SF News Sunday Links: Over 800 Constituents Flock To Santa Clara Town Hall, Exceeding Capacity 800 frustrated constituents packed Saturday's town hall in Santa Clara and many were turned away; Trump revoked the security clearances of Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, and many other Democrats; and Caltrans is launching its long-awaited study on the large truck ban along part of I-580.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Trump Might Be Ready To Set Some Limits With Musk Trump might be about to start reining Musk in after a heated exchange between Musk and Rubio in a Cabinet meeting; the former officer involved in the scandals surrounding the Antioch Police Department admits that he enjoyed inflicting violence; and Gene Hackman and his wife died a week apart.
SF News Fired NOAA Researchers Talk About Their Critical Work Protecting Northern CA Coasts From Climate Change Three recently fired NOAA researchers are speaking out about their team's important work protecting vulnerable species along the Northern California coast, which was abruptly disrupted last Thursday when over 800 probationary employees at the agency were fired.
SF News Federal Cuts End Year-Round Conservation on the Farallon Islands Budget constraints will reduce research on the Farallon Islands to a seasonal program. The loss of year-round monitoring puts seabirds, seals, and other wildlife at risk, with fewer resources to prevent human disturbances.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Lawrence Livermore Lab Partners With OpenAI Muni subway experiences mid-morning technical issues and delays; S.F. man charged with hate crime and assault over Tenderloin garage incident; and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory tests OpenAI's AI models in hopes of streamlining its fusion research.
SF News Oakland Hills Firestorm Survivor Fights to Protect California Homes From Rising Risks U.C. Berkeley professor and 1991 Oakland Hills firestorm survivor is tackling California’s insurance crisis, using data-driven models to address climate risks and protect homeowners in fire-prone areas.
SF News The Future of SF's Iconic Fog Appears Hazy, Scientists Say The often mercurial weather phenomenon, affectionately dubbed "Karl" after an acerbic, parody Twitter account, and undoubtedly a key feature of the city's mystique, now faces a murky future with global temperatures on the rise.
SF News Smell The Stinky Corpse Flower That Blooms For 1 Day Every 3 Years The very rare and very peculiar Amorphophallus titanum is about to bloom at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers. SF Weekly delivers the odorous news of the "Terra the Titan," a plant that
Arts & Entertainment Bill Nye Arrives In SF To Drop Some Science Bow-tied crusader Bill Nye the Science Guy refuses to bow out of the public eye. While his 1990s PBS show now exists only in reruns, Nye is still seen debating creationists, defending vaccinations,
SF News How And Where To Watch Tonight's Perseid Meteor Shower Hey everyone, it's time for the annual Perseid meteor shower! And, as it's San Francisco in August, that also means it's time for everyone to get disappointed that their view of the Perseid
SF News Got Dirt? To Fight Sea Level Rise, Bay Area Marshland Projects Seeking Lots Of Mud Landing at SFO can be a pretty, if sometimes harrowing experience (short runway). A nice distraction: The salt marshes that form a quilt of various umbers around the southern part of SF Bay.
SF News Check Out The Exploratorium's Sweet Video From Yesterday's Eclipse You caught yesterday's live-stream of the total solar eclipse, right? The one in Micronesia? No? Well then, you're in luck, as the kind people over at the Exploratorium have put up a video
SF News City College Doesn't Refrigerate Its Cadavers And Other Fun Facts City College of San Francisco is seemingly constantly in the news for scandals ranging from issues of accreditation, to extravagant administrative meal and travel expenses, to sketchy potential skirting of no-bid contract rules.
SF News Dutch Scientists' Escape From Alcatraz Simulator Shows How Escapees May Have Survived As dramatized in Escape From Alcatraz with Clint Eastwood, three prisoners famously fled the "inescapable" island prison by raft in 1962, never to be seen again. The film draws on evidence of debris
Arts & Entertainment In Which SFist Reviews The Exploratorium's New Tactile Dome Today marks the opening of the Exploratorium's new Tactile Dome, the pitch-black tactile experience where visitors feel their way through a maze-like path. Here to report on the new Dome, and to provide
SF News UC Berkeley Nobel Prize Winner Humblebrags Win On Facebook It's nice to know that even Nobel Prize winners are prone to the occasional humblebrag, superpower smarts and all. Shortly after winning the 2013 prize for medicine on Monday, UC Berkeley's Randy Schekman
SF News Researchers Succeed In Creating Real-Life 'Vulcan Mind-Meld' Two faculty members at the University of Washington have apparently succeeded in executing the first non-invasive, brain-to-brain interfacing between humans, via the internet. The experiment involved two men in separate labs across campus
SF News Where To Watch The Perseid Meteor Shower Tonight The annual Perseid Meteor Shower dotted the sky last night. Did you see it? Probably not, especially if you live in San Francisco, a city held captive by Karl this summer. But if
Arts & Entertainment Science! The New Exploratorium Opens Today At Pier 15 After 44 years spent in the drafty belly of the Palace of Fine Arts, beloved city science center the Exploratorium has finally opened the doors to its new home at Pier 15. The
Arts & Entertainment Take A Look Around The Exploratorium's New Home On Pier 15 In advance of their official re-opening on April 17th, the Exploratorium showed off their bright new Pier 15 space to members of the press Tuesday morning. SFist was there to take a look
SF News Meteor/Harmless Shooting Star Spotted Above Bay Area On the heels of meteor that landed in Russia injuring over 900 people, a streak of blue and green was spotted over San Francisco Friday night, believed to be a meteorite (or, more
Arts & Entertainment 'Still Living The Dream,' Says NASA Dreamboat Bobak Ferdowsi On Monday, Mars rover Curiosity landed with aplomb... as did the mohawk-sporting rover lead, Bobak Ferdowsi, who crash-landed into the hearts of countless geekphiles. Ferdowsi recently spoke with Shira Lazar of What's Trending,
SF News Lawrence Livermore Lab Successfully Shoots Mega-Laser That Could Kill Us All Big news in the physics community arrives this week: Lawrence Livermore National Lab just successfully shot a 500 terawatt fusion laser at a single tiny target this week, which was the result of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/20: Will Durst At The Commonwealth Club COMEDY: Famed political satirist, Will Durst, who once ran for mayor of San Francisco, will give an "undoubtedly entertaining" account of his life and work in a talk titled, "The Truth, The Whole
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/14: Big Freedia MUSIC: Noise Pop and Hard French present Big Freedia, "a 6-foot-plus phenom powered by brash sexual energy and raw, self-made talent," who's described as the "queen diva of bounce music." The organizers advise
