Inspired by the award-winning Conservation Magazine, produced on the UW campus, this high-profile event features TED-style talks focused on forward-thinking, solution-oriented ideas around the world’s most pressing conservation problems.
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UW and Conservation Magazine: Conservation Remix
Saturday, June 2, 2012, 9:30am – 5:00pm
Enter on 8th Avenue. $25-$200.
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Science: Richard Martin: Thorium, Super Fuel of the Future
Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Richard Martin, one of the first energy experts to promote the development of thorium, tells the untold story of thorium power—and shows how we can wean ourselves off our fossil-fuel addiction, deliver a safe energy source for a millennia, and avert the risk of nuclear meltdown.
Science: John Marzluff & Tony Angell: Gifts of the Crow
Thursday, June 7, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on 8th Avenue. $5.
John Marzluff, assistant professor of Wildlife Science at the UW’s College of Forest Resources, and artist/naturalist Tony Angell, co-authors of Gifts of the Crow, marvel at the birds’ behavior: They play, take risks, reward people who help (or feed) them, use cars as nutcrackers, seek revenge on harassing animals, and dream—all things we humans might find strangely familiar.
Seattle Science Festival: Hackers & Cybersecurity
Saturday, June 9, 2012, 8:00 – 10:00pm
Pablos Holman and Tadayoshi Kohno offer two unique—and authoritative—perspectives on one increasingly critical issue: cybersecurity. Hacker/futurist Holman, an IT security expert, knows how to break—and build—new technologies, demonstrating the frontiers of what hackers do, and how tenuous our sense of security really is; Kohno, UW Professor, focuses his research on computer security and privacy, with the belief that almost every topic in computer science has security implications.
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Science: Daniel Chamovitz: ‘What a Plant Knows’
Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Biologist Daniel Chamovitz, author of What a Plant Knows, looks at how plants experience the world: How, for example, does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? How do flowers know it’s spring? And do plants really prefer Led Zeppelin or Bach?
Science: Dan Ariely: The Truth About Dishonesty
Friday, June 15, 2012, 6:00 – 7:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Science: Andrew Blum: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
Tuesday, June 19, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
The geeks call it “Intertubes” or “Internets,” poking fun at those who have no idea how it works. Which is everybody. Everybody except Wired writer Andrew Blum, who explains. The Internet exists, he says in Tubes. It fills buildings, converges in some places, avoids others …
From Island Press: Jeff Deyette: ‘Cooler Smarter’
Thursday, June 21, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Jeff Deyette, senior energy analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Clean Energy program and author of the science-based guide Cooler Smarter, shows the most effective ways to cut our own global-warming emissions by 20 percent or more.
Francis Slakey: To the Highest Peaks and Beyond
Thursday, May 17, 2012, 6:00 – 7:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Georgetown Professor Francis Slakey (To the Last Breath) journeys to the most extreme points on Earth—and deep inside the human psyche. Before he decided to climb the highest mountain on every continent and surf every ocean, Slakey was, basically, detached. But as his travels veered off course, he was ambushed by guerillas, threatened by a storm in Antarctica, and confronted by a fatal decision on Everest