Don't Miss the Trolleys

The AAAS annual meeting kicks off today in
San Francisco with an address by President John Holdren, who is director of the Woods Hole Research Center and a professor at Harvard as well. The meeting lasts five days, and this year's theme is "Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being."

The conference brings together an interdisciplinary motherload of scientists, engineers, and technologists for lectures on topics ranging from climate change to nanotechnology HIV.  Google’s Larry Page will be there to give a plenary lecture on Friday night, as will the team from the infamous Annals of Improbable Research.