How to Avoid Busting Up Your Furniture and Your Relationships During COVID-19 - LivestreamMonths and months in a sweet little bubble, with stresses and chaos on the outside, but warmth and safety on the inside . . . doesn't that sound great? But if this idyllic situation isn't yours right now, don't worry! Neuroscience and emotional resilience specialists Dr. Rick Hanson, psychologist and ...
The Mars Exploration Rover and Mars Science Lab missions have demonstrated that early Mars was habitable for (primitive) life as we know it. However, missions now on their way to Mars are shifting their objectives from the characterization of habitable environments to the search for prebiotic chemistry and biosignatures on ...
Two of the main questions in climate dynamics are: (1) what is the change in global mean surface temperature caused by a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, and (2) what is the change equator-to-pole temperature gradient for a given global mean temperature change. One hope is that paleoclimate records ...
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Harnessing Data Revolution in Quantum Matter - LivestreamOur desire to better understand quantum emergence drove the community's efforts in improving computing power and experimental instrumentation dramatically. However, the resulting increase in volume and complexity of data present new challenges. I will discuss how these challenges can be embraced and turned into opportunities by employing principled machine learning approaches. ...
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How Science Unlocks Copper's Hidden Powers - LivestreamIn particle accelerators, electrons are pushed to extreme energies by electromagnetic fields that oscillate inside evacuated metal cavities. Those cavities are usually made of copper. Even in SLAC’s most advanced accelerators, it is the strength of the copper material that determines how much field we can apply and how much ...
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Basic Science: Rising Stars of Berkeley Biology - LivestreamBerkeley’s renowned biological research carries forward in these early-career scholars, who are decoding cues of brain activity behind behavior; studying mitochondrial DNA’s links to metabolic diseases; and examining molecular bases of chemical coevolution in plants and insects.Please register in advance. To access the presentation, join the Zoom meeting.Matthew Welch, Francis Williams ...
BIDS Data Science Fellow Váleri Vásquez will be a featured panelist in a livestream conversation following BAMPFA's presentation of Woman and the Glacier (Audrius Stonys, Lithuania, Estonia, 2016), a portrait of portrait of Lithuanian scientist Aušra Revutaite, who has spent more than thirty-five years on the Tuyuksu glacier in Kazahkstan studying the effects of ...
Honeybees are regarded as one of the most important insects on our planet. Did you ever wonder about what really goes on inside a hive? Did you know that the colony is a finely tuned machine where every bee has a job and that these jobs are strictly divided by ...
Amory Lovins and Holmes Hummel, two thought-leaders with a track record of high-impact work on energy and sustainability, have returned to Stanford to invest in a new generation of scholars and innovators at the frontiers of the clean energy revolution.Speakers: Amory Lovins, author; Holmes Hummel, Clean Energy WorksRegister at weblink ...
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The Social Media Hype Machine: Disrupting Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health - LivestreamIn a perfect storm of social unrest, fake news, and a global pandemic, the 2020 election may be the most vulnerable yet to interference by foreign actors. And that’s only one of many warnings about the dangerous influence of social media from Sinan Aral, the MIT researcher who helped uncover ...
Come be in your elements with Exploratorium host and scientific raconteur Ron Hipschman - follow tales of intrigue and invention, join in dynamic demonstrations, and uncover fascinating connections between individual elements and our collective human experience.Have you ever heard of an element that can cry, or get a disease? Tin does ...
Just when the world was finally getting used to only having eight planets orbiting the Sun, the presence of a new ninth one is slowly coming into view at the edge of the solar system. This planet -- Planet Nine -- is inferred from of its gravitational effects shaping the ...
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Thursday, 11/12/20
ML Basics 1: Linear Regression Models WorkshopIn this workshop, you will explore linear regression models. You will learn about data preprocessing, predicting model parameters, bias, and variance trade-off, regularization, Ridge and Lasso Regression models, evaluating model performance, and how to tune up your models.Agenda:11:50 am - 12:00 pm Arrival and socializing12:00 pm - 12:10 pm Opening12:10 ...
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November LASER Event - Music from Other Worlds - LivestreamHeather Spence (Marine Biologists and Composer) on "Underwater Sound Research: Music of Marine Biology"Cheryl Leonard (Composer and Instrument Builder) on "Phantom Limbs: Composing Music Amidst the Sixth Extinction"Register at weblink to receive connection information.
Eric Hupperts is a houseplant enthusiast. He is also a horticulturist at UCBG caring for the Asian Collection, which includes favorites such as begonias, gingers, and rhododendrons. As a child, Eric was enthralled with the family houseplant, a dragon tree (Dracaena marginata) that provided a gateway into the world of ...
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History and Mystery of the Refuge and the Bay - Livestream The Refuge was created in 1972, but this story starts 200 years earlier when Europeans discovered San Francisco Bay. Learn about the Bay’s history and the answers to mysteries such as: Why are mercury and gold a lethal duo? How did silver mining in Nevada affect the bay? Why was ...
Did you know that some birds of prey and ducks can use nest boxes? As a volunteer, Lee Pauser has been building, installing, and monitoring nest boxes for 19 nesting seasons. In this presentation, he will focus on the 6 species that he has had nest in large (Barn Owl, kestrel, ...
