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Lyss Houde hosts Game Over: Winnipeg as the Winnipeg Jets take on the Anaheim Ducks, and she'll be joined by Kishore Hari. Get all your Jets post game reaction and analysis right here. On twitter, you can follow hosts Alyssa Houde at @lysshoude, and Brady Chalus at @NHLChunky. Follow Kishore at @sciencequiche. Buy some Game Over merchandise: https://sdpnshop.ca/collections/game-... Join the SDPN Discord:  / discord   Reach out to https://www.sdpn.ca/sales to connect with our sales team and discuss the opportunity to integrate your brand within our content! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Will is joined by Kishore Hari, who takes us on scientific journey through some of the biggest science stories of the year. Topics include advancements in cancer research, a cure for sickle cell anemia, the Nine Boundaries graph, advances in brain science, the cheapest way to land on the Moon, long-standing math problems solve by amateurs, and the year in science woo.  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

Lyss & Brady host Game Over: Winnipeg to react to and analyze Game Two of the Winnipeg Jets' first round series against the Vegas Golden Knights, and they'll be joined by Peter Klein from Game Over: Calgary, and Kishore Hari. Game Over is raising money for the Alphabet Collective all postseason long, to support the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Donate here: https://www.alphabetsportscollective.com/donate On twitter, you can follow hosts Alyssa Houde at @lysshoude, and Brady Chalus at @NHLChunky. Follow Peter at https://twitter.com/PrimeTimeKlein Follow Kishore at https://twitter.com/sciencequiche Buy some Game Over merchandise: https://sdpnshop.ca/collections/game-over Check out SIA: https://sportsinteraction.com/sdpn Individuals must be 19 years of age or older to open a Sports Interaction account. Terms and Conditions apply. Any opinion expressed is not advice, a promise or suggestion that increases the chance of winning. Gambling can be addictive, please play responsibly. To learn more, visit: https://help.sportsinteraction.com/hc... Or if you have concerns about a gambling problem, call ConnexOntario 1-866-531-2600. Sports Interaction is subject to successful AGCO registration and execution of an Operating Agreement with iGaming Ontario. The Eligible iGames conducted and managed by iGO are only available to those physically present in the Province of Ontario. Join the SDPN Discord: https://discord.com/invite/MtTmw9rrz7 Reach out to https://www.sdpn.ca/sales to connect with our sales team and discuss the opportunity to integrate your brand within our content! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brady hosts Game Over: Winnipeg to react to and analyze the Winnipeg Jets taking on the Edmonton Oilers, and he'll be joined by Kishore Hari. On twitter, you can follow hosts Alyssa Houde at @lysshoude, and Brady Chalus at @NHLChunky. Buy some Game Over merchandise: https://sdpnshop.ca/collections/game-over Check out SIA: https://sportsinteraction.com/sdpn Individuals must be 19 years of age or older to open a Sports Interaction account. Terms and Conditions apply. Any opinion expressed is not advice, a promise or suggestion that increases the chance of winning. Gambling can be addictive, please play responsibly. To learn more, visit: https://help.sportsinteraction.com/hc... Or if you have concerns about a gambling problem, call ConnexOntario 1-866-531-2600. Sports Interaction is subject to successful AGCO registration and execution of an Operating Agreement with iGaming Ontario. The Eligible iGames conducted and managed by iGO are only available to those physically present in the Province of Ontario. Join the SDPN Discord: https://discord.com/invite/MtTmw9rrz7 Get the new SDPN app on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/sdpn/id1587748650 And Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.r76aac5840d3.app Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our friend Kishore Hari becomes our first three-time guest by joining us this week to run down some of our favorite science and tech stories of 2022, including the latest developments in nuclear fusion, some ML-driven mid-podcast protein prediction, the latest addition to the dark energy debate, extremely American asteroid deflection strategies, one of the more exciting Antarctic discoveries in recent memory, and more.Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

Episode 152: Skating with an extra attacker this week, we're joined by Kishore Hari (@sciencequiche on Twitter). A recap of the Boy Auction - AKA, the NHL Entry Draft - & Shane Wright not going 1st overall. The Chicago Hockey Team's current strategy of tanking. The fan bases in Canada contributing to the country's Stanley Cup drought. Making trades for “future considerations”. The brand new order in the NHL. Russian hockey players in limbo. Mike Grier hired as GM in San Jose. Question of the week: If we had an NHL G League - a true developmental league in the offseason - where would you like to see it played? Recorded 17 July 2022

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Announcements. The Playground is presenting, in honor of Black Lives Matter, a Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project: Polar Bears, Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids by Vincent Terrell Durham, June 19th at 7 pm. Via Zoom On Demand. Co-sponsored by 30 companies, including Berkeley Rep, Marin Theatre Company, Custom Made Theatre, Cal Shakes, Cutting Ball, etc. Bay Area Book Festival. Coming Together fundraiser from March with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Anthony Doerr and and RO Kwon now streaming as a benefit; available free in the future. The Booksmith lists its entire June on-line schedule of interviews and readings on their website, which includes Lockdown Lit every Tuesday at 11 am. Book Passage author interviews: Elizabeth George, Saturday June 20 at 4 pm and Jason and Paris Rosenthal Sunday June 21 at 4 pm. Registration required. Theatre Rhino Thursday play at 8 pm June 11, 2020 on Facebook Live is Wahoo, conceived and performed by John Fisher,on Facebook Live. and Lavender Scare can be streamed through the KALW website.   Shotgun Players. Streaming: Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, 2018 production. The Claim, workshop production. June 20, 2020, 5 pm via Zoom, podcast. San Francisco Playhouse. Thursday June 18, 7 pm Artistic Director Bill English interviews Michael Gene Sullivan. Every Monday, SF Playhouse presents Zoomlets, a series of short play table reads. Monday June 22, 7 pm: The Jewish Wife by Bertolt Brecht, with Susi Damilano and Anthony Fusco, directed by Carey Perloff. Kepler's Books presents Refresh the Page, on line interviews and talks, June 18th, 6:30 featuring Neil Shubin with Kishore Hari. Robert Reich Tuesday June 23rd at 8 pm, American Conservatory Theatre (ACT) presents Take Ten, a series of six ten-minute interactive theatre games for adults and children. National Theater At Home on You Tube: Small Island. Bookwaves: Judy Juanita, author of the novel “Virgin Soul,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded spring, 2013. Judy Juanita is a poet, novelist and playwright. In her younger days, as Judy Hart, while at San Francisco State, she served as editor in chief of The Black Panther newspaper, and lived in one of the Black Panther safe houses in 1967. Along the way she came to know such figures as Bobby Seale and Huey Newton. In 2013, her first novel, Virgin Soul, was published. It's a fictionalized memoir of her life in the black student movement and with the Panthers. This interview, recorded recorded in the spring of 2013, goes into detail about her life during the Panther days, about the relationship of the book to actual history, and about Judy Juanita's life after the Panthers. Since 2013, Judy Juanita has continued to write and teach Her collection of essays, DeFacto Feminism: Essays Straight Outta Oakland was published in 2016, and she recently had a story published in the collection Oakland Noir. Judy Juanita recently completed a second novel. Extended podcast. Bookwaves: Bonnie Tsui discusses her book, Why We Swim, which examines the human need for moving in water, from the history of swim strokes, to how physiology plays a role in swimming, to the history of swimming from ancient times in the Sahara to Rome and to the present, and how swimming became a sport. Bonnie Tsui lives in the Bay Area and swims regularly at the Albany Pool, when it's open, and also swims in San Francisco Bay. She is also the author of American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods. In the interview she discusses some of the topics in her book, and how the pandemic has affected Asian Americans. Recorded using internal Mac microphones on the zencastr website. Extended 34-minute podcast. Bonnie Tsui portrait photo: copyright Lindsay Skiba. By permission of the publisher. The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 18, 2020: Judy Juanita – Bonnie Tsui appeared first on KPFA.

