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Past Events
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?
After Dark Online: Breathe Deep
Thursday, August 27, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
Turn your attention to human breath. Find out how human breathing has changed over time, through both physical and external factors, and how bringing attention to your breath can restore health and cultivate calm and empathy.
After Dark Online: From Data to Action
Thursday, August 20, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
Collecting and visualizing data allows us to see critical issues at a glance. Tonight, we hear (and see!) stories of how data visualization can detect, inform, and spur action on COVID-19, environmental justice, and climate change.
After Dark Online: Hacking the Human Genome
Thursday, August 13, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
Are there complications to increasingly easy access to our genomic information? Get a broader view of the implications of knowing our genomes with transmedia artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg in conversation with legal scholar Elizabeth Joh.
After Dark Online: Outdoor Insights
Thursday, August 6, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
Hungry for green spaces? Natural environments are essential to our well-being as humans. Tonight, we’ll share stories and observations from the great outdoors and look at the ecology of the California coastline.
After Dark Online: Environmental Justice
Thursday, July 30, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
The impacts of climate change and environmental policies don’t affect all communities equally. Find out how the environmental justice movement is working to change that.
After Dark Online: Racialized Foundations in Science, Medicine, and Law
Thursday, July 23, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
How have racist practices and bias been embedded in medical practices and legal institutions? Find out from Dr. Duana Fullwiley, anthropologist of science and medicine, and Dr. Erin Kerrison, whose work takes a legal-epidemiological approach to public health.
After Dark Online: Algorithmic Accountability
Thursday, July 16, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
Increasingly, artificial intelligence is everywhere. Learn more about the ways algorithmic decision-making and facial recognition technologies reinforce human bias and racism, and the work being done to support algorithmic accountability.
After Dark Online: Race and COVID-19
Thursday, July 9, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
Join Exploratorium Senior Scientist Jennifer Frazier in conversation with Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo as they discuss COVID-19's disproportionate impact on African American, Latino, and Native American communities.
After Dark Online: Racism in Science
Thursday, July 2, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. PDT
Examine where racism has been built into the sciences and how the scientific process can perpetuate racist points of view.
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