COVID-19 Vaccines and Returning to Normalcy - LivestreamAmid dire news of increasing COVID-19 deaths and strict lockdowns this winter, we see vaccines being approved in record time.How and when will these vaccines be rolled out to hundreds of millions of Americans? Who will be offered them first, and when will the rest of us gain access? Will ...
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Next Step - Micromobility - LivestreamIn recent years, cities are being challenged by a growing number of micromobility options. The use of traditional parking space, package delivery, and pick-up/drop-off locations are now competing with the desire to incorporate bike lanes, shared bikes and e-scooters. Demand on curb space is increasing and new micromobility providers from ...
In the midst of a pandemic and economic stress, governments have to make real-time decisions on maximizing safety and minimizing economic and personal impact. How can we use data, behavioral science, and our shared need for safety to create a more connected ecosystem where government, residents, and businesses share information ...
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Destination Health: Driving Equity in Health Care - LivestreamAs our country faces the worst economic downturn in a century due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans are experiencing financial strain, leading to food insecurity and rising homelessness. Communities of color are disproportionately impacted by both the Coronavirus and the resulting economic crisis, creating multiple barriers to health.The health-care ...
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California King Tides: Dec 13-15The California King Tides Project is asking the public to safely photograph the highest high tides of the year, arriving December 13-15. Photographing the impact of these tides on beaches, wetlands, roads, harbors, and homes helps California plan for future sea level rise. Anyone with a smartphone can participate. Find ...
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Two Talks: Popping the Science Bubble Ever wonder what the scientists at Cal are up to? Now is your chance to find out during a thrilling series of short lectures on cutting-edge research directly from Berkeley grad students and postdocs. With new speakers each month, come learn about interesting discoveries and science related issues that affect ...
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Breakthroughs in Light Medicine: Treating Dementias and Pain - LivestreamThis presentation will introduce what light medicine is, how it works, and review the medical literature as well as their extensive clinical experience in treating neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain injuries, strokes, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease, peripheral neuropathies, as well as nearly all painful ...
Rod Tulloss has studied the family Amanitaceae since 1978.Presently Rod is collaborating with several labs on combined morphological and genetic studies of Amanita and Limacella. He is a research associate (hons.) of the New York Botanical Garden and has received the NEMF "Eximium" and "Amicus Tyronum" awards for contributions to support ...
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Wednesday, 12/16/20
Detection of SARS CoV-2 in Wastewater to Inform Public Health - LivestreamWidespread studies conducted national and globally indicate that genes specific to the SARS-CoV-2 virus can be detected in wastewater. The ability to collectively sample both symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals has lead dozens of state, cities, and universities to actively monitor wastewater to inform public health decisions. The clarity in the ...
Join us as we explore the ingredients to 16th century eye medicine with clinical herbalist, Rylan Sian of North Wind Apothecary.Take a virtual seat at the table as we smell and taste our way through 16th century eye medicine. Clinical herbalist, Rylan Sian of North Wind Apothecary will join us ...
Sea levels on the New Jersey coast rose twice as much as the global average in the last 100 years. Some coastal communities experience ten times as much tidal flooding as they did a half-century ago. Around the world, sea level is rising at an accelerating rate. The rate of ...
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A Rainbow of Exoplanets - LivestreamWe identified an exoplanet color for the first time in 2013: HD 189733b, a Jupiter-like exoplanet was determined to be dark-blue. Since then, astronomers have discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets and found out that a significant fraction of them are terrestrial. After detecting them, the next challenge is to image ...
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Using Genetic Tools to Understand the Master Regulator: The Spliceosome - LivestreamDid you know that the DNA in your body is inert and “silent� Your cells require a constant stream of instructions to tell them what to do next, but the genetic information they need is locked away in DNA. The only way that the information in your genes is “expressed†...
Over one hundred years ago, Edwin Hubble noticed two distinct classes of galaxies; youthful Spirals with ongoing star formation, and “red and dead†smooth, faded and barren Ellipticals.The MaNGA Survey, which is mapping 10,000 nearby galaxies, will help us understand how all types of galaxies formed in the early universe. ...
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Thursday, 12/17/20
Technology and Race: The Role of Big Tech - LivestreamEarlier this month, Google fired one of its most prominent Black researchers over an email she sent criticizing the company’s efforts in both hiring a diverse workforce and removing biases that have been built into its artificial intelligence technology. Her dismissal has sparked rage both internally at Google and around ...
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Digital Transformation for Social Impact - LivestreamA global pandemic has laid bare fundamental weaknesses in the US economy and healthcare system. Other nations are grappling with their own version of these and other societal problems. Despite understandable outrage among many citizens, there are reasons for optimism about the possibilities for widespread systemic change. Among them: new ...
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December LASER Event - LivestreamDaniela de Paulis (Artist in Residence at the Dwingeloo radio telescope in the Netherlands) on her conceptual art based on space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (live from the Netherlands)Janine Marchessault (Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University ...
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A Closer Look at.... Prostate Cancer Treatments - LivestreamExpert conversations highlighting emerging research and clinical strategies tackling a variety of diseases and topics using stem cell techniques.Speakers: J. Kellogg Parsons, Rana McKay, and Christina Jamieson, UC San DiegoRegister at weblink to receive connection information
Skeptical Inquirer Presents live online event, Timothy Caulfield, author of Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong about Everything? and host of the acclaimed Netflix documentary series A User’s Guide to Cheating Death, will make the case that even in this age of alternative facts, resistance is not futile.The spread of conspiracy theories and harmful misinformation is a ...
Lighten up your outlook as we observe the end of the sun’s journey across the horizon. The winter solstice marks the longest night of the year and return of daylight as our star reverses its apparent course in the sky. Learn about the significance of the solstice and the mechanics ...
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Friday, 12/18/20
How to build the world's biggest telescopes- LivestreamIncreasing our knowledge of how the universe works has always been enabled by technological development. From the invention of the telescope by Galileo, over 400 years ago, to the development of 8 to 10 meter class telescopes and the launch of the Hubble telescope at the end of the last ...
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Saturday, 12/19/20
The Neuroscience of Death - LivestreamWe present to you, just in time for the holidays: death!What actually happens to the body and brain when we die? What does it feel like? What's the deal with near-death experiences?We will end the year with a bang by diving into the neuroscience and philosophy of death and dying. ...
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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 ...
 It may feel like we are far apart this 2020, but the universe wants to remind us of the things that bring us together.Join us in celebrating a once in a lifetime viewing of the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Astronomers will be live streaming via Zoom from the Montgomery ...
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The Great Conjunction Virtual Telescope ViewingJoin Chabot astronomers virtually on Facebook and YouTube for a rare celestial event! Every 20 years, Jupiter gets very close to Saturn as seen from Earth, an event astronomers call “conjunction.†This year, the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction will be especially close, the closest in 800 years. The planets will be so ...
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Wonderfest: Madame Curie - LivestreamWonderfest is delighted to present Madame Curie, a new musical-theater tribute to Earth's most accomplished female scientist. As Maria Sklodowska was becoming Marie Curie, she emigrated 1000 miles from Poland to France, overcame xenophobia and sexism, and pioneered our understanding of radioactivity. In the process, she earned Nobel prizes (plural!) ...
