SOCIAL: Ice Age Bay Area Lecture TOMORROW NIGHT!
Amandeep Jawa
deep at deeptrouble.com
Tue Feb 3 11:07:52 PST 2009
Oh cool!
I thought this was in the Avenues but it is just in neighboring
Potrero! In the flats even! Yeah!
http://www.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=&daddr=1201+8th+St+San+Francisco,+CA+94107&cd=1&ie=UTF8&z=17&om=1
Woot!
'deep
.ps Did I mention Mammoths?
On Feb 2, 2009, at 6:28 PM, Amandeep Jawa wrote:
> Ok -
>
> I've been meaning to go to one of these lectures for 1000 years and
> have failed (they are in outer mongolia!) but tomorrow I will really
> give it a big try! Why? MAMMOTHS dammit!
>
> http://www.askascientistsf.com/
>
> Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 7:00 pm
> Topic: Ice Age Bay Area
>
> The hamburger joint on my corner has been there forever...or has
> it?? Set your time machine back to the most recent ice age,
> 10-20,000 years ago, and you'll find yourself in a San Francisco you
> would scarcely recognize. You might think you'd been transported to
> the African plains, a grassy landscape teeming with mammoths,
> mastadons, saber-toothed cats, camels, llamas, and lions. Our
> familiar local geography would be unrecognizable as well. While much
> ocean water was locked away in ice masses to the north, lower sea
> levels exposed miles of land off of our current coastline, and the
> Bay Area had no bay — in its place was a vast, lush valley with a
> massive river running through it. Join us on a trip backwards in
> time with the Oakland Museum's Douglas Long at the helm. Tonight's
> event is presented in collaboration with KQED's QUEST Science and
> Environment Series. We'll start the evening by watching QUEST's "Ice
> Age Bay Area" video.
>
> Speaker: Douglas Long; Chief Curator, Department of Natural Sciences,
> Oakland Museum of California
>
> Location: Axis Cafe, 1201 8th Street (btw. 16th & Irwin) San Francisco
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------
> Amandeep Jawa
> ----------------------------------
> deep AT deeptrouble DOT com
> 937 Valencia St.
> San Francisco, CA 94110-2320
>
> personal: http://www.deeptrouble.com
> political: http://www.sflcv.org
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Social mailing list
> Social at lists.deeptrouble.com
> http://lists.deeptrouble.com/listinfo.cgi/social-deeptrouble.com
----------------------------------
Amandeep Jawa
----------------------------------
deep AT deeptrouble DOT com
937 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA 94110-2320
personal: http://www.deeptrouble.com
political: http://www.sflcv.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.deeptrouble.com/pipermail/social-deeptrouble.com/attachments/20090203/41ff9ca0/attachment.htm>
More information about the Social
mailing list