Stu Maschwitz and Clint Torres join the show to talk about their Mac and iOS screenwriting app Slugline. Links & Show Notes Stu on Twitter (https://twitter.com/5tu) Clint on Twitter (https://twitter.com/clinttorres) Slugline (https://slugline.co) Jitsi (https://jitsi.org) Fountain (format) (https://fountain.io) Final Draft (https://www.finaldraft.com) John August (https://johnaugust.com) Highland (https://highland2.app) Kishore Hari (https://twitter.com/sciencequiche) Shane Black (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Black) More Launched Website - launchedfm.com (https://launchedfm.com) Twitter - @LaunchedFM (https://twitter.com/launchedfm) Reddit - /r/LaunchedFM (https://www.reddit.com/r/LaunchedFM/)

Words for Food in Your Mouth, an Apple a Day, Eating the Shrew, an Epidemic of Penile Amputations, Reactions to Chicken Nuggets, Ig and Beyond, What Matters in NBA Games, Why Spaghetti, and What Your Gut Says Psychoanalytically. In episode #209, Marc Abrahams shows some unfamiliar research studies to Jean Berko Gleason, Chris Cotsapas, Kishore Hari, Bruce Petschek, and Ben Lillie. Dramatic readings and reactions ensue. For More. Remember, our Patreon donors, on most levels, get access to each podcast episode before it is made public. Bruce Petschek, Audio Engineer John Shedler, Audio Engineer Seth Gliksman, Production Assistant --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/improbableresearch/support

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Ariel is joined by Tested science contributor Kishore Hari and cyborg anthropologist Amber Case to discus the 2017 film The Beyond, the traditional sci-fi notion of cyborgs, and what mix of human and machine actually makes sense for the future of space exploration.

We're gettin' nerdy this week, people! We're donning our lab coats and venturing into a scientific conversation we have no business discussing: CRISPR/Cas9. Which is why we brought in the brain trust - i.e., Kishore Hari, science guru over at Tested.com and host of the Inquiring Minds podcast. We start off with a bit of context and discuss what CRISPR/Cas9 actually is. What's the basic science behind the technology and process, how does it work, what's its promise, and what are its dangers? We also touch on recent, very real-world events in which Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced that he had used the technology to genetically modify a pair of twin girls. We then talk to author Robin Cook whose newest novel, Pandemic, is a thriller about the unintended side effects caused by genetic engineering and the CRISPR technology. Throughout his career, Cook has had an uncanny ability to be incredibly timely with his novels. Pandemic is no different. We talk to Cook about how the black market in human organs (a theme in Pandemic) has changed in the 40 years since he wrote Coma, why it wasn't much of a surprise that someone used CRISPR/Cas9 to genetically modify humans, where we go from here, the continuing ignorance about vaccines, and how medicine and public health will change over the next generation.

In this JAM PACKED Episode we have a total of four amazing guests on our show!!!! DragonCon 2018 was just as epic as we hoped and brought even more amazingness than we ever expected! Featured in this episode are the following guests: Kishore Hari, Eric Spana, Kim Steadman, and Mika Mckinnon We are so grateful to have opportunities like this to talk to such incredible, inspirational people! If you would like more episodes like this please give us a like in iTunes and follow us on social media @Sci_Fi2K!

You might know Kishore Hari from Tested.com’s This is Only a Test, or from the Bay Area Science Festival which he directs, or from his podcast, Inquiring Minds. He and Rebecca talk about science communication,...

Our guest this week is Kishore Hari. Kishore is a scientist/science educator who's been building science events for the last decade, but he really sees himself as a community organizer for science. He’s currently the science correspondent at Adam Savage’s Tested.com and the host of the weekly science podcast Inquiring Minds. For show notes visit: http://kk.org/cooltools/kishore-hari-scientist

Tested's own Kishore Hari joins us this week for a special on-location recording of Still Untitled! Fresh off of the Science March on Saturday, Adam and Kishore talk about their participation and share some wonderful moments from the rally. Plus, we talk about some of our favorite things at Silicon Valley Comic Con!

This week, Cara has a chance to #TalkNerdy with the director of the Bay Area Science Festival, Kishore Hari. They dive deep into the dos and don'ts of science communication, with a special focus on live events that involve members of the publ--the community. (Kishore hates the term "general public!") They also nerd out about DragonCon and cosplay. Follow Kishore: @sciencequiche.

This week, Cara has a chance to #TalkNerdy with the director of the Bay Area Science Festival, Kishore Hari. They dive deep into the dos and don'ts of science communication, with a special focus on live events that involve members of the publ--the community. (Kishore hates the term "general public!") They also nerd out about DragonCon and cosplay. Follow Kishore: @sciencequiche.

Fellow GeekDad contributors Corrina Lawson and Kishore Hari join Jamie to discuss Batman: The Killing Joke - the original book, the animated film, and our personal histories with the story. It ends up being (an incredibly civil) debate with both Corrina and Kishore taking polar opposite sides of the issue. Following that, we present the press roundtable interviews from San Diego Comic-Con for the movie. Interviews include Brian Azzarello (screenwriter), Ray Wise (Commissioner Gordon), Tara Strong (Batgirl), Sam Liu (director), Kevin Conroy (Batman), and Bruce Timm (executive producer).

Lots to talk about this week as we're joined by Jeremy Williams and Kishore Hari to recap the Super Bowl (technology and chicken wings!), discuss our hopes for Star Trek, Jeremy's appearance on Mythbusters, and the latest news in tech. How do you feel about the newest changes to Twitter?

Lots to talk about this week as we're joined by Jeremy Williams and Kishore Hari to recap the Super Bowl (technology and chicken wings!), discuss our hopes for Star Trek, Jeremy's appearance on Mythbusters, and the latest news in tech. How do you feel about the newest changes to Twitter?

This week, we're joined by Jeremy Williams and Kishore Hari to talk about rocket landings, Netflix show ratings, commercial drone regulation, and other news in tech. Kishore updates us on recent science happenings, and we chat a bit about our playtime in the Eve: Valkyrie alpha. Plus, a tease for an upcoming video we're really excited about!

