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05/29/18
Welcome to SciTechNature get-togethers
Stephen Goodfellow/David McClintock present:
Hour 1 - News, Chemtrails | Peruvian Mummies by Roger Lamont
Hour 2 - Demography Part 2 - What’s in our Future by David McClintock
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
We introduce ourselves; A quick overview of weekly news in science, nature and technology.********SMA Science Book Club news
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Presentations
Hour 1 - News,
Chemtrails | Peruvian Mummies by Roger Lamont
Hour 2 - Demography Part 2 - What’s in our Future by David McClintock
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Stephen Goodfellow's presentation links from last week:
12 Cool Google Search Tricks You Should Be Using! - YouTube
The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth – The Bacteriophage - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3tsmFsrOg
Largest ever microbiome study offers novel insights into gut bacteria and human health
https://newatlas.com/largest-microbiome-gut-bacteria-study/54632/
Researchers identify gene that helps prevent brain disease: Protein 'proofreading' errors lead to neurodegenerative disease -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180516162516.htm
Stanley Falkow - Notable microbiologist passes away
https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/stanley-falkow/?awt_l=KODcN&awt_m=Jv_G18w48SAPkr
ALMA and VLT Find Evidence for Stars Forming Just 250 Million Years After Big Bang | ESO
This is a significant finding,
"...The presence of oxygen is a clear sign that there must have been even earlier generations of stars in this galaxy..."
If there are stars that have already formed, created oxygen and died 500 million in front of the Event Horizon, it must mean that the earlier stars must have been born and died in an incredibly short period of time: a headache for the Big Bang Theory:
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1815/
(1) NASA Mars Helicopter Technology Demonstration - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOMQOqKRWjU
NASA | The Bedrock Beneath, Antartica - YouTube
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David McClintock's presentation notes from last week:
I. a “Step to Experience Science”
How a train stays on track – 2minutes 34seconds
an edited extract of 1h 08m 50s "Richard P Feynman - FUN TO IMAGINE" on YouTube
Take away: A short bit on something very concrete. Science (and many other fields) encourages observation. So we begin by observing an ordinary thing and figuring out how it works. The photos are from a Google search for "train wheels" I clicked on the tab “Images”
Photos show what a "flange" is on a railroad wheel. Photos also show how/why wheels have a taper or beveled angle so that when the train is on the tracks but off toward one side, then one wheel rides up a bit on the track and presents a greater circumference while the opposite wheel rides down on the track to a present smaller circumference. This steers the train back toward the center of the tracks. It’s 19th century technology, but clever thinking.
II. another “Step to Experience Science” How the World Map Looks Wildly Different Than You Think – 6minutes 19seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPNrtjboISg A look of the world map using the Mercator projection. That map projection has become our shared view of the world. It distorts a lot of reality. Who knew the continental US would fit in the Sahara Desert? Yep the continent of Africa is that big. Take away: If we can agree on a shared view, maybe we can agree on many of the distortions in our view. Then we may be on our way to sharing a clearer view of reality, which seems a good thing.
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Stephen Goodfellow
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