04-24-18 Placebo Power - Antibiotic Resistance - food sustainability
Get-togethers...
04/24/18
Welcome to SciTechNature get-togethers
Rob Lerner hosting and Presenting:
Placebo Power, Antibiotic Resistance, Promising genetic technologies to treat disease.
CRISPR out of the medical lab and into our food.
Food sustainability and climate change mitigation and challenges.
Presenting tech innovator Jaron Lanier, rethinking the internet
Location & Time:
Tuesdays, 11:30am to 1:30pm
Quinta Loreto Hotel, Cjon. de Loreto 15, Centro, Zona Centro, 37700 San Miguel de Allende, Gto.
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.)
A 50 pesos donation is suggested.
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Introductions/News:
********SMA Science Book Club
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Rob Lerner hosting and Presenting:
Placebo Power, Antibiotic Resistance, Promising genetic technologies to treat disease.
CRISPR out of the medical lab and into our food.
Food sustainability and climate change mitigation and challenges.
Presenting tech innovator Jaron Lanier, rethinking the internet
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Links from last week;
Allan Rydberg's link: TWO VIEWS OF THE COLLAPSE OF BUILDING SEVEN
(Stephen on sabbatical, returning May 1st.) In the meantime: Video: NASA, Simply the Sun, over 30 minutes long
Proto-star accretion disks will never be though of the same again. Amazing shapes!
New Planets May Be Forming Around Young Nearby Stars, Dusty Disks Suggest
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The other SMA Science Group
i³: Ideas that Inform and Inspire - Join mailing list ********
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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Link to John Wharton's Shelter Space; an excellent source of SciTechNature trace elements:sheltervg4.com
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Best,
Stephen Goodfellow