This week, we're joined by Jeremy Williams and Kishore Hari to talk about rocket landings, Netflix show ratings, commercial drone regulation, and other news in tech. Kishore updates us on recent science happenings, and we chat a bit about our playtime in the Eve: Valkyrie alpha. Plus, a tease for an upcoming video we're really excited about!

Dave Snider, Eric Cheng, Kishore Hari, Patrick Norton, and Will Smith join the panel to discuss dad business, including breaking windows, the problem with dogs, travelling without your kids, coaching sports, and more ways to help moms. Don't forget, Mother's Day is May 10th in the US!

Brian Fisher is really into ants. And after listening to him talk about them on this week’s show, I suspect he might convince you to appreciate them more than you probably do right now.Fisher is an entomologist at the California Academy of Sciences and we talk to him about all things ants—from how many “words” they can use, to how we can use them to figure out what parts of forests are most important to protect.We also have a huge announcement this week: Our new permanent co-host is Kishore Hari!iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inquiring-minds/id711675943RSS: feeds.feedburner.com/inquiring-mindsStitcher: stitcher.com/podcast/inquiring-minds

On the show this week we talk to Matt Walker, Principal Investigator at UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab. Walker opens our eyes to exactly how important (and bizarre) sleep is—from the insane effects not sleeping enough can have on you both physically and cognitively, to the fact that, after having fought through ages of natural selection, it’s amazing our brains still need it at all.Once again we welcome back guest host Kishore Hari, Director of the Bay Area Science Festival. You can follow him on Twittter @sciencequiche.iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inquiring-minds/id711675943RSS: feeds.feedburner.com/inquiring-mindsStitcher: stitcher.com/podcast/inquiring-minds

On the show this week we talk to Professor of Psychology Gabriele Oettingen about her new book Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation. Oettingen has over twenty years of research on the science of motivation under her belt and in this book she outlines her main findings—and turns the conventional wisdom that focusing on fulfilling our goals will help us realize them on its head.We also welcome back guest host Kishore Hari, who is Director of the Bay Area Science Festival. You can follow him on Twittter @sciencequiche.iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inquiring-minds/id711675943RSS: feeds.feedburner.com/inquiring-mindsStitcher: stitcher.com/podcast/inquiring-minds

On the show this week Indre talks to mathematician and comedian Matt Parker about how math is way more fascinating that you probably think—and how it's connected to everything from credit card numbers to autocorrect.They talk about his new book, Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician's Journey Through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More.We also welcome back guest host Kishore Hari, director of the Bay Area Science Festival.iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inquiring-minds/id711675943RSS: feeds.feedburner.com/inquiring-mindsStitcher: stitcher.com/podcast/inquiring-minds

On the show this week we talk to cognitive scientist Paul Bloom about the morality of babies. Most of us think of babies as selfish, impulsive, and for the most part out of control. We tend to think of their morality as shaped by experience—by society, by their parents, by early childhood events. But Bloom and his collaborators at Yale have some pretty compelling evidence that at least some parts of our moral compass are innate—that is that babies are born with the capacity to tell good from bad just as they are born with a capacity to develop motor or language skills. And by understanding how our morality develops throughout childhood, we can gain some insight into how our own gut feelings and biases shape our moral lives as adults.We also welcome guest-host Kishore Hari, director of the Bay Area Science Festival, to talk about, among other things, a recent study involving brains and spiders.iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inquiring-minds/id711675943RSS: feeds.feedburner.com/inquiring-mindsStitcher: stitcher.com/podcast/inquiring-minds

