02-06-18-We have Moved

02/06/18

WE HAVE MOVED LOCATION!!!!! WE HAVE CHANGED TO TUESDAYS!!!!!

From Cjon. de Loreto, enter the Mercado de Artisanias alley (East, going up-hill) about twenty yards and turn to your left into the Hotel Quinta Loreto compound.

The community center is on the Southeast side of the little central park. If you are coming by car, there is a parking lot within the compound.

(The community center is in the same location as the Philosophical get-together which is held on Fridays.)

The upside to all this? There will be coffee & cookies

This week:

Presentation by Doug Wind: Craig Venter American biotechnologist, biochemist, geneticist, and businessman.

If time: An Amazing Year: Science, Nature and Technology 2017 review

SciTechNature - Tuesday, February 6th, 2018 11:00am to 1:00pm

Location: Quinta Loreto Hotel, community ​​Room, Cjon. de Loreto 15, Centro, Zona Centro, 37700 San Miguel de Allende, Gto.

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SMA Science Book Club Update

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Presentation by Doug Wind: Craig Venter American biotechnologist, biochemist, geneticist, and businessman.

If time: An Amazing Year: Science, Nature and Technology 2017 review

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Last Week's Links: How blockchain could kill both cable and Netflix

Magic Mushrooms May Alter How You Feel About Nature (and Politics)

Stellar magnetism: What's behind the most brilliant lights in the sky?

Field testing DJI’s Mavic Air drone - YouTube

Earth's Magnetic Poles May Flip, And The Effects Could Be Deadly

The sun's outer corona has texture

5 Science And Tech Predictions For 2018

Particle Physics: New Laser Could Rip Apart Space Vacuum and Convert Light Into Matter

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Another SMA Science Group

i³: Ideas that Inform and Inspire - Join mailing list

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The SMA Rotary Club rests upon a foundation of compassion and science, so it too gets a heads up from SciTechNature.

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Mary Jane Miller asks us to list this poster. I've seen the Andrew Fletcher's lecture previously; very insightful, a good bang for the buck:

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Member Bill Wilkinson writes:

On Saturday, February 10^th, we are holding an event at the primary school in El Lindero de La Petaca. Many of you will remember that we took Spanish readers to the school for the last two years. Last winter, John and Ann Caldwell and others totally refurbished the library and we installed the internet in May. During the summer, our friend and long term teacher at the school, Emma Guerra, was promoted to a government job and a new teacher was assigned to the school. The new teacher is not very responsive to gringo help, so we have not continued our program.

Our Saturday event is an opportunity to see the students, mothers and school and to assess the progress being made. Victoria’s School has continued to send their students to El Lindero each Friday to work with the campo kids. The Victoria students are helping put on a program for us that will showcase the library, internet and student talent. We are providing fruit and the mothers will have bean tortillas for us.

If interested in going, please email me ASAP. Also, respond with all drivers and cars that can go. The group will leave from La Aldea Gate at 11AM on Saturday, February 10^th. We should be back about 3. Donations will be accepted for next year’s internet fee and money for Victoria’s parents to add a roof to the school playground.

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Best,

Stephen Goodfellow