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  • The Promise of Stem Cells: Hope or Hype? June 4 stem_cells copyYou’re all probably pretty excited about the potential of stem cell research to provide cures for debilitating conditions like diabetes, spinal cord injury, macular degeneration, heart disease, and neurologic disorders. You’ve heard about the enthusiasm, the caveats, and the controversy — and you want to understand what it all means, where the research stands today, where it’s heading, and how people suffering from problems like those mentioned might be helped.
  • Time Travel Not Guaranteed, Movie & Science Talk, June 8 Time Travel Not Guaranteed WonderfestRoger Ebert wrote of this terrific little film:

    “Few descriptions of ‘Safety Not Guaranteed’ will do it justice. It’s a more ambitious and touching movie than seems possible.”

    Time travel is a wonderful idea. Come explore that wonder while watching what Roger Ebert called “a more ambitious and touching movie than seems possible.”

  • End of Daze, with Chris McKay (Steve Carell & Keira Knightley), Dec 1 End of Daze - Steve Carell, Keira KnightleyOn December 1st, with just one month to meet the legendary “End of Days” before 2013, Wonderfest invites you to a more rational examination of doomsday. End of Daze: Does Hollywood Get Doomsday Right? presents uber-droll planetary scientist Chris McKay introducing a special screening of 2012′s Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. Get the explosive truth — as best we know it — about how days might really end if a monster asteroid comes to town.
  • Physics Circus, with Zeke Kossover @ AT&T Park Zeke Kossover's Physics CircusWonderfest presents The Physics Circus, an exhibition in the Bay Area Science Festival, Discovery Days at AT&T Park. With equipment generously donated by PASCO Scientific, physics teachers Zeke Kossover and Tucker Hiatt will guide you in the use of over a dozen wondrous devices: bicycle gyroscope, marshmallow blowgun, compression igniter, inertia wand, ultrasonic motion detector, etc.
  • When Worlds Collide & Star Gazing, with NASA’s Dr. Kevin Zahnle When Worlds CollideThe famous K/T extinction event (death knell of the dinosaurs) shows that, even today, the collision of Earth with a small world gone astray can refresh the face of our planet. Impacts were much larger and more frequent on the early Earth. In all likelihood, impacts posed the greatest challenge to the survival of early life; and they remain a major threat, today.