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Silicon Valley Reads 2025—Empowering Humanity: Technology for a Better World
Join us for a thought-provoking conversation about technology and humanity with Silicon Valley Read’s featured authors Charlee Dyroff (Loneliness & C…
1 year, 1 month ago
What Climate Progress Is Possible Now?
The second Trump administration has hit the ground running. The president has signed a flurry of executive orders targeting everything from birthrigh…
1 year, 1 month ago
'America First' Foreign Policy Fights in Trump 2.0
The Chinese have a saying, or perhaps a curse: "May you live in interesting times." From Taiwan to Ukraine, the Middle East and now Greenland, Canada…
1 year, 1 month ago
Plot Twist: Could Artificial Intelligence Be the Transformative Force for Justice?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, from predictive analytics to advanced data systems, has emerged as a catalyst for innovation. Yet, the crimi…
1 year, 1 month ago
LA Wildfires: Loss, Recovery and Resilience
The wildfires ravaging Los Angeles have caused incredible destruction — loss of life, thousands of homes and businesses gone or damaged and hundreds …
1 year, 1 month ago
Mark Clifford: How Jimmy Lai Became Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident and China's Most Feared Critic
How did the billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai become one of Hong Kong’s leading activists for democracy—and China’s most famous political prisoner to…
1 year, 2 months ago
California Forever: Can Building New Cities Help Solve Our Housing Crisis?
California faces an urgent housing crisis: Median home prices are double the national average and while in 2016 it was projected that the state neede…
1 year, 2 months ago
Even Old Houses Can Learn New Elec-Tricks
If we include personal cars, along with appliances like water heaters, stoves and furnaces, more than 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions com…
1 year, 2 months ago
Obi Kaufmann—The State of Fire: Why California Burns
How do we live with fire? Join us for a talk about stewardship, resilience and hope.
Fire is an essential part of California's ecology. Humans have be…
1 year, 2 months ago
Seth Rockman: A Material History of American Slavery
How interdependent were the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor in pre-Civil War America?
Historian and Brown University history prof…
1 year, 2 months ago