Have you ever wondered what’s inside a scientific ocean buoy? Take a close look at the critters and seaweed that colonize the bottom of the buoy when we pull our NOAA CO2 buoy out of the water for its yearly servicing.On Buoy Exploration Day, we’ll provide microscopes, hand lenses, and ...
400 Years of the Telescope - A Journey of Science, Technology and Thought.For the evening of 16 August, 2019 we will be showing a documentary video "400 Years of the Telescope - A Journey of Science, Technology and Thought". In 1609 Galileo turned his spyglass to the heavens and was ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Chabot Observatory's Role in the Rescue of Apollo 13In April, 1970 an explosion occurred aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft as it neared the Moon. All around the world various people from many walks of life leapt into action in many different roles to help save the astronauts' lives. One of the most unusual examples of this occurred at ...
Where: LivermoreCost: Free
Saturday, 08/17/19
Free science gear for educators and researchersBioLink Depot, a 12 year old charitable institution, is holding its fall open house on where you can pick up free scientifi equipment and supplies for your school or lab.Teachers, educators, researchers from accredited institutions and community labs can register for the open house by visiting the biolink depot web ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
BubblefestJoin us for an entire day of hands on bubble fun, live music, face painting and more at our first ever BubbleFest! Learn all about the science behind bubbles, and see how bubbles can change form as professional bubble artists expose the wonders of these remarkable spheres. Join the artist, ...
Have you ever wondered how San Francisco looked like before it became a sprawling city and urban center? Take a walk with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy at Fort Funston and experience the natural splendor of the “Great Dune Waste†that used to cover most of the peninsula of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donations encouraged
Maker Lab: Open Lab @ClaremontA place to drop in and try out: *Sewing on a Babylock sewing machine *Button-making *Drawing on the ProWise whiteboard *Experimenting with a Foldscope microscope *Needle-felting *Sculpting with modeling clayNo previous experience necessary! This program is for kids with parents, teens, and adults.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Silicon Valley Volunteer FairDo you want to invest your time and passion to help the environment and your community? Volunteering is a rewarding way to make friends, learn new skills, and have fun while making a difference.There are many organizations working to provide Parks, Nature and Environmental Education in Silicon Valley and finding ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Black Holes, Big and Small- A laser-guided adaptive optics viewBlack holes come in at least two varieties. Supermassive black holes lay at the centers of galaxies and, while not theoretically predicted, have been definitively proven to exist using observations of stars’ orbits at the heart of the Milky Way. Stellar mass black holes are predicted to exist in large ...
Have you ever wondered what’s inside a scientific buoy? Find out as we pull our NOAA CO2 buoy out of the water and host activities about carbon dioxide in the air and water. You’ll have a chance to learn about how we measure carbon with the buoy instruments and the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Admission to the Exploratorium
Reclaiming the Future: A Long Conversation + ExhibitionStochastic Labs is presenting a one-day event on Reclaiming The Future and would love for you to attend!What is at stake for the human animal in this critical moment in our evolution? Will we survive this “technological adolescence� How can we reclaim optimism in the face of future technology?A group ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20
Family HikesBring the whole family along as we take a gentle 2-3-mile round trip walk among the majestic redwoods. We’ll stop and tell stories about Oakland history, identify native plants and trees, and discuss wildlife and indicators of climate change. Due to heavy roots, routes are not accessible by strollers and/or ...
Where: OaklandCost: $14 General, $11 Members
Exploring Planetary Surfaces with NASA’s Solar System TreksNASA’s Solar System Treks project produces a suite of online, interactive visualization and analysis portals. These tools enable mission planners, planetary scientists, and engineers to access data products from a wide range of instruments aboard a variety of past and current missions, for a growing number of planetary bodies. Originally ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Northern Lights ExciteIn California, the Northern Lights can appear as a deep red glow here in the night sky. In Alaska, they appears as a bright green bands or dynamic colorful shows when the sky is dark enough. Known as auroras, scientists are still uncovering the mysteries of these displays here and ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Sunday, 08/18/19
A New Age of Dinoflagellates: Using AI and Robots to Study Harmful Algal BloomsMonterey Bay is subject to intense blooms of dinoflagellates, a type of algae that can sometimes produce harmful toxins. Between 2004 and 2007, these blooms were so dominant that it was known as the “age of dinoflagellates.†Throughout 2018 and 2019, after a decade of absence, an abundance of dinoflagellates ...
Electroacupuncture for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative DiseasesThe World Health Organization states that neurological disorders are one of the greatest threats to public health today. Seventy-six million aging baby boomers, or 29 percent of the population in the United States, are about to push Alzheimer's disease rates sky high. Acupuncture, a form of traditional Chinese medicine, has ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
Despite their constant presence in sci-fi, black holes remain enigmatic to most people. What are they? What do they do? Do they even really exist? In this talk, our speaker will debunk the movie tropes and discuss what exactly a black hole is, why they are so hard to find, ...
Where: NovatoCost: Free
Tuesday, 08/20/19
How Will Tall Buildings React to the Big OneSan Francisco has recently completed the Tall Buildings Safety Strategy, a first-of-its-kind, in-depth study of all buildings 240 feet in height - 156 of them. The strategy is just one of many innovative programs and initiatives geared to improve the city’s preparedness and ability to recover in the event of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for Members
Predicting Guilt and Automating [De]incarceration: Algorithms in the US Criminal Justice SystemAre we ready for AI judges? As automation is increasingly deployed to assist or replace human decisions, it becomes crucial to evaluate potential social and ethical consequences of AI powered decision-making.Peter Eckersley will be discussing the Report on Algorithmic Risk Assessment Tools in the U.S. Criminal Justice System recently published ...