When Kishore Hari is hired to run a new science festival he thinks he has the perfect plan, but the reality was much more than he expected. Kishore Hari is the Director of the Bay Area Science Festival, an annual celebration of science in San Francisco. After spending years operating an environmental services company, he left industry for the greener pastures of public science events and science education. He has founded numerous public science ventures, including a science cafe, a science field trip series, and a comprehensive calendar of science events across the Bay Area. Help keep us going! If you love the podcast, please donate here: http://www.patreon.com/thestorycollider Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bay Area Science Festival is an annual 10-day celebration of the science and technology of the Bay Area. Scientists share stories, passion and science at over 50 events. Programs feature hands-on activities and tours of cutting-edge facilities.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next? Nope. [inaudible]. [00:00:30] Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists. Speaker 2: Good afternoon. My name is Brad swift and I'm Rick Karnofsky. We do have an interview today with Kishore Hari, the director of the bay area science festival that will be happening October 29th through November 6th this is a big, big festival and [00:01:00] Kishore. We'll cover some of the individual events as well as the philosophy behind the festival. This interview is prerecorded and edited, so I'm Kishore Hari. I'm the director of the first annual bay area science festival, which is a 10 day celebration of science throughout the bay area. There's a hundred events from Santa Rosa to San Jose, all to get people excited about all things, science, technology, engineering, and math. 95% of our events are free and I'm really here to [00:01:30] just evangelize science. I love using that term evangelize science because most scientists hate using the word evangelize. Great. Can you describe some of the events that are taking place there? Speaker 2: Some of our major events are big free public outdoor, almost museum like exhibition, so we have three of them across the bay area, one at cal state East Bay for between 40 to 50 different local organizations doing hands on activities. One on Saturday, November 5th [00:02:00] at Infinian raceway. Again 40 to 58 exhibitions this time fee train a lot of organizations from the North Bay and then concluding on Sunday the six with a free day at 18 t park, 170 different exhibits on display. We're essentially turning 18 t park into a free outdoor science museum for the day. It's going to be incredible. There's everything from marine science to the latest medical technology to you can climb aboard an 80 foot trailer that's full of medical diagnostic [00:02:30] equipment that can analyze everything from microbes in your bloodstream to doing a scan of your brain. It's in, it'll be incredible. Those I think are the highlight events. Speaker 2: The ones that we're trying to emphasize the come one, come all enjoy science just like you enjoy arts or music or food festivals. But in addition to that we have a whole series of talks and conversations and hikes and explorations throughout the bay area to really connect people with [00:03:00] just the resources that exist here. Right. The Bay area is pretty much the leader of science and technology in the in the country and we could walk 10 minutes outside of the studio and we could go stand where plutonium was discovered. How cool is that? 10 minutes up the hill is where sal pro mater works. We just won the Nobel Prize in physics. We can go to any spot in the bay area. There's resources like that and so we have a series of science hikes. We have a series of science conversations, so we called the wonder dialogues that are all about [00:03:30] meeting the, the greatest scientific minds here locally. Speaker 2: We have, we even have a science public hall for adults so they can enjoy the fun and see just the inherent science that goes on behind everyday things from beer to music to art galleries, et Cetera. It's too much science for 10 days. So do you have any other work at UCF in addition to sort of organizing this festival? So I'll tell you the premise of the festival as it is actually funded by the National Science Foundation [00:04:00] and they funded for particular sites as a sponsor to see, to really understand what do science festivals do in great sort of scientific thinking. We're going to measure what they do, we're gonna measure the measurable. So that's actually the number one task of this festival is not just to set forth this great festival from Bay area, but actually understand how it impacts communities and then take it to the next level, which is help spread that to communities across the country in particularly seed festivals in [00:04:30] new communities that may not have them or have a dearth of resources. Speaker 2: And the way that sort of has come forth is that we need to lead from the front. So the Boston's the dcs, the Chicago's The San Francisco's of the world need to sort of start the science festivals in those science rich communities that have the museums that have the universities and then really coalesce all of that knowledge generated by that and take that to communities that aren't having it. So initially that's the vision of the project. So I spent [00:05:00] a good percentage of my time evangelizing about science festivals to other communities across the nation and spending a lot of time bringing in a lot of knowledge that exists internationally about how science festivals run. And that has been to great effect because when I, when we started this project, there's maybe like five to seven large scale science festivals in the country in sort of the places you expect Boston, there's the maker fair here. Speaker 2: There is some, there was a big event in Chicago, there's one in DC, et cetera. Now we're expecting [00:05:30] in uh, in 2012, almost 40, in a short period of time. And they're in unusual locations. Like there's one in, in uh, southeast Missouri. Uh, there's, uh, Arkansas as far as launching a statewide festival. North Carolina has a statewide festival. Las Vegas had a science festival. Their actual tagline was Las Vegas Science Festival. What are the odds? So what I thoroughly enjoy about the project more than anything as we get to help communities that you normally [00:06:00] wouldn't identify with this kind of celebration into having it. And then more importantly, on another level, we, we work off of a supplemental grant from the NSF to help seed. These are linked these festivals to science festivals developing in key Middle East nations. So we, um, the Cambridge science festival, it's based out of the MIT museum has long had a relationship with um, the American University of Cairo and they've actually helped launch a Cairo science festival. Speaker 2: [00:06:30] And if you permit me a, a quick story on this, I still can't get over this email. I got one day. So one of our partners from San Diego went to Cairo to sort of help get it off the ground. I think there was about two and a half months after the Arab spring. Really took hold. And they're having, you know, a two day festival in, in the middle of Egypt. And they had all these students come and at the end of this big long day, they went up on the roof and set up some telescopes. So all of these, um, Egyptian [00:07:00] students who never looked through a telescope before in their life could look at the night sky and like, what's more elemental than that than just looking up and enjoying the universe that surrounds us. And they did that for a couple of hours or an astronomer there, and they looked down and from American University of Cairo, you can see Theresa Square and all of the people up on the roof. Speaker 2: Then join the protest that was happening in Tahrir square right after the astronomy viewing. We had one American colleague there and he sort of got swept up in the mob. He, [00:07:30] he's fine. But I still find that amazing how education, uh, cultural events can really mix to become part of like a, a greater movement. Uh, I thoroughly enjoy that. And if science can be an agent of just empowering people, especially in these nations where it's not celebrated or welcomed to have these kinds of ex exploits. That's the kind of thing that I want to be part of and and we should support in terms of exporting our, our, our talent and resources to those nations. Speaker 1: [inaudible] [00:08:00] you're listening to the spectrum on Calex Berkeley. We are talking today with Kishore Hari, the director of the bay area science festival, Speaker 2: the talks. I, I have [00:08:30] to stop and say that I'm a nerd. I am like 110% nerd and I love these rich conversations between intellectuals. Just really going at it about how x, y, or z was discovered. There's a conversation on November 2nd at the cal academy featuring two different neuroscientists talking about what will we ever understand the brain and one of the neuroscientists, Markram has developed something called the blue brain project, which maps [00:09:00] all of the processes that 10,000 neurons will do. That's only a small segment of the neurons in our brain, but how amazing is that just to understand fundamentally what's happening in your brain in that moment. And he's being joined by David Eagleman who is a neuroscientist at Baylor, who is most famous for studying synesthesia and our perception of time and memory, and I think his most famous experiment is where he dropped some of his Grad students 200 feet in free fall to see if they perceive time to go [00:09:30] slower in those moments of of heightened fright and they're going to discuss sort of the, with all of the advances in neuroscience, all the advances in our understanding of how the brain operates. Speaker 2: Is it something that we can ever really touch upon and say, we know how the brain works. We can construct an artificial brain that can operate on human, or is there something just beyond that that is innately human that is innately just