Face your fears and set your spirit free at tonight’s celebratory spectacle. Learn about what triggers our fear response and explore familiar superstitions that leave us with an eerie feeling. This evening will feature a specialty spooky cocktail and DJ set to send shivers down your spine. And don’t forget ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Hardcore Natural History: Maritime habitat at Fort OrdThe museum will host ecologist Thor Anderson of Burleson Consulting, an expert in habitat restoration, wildlife, and landscape ecology, for a lecture entitled, “A Monumental Task: Restoring Maritime Chaparral Habitat on Fort Ord National Monument.â€Anderson’s presentation will cover the challenges of restoring more than 60 acres of rare Central Coast ...
Get into costume and come ready to enjoy creepy science specimens, a costume contest, and Halloween drag show with the Rice Rockettes, hosted by drag queen extraordinaire Heklina!
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19 - $16.50 depending on entrance time
Dangerous DemosDon’t flinch! Exploratorium educator Zeke Kossover performs a trio of demonstrations with real science and real danger. Will you volunteer to put your face in the path of a gigantic, spiked mace? Nap on a bed of nails? Stand in a shower of sparks reaching 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit? With fearlessness ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 in person, free online
The National Climate Adaptation Science Center works on research to help avoid some scary scenarios for fish and wildlife.Learn how warming weather and shorter winters trap moose in a never-ending creepy crawly season.For fish, higher water temperatures can make long distance migrations even more of a haunted maze.While there is ...
Coyote Point Movie NightsGather friends and family, pack a picnic and join CuriOdyssey for a fun-filled summer evening during Coyote Point Movie Nights in July, August, September and October at Coyote Point Park in San Mateo. Watch your favorite movies, experiment with fun CuriOdyssey science experiments, play creatively with San Mateo County Libraries, ...
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 ...
Join Lindsay Wildlife staff online as we introduce you to several animals that go bump in the night! Get a close-up look at some often misunderstood California native creatures and learn why we can't live without them, not to mention what makes them so unique and cool. This program will ...
Where: Cost: $10 General, Free for Botanical Garden Members.
In this talk, Nicholas Coles will discuss the “Multiverse Problemâ€: the idea that the many decision points that researchers reach in the pursuit of knowledge have multiplicative consequences for the conclusions that they make. Nicholas will discuss how this Multiverse Problem can constrain the generalizability of some research endeavors - ...
Where: Cost: Free
The COVID Labyrinth: Where Are We In It and How Do We Escape?Join us for a medical panel discussion about where we are in the COVID pandemic. What progress has been made? What failures have contributed most to making recovery so complicated? How do we, and should we, accelerate the vaccination programs in other countries? Do we have a realistic exit strategy? ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $5 General, Free for Members,
The interstellar medium is the "stuff between the stars" in galaxies: the dynamic, turbulent environment out of which new stars are born. Understanding the processes that govern star formation and galactic evolution are areas of active research, and open questions abound. Particularly mysterious is the role of the interstellar magnetic ...
Where: Cost: Free
Building Traversable Wormholes (In Theory) - LivestreamEinstein's Theory of General Relativity tells us that gravity is geometry, in the form of the curvature of spacetime. But what spacetime shapes are allowed in this theory? Traversable wormholes -- tunnels through spacetime that observers can pass through -- have long been relegated to the realm of science fiction. ...
New Energy Nexus is an international non-profit that supports clean-energy entrepreneurs with funds, accelerators, and networks. It strives towards an abundant world with a 100% clean energy economy for 100% of the population in the shortest time possible. Crucial to making this lasting change is uplifting communities around the globe who ...
Identifying anomalous observations has important business impacts across all industries. None more than in the world of fraud detection where some observations are intentionally trying to hide, which is different than most rare event problems that exist in modeling. This talk will highlight some modern approaches to anomaly detection - ...
Where: Cost: Free!
Galaxies on the Edge: Properties of Galaxies on the Edge of Distant Superclusters - LivestreamThe NASA Cosmic Origins program asks "How did we get here?" and "How did galaxies evolve from the very first systems to the types we observe". In this talk, we'll explore these questions by focusing on galaxies and their environments. We'll start by defining galaxy types and discussing where they're ...
Where: Cost: Free
New Views of our Solar System from the James Webb Space TelescopeJoin Dr Leigh Fletcher, a planetary scientist from the University of Leicester, as he reveals the incredible potential of the James Webb Space Telescope for exploring the diverse environments across our Solar System. Webb will explore worlds both near and far, using its unprecedented infrared capabilities to open the door ...
Where: Cost: Free
Low Temperature Properties of Glasses - LivestreamA wide variety of amorphous materials exhibit similar behavior in their low temperature thermal properties regardless of their chemical composition. Examples include a linear specific heat and a T2 thermal conductivity. These features have been attributed to tunneling two level systems (TLS). However, the standard TLS model has not been ...
Join us for this very special book talk with author Bernd Brunner as he takes us through his fascinating new book Taming Fruit: From Fruit Forests & Oases to Orchards. Early orchards may have been oases dotted with date trees, where desert nomads stopped to rest. In the Amazon, ...
Climate models project that changes in patterns of temperature and precipitation delivery will be ubiquitous, but how those changes cascade through watersheds is less certain. Indeed, the widespread disconnect between changes in extreme precipitation and extreme streamflow contrasts with model projections and underlies what has been referred to as a ...
