North Ridge Trail Hike at Purisima Creek RedwoodsJoin POST for a beautiful and strenuous but rewarding 4.5-mile hike through the redwoods at Purisima Creek Redwoods!This out-and-back hike is strenuous, with several inclines and declines. The hike itself will be roughly 4.5 miles in totality, with about 900 ft. elevation gain throughout the hike. We will enjoy the ...
Where: WoodsideCost: Free
Facilitated Communication, Authorship Testing, and The Telepathy TapesWhen Janyce Boynton participated in reliably controlled authorship testing for facilitated communication (FC) in 1993, little did she know that she’d still be talking about her experiences in 2026. After the testing, proponents of the technique said she was a “bad” facilitator, poorly trained. Now, they’re saying her student was ...
Where: Cost: Free
Science on Tap: Creatures of the Land & SeaJoin us for a special talk about creatures of the land and sea with two fantastic scientists! Dr, Jenny Duggan and Dr. Gerick Bergsma will regale us with tales about amazing creatures who make the land and sea their home! Diving into the depths of the ocean to explore the ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $25 General, $15 Members, $10 Students
After Dark: Deep ObservationsSlow down and give your attention to transformative experiences, from embodied sensations to deep space to experimental sounds.Ages 18+
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95
Partial Lunar Eclipse Watch PartyJoin Chabot astronomers for a live watch party of the Partial Lunar Eclipse, as the Moon drifts through Earth’s shadow and puts on a slow, spectacular transformation.Viewing will begin indoors in Studio 3 with real-time commentary and a live stream of the beginning stages of the eclipse, which won’t be ...
Where: OaklandCost: $24 General, $19 Kids, Free for members
The Silicon Gold Rush - How AI is Driving the Development of New ChipsAre AI chips the new frontier of computing? What happens when the world’s biggest cloud companies stop buying chips and start designing their own?In this program, we’ll unpack how companies once defined by software are now building custom silicon to run faster, cheaper, and at an unprecedented scale. The resulting ...
Energy storage and chemical sensing technologies rely on controlling redox processes at the molecular level, yet highly reactive charged and open-shell states are often incompatible with stable device integration. In this seminar, I will discuss how molecular design principles rooted in organometallic chemistry enable redox-controlled function in organic energy storage ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Lick Observatory After Hours - SOLD OUTTake a walk through the Eastside of the Lick Observatory, culminating in a visit to the iconic Shane Telescope. After a journey through time with a history lecture, we’ll transition to a night of star gazing. Experience the cosmos firsthand through our expert-led portable telescope stations.Our behind-the-scenes After Hours Tour ...
Where: Mt. HamiltonCost: $81.88
Full Moon Bair Island Sunset WalkFlock together for a lovely walk along the marshes of Bair Island while viewing the flamboyant colors of a California sunset! The walk will be an easy 0.8 mile stroll along the marsh at Bair Island.Come view the sunset on our walking tour around the charming marshlands of Bair Island. ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: Free
Saturday, 08/29/26
Bird Walk at Point PinosJoin us for a beautiful day at Point Pinos with birder extraordinaire Amanda Preece! Amanda will help us find birds and other wonderful flora and fauna, give insights about their natural history, and help us see the world in new and lovely ways. Everyone is welcome, and beginners to experts ...
Where: Cost: $20 General, $10 Members
Science Saturday: Unique HabitatsJoin us for Science Saturday exploring the amazing habitats of Monterey County! Redwoods, kelp forests, grasslands, and sandy shores: this family-friendly event has crafts, games, special collections, and fun community partners. Science Saturday include free admission to the Museum.
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
LASERS! Galactic Odyssey at The Tech InteractiveStep into a full-sensory experience where music becomes light. LASERS! at The Tech transforms The Tech Interactive's Dome Theater into a stunning canvas of color, motion, and sound, using cutting-edge laser technology to create immersive visual journeys synced perfectly to music.Lasers! Galactic Odyssey combines animated stories, abstract imagery, and a ...
Where: San JoseCost: $16.00
Sunset Naturalist Walk at Bair IslandJoin us on an evening walk at Bair Island Unit of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Redwood City. You’ll be led by the restoration team from the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, who will tell you about the history of Bair Island and the recent ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: Free
Lick Observatory After Hours - SOLD OUTTake a walk through the Eastside of the Lick Observatory, culminating in a visit to the iconic Shane Telescope. After a journey through time with a history lecture, we’ll transition to a night of star gazing. Experience the cosmos firsthand through our expert-led portable telescope stations.Our behind-the-scenes After Hours Tour ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will begin surveying the Southern sky later this year, creating a paradigm shift in the field of high-energy astrophysics. Rubin’s LSST is expected to yield several million alerts (changes in brightness) per night, presenting a significant big data ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Sunday, 08/30/26
Pride Plant-Powered Tie Dye WorkshopCelebrate Pride, science, and art with a hands-on tie dye workshop at The Tech Interactive. On Sunday, Aug. 30, at 2 p.m., guests will explore how different plants can be used to create fabric dyes, then experiment with color, pattern, and design to make a vibrant creation of their own.From ...
Detection of anyon scaling dimension and braiding properties in the fractional Quantum Hall EffectFor the almost half of a century, anyons in the FQHE have been proposed as excitations which carry fractional charge and statistics, thus bridging between fermions and bosons. I will review briefly the protocols and experiments that have allowed over the years to access their fractional charge, scaling dimension and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
UC Berkeley Physics Colloquium - CANCELEDSpeaker: Irfan Siddiqi, UC BerkeleyEditor's Note: Irfan was originally scheduled to speak on September 14, 2026This event now appears to have been canceled.
Ionic motion at the nanoscale remains poorly understood, largely because operando tools capable of resolving ions moving through a crystalline lattice have not existed until very recently. I will present several studies that use Coherent X-ray scattering techniques to directly image and probe ionic transport inside operating energy storage devices ...
AI systems are now used by millions of people daily, but we know surprisingly little about how they are actually used or what effect they have on the people using them. I present three lines of work. First, Clio, a privacy-preserving platform for studying patterns across millions of real AI ...
The term "environmental justice" has grown in popularity over the past many decades, yet still it is misunderstood and too often ignored in mainstream discourse.What is the EJ movement? Where did it start?With the current Trump Administration and EPA as it stands, what dangers does the EJ movement face in ...
