Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service Virtual Bioblitz LaunchBe part of this special edition of MLK Jr. Day of Service and discover how you can become a community scientist and contribute to parks and beyond!Come learn more about how community science is a movement to empower everyone to participate in building better knowledge to care for the world ...
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Tuesday, 01/19/21
This Moment in Climate with Michael Mann and Leah Stokes - LivestreamClimate change was a leading issue for more voters in 2020 than any other election year. With a promising new pro-science, pro-climate action administration coming in 2021, there are more pathways - and far greater political will - than ever before to transition to a clean energy economy.Now, the question ...
In the effort to identify the cause of the lower atmospheric concentration of CO2 during ice ages, the potential impact of the Southern Ocean, the circumpolar ocean around Antarctica, has long been recognized. I will describe an increasing body of nitrogen isotope evidence - from the organic matter bound within ...
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NOVA 'Secrets in Our DNA' Screening & Panel Discussion - LivestreamSome 30 million Americans have sent their DNA to be analyzed by companies like 23andMe and AncestryDNA, hoping to obtain clues to family origins and forecasts of their future health. Some users have found family members and discovered lurking genetic risks. But what happens once the sample is in the ...
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Two Talks: Popping the Science Bubble Effect of Moisture Content and Fuel type on EmissionsSpeaker: Priya Garg, UC BerkeleySweat It Out - What can molecules in sweat tell us about our health?Speaker: Mallika Bariya, UC BerkeleySee weblink for Zoom or Facebook links.
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COVID-19 Mutations & YOU - LivestreamSanta Cruz Works will conduct a Town Hall wherein a distinguished panel of experts will answer all of your questions about the new COVID-19 mutation. You learn what UCSC and our community leaders are doing to test and combat the virus.Register at weblink to receive connection information.
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An Evening Cruise into the Virgo Cluster - LivestreamIn 2020, we took a cruise to the center of the Milky Way. In 2021, we leave the comfort of our home galaxy and head to the Times Square of the Universe - the Virgo Cluster. Along the way, we will visit a whole zoo of different galaxies, the biggest ...
California has an extremely diverse 'mycoflora', with over 4,000 species of macro fungi documented. Modern taxonomical tools have shown that this is just the tip of the iceberg. This talk will highlight some of the recent discoveries, and how you can help move mycology forward.Speaker: Noah Siegel
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Wednesday, 01/20/21
A Healthy Society Series: Communicating Science (in a Science-Skeptical World) - LivestreamAs a driver of global health, prosperity and planetary sustainability, science pervades all realms of human activity. The COVID pandemic of the past year and the prospect of its eventual resolution have put science (and scientists) at the forefront of an international cultural conversation. Yet communicating facts and credible research ...
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Full-Spectrum Science: LASERS! - LivestreamJoin Exploratorium scientist Ron Hipschman for colorful explorations of the physical world - in this case, lasers! Find out what's special about laser light, how it's made, and how it's used in everything from Blu-ray to eye surgery to fusion energy research.See weblink for YouTube and Facebook Live links.
Small molecule transformations, such as CO2 or N2 reduction, in biology and solar fuels chemistry require multi-electron and multi-proton reaction sequences. The goal of synthetically realizing these reaction types provides a rich landscape for exploring new ideas in the design, synthesis, and characterization of inorganic and organometallic molecules. This talk ...
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Efficiently Protecting Software Innovations on a Global Scale - LivestreamTo be competitive, software companies often employ designers and developers in different locations and countries to implement and update different versions of software. With this increasing workforce in other countries, software company competition can also stem from other countries, and can provide different flavors of a software product to different ...
The Arecibo Telescope may have tragically collapsed last year, but it doesn’t mean the end of the era of giants in astronomy. Giant ground-based telescopes currently being built will get their first light this decade. The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) and the Giant Magellan Telescope ...
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are mysterious events that were discovered only in the last decade by astronomers. They last a few milliseconds at most but are extremely bright sources of radio waves. They are so bright that we can spot them from distant galaxies. Although we are not fully certain ...
Computer vision systems are now capable of surpassing the performance of human experts in fields like radiology and dermatology. Can they also help us discern real videos from deepfakes - videos manipulated by artificial intelligence? This presentation will provide an overview of the state-of-the-art machine-learning models for detecting deepfakes. It will also present evidence ...
Selection bias occurs when the method by which a statistical sample is obtained prevents the sample from accurately representing the population about which one wishes to draw inferences. As straightforward as the issue may seem, selection bias is among the most pernicious perils of statistical inference. In this lecture, Dr. ...
Insects are the most abundant and diverse group of animals, and have co-evolved with plants over hundreds of millions of years. Insects living on plants face a variety of mechanical problems, which has far-reaching ecological and evolutionary consequences.In this talk, Dr Walter Federle, University of Cambridge, will show the important ...
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Vision 2022: Climate & Clean Air Zoomposium #3Over the past several months, SPUR and Move LA have convened a series of panels laying the foundation for a statewide ballot measure that would generate the funding necessary to accelerate the deployment of climate change-abating transportation, infrastructure and other technologies. In October, we heard from elected officials, environmental luminaries ...
 Journalist Annie Jacobsen is well known for her best sellers The Pentagon's Brain, Area 51 and Operation Paperclip. In her latest book, First Platoon, she investigates "warfare, good and evil in the age of biometrics, the technology that would allow the government to identify anyone, anywhere, at any time." Come ...
Humans rely on the sensations of itch, touch, and pain for a broad range of essential behaviors. For example, acute pain acts as a warning signal that alerts us to noxious mechanical, chemical, and thermal stimuli, which are potentially tissue damaging. Likewise, itch sensations trigger reflexes that may protect us ...
The latest climate science supports what millions of people and animals are experiencing daily: the impacts of climate change are hitting harder and faster than expected, posing grave threats to human health and planetary health. We are already pushing against multiple global tipping points that could unleash abrupt and irreversible damage ...
For this special After Dark, we invite you to view the acclaimed documentary Human Nature in advance and join us for a live conversation with executive producers Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner, bioethics expert Alta Charo, and staff biologist Dr. Jennifer Frazier.Human Nature is a provocative exploration of the biggest ...
NightSchool dedicates a night to Lepidoptera, the order of insects that include the very recognizable, (often) colorful, scale-winged moths and butterflies.EVENT HIGHLIGHTSExplore specimens from the vaults of the Academy’s vast entomology collection with collection manager Chris Grinter. He’ll show you a wide range of audience favorites, from extinct species to ...
Speaker: Alexis Cartwright-Taylor, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciencesSee weblink for connection information
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Saturday, 01/23/21
Mushrooms of the Garden - LivestreamBotanical gardens are obviously known for their plants, but with plants come fungi. In fact, the diversity of plants and fungi are coupled through their many ecological interactions. The UC Botanical Garden is a great place to showcase the fungal side of life, particularly during the rainy season when mushrooms ...
Join 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 ...
