Polyolefins are ubiquitous. They are lightweight, strong, and stable. These features render them useful in countless applications. Unfortunately, these attributes also contribute to the accumulation of persistent plastic waste in the environment. While polyolefins can be mechanically recycled, often this results in an inferior product and is in part the ...
Biosecurity in an Age of AI: Frontier Safety, Anticipatory Governance, and Defensive InnovationThis talk will discuss recent advancements in AI for biology, and relevant security and oversight considerations. It will also discuss how policy can be used to incentivize and shape technology development for defensive purposes, clarifying how the colloquial "defensive acceleration" or d/acc concept in AI circles relates to formal offense-defense ...
Entangled Intelligences: A Gathering on Science Futures Entangled Intelligences explores how the presence of diverse, non-human constituencies - from the biological to the synthetic - invites us to expand our thinking on the interrelationships among species and the resulting impacts on our understanding of science futures. By looking at intelligence as an emergent property shared across systems, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: TBA
The Long Now: Entangled IntelligencesJoin us for an unforgettable experience exploring Entangled Intelligences. This special event brings together an extraordinary lineup of speakers and performers exploring the frontiers of interspecies intelligence.How will our rapidly deepening interactions with non-human constituencies - from the biological to the synthetic - change how we understand what intelligence is?On ...
Family Nature Adventures: FungiThis Months Theme: Fungus Among Us - Exploring the Secret Life of Mushrooms!Unlock the mysterious world of fungi that thrives in the redwood forest!Interactive Workshop: Learn about the fascinating life cycle of mushrooms, their role in the ecosystem, and how to identify various species.Guided Nature Walk: Venture into the forest ...
Where: OaklandCost: $25 Adult, $35 Age 3 - 8, Members $15 discount
I am broadly interested in the conservation of Earth's biological diversity in the face of many interrelated threats, such as climate change, altered disturbance regimes, and land-use conversion. My research interests are in using remote sensing, geospatial technology, and machine learning to map and monitor our changing coupled human and ...
The IceCube project at the South Pole melted 86 holes 2.5 kilometer deep in the Antarctic ice sheet to construct an enormous astronomical observatory that is also the largest neutrino detector ever built. The experiment discovered a flux of neutrinos from deep space with energies more than a million times ...