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Hardcore Natural History: Small But Mighty: Monarch Butterfly Migration and OverwinteringEvery fall, thousands of monarch butterflies migrate to Monterey County from all across the western United States to spend the winter clustering together at special overwintering sites.  But how do they get here? And why do they spend the winter in certain groves of trees, but not others? How ...
What do animals know, and how do they know it? Author Peter Godfrey-Smith discusses his latest book, an inquiry into the origins of animal intelligence considering ocean creatures from sponges and shrimp to octopuses and whale sharks. These animals hold surprising lessons for some of philosophy's most vexing puzzles: how ...
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Astronomy on Tap Seattle - LivestreamHave you ever wondered how exactly we can avoid the dinosaurs’ fate? Join as Dr. Siegfried Eggl talks about the science behind how we could deflect asteroids and keep the planet safe from interstellar objects. The event will begin at 7pm (note the early start!), and there will be lots ...
Jellies have no hearts, brains, or lungs, and are made up of 95% waterâ€"how interesting can they be? Find out during an evening with venomologist Anna Klompen, science writer Juli Berwald, and Academy biologist Riah Evin.See weblink for YouTube and Facebook Live buttons.
The observable universe is made of stars and galaxies and gas. However, it is commonly held in the astronomy community that our universe is also made of an invisible substance called dark matter that is five times more common than ordinary matter. However, dark matter has never been observed, and the ...
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Friday, 11/13/20
Past, Present and Future on the Bay Area Ridge Trail - LivestreamJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) and the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council for a discussion of the history and future of our region’s most ambitious trail network. We will hear from Elizabeth Byers, a founder of the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council and author of Bay Area Ridge Trail: ...
Green Friday: Extinction Rebellion on 'What To Do About the Coming Extinction' - LivestreamFounded by youth in Britain in 2018, Extinction Rebellion is a global movement that uses non-violent civil disobedience in an attempt to halt mass extinction and minimize the risk of social collapse. It has spread like wildfire across the globe - our local chapter XR SF Bay is aimed at ...
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Saturday, 11/14/20
Here Come the Suns: The statistics and habitability of planets in binary star systems - LivestreamMost planet searches focus on single stars, like the sun. But half of all sun-like stars actually live in binary or multiple stellar systems, whose planet-hosting capability may be quite different. Although planets in binary systems are common in pop culture (think Tattoine in Stark Wars, or Gallifrey from Doctor ...
The study of animal communication challenges our ideas of intelligence and informs the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Among the most fascinating and sophisticated of vocalizations are the songs and sounds of humpback whales. Laurance Doyle, Ph.D, Research Scientist with SETI Institute will share his studies of humpbacks to understand ...
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Virtual Telescope Viewing - LivestreamJoin our resident astronomers on Facebook Live every Saturday evening live from Chabot’s Observation deck!Each week, our astronomers will guide us through spectacular night sky viewing through Nellie, Chabot‘s most powerful telescope. Weather permitting we will be able to view objects live through the telescopes and our astronomers will be ...
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Sunday, 11/15/20
Butterflies of the World - LivestreamOur Caterpillar lady Sally Levinson and Butterfly guy Sarab Seth are going global with this month’s virtual butterfly walk. Sarab’s travels and stunning photography will reveal butterflies from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, India and Panama.Register at weblink for connection information
Where: Cost: $10 General, $5 Members
The Math Magi: Seminal figures in Western mathematics - LivestreamThis presentation outlines the development of mathematics in the West with a focus on "God Created the Integers" by Stephen Hawking. It spans more than two thousand years from Pythagoras to Turing with spotlights on Archimedes, Descartes, Newton, Boole, and Cantor. Bob Burchfield will present material from the text along ...
Rivers, Time, and Collaborative Research - LivestreamRivers are icons of climate change. They are also highly sensitive indicators of present climate conditions, recorders of historical climate, and predictors of climate in the future. Climate scientists research all of these factors by observing watersheds and the ecosystems they sustain.Conceived by Jonathon Keats, River Time is a multifaceted ...
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The fall and rise of the mass on a spring - LivestreamSince antiquity, the mass on a spring and other simple mechanical systems have been used in everyday applications, like time-keeping clocks. But at one time, they were also employed in smarter information technologies such as calculators and computers, technologies now ruled by silicon-based microelectronics. In recent years, thanks largely to ...
 Information about the late-time Universe is imprinted on the small scale CMB as photons travel to us from the surface of last scattering. Several processes are at play and small scale fluctuations are very rich and non-Gaussian in nature. I will review some of the most important effects and I ...
LA’s Green New Deal, released by Mayor Garcetti in April 2019, sets a global model for upholding and exceeding the Paris Climate Agreement by prioritizing urgency, equity, and prosperity. Uniquely, the city of Los Angeles runs the largest municipally owned electricity and water utility in the country, the second busiest ...
Hierarchical materials - materials that include a hierarchy of bonding interactions because their basic building block are more complex than those of individual atoms - present a wide array of underexplored phase behaviors and emergent properties. Examples include many current functional materials comprised on molecules or small particle building blocks, ...