us or innately me or, or any of you that can never [00:10:00] be replicated? That one that exciting to me because it's one of those, it's to me the brain is the, is the scientific frontier that, and then on the other side of the spectrum is, um, Peter Norvig from Google and Eric Horvitz from Microsoft are talking about artificial intelligence and where that's going. And Peter Norvig's, I'm sort of famous as he's the one that was running the Stanford Free AI course is pioneering some of the work with the driverless cars that you may have heard about. Eric Horvitz isn't, is no slouch in [00:10:30] his own right leader in the field talking about where this is going with everything from Watson, you know, beating the contestants on jeopardy to driverless cars, to all of those IBM ads that won't stop interrupting my football, watching about how to build a smarter planet. Speaker 2: Where is this actually going? Or can we actually build computer systems that can solve some of our greatest challenges, whether that is curing disease to, you know, understanding, uh, redistributing, distributing traffic. I think these [00:11:00] are fundamental questions and I think they're, again, poking at this big topic of the intersection of humanity and technology that I personally find fascinating. So those are the two that I would that jump off the page to me just from a straight, I'm a nerd perspective and have you drawn on other science festivals for inspiration? Drawn upon is a polite way to say that I have blatantly stolen ideas from other science festivals and I think that's actually probably [00:11:30] the reason that festivals are emerging so much more is that we have a little community, we call it the science festival alliance. It's a member community of all these science festivals and we talk to each other regularly and we give each other ideas and we steal them, we approve upon them. Speaker 2: Sometimes I steal ideas and I make them worse. But in any case, it's that basic ideas. Absolutely. We talked to each all the time about um, everything from events structure to how we work with our partners [00:12:00] to, to just basically venting to each other when we're up at three in the morning, still working on like production timelines and all sorts of fun stuff like that. But that's absolutely how we're innovating. Every community has its own personality and its own assets so they all take on a different flavor. But what's exciting to me is that doing this community community, you really see some different things emerge. I have a close collaborator at the Philadelphia Science Festival and we have a little bit of a rivalry going, a friendly rivalry. And [00:12:30] so this year I think she did two things that just blew, blew it out of the water that were just amazing. Speaker 2: One is she partnered with the Phillies and U Penn engineering constructed a robot to throw out a first pitch. So there are all these like 40,000 Philly fans are just like, Whoa, how am I going to a one-thirty game? And they, all of a sudden this robot gets wheeled out onto the field and like pitches something. And what was amazed, mindblowing about that. I was at that game with a colleague from Cambridge and we're sitting in the, in the upper deck [00:13:00] and there's this down-home Philly guy born and raised. He turned around and he was like, you know, I had a question about that robot. I turned around and I was like, are there any roboticists here? And there's this army of Penn engineers sitting like three rows back and they all stood up and were like, yeah, we're roboticists. And so like some guy that came to a Philly's baseball game was talking to a roboticists about something. Speaker 2: The best question he had, he's like that little bulb on the front of the robot. It looked like it had a camera. Did that actually do anything though? [00:13:30] No, that was decorative and I thought that was great. Then they fully admitted, they just put something on there to make it look cooler. That I thought was incredible. Philadelphia Science Festival had so many amazing things, but I was lucky to be part of their astronomy night and we're doing that here in the bay area as well. We have a astronomy night with 20 different locations that are hosting lectures and telescope viewings and planetarium shows, it'll be amazing. But when I was at the Philadelphia Knight, I went to this lecture by Guy Bluford first African American [00:14:00] in space, grew up in West Philly. So you went back to his west Philly neighborhood and gave a talk about, but how he got to be an astronaut and about the international space station. Speaker 2: And this was one of those perfect moments cause so he's giving this talk and he was talking to basically an audience of about 150 African American kids and, and their parents. And there was a woman that basically was just in the front row at the end was just almost in [00:14:30] tears because she's like, I've lived in this neighborhood my whole life. And sometimes we just need a hero. And if that's what it was, it, and it wasn't a sports player, it wasn't a politician, it wasn't, you know, just somebody, it was somebody that worked hard, that have a lot of pride in that neighborhood that came back. And so that went beyond to me. That was that community taking pride in one of their own, which we all should be able to do. And then the sort of beautiful end of [00:15:00] that night as he talked about the ISS and all of the kind of secret life of living on a spate sedation. Speaker 2: And we walked outside and there some telescopes set up in the, in the lot and the ISS actually passed overhead. And so everyone that got to hear him talk about it got to see the space station for the first time. And I don't know, but that was the first time I'd ever really looked at the space station. And it's like, you know, I hear about it on the news all the time, but there is a space station orbiting the earth [00:15:30] and there's like people in there that's just remarkable. And this guy had been on there and he was standing two feet from me and he, he was as humble as, as any one person could ever be. And just so excited to tell people about that discovery. And then lastly, I'm just a Simpsons nerd. And so there was a guy that gave a talk on science and the Simpsons during the festival. He wrote a book on it. His name's Paul Halpern. He's a professor at the University of Sciences in [00:16:00] Philadelphia and it was in the basement of a library. So it was the most sort of surprising location for Simpsons Hawk and it was full like on an 11 o'clock on a Tuesday. And all of these people asking all of these inane questions, those are ideas I've blatantly stolen. The reason I've stolen it is they're just incredibly brilliant. Speaker 1: [inaudible]Speaker 2: [00:16:30] you are listening to spectrum on k a l x Berkeley. We are talking with [inaudible] hiring director, bay area science semester Speaker 1: [inaudible].Speaker 2: You're really poking at those innovative events that do something a little different. And the ones that [00:17:00] strike to me around that is the fact that most of these events, a wide majority, I would say over 75% aren't happening on college campuses. They're not happening in places where science were traditionally housed. So I think about this science pub crawl that's coming on Friday the fourth to take over the mission district in San Francisco. So we have a a science author. His name is Carl Zimmer. He's famous for studying eco ly and microbes in your gut and he wrote this kind of comical book [00:17:30] called Science Inc that's a compendium of all of the great science tattoos people have sent pictures for and he's giving a talk at at a tattoo parlor. I don't think it's very often that you get much science at Tattoo Parlors. You start to see like how the community at large, every place you go when you get your coffee in the morning, when you go into Chotsky store, when you go just walking down the block, it's just surrounding you at all times and that I think is freaking awesome. Speaker 2: [00:18:00] I'm also excited because there's a, there's trainings that take real science experiments into the classroom and we've partnered with a teacher. He teaches a class on biology and within the class they're going to do a specific experiment where they trap bees within the community garden at the school and it's part of a larger experiment to understand how climate change and just you know, micro conditions within your environment are affecting the spread of pollinators. It's amazing that this is [00:18:30] typically taught by just a lecture in the classroom. I don't know about you but at 16 I certainly had no part in any published scientific study and the last one I'll bring up about this is a friend of mine last year piloted this project here in the bay area called science hack day that she formed a little committee of, of interested folks that basically brings together designers, developers and scientists to really hammer on big scientific datasets. It's November 12th and 13th the weekend after the festival, so it's [00:19:00] a post festival event. But the reason I'm so excited about it is 200 people, most of them never met before. Being basically locked into a room and working together just out of nothing and working on big scientific issues. Speaker 2: How did you first get into science and then science advocacy? So the science education route for me, I just call it science education. I have no other way to describe it. Aye owned the company for Awhile. I was a sort of successful [00:19:30] chemist I guess and it was fascinating and exciting because I was in sales and business and product development, all of these things and I realized after years of doing it I just had no real passion for it. Like it was never the thing that that got me up in the morning that drove me to jump to do and when I thought back on all of the things that sort of make me happy in life, one of the memories that always came [00:20:00] up is just be [inaudible] about science with my friends over beers and how that was just an agent of conversation is is science just like brought out the