Events

    Thursday, April 22, 11:15 a.m. The Earth Book  BUY NOW  Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma St., Menlo Park Join us for a very special Story Time on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day! Todd Parr will explore the important, timely subject of environmental protection and conservation and show us how we can all work together to make the Earth feel good - from planting a tree and using both sides of the paper, to saving energy and reusing old things in new ways.   Request a signed copy: sarahl@keplers.com

    Thursday, April 22, 7:30 p.m. The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence  BUY NOW Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus began one of the boldest scientific projects in history, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). But after a half century of scanning the skies, astronomers have little to report but an eerie silence—eerie because many scientists are convinced that the universe is teeming with life. The problem, argues the leading physicist and astrobiologist Paul Davies, is that we’ve been looking in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and in the wrong way. A provocative and mind-expanding journey, The Eerie Silence will thrill fans of science and science fiction alike.  Paul Davies is an internationally acclaimed physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist at Arizona State University, where he runs the pioneering Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He also chairs SETI's Post-Detection Taskgroup, so if scientists succeed in finding intelligent life, he will be among the first to know. In addition to his many scientific awards, the Guardian newspaper recently named Davies one of the "masters of the universe," along with Richard Dawkins and Michael Frayn. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestseller The Mind of God, About Time, How to Build a Time Machine, and The Goldilocks Enigma. The asteroid 1992OG was officially renamed Pauldavies in his honor.   Click HERE to request a signed copy.