CMB: Implications for EDGES 21cm SignalIn this talk, I would like to review how the Cosmic Microwave Background (in particular its temperature and polarization anisotropies) can be used to perform both direct and indirect detection of Dark Matter. In a first part, I will show how the CMB can be used to put stringent constraints ...
Speaker: Daniel M. Kammen, Director of Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL); Professor in the Energy and Resources Group (ERG); and Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy.Note new location.
We will handle molecules of living things like water, carbon dioxide, fat, aspirin, caffeine, chlorophyl, and break them, toss them, and modify them, using hologram virtual reality visualizations with HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headsets.Registration required. Sign up at weblink starting October 19th.This tour is also offered on October 30.
Discover what it’s like to be a molecular biologist at UCSF and the Gladstone Institutes. We invite you to join us for a lab tour hosted by the Cancer Cell Map Initiative (www.ccmi.org) where you get to learn how we make maps of cells and explore the effects of cancer ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
After Dark: Vs.Is thinking about the world in terms of dichotomies all good or all bad? Do direct comparisons help or hinder understanding? Investigate the relationship between this versus that via matter, microorganisms, ecology, and human behavior.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $17.95 advance, $19.95 at the door
Cafe InquiryMeet up with rationalists, skeptics, and freethinkers south of San Francisco.Cafe Inquiry is a social event hosted by the Center for Inquiry|San Francisco.For more information or if you have questions please email sf@centerforinquiry.net
Scientists and science enthusiasts are mourning the passing of Stephen Hawking, one of the great minds and spirits of our time. In this introductory, non-technical talk, Andrew Fraknoi will briefly summarize Hawking’s life, and talk about the importance of his scientific work. He’ll focus particularly on Hawking’s work merging the ...
What is dark matter? For decades, firm astronomical evidence from observations of stars and galaxies has indicated that most of the matter in the universe cannot be seen directly with telescopes. Instead, this matter must be observed indirectly through its gravitational pull on the objects that we can see. This ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Social Implications of AIIf anyone can make provocative predictions about technology and its impact on business and our everyday lives, it is Tom Siebel. One of Silicon Valley's most successful entrepreneurs for more than four decades, he remains at the forefront of enterprise software, big data, cloud, the Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning - formerly at ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 General, $20 Member, other options on website
Virtual Reality Technology Treatment for Mental IllnessVirtual Reality (VR) has been used for two decades to treat a variety of mental illnesses effectively. Recent technological developments in VR are offering even more potential. Embodied and immersive VR is being explored to treat body image disorders and psychosomatic illnesses. It also has potential to rewire implicit and ...
Join us for our final Astronomy Night of 2018! This FREE event consists of a public astronomy lecture and stargazing on the roof of Campbell Hall with our fleet of telescopes. Learn all about the search for extraterrestrial life, the SETI and Breakthrough Listen projects, and how you can help ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Mini-Med School: Using Design to Make Healthcare BetterUCSF has a long history of pioneering innovation and advancing its bold vision for health worldwide. Whether it’s a new drug molecule, medical device, digital health application, or care process, our goal is to ensure that innovation reaches our patients and benefits patient care. UCSF leaders in innovation--representing a wide ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15, students free with ID
Friday, 11/02/18
23rd American World Dentistry CongressWe are hosting the "23rd American World Dentistry Congress "(Dentistry World 2018) along with external scientific association with the researches, academicians, and Students around the globe, scheduled on November 02-03, 2018 at San Francisco, USA. The theme of the conference is “Tomorrows Dentistry Today†which works with an objective to ...
Where: BurlingameCost: $799
THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENT ON LATE TIME EVOLUTION OF THE STELLAR MASS -HALO MASS RELATIONThe Stellar Mass-Halo Mass (SMHM) relation provides insight into the galaxy-dark matter halo connection. In Golden-Marx & Miller (2018), we incorporate the magnitude gap, the difference in brightness between the BCG and 4th brightest cluster member within 0.5 R200, into the cluster SMHM relation. We observe that at fixed halo ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Painkiller: How Oxycontin ignited the opioid epidemicPlease join us for a fireside chat with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Barry Meier and Paul Costello, Chief Communications Officer, Stanford School of Medicine.Barry Meier was the first journalist to shed a national spotlight on the abuse of OxyContin. He was a member of the New York Times reporting team ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Concordance cosmology and beyond I will discuss the relevance of statistical tools aimed at testing the concordance of cosmological observations and how they can be used as the most model independent test for the standard cosmological model. These statistical tests are a powerful way of assessing whether a specific model explains the observed measurements ...
Ultrafast Manipulation of Topological Phases in WTe2 NanolayersManipulation of topological invariants in quantum materials plays a key role in topological switching applications and can stabilize emergent topological phases in otherwise trivial materials. Lattice strain has been proposed as one means of tuning these topological invariants. However, conventional means of applying strain are not extendable to controllable time-varying ...
The Garcia lab studies one of nature’s abiding mysteries: how does a single cell develop into a multicellular organism? As the organism grows through a series of cell divisions, different cells adopt unique fates to become familiar cell types such as those found in muscle, liver, and our brains. Cells ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Are New Vehicle Emissions Standards Effective and Efficient?This paper demonstrates the historic effectiveness of new vehicle emissions standards at reducing local air pollution from personal automobiles, but it also argues that the efficiency of such policies is greatly reduced by the failure to use complimentary policies that accelerate fleet turnover. The project combines new vehicle certification tests ...
Each $5 First Friday at Chabot is an exciting and immersive experience for all ages! Join us each month for hands-on activities and live demonstrations that are fun for the whole family. Each month there will be new things to explore!
Where: OaklandCost: $5
November Night HikeCome on a naturalist-led hike through Joaquin Miller where we'll look for the many spiders inhabiting the park. We'll be armed with UV flashlights and look for fluorescing scorpions, and we’ll be looking and listening for bats!Ages 12+. RSVP at weblink
The Most Unknown is an epic documentary film that sends nine scientists to extraordinary parts of the world to uncover unexpected answers to some of humanity’s biggest questions. How did life begin? What is time? What is consciousness? How much do we really know?By introducing researchers from diverse backgrounds for ...
Have you ever wondered, “How many piano tuners are there in the city of Chicago?†How would you figure it out? Enrico Fermi had a knack for quickly calculating things using back of the envelope calculations. It’s surprisingly fun to test your ability to quickly answer strange questions using general ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Say What? The Power of Communication in Raising Healthy, Engaged KidsCommunication is both an art and a science and is critical to any relationship - especially the parent-child relationship. Challenge Success is hosting our 15th annual Parent Education event on Friday, November 2nd, at 7:30pm at Memorial Auditorium. This year's event, "Say What? The Power of Communication in Raising Healthy, ...
Where: StanfordCost: $10
The Hunt for Planet NineScientists have proposed that there is a giant planet lurking beyond Pluto, a Neptune-size world orbiting the sun about 20 times the distance of Neptune’s orbit, but so massive that it may have tipped the entire solar system a few degrees sideways. A race is on to discover this as ...
