Guided nature walk at Bouverie PreserveExperience the beauty and rich natural history of Bouverie Preserve by signing up for a Guided Nature Walk Participants are paired with a trained volunteer to explore the mixed evergreen forest, flower-carpeted oak woodland and rugged chaparral.Visitors of all ages are welcome. Minors MUST be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian. Reservations ...
Where: Glen EllenCost: Free
Coastal Walk at Cowell-Purisima TrailJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful walk along the Cowell-Purisima trail that POST helped create by protecting adjacent farmland. While it may be foggy, we hope to catch gorgeous views of the ocean, nearby farmland, and glimpses of harbor seals, pelicans, hawks, rabbits, and whales during the winter ...
Most of us lead drab and colorless lives as drones and cogs in faceless organizations. With his tales of research around southern California oil and gas platforms, Milton (only his wife calls him Dr. Love) will enter your world like a bright and fanciful rainbow, or a swatch of William ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
March LASER EventChristina Jauernik (Architect and Artist) on "Touching Distance - Inter-Views with the Virtual" Hanna Haslaahti (Media Artist) on "Storytelling with Personal Avatars" Javier Ideami (Filmmaker and A.I. Scientist) on "Encounters of the third kind with Generative Artificial Intelligence" Register here or here
Where: Cost: Free
Centering Health Justice and Trans Well-Being - LivestreamIn celebration of International Transgender Day of Visibility, join two scientific presentations that will help raise awareness of systemic issues that impact trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse individuals, as well as those with intersecting identities.Generating Models of Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy While Centering the Needs of Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender-Diverse IndividualsGender-affirming ...
The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future - LivestreamOur predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance. The best we can do is try to absorb the lessons from futurism’s checkered past, perhaps learning to do a little better.Our next Skeptical Inquirer Presents event welcomes podcast host ...
Where: Cost: Free
Improving VR/AR Experiences by Understanding the Human Visual System - LivestreamVirtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) wearable displays strive to provide perceptually realistic user experiences, while constrained by limited compute budgets, hardware, and transmission bandwidths of wearable computing systems. This presentation describes two different ways in which a greater understanding of the human visual system may assist in achieving this goal. ...
Ribonucleic acids (RNAs) are one of nature’s most versatile biomolecules and possess a rich variety of functions, but why should we care about them? Because RNA has so much to teach us about our past, present, and future.In this talk, I will highlight how RNA has influenced our lives across ...