best in us? Speaker 2: We have these kinds of great conversations about where stuff was going and I realized that I was like, well, if that's what I really love to do when I become an agent of that instead of this sort of saying I enjoy it, and I was at a conference, it's the triple a s conference. It was the largest scientific [00:20:30] society at a conference here and I decided once I was just going to go, I was just going to go, go to sessions and joy myself. I know that's probably a little atypical for most people. Let's go to a big science conference and just drop into sessions, but I saw a flyer up about a science cafe and I was like, somebody is making a entire science theme cafe. That sounds great. I would go there all the time. That's not what it was at all. But I, I went to this mixer, I met this, this gentleman Ben, who was like, [00:21:00] who, we basically sat around for a couple hours talking about science over beers and I was like, so what's a science cafe? Speaker 2: And he was like, that's it. Except with a few more people. It's just people talking about science. There's scientists there and sort of ignites a conversation, but it's a sort of democracy thing. Like within a month I had started my own in the city and he just became the best part of my day when I was working on that project is getting all these people together, getting them to talk about different issues and how much learning can happen [00:21:30] in those situations and how hungry people were to learn about all of the great advancements. And I kept following that path and that led me to greater and greater involvement in sort of the marketplace, which is one creating a website, bay area science.org that just listed out all of the incredible science events that are happening and there's literally almost a hundred a week public signs events that are just happening around the bay area. Speaker 2: And I was like, what an incredible resource. I just sort of fell into this position [00:22:00] leading a festival and it was just an amazing opportunity where the, the whole premise was in, in Europe and in Asia, they have these big celebrations of science akin to arts and music festivals and they, they celebrate it like they do anything else. It's just an important part of culture and that couldn't have resonated more with me personally. So I went after that position. I luckily landed into it and here I am a year and a half later, [00:22:30] I wanted to know how you got interested in science personally in the first place. Oh, so all credit to the greatest scientist I've ever known my life, my dad, every morning, like clockwork, the guy was so disciplined at six in the morning, he'd be at his desk and he'd be just reading, not working, reading. He was always very disciplined, but more importantly within that discipline, he was like, there was just innate curiosity on how things work, all credit to him for igniting that [00:23:00] sense of just wonder within me and then just being spirited along by friends and teachers along the way. Speaker 2: I think we've all had a great, the memory of that continues to inspire us. I have to say like it, it all goes back to my dad. I can't thank him enough because it's open so many like doors in my life. It just wondering about stuff and and tinkering is probably some of the most enjoyment I have and now that I have a new son, I [00:23:30] just hope I can impart that same, same interest to him with the caveat that I hope he doesn't destroy my TV or alarm clock or any of those other things that I did back when I was a kid. What can other people who are interested in helping out with the festival do their volunteer opportunities up on our website, pay area, science.org there's a ton of volunteer opportunities. I need help endlessly, whether it be promoting the festival or being on site and helping out the day of. Speaker 2: Most importantly, [00:24:00] I want people to come and enjoy it and after they enjoy being part of the festival and want them to go home and continue that conversation with their loved ones, with their friends and family, that actually is probably the most important component here. I need help, so if you have time and energy and are excited about the science festival, please go sign up on the page. There are different opportunities available, but at the end of the day, I want people to enjoy it. I want people to experience something they've never seen seen before. I want people to take risks, go places that [00:24:30] they normally wouldn't go if you don't normally talk to a scientist, this is your week to finally meet and shake hands and talk with one. I always say the tagline for the festivals, unleash your inner scientists. I think that's what I want to see most from the community is just to get in touch with that, that spot of curiosity and wonder. That's innate in every human being and just go on and enjoy. Okay. Sure. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. Yeah. Speaker 1: [inaudible] [inaudible] [00:25:00] the music played during the show is written and performed by David lost [inaudible] from his album titled Folk and Acoustic [inaudible]. Thank you for listening to spectrum. We are happy to hear from listeners. If you have comments about the show, please send [00:25:30] them to us via email. Our email address is spectrum dot k a l x@yahoo.com join us in two weeks at this same time. 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The Bay Area Science Festival is an annual 10-day celebration of the science and technology of the Bay Area. Scientists share stories, passion and science at over 50 events. Programs feature hands-on activities and tours of cutting-edge facilities.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next? Nope. [inaudible]. [00:00:30] Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists. Speaker 2: Good afternoon. My name is Brad swift and I'm Rick Karnofsky. We do have an interview today with Kishore Hari, the director of the bay area science festival that will be happening October 29th through November 6th this is a big, big festival and [00:01:00] Kishore. We'll cover some of the individual events as well as the philosophy behind the festival. This interview is prerecorded and edited, so I'm Kishore Hari. I'm the director of the first annual bay area science festival, which is a 10 day celebration of science throughout the bay area. There's a hundred events from Santa Rosa to San Jose, all to get people excited about all things, science, technology, engineering, and math. 95% of our events are free and I'm really here to [00:01:30] just evangelize science. I love using that term evangelize science because most scientists hate using the word evangelize. Great. Can you describe some of the events that are taking place there? Speaker 2: Some of our major events are big free public outdoor, almost museum like exhibition, so we have three of them across the bay area, one at cal state East Bay for between 40 to 50 different local organizations doing hands on activities. One on Saturday, November 5th [00:02:00] at Infinian raceway. Again 40 to 58 exhibitions this time fee train a lot of organizations from the North Bay and then concluding on Sunday the six with a free day at 18 t park, 170 different exhibits on display. We're essentially turning 18 t park into a free outdoor science museum for the day. It's going to be incredible. There's everything from marine science to the latest medical technology to you can climb aboard an 80 foot trailer that's full of medical diagnostic [00:02:30] equipment that can analyze everything from microbes in your bloodstream to doing a scan of your brain. It's in, it'll be incredible. Those I think are the highlight events. Speaker 2: The ones that we're trying to emphasize the come one, come all enjoy science just like you enjoy arts or music or food festivals. But in addition to that we have a whole series of talks and conversations and hikes and explorations throughout the bay area to really connect people with [00:03:00] just the resources that exist here. Right. The Bay area is pretty much the leader of science and technology in the in the country and we could walk 10 minutes outside of the studio and we could go stand where plutonium was discovered. How cool is that? 10 minutes up the hill is where sal pro mater works. We just won the Nobel Prize in physics. We can go to any spot in the bay area. There's resources like that and so we have a series of science hikes. We have a series of science conversations, so we called the wonder dialogues that are all about [00:03:30] meeting the, the greatest scientific minds here locally. Speaker 2: We have, we even have a science public hall for adults so they can enjoy the fun and see just the inherent science that goes on behind everyday things from beer to music to art galleries, et Cetera. It's too much science for 10 days. So do you have any other work at UCF in addition to sort of organizing this festival? So I'll tell you the premise of the festival as it is actually funded by the National Science Foundation [00:04:00] and they funded for particular sites as a sponsor to see, to really understand what do science festivals do in great sort of scientific thinking. We're going to measure what they do, we're gonna measure the measurable. So that's actually the number one task of this festival is not just to set forth this great festival from Bay area, but actually understand how it impacts communities and then take it to the next level, which is help spread that to communities across the country in particularly seed festivals in [00:04:30] new communities that may not have them or have a dearth of resources. Speaker 2: And the way that sort of has come forth is that we need to lead from the front. So the Boston's the dcs, the Chicago's The San Francisco's of the world need to sort of start the science festivals in those science rich communities that have the museums that have the universities and then really coalesce all of that knowledge generated by that and take that to communities that aren't having it. So initially that's the vision of the project. So I spent [00:05:00] a good