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Past Events
After Dark Online: Sustenance—Contemplating Creativity
Thursday, November 19, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PST
As a vital form of intelligence, creative thinking takes many shapes. Dig into the creative mind and uncover what neuroscientists have discovered about the brain, creativity, and the nourishing effects of both producing and experiencing creative outputs.
After Dark Online: Sustenance—Animal Intelligence
Thursday, November 12, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PST
What do animals know, and how do they know it? Author Peter Godfrey-Smith discusses his latest book, an inquiry into animal intelligence considering ocean creatures from sponges and shrimp to octopuses and whale sharks.
After Dark Online: Sustenance—Home Movies
Thursday, November 5, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PST
Indulge in a bit of joyful voyeurism as we screen and celebrate home movies—we’ll pair screenings of exceptional home movies with stories and ideas from those who collect, archive, and study them.
After Dark Online: OK with Decay—Cemetery of Dead Science
Thursday, October 29, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
Take a walk in the Cemetery of Dead Science—look at debunked science from pasts both distant and recent and dig into the scientific process to better understand how questionable concepts can gain legitimacy.
After Dark Online: OK With Decay—Under the Bay
Thursday, October 22, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
Join us as we pull our NOAA research buoy out of the water for its yearly servicing—get a look at the critters that colonize it and learn about some key concerns around ocean health and resilience.
After Dark Online: OK With Decay—All That Remains
Thursday, October 15, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
Organic matter can be defined as material in the process of decay. Scale down to the smallest forms of life to discover how organisms break down, and understand the journey they take to reincarnate anew.
After Dark Online: OK with Decay—Dust to Dust
Thursday, October 8, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
From the Big Bang onward, dig into deep time and glimpse the geologic processes that form our planet and its habitable conditions—and clues to its inevitable disintegration.
After Dark Online: Wildfires
Thursday, October 1, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
Learn about the science behind extreme fire seasons and how climate policy can be used to advocate for environmental restoration and equity.
After Dark Online: Agree to a Degree—Mediated Messaging
Thursday, September 24, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
“Fake news" has become troublingly well established. But how did we get here? Dig into how the information we interact with through social networks and the broader media can be shaped to influence.
After Dark Online: Agree to a Degree—Compliance
Thursday, September 17, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
How free is your choice? Do you follow the rules or subvert them? Learn about how peer groups, authority figures, and forms of persuasion determine whether you’ll follow the flock or buck the trend.
After Dark Online: Agree to a Degree—Voting, Unraveled
Thursday, September 10, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
What happens when individual voices gather to make collective choices? Take a closer look at the democratic process—what factors influence how we as individuals participate collectively? And how can the democratic process lead to voting paradoxes?
After Dark Online: Agree to a Degree—Understanding Uncertainty
Thursday, September 3, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
Uncertainty: it’s certainly uncomfortable. It’s also unavoidable in any election. How can we incorporate an understanding of uncertainty into our decision-making, and how can uncertainty be effectively communicated by those constructing polls and data analysis?
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