TOUR: 5:30pm, 6:00pm, 6:30pm – What on Earth is this Thing? with Dr. Margaret Hardin (Division Chief, History and Anthropology) and Dr. John Long (Vice-President, Research and Collections)
DISCUSSION: 6:30pm – “Can Mammals Keep Up When Climate Warms? Insights from the Fossil Record” with Dr. Elizabeth Hadly, Stanford University
Environmental change impacts the Earth’s biota....
[read more] TOUR: 5:30pm, 6:00pm, 6:30pm – What on Earth is this Thing? with Dr. Margaret Hardin (Division Chief, History and Anthropology) and Dr. John Long (Vice-President, Research and Collections)
DISCUSSION: 6:30pm – “Can Mammals Keep Up When Climate Warms? Insights from the Fossil Record” with Dr. Elizabeth Hadly, Stanford University
Environmental change impacts the Earth’s biota. Extracting the responses of populations, species and communities to perturbations of the past is one of the best ways of unraveling how they will respond to perturbations of the future. Hadly excavates caves and uses the fossils to reveal how animals have handled prehistoric warming and cooling events using isotopes, morphometrics and ancient DNA.
MUSIC : 5:30pm-10:00pm DJ Lounge – KCRW DJs Anthony Valadez (
www.anthonyvaladez.com) and special guest, ERIC J. LAWRENCE
Opening Band: Crystal Stilts at 8pm
Headling Band Moving Units at 9:15pm
Hailed for pioneering post-punk, indie-dance music – a sound often reflected by today’s contemporaries, Los Angeles’ Moving Units, now ten years into their career, are set to release their EP, Tension War. Tension War references the existential personal struggles we experience when we attempt to harmonize the dualities in everyday life. From the push and pull that ensues during an unspoken attraction, to the dynamic of living in Los Angeles - a city full of symbolism and paraphernalia of glamour versus the desperation and disillusionment of the people who aspire to such entrapments…tension is everywhere.
After Crystal Stilts released their debut EP Alight of Night in 2008, Pitchfork described the group as "moody-sounding f***ers who make fabulous stripped-down garage-pop." The Brooklyn quartet’s dreamy but upbeat psychedelic sound has recently drawn comparisons to Joy Division, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Crystal Stilts' performance promises to hyponitze the senses and get you dancing!
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