percentage of my time evangelizing about science festivals to other communities across the nation and spending a lot of time bringing in a lot of knowledge that exists internationally about how science festivals run. And that has been to great effect because when I, when we started this project, there's maybe like five to seven large scale science festivals in the country in sort of the places you expect Boston, there's the maker fair here. Speaker 2: There is some, there was a big event in Chicago, there's one in DC, et cetera. Now we're expecting [00:05:30] in uh, in 2012, almost 40, in a short period of time. And they're in unusual locations. Like there's one in, in uh, southeast Missouri. Uh, there's, uh, Arkansas as far as launching a statewide festival. North Carolina has a statewide festival. Las Vegas had a science festival. Their actual tagline was Las Vegas Science Festival. What are the odds? So what I thoroughly enjoy about the project more than anything as we get to help communities that you normally [00:06:00] wouldn't identify with this kind of celebration into having it. And then more importantly, on another level, we, we work off of a supplemental grant from the NSF to help seed. These are linked these festivals to science festivals developing in key Middle East nations. So we, um, the Cambridge science festival, it's based out of the MIT museum has long had a relationship with um, the American University of Cairo and they've actually helped launch a Cairo science festival. Speaker 2: [00:06:30] And if you permit me a, a quick story on this, I still can't get over this email. I got one day. So one of our partners from San Diego went to Cairo to sort of help get it off the ground. I think there was about two and a half months after the Arab spring. Really took hold. And they're having, you know, a two day festival in, in the middle of Egypt. And they had all these students come and at the end of this big long day, they went up on the roof and set up some telescopes. So all of these, um, Egyptian [00:07:00] students who never looked through a telescope before in their life could look at the night sky and like, what's more elemental than that than just looking up and enjoying the universe that surrounds us. And they did that for a couple of hours or an astronomer there, and they looked down and from American University of Cairo, you can see Theresa Square and all of the people up on the roof. Speaker 2: Then join the protest that was happening in Tahrir square right after the astronomy viewing. We had one American colleague there and he sort of got swept up in the mob. He, [00:07:30] he's fine. But I still find that amazing how education, uh, cultural events can really mix to become part of like a, a greater movement. Uh, I thoroughly enjoy that. And if science can be an agent of just empowering people, especially in these nations where it's not celebrated or welcomed to have these kinds of ex exploits. That's the kind of thing that I want to be part of and and we should support in terms of exporting our, our, our talent and resources to those nations. Speaker 1: [inaudible] [00:08:00] you're listening to the spectrum on Calex Berkeley. We are talking today with Kishore Hari, the director of the bay area science festival, Speaker 2: the talks. I, I have [00:08:30] to stop and say that I'm a nerd. I am like 110% nerd and I love these rich conversations between intellectuals. Just really going at it about how x, y, or z was discovered. There's a conversation on November 2nd at the cal academy featuring two different neuroscientists talking about what will we ever understand the brain and one of the neuroscientists, Markram has developed something called the blue brain project, which maps [00:09:00] all of the processes that 10,000 neurons will do. That's only a small segment of the neurons in our brain, but how amazing is that just to understand fundamentally what's happening in your brain in that moment. And he's being joined by David Eagleman who is a neuroscientist at Baylor, who is most famous for studying synesthesia and our perception of time and memory, and I think his most famous experiment is where he dropped some of his Grad students 200 feet in free fall to see if they perceive time to go [00:09:30] slower in those moments of of heightened fright and they're going to discuss sort of the, with all of the advances in neuroscience, all the advances in our understanding of how the brain operates. Speaker 2: Is it something that we can ever really touch upon and say, we know how the brain works. We can construct an artificial brain that can operate on human, or is there something just beyond that that is innately human that is innately just us or innately me or, or any of you that can never [00:10:00] be replicated? That one that exciting to me because it's one of those, it's to me the brain is the, is the scientific frontier that, and then on the other side of the spectrum is, um, Peter Norvig from Google and Eric Horvitz from Microsoft are talking about artificial intelligence and where that's going. And Peter Norvig's, I'm sort of famous as he's the one that was running the Stanford Free AI course is pioneering some of the work with the driverless cars that you may have heard about. Eric Horvitz isn't, is no slouch in [00:10:30] his own right leader in the field talking about where this is going with everything from Watson, you know, beating the contestants on jeopardy to driverless cars, to all of those IBM ads that won't stop interrupting my football, watching about how to build a smarter planet. Speaker 2: Where is this actually going? Or can we actually build computer systems that can solve some of our greatest challenges, whether that is curing disease to, you know, understanding, uh, redistributing, distributing traffic. I think these [00:11:00] are fundamental questions and I think they're, again, poking at this big topic of the intersection of humanity and technology that I personally find fascinating. So those are the two that I would that jump off the page to me just from a straight, I'm a nerd perspective and have you drawn on other science festivals for inspiration? Drawn upon is a polite way to say that I have blatantly stolen ideas from other science festivals and I think that's actually probably [00:11:30] the reason that festivals are emerging so much more is that we have a little community, we call it the science festival alliance. It's a member community of all these science festivals and we talk to each other regularly and we give each other ideas and we steal them, we approve upon them. Speaker 2: Sometimes I steal ideas and I make them worse. But in any case, it's that basic ideas. Absolutely. We talked to each all the time about um, everything from events structure to how we work with our partners [00:12:00] to, to just basically venting to each other when we're up at three in the morning, still working on like production timelines and all sorts of fun stuff like that. But that's absolutely how we're innovating. Every community has its own personality and its own assets so they all take on a different flavor. But what's exciting to me is that doing this community community, you really see some different things emerge. I have a close collaborator at the Philadelphia Science Festival and we have a little bit of a rivalry going, a friendly rivalry. And [00:12:30] so this year I think she did two things that just blew, blew it out of the water that were just amazing. Speaker 2: One is she partnered with the Phillies and U Penn engineering constructed a robot to throw out a first pitch. So there are all these like 40,000 Philly fans are just like, Whoa, how am I going to a one-thirty game? And they, all of a sudden this robot gets wheeled out onto the field and like pitches something. And what was amazed, mindblowing about that. I was at that game with a colleague from Cambridge and we're sitting in the, in the upper deck [00:13:00] and there's this down-home Philly guy born and raised. He turned around and he was like, you know, I had a question about that robot. I turned around and I was like, are there any roboticists here? And there's this army of Penn engineers sitting like three rows back and they all stood up and were like, yeah, we're roboticists. And so like some guy that came to a Philly's baseball game was talking to a roboticists about something. Speaker 2: The best question he had, he's like that little bulb on the front of the robot. It looked like it had a camera. Did that actually do anything though? [00:13:30] No, that was decorative and I thought that was great. Then they fully admitted, they just put something on there to make it look cooler. That I thought was incredible. Philadelphia Science Festival had so many amazing things, but I was lucky to be part of their astronomy night and we're doing that here in the bay area as well. We have a astronomy night with 20 different locations that are hosting lectures and telescope viewings and planetarium shows, it'll be amazing. But when I was at the Philadelphia Knight, I went to this lecture by Guy Bluford first African American [00:14:00] in space, grew up in West Philly. So you went back to his west Philly neighborhood and gave a talk about, but how he got to be an astronaut and about the international space station. Speaker 2: And this was one of those perfect moments cause so he's giving this talk and he was talking to basically an audience of about 150 African American kids and, and their parents. And there was a woman that basically was just in the front row at the end was just almost in [00:14:30] tears because she's like, I've lived in this neighborhood my whole life. And sometimes we just need a hero. And if that's what it was, it, and it wasn't a sports player, it wasn't a politician, it wasn't, you know, just somebody, it was somebody that worked hard, that have a lot of pride in that neighborhood that came back. And so that went beyond to me. That was that community taking pride in one of their own, which we all should be able to do. And then the sort of beautiful end of [00:15:00] that night as he talked about the ISS and