Alcatraz Gardens Class Series: Herbarium and Plant PressingAn Herbarium is a collection of preserved plant specimens used for scientific study. These sheets may be whole plants or plant parts and are mounted on a sheet of paper. These are used to reference and describe plant taxa as a much more accurate than drawings. Recently, herbaria have been ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donations encouraged
Printing Nanoscale Things: Metals, Oxides, and Quantum DotsThis talk will introduce deep-nanoscale fabrication technologies based on synergic combinations of self-assembly, photolithography, and transfer-printing applicable to a variety of material systems including polymers, oxides, metals, quantum nanostructures for high-performance sensors, photovoltaics, and displays. In particular, this talk will report on our recent innovation: highly precise patterning ...
Do you know the science behind America’s national pastime? Why is a ball stitched, what’s inside, and how does its makeup affect the physics of throwing the ball? How does a pitcher throw a curveball or a knuckleball, and how can a ball be either “dead†or “juiced� Then delve ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 17.95 advance, 19.95 door, AD members free
Desert NightlifeCan’t stand the heat? Chill out and explore some of the coolest creatures from some of the planet’s hottest climates at Desert NightLife.Catch a screening of The Devil’s Road: A Baja Adventure, about a group of adventurers on a 5,000-mile journey across Baja California to recreate the century-old expedition of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
'Science Fair' DocumentaryWinner of the audience award at Sundance and SXSW, Science Fair offers a front seat to the victories, defeats, and motivations of an incredible group of high school students on a path to change their lives, and the world through science.First showing on 8/28 is sold out.RSVP required
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Pliocene World: Earth's Climate 3 Million Years Ago and How it Relates to our FutureThree million years ago, during the late Pliocene, CO2 levels were similar to today, but global temperatures and sea level were much higher.Find out how we use microfossils to reconstruct temperature, salinity and more across the globe from this geological interval just before ice ages began. Using our reconstruction of the ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Friday, 08/30/19
Sculpting Photocatalysts on the Nano ScaleThe solar-driven photocatalytic splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen is a potential source of clean and renewable fuels. However, four decades of global research have proven this multi-step reaction to be highly challenging. The design of effective artificial photocatalytic systems will depend on our ability to correlate the photocatalyst ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Saturday, 08/31/19
Science Saturday: Funky FungiHave you ever wondered where mushrooms come from, what that “moss†is hanging from the branches in an oak tree, or what lies beneath the rotting logs on a Redwood forest floor? Find out when we explore the hidden kingdom of fungus! Try completing a mushroom cap craft, learn about ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
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 ...
Membrane potential is a unique biophysical property maintained by every cell on earth. The importance of membrane potential is widely recognized in the context of specialized organs like the brain and the heart. Yet, our understanding of the ways in which membrane potential, and its coordinated, rapid changes across large ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Sonoma State Biology ColloquiumSonoma State University Biology ColloquiumSpeaker: Dr. Cecilia Chavana-Bryant, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Testing gravity with cosmology: efficient simulations, novel statistics and analytical approaches'In the era of precision cosmology, a wide range of cosmological surveys, such as the LSST, DESI, Euclid and WFIRST will precisely probe the large-scale structure of the universe, shedding light on the nature of the dark sectors. Given how sensitively the growth of structure depends on the nature of ...
Novel materials with by-design properties that can be grown down to the two-dimensional limit are considered important candidates for addressing computation and energy challenges of the twenty-first century. For instance, band gaps by design and enhanced transport properties give prospects for highly efficient solar energy conversion and low-loss optoelectronics and ...
Shah Selbe is an engineer and conservation technologist who works with communities, NGOs, and developing countries to identify and deploy technologies that can help with their greatest conservation challenges. His projects have integrated crowdsourcing, smartphone apps, drones, satellite data, and sensors to address such conservation issues as illegal poaching and ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Discovery Station: Corn and TeosinteDiscover fun facts about corn (Zea mays) and its ancestor Balsas teosinte. Learn how the people of Mesoamerica began the domestication of corn and the differences and similarities between teosinte and modern day corn. You will gain a new appreciation for corn, how it grows, and why without human intervention, ...
Activists and environmental defenders in the Global South promote transformations against dispossession in a variety of fields, from food to energy production. Ecological economic scholars argued in favor of an obvious alliance between environmental justice movements in the South and criticism of economic growth. Yet, collaborative research unveiled activists’ concerns ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Physics vs. Time TravelEveryone loves a good time travel story, but given what we know -- and don’t know -- about physics, is time travel in any way plausible? Using popular movies as a framework, Professor Ken Wharton will outline several distinct categories of consistent time travel stories, and discuss possible connections with ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Purity and Pollution: Cannabis as Matter Out of PlaceEncounters between humans and psychoactive substances are loaded, often fraught, affairs. They are not just liminal moments of experience but are bound up with social dynamics of danger, pollution, purification, and transformation. Cannabis is no exception. Based on nine years of anthropological research, Dr. Polson will share observations on cannabis, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Using AI in Marketing Analytics and Predictive ModelingWhen it comes to moving people and making deliveries, few companies are more widely spread and more widely recognized than Uber. Uber is part of the logistics fabric of more than 700 cities around the world, and whether it's a ride, a sandwich, or a package, they use technology to ...