Blade Runner, Star Wars, and “The Jetsons†envisioned futuristic worlds of flying cars and mile-high commutes. Now, dozens of companies are moving forward with airborne vehicles, including Airbus’ electric flying car and Uber’s helicopter taxi. Tesla is also hinting at a flying Roadster using rocket technology.With traffic congestion increasing in America’s ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
From kings and philosophers to craftsmen and inventors, horology has been prized as an extraordinary marriage between art and science. Antiquarian Horologist Brittany Nicole Cox will share her unique experience with objects born from this lineage. We will trace their origins to discover how these objects serve as critical mirrors ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 - $100
Fishing and Whales: Healthy Fisheries and Healthy Whale PopulationsAs ocean temperatures have risen in recent years, reports of whale entanglements along the Pacific coastline have climbed, possibly due to shifts in foraging patterns resulting in increased overlap with crab and other fisheries. Â The need for solutions to prevent entanglements has never been greater. Conservationists and fishermen are working ...
Temperatures continue to warm, animal populations respond to a rapidly changing environment. The marine environment represents a unique challenge to fisheries researchers as data collection is time and resource intensive. With warming annual temperatures, temperature seasonality is also changing. This represents an additional problem to monitoring as existing surveys typically ...
Speaker: Ken Caldeira is a senior scientist of global ecology and a professor of earth system sciences, Carnegie Institution for Science & Stanford University
Where: Bodega BayCost: Free
Blockchain BasicsWe’ll breakdown the basics of blockchain and cryptocurrency in this interactive intro session.Learn about the history of blockchain technology, examples of best use cases, and insight into what makes TRON one of the world’s largest blockchain based operating systems in the world.Come enjoy food and drinks, all while learning about ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
5G & Beyond: Perspectives on URLLCThis talk brings together ideas from various fields such as cooperative communication, information theory, robust control and machine learning to address the system design problem of designing wireless communication frameworks for interactive, highly-dynamic applications that require fast and reliable communication. In doing so, the speaker will also take a brief ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Emergence of RISC-V computer architecture- embedded apps & ML accelerationRISC-V Instruction Set Architecture has recently become a key driver for driving open source projects across wide gamut of end applications. Most recently we have seen a lot of application in the Internet of Things (IoT) segment, microcontrollers for a variety of traditional embedded applications, and applications requiring capability for ...
A Journey through the Cosmos!In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, join us for this exciting program about the universe from the very small to the very large! Astronomer Kevin Manning will take us on a virtual journey through the cosmos, followed by a trip ...
Where: BurlingameCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #111: Butterflies, Vowels, and Milk!Flutter on down to the Rickshaw Stop for lots of “oooohs†and “aaaaahsâ€, as we’ve rustled up some talks on coloration, vowels, and cattle raids! We promise you’ll never look at butterflies, lips, and milk the same way again. So come learn with us, drink up, binge on bao, and ...
Scientists have recently developed a new way to “see†the universe, using the gravitational waves predicted by Einstein nearly a century ago. These waves can teach us about some of the most exotic objects known, including star “corpses†known as black holes and neutron stars. Remarkably, they have also helped ...
The detection of gravitational waves from merging stellar-mass black holes has generated much excitement. We expect that similar events - but with black holes that are millions to billions of times heavier - can occasionally occur. Dr. Romani will describe observations of super-massive black hole "binaries." He will also discuss the search ...
A fascination with the potential and pitfalls of A.I. is far from novel, but development and use of artificial intelligence is at the forefront of current technological development. At After Dark: Artificially Intelligent, interface with projects and technologies that think for themselves and see artworks that use A.I. in impressive ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 17.95 advance, 19.95 door, AD members free
Animal Behavior NightlifeJoin us and a few of our furry, scaly, and feathered friends for a night all about animal behavior. Check out a special nighttime edition of our “Swamp Talk†program to learn about perennial fan favorite, Claude the albino alligator.Looking for your own animal companion? Hang out in the garden ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
Bernal Chess ClubThe brand new Bernal Chess Club is an informal chess group with casual weekly game nights in Bernal Heights, SF. Come unwind after work, have dinner, meet new friends, and talk tactics. All levels and ages are welcome. Bring a chess set if you have one. Find out about upcoming game nights by ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Mediaspora: Connecting Medicine, Media, and DiasporaWhen people seek out medical advice, where do they turn? For many of us, the first step is to go online, diagnosing symptoms through websites, such as Google or Wikipedia. This information can be unreliable in the best circumstance but among underserved populations, language barriers may narrow access to reliable ...
Join us for a lecture from Christine Hastorf, Ph.D. on the history of beer through an archaeological lens. How long have people been making beer? Where did beer making traditions first begin? How do ancient beer making traditions compare to those in practice around the world today? This lecture is ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $6 - $14
Women in Autonomy: Driving the Future of TransportationThe market is shifting from hyper-growth to hyper-focus as OEMs and Mobility companies look to implement the right partnerships and technologies to get their autonomy initiatives to market. The resulting partnerships, acquisitions and aqua-hires are changing the landscape, posing new threats and opportunities for existing players. ​What will the transportation ...