all of the kind of secret life of living on a spate sedation. Speaker 2: And we walked outside and there some telescopes set up in the, in the lot and the ISS actually passed overhead. And so everyone that got to hear him talk about it got to see the space station for the first time. And I don't know, but that was the first time I'd ever really looked at the space station. And it's like, you know, I hear about it on the news all the time, but there is a space station orbiting the earth [00:15:30] and there's like people in there that's just remarkable. And this guy had been on there and he was standing two feet from me and he, he was as humble as, as any one person could ever be. And just so excited to tell people about that discovery. And then lastly, I'm just a Simpsons nerd. And so there was a guy that gave a talk on science and the Simpsons during the festival. He wrote a book on it. His name's Paul Halpern. He's a professor at the University of Sciences in [00:16:00] Philadelphia and it was in the basement of a library. So it was the most sort of surprising location for Simpsons Hawk and it was full like on an 11 o'clock on a Tuesday. And all of these people asking all of these inane questions, those are ideas I've blatantly stolen. The reason I've stolen it is they're just incredibly brilliant. Speaker 1: [inaudible]Speaker 2: [00:16:30] you are listening to spectrum on k a l x Berkeley. We are talking with [inaudible] hiring director, bay area science semester Speaker 1: [inaudible].Speaker 2: You're really poking at those innovative events that do something a little different. And the ones that [00:17:00] strike to me around that is the fact that most of these events, a wide majority, I would say over 75% aren't happening on college campuses. They're not happening in places where science were traditionally housed. So I think about this science pub crawl that's coming on Friday the fourth to take over the mission district in San Francisco. So we have a a science author. His name is Carl Zimmer. He's famous for studying eco ly and microbes in your gut and he wrote this kind of comical book [00:17:30] called Science Inc that's a compendium of all of the great science tattoos people have sent pictures for and he's giving a talk at at a tattoo parlor. I don't think it's very often that you get much science at Tattoo Parlors. You start to see like how the community at large, every place you go when you get your coffee in the morning, when you go into Chotsky store, when you go just walking down the block, it's just surrounding you at all times and that I think is freaking awesome. Speaker 2: [00:18:00] I'm also excited because there's a, there's trainings that take real science experiments into the classroom and we've partnered with a teacher. He teaches a class on biology and within the class they're going to do a specific experiment where they trap bees within the community garden at the school and it's part of a larger experiment to understand how climate change and just you know, micro conditions within your environment are affecting the spread of pollinators. It's amazing that this is [00:18:30] typically taught by just a lecture in the classroom. I don't know about you but at 16 I certainly had no part in any published scientific study and the last one I'll bring up about this is a friend of mine last year piloted this project here in the bay area called science hack day that she formed a little committee of, of interested folks that basically brings together designers, developers and scientists to really hammer on big scientific datasets. It's November 12th and 13th the weekend after the festival, so it's [00:19:00] a post festival event. But the reason I'm so excited about it is 200 people, most of them never met before. Being basically locked into a room and working together just out of nothing and working on big scientific issues. Speaker 2: How did you first get into science and then science advocacy? So the science education route for me, I just call it science education. I have no other way to describe it. Aye owned the company for Awhile. I was a sort of successful [00:19:30] chemist I guess and it was fascinating and exciting because I was in sales and business and product development, all of these things and I realized after years of doing it I just had no real passion for it. Like it was never the thing that that got me up in the morning that drove me to jump to do and when I thought back on all of the things that sort of make me happy in life, one of the memories that always came [00:20:00] up is just be [inaudible] about science with my friends over beers and how that was just an agent of conversation is is science just like brought out the best in us? Speaker 2: We have these kinds of great conversations about where stuff was going and I realized that I was like, well, if that's what I really love to do when I become an agent of that instead of this sort of saying I enjoy it, and I was at a conference, it's the triple a s conference. It was the largest scientific [00:20:30] society at a conference here and I decided once I was just going to go, I was just going to go, go to sessions and joy myself. I know that's probably a little atypical for most people. Let's go to a big science conference and just drop into sessions, but I saw a flyer up about a science cafe and I was like, somebody is making a entire science theme cafe. That sounds great. I would go there all the time. That's not what it was at all. But I, I went to this mixer, I met this, this gentleman Ben, who was like, [00:21:00] who, we basically sat around for a couple hours talking about science over beers and I was like, so what's a science cafe? Speaker 2: And he was like, that's it. Except with a few more people. It's just people talking about science. There's scientists there and sort of ignites a conversation, but it's a sort of democracy thing. Like within a month I had started my own in the city and he just became the best part of my day when I was working on that project is getting all these people together, getting them to talk about different issues and how much learning can happen [00:21:30] in those situations and how hungry people were to learn about all of the great advancements. And I kept following that path and that led me to greater and greater involvement in sort of the marketplace, which is one creating a website, bay area science.org that just listed out all of the incredible science events that are happening and there's literally almost a hundred a week public signs events that are just happening around the bay area. Speaker 2: And I was like, what an incredible resource. I just sort of fell into this position [00:22:00] leading a festival and it was just an amazing opportunity where the, the whole premise was in, in Europe and in Asia, they have these big celebrations of science akin to arts and music festivals and they, they celebrate it like they do anything else. It's just an important part of culture and that couldn't have resonated more with me personally. So I went after that position. I luckily landed into it and here I am a year and a half later, [00:22:30] I wanted to know how you got interested in science personally in the first place. Oh, so all credit to the greatest scientist I've ever known my life, my dad, every morning, like clockwork, the guy was so disciplined at six in the morning, he'd be at his desk and he'd be just reading, not working, reading. He was always very disciplined, but more importantly within that discipline, he was like, there was just innate curiosity on how things work, all credit to him for igniting that [00:23:00] sense of just wonder within me and then just being spirited along by friends and teachers along the way. Speaker 2: I think we've all had a great, the memory of that continues to inspire us. I have to say like it, it all goes back to my dad. I can't thank him enough because it's open so many like doors in my life. It just wondering about stuff and and tinkering is probably some of the most enjoyment I have and now that I have a new son, I [00:23:30] just hope I can impart that same, same interest to him with the caveat that I hope he doesn't destroy my TV or alarm clock or any of those other things that I did back when I was a kid. What can other people who are interested in helping out with the festival do their volunteer opportunities up on our website, pay area, science.org there's a ton of volunteer opportunities. I need help endlessly, whether it be promoting the festival or being on site and helping out the day of. Speaker 2: Most importantly, [00:24:00] I want people to come and enjoy it and after they enjoy being part of the festival and want them to go home and continue that conversation with their loved ones, with their friends and family, that actually is probably the most important component here. I need help, so if you have time and energy and are excited about the science festival, please go sign up on the page. There are different opportunities available, but at the end of the day, I want people to enjoy it. I want people to experience something they've never seen seen before. I want people to take risks, go places that [00:24:30] they normally wouldn't go if you don't normally talk to a scientist, this is your week to finally meet and shake hands and talk with one. I always say the tagline for the festivals, unleash your inner scientists. I think that's what I want to see most from the community is just to get in touch with that, that spot of curiosity and wonder. That's innate in every human being and just go on and enjoy. Okay. Sure. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. Yeah. Speaker 1: [inaudible] [inaudible] [00:25:00] the music played during the show is written and performed by David lost [inaudible] from his album titled Folk and Acoustic [inaudible]. Thank you for listening to spectrum. We are happy to hear from listeners. If you have comments about the show, please send [00:25:30] them to us via email. Our email address is spectrum dot k a l x@yahoo.com join us in two weeks at this same time. 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