When: Monday, March 22nd 7-9 PM
What: Expedition Medicine with Dr. Matt Lewin
Where: Atlas Cafe, 3049 20th St @ Alabama St. in the Mission District
The Deets:
Deadly spiders, venomous snakes, poisonous birds, oh my! What do you do when you are a field biologist on an expedition in a remote part of the world, like the Gobi Desert, and you have a sudden medical emergency? You call the Doctor! Dr. Matt Lewin, former director of Emergency Medicine research at UCSF, travels to the field with biologists to make use of everything he knows about expedition medicine. You will be amazed at what he comes up with to save lives with nothing but the supplies he huffs in on his back. Come learn how he uses leeches and just about anything else he can find to protect the health of our researchers in the field. And in a tribute to our inner MacGyver, Matt will help us put together a field ER kit using materials found at the cafe.
In Galileo’s Daughter, Dava Sobel tells the story of the famous scientist and his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste. Sobel bases her book on 124 surviving letters to the scientist from the nun, whom Galileo described as “a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and tenderly attached to me.”
Emmy Noether made perhaps the most significant discovery of the 20th century. Noether’s Theorem ties the laws of nature – from Newton’s laws to thermodynamics to charge conservation – directly to the geometry of space and time, the very fabric of reality. Physicist and author Ransom Stephens translates Emmy’s groundbreaking work into an easily understandable concept…one he’ll explain with a straw.
Seth Shostak…you are my new hero. What an event on Monday night! There was an incredible blend of science and humanity represented, as we continue to search for an answer to the question: “Are We Alone?”
40 years of the scientific search has been fruitless so far, but that does not daunt the hopes of our crowd last night. Almost everyone believed life exists out there, though not everyone was convinced we’ll find something considering we’ve only been broadcasting for 200 years. In either case, the search remains important as this seems to poke at a fundamental curiosity most of us share.
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Local food has long ruled the roost here in the Bay Area. Slow Food Nation was started here, The Omnivore’s Dilemma was first posed here, and the farm to table dinners reign supreme. But the next evolution in local food is foraged food.
The idea of hunting for wild food of the land is crazy for someone like myself…I haven’t even adjusted to the farmers markets at this point. But when I ask Iso Rabins, founder of ForageSF, why eat wild…his first answer isn’t about climate change or connection to the land…it’s taste.
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You know the deal with Down to a Science, the cafes are meant to serve as a launching point for a conversation…at home, at work, on the MUNI….wherever.
SETI@Home is the posterchild for getting peeps involved in scientific research, at least while your screen saver is active. The project started back in 1999 to help explore the huge amount of data (requires teraflop/s of processing power)….the solution posed was a distributed computing concept. After a few attempts, SETI decided upon a background processing client that could be installed on a home computer.
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