First Friday: Life Hacks & SkillsIs your New Years’ Resolution to learn new skills? Be more sustainable? Create cool things? Then you’ve come to the right place. Have a blast while finding new ways to hack and improve your life! Learn new life skills, play with robots, and test out your inventing chops at our ...
This wonderful event will engage, entertain, and enlighten the community about the benefits, joys, and culinary delights of fungi! Visit a variety of booths showcasing all things fungi from mushroom kits, cookbooks, forage guides, textiles, apparel, tasty treats, hands-on workshops, cooking demonstrations, and more!Come learn about what mushrooms you can ...
SkeptiCamp Monterey 2020, a day of free presentations on science, skepticism and critical thinking, hosted by Monterey County Skeptics and Humanist Association of the Monterey Bay Area. Begins Friday, Jan. 3, with casual get-together from 6-9 p.m. at London Bridge Pub, 256 Figueroa St. #2, Monterey. Main event Saturday, Jan. ...
The faculty of the StorageX Initiative work together to tackle the complex, interdisciplinary challenges in creating modern energy storage systems. StorageX funds research to prove new energy storage technologies and concepts.Working closely with industrial partners, StorageX develops in-depth technical and commercial understanding of the emerging challenges in the energy storage ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Tuesday, 01/07/20
An Enquiry Concerning Non-Linearity, the RMS-Mean Flux Relation, and log-Normal Flux DistributionsWhen we entertain any suspicion that a data analysis term is employed without any meaning or idea (as is but too frequent), we need but enquire from what impressions is that supposed idea derived. Incautious attribution of the term(s) non-)linearity to time series data is meaningless -- a category mistake. ...
As California braces for the big one and as Southern California deals with two recent big quakes the topic of earthquakes in our state is at the top of our minds.Stephen Hickman is the Director of the Earthquake Science Center at the United States Geological Survey and he's coming to ...
Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) was characterized as the fourth most profitable illegal industry in the world in 2008, worth up to $21 billion dollars annually. However, now, more than 10 years later, illegal fishing alone has an annual worth up to $23 billion. Alarmingly, wildlife trade - legal and illegal ...
As tsunamis and large scale hurricanes can occur on centennial to millennial time scales, observational and historical records generally do not provide sufficient information to determine consistent patterns of event frequency and intensity. Coastal populations have been growing, making it even more important to better understand these coastal hazards and ...
You are what you eat and that includes the 60% of your body that’s made of water. Everything we eat was once a living organism largely composed of water, and many of the ways we cook rely on the properties of water. At Pairings: The Water We Eat, join Exploratorium ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95, 14.95 explO members, AD members free
Step into the wonderful world of mushrooms at this annual NightLife favorite, where you’ll learn how to spot, ID, grow, and cook mushrooms alongside fellow fungi enthusiasts.Gather ‘round for tales from photographer and mushroom ID specialist Alan Rockefeller as he shares new species of bioluminescent fungi and other recent finds ...
