Dooley and Pelosi: Bridging Trump’s Divide

Tuesday, Jan. 23, 6:30 p.m. The Commonwealth Club (110 The Embarcadero) Democratic National Committee Vice Chair Christine Pelosi and Debbie Dooley, a founder of the Tea Party Move... Read More

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Sketchfest Nightlife

Thursday, Jan. 18, 6 p.m. California Academy of Sciences It’s a night of irreverent science, featuring a live version of the comedy podcast, This Week in Science, and an interact... Read More

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Curious Contraptions

Tue.–Sun. through Jan. 28 The Exploratorium (Pier 15) Explore small, surreal worlds at this exhibition of the charming, often hilarious, mechanical sculptures known as automata. ... Read More

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Made for the Movies: Star Wars I, II, and III

Sunday, Nov. 19, 2 p.m. The Exploratorium Academy Award-winning special effects artist Lorne Peterson will explore the art and science of making fictional landscapes and characters... Read More

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Black Holes: An Up Close and Personal Look

Monday, Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m. California Academy of Sciences Feryal Ozel of the University of Arizona explains and explores the work of the Event Horizon Telescope, an experimental us... Read More

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Bill Nye: The Science Guy

Monday, Nov. 6, 1:15 p.m. The Commonwealth Club (110 The Embarcadero) Join Bill Nye and Jason Sussberg — director of a new documentary on Nye — to discuss climate science and p... Read More

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The Origins of the Genus Homo

Wednesday, Oct. 25, 7 p.m. California Academy of Sciences The genus Homo, as in Homo Sapiens, will be explained by paleoanthropologist Dr. Bernard Wood in this Leakey Lecture. $12�... Read More

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Collisions

Saturday, Oct. 21, hourly 11 a.m.–3 p.m. The Exploratorium Collisions is a virtual reality journey to the home of the Martu tribe in Australia. Filmmaker Lynette Wallworth shares... Read More

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A Planet for Goldilocks: NASA’s Search for Life Beyond the Solar System

Tuesday, Sept. 19, 7:30–9 p.m. Presidio Officers’ Club (50 Moraga Ave.) World-renowned research astronomer Dr. Natalie Batalha will describe the latest discoveries of NASA’s ... Read More

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International Coastal Clean-up Day

Saturday, Sept. 16, 9 a.m.–noon Crissy Field, Aquatic Park, Lands End, Ocean Beach Lend a hand throughout the Golden Gate National Parks and help keep our shorelines clean, safe,... Read More

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Modular Origami

Friday, Aug. 18, 6–9 p.m. The Exploratorium Learn from Meenakshi Mukerji about how modular origami combines individually folded “units” into complex shapes; find out how to m... Read More

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Feline NightLife

Thursday, Aug. 17, 6 p.m. California Academy of Sciences Cat-lovers unite for NightLife’s tribute to four-pawed friends. Evening also includes food and craft cocktail options. $1... Read More

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Perseids Meteor Shower

Fri.–Sat. Aug. 11–12 or Sat.–Sun., Aug. 12–13, night–dawn Northern night sky Perhaps the most beloved meteor shower of the year for the Northern Hemisphere, Perseid mete... Read More

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Wildcard: Where the Unpredictable Worlds of Cardboard & Imagination Collide

Daily through Sept. 4 Exploratorium (Pier 15) Artists from the Cardboard Institute of Technology bring a cardboard cosmos to life. Visit a village in a vortex, a crashed steamboat,... Read More

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Golden Gate Audubon Society Centennial Exhibit

Daily, July 10–Sept. 29, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Tides Thoreau Center Gallery (1012 Torney Ave., the Presidio) This traveling educational exhibit is focused on Bay Area birds and the Aud... Read More

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