07-17-18 Dworsky - Benfords Law - Lerner Future Food
07/17/18
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Rob Lerner: “The Future of Seafood and Meat.”
Lawrence Dworsky: "Benford's Law - some curious statistics about the world we live in. This would be about 40 minutes, no real math to give headaches, entertaining."
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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News
Presentations
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Links from last week:
Plastic Pollution: How Humans are Turning the World into Plastic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS7IzU2VJIQ
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Dark Matter, Dark Gravity, Ghost Particles, & the Essence of All Objects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=95&v=lr-DB3Z_5_c
...I have so many other links that I though interesting, but had no the time to present them, so I'll place them here:
A high-energy neutrino has been traced to its galactic birthplace
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/high-energy-neutrinos-blazar-icecube?tgt=nr
STELLAR nurseries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3R5xi7X_2c
Where Do Stars Come From? | Nebula and Stellar Nurseries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPzoBL29vZ4
Could Alien Civilizations Predict the Fate of Our Planet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=87&v=uoISn18qP_E
Stability of Earth: Scientists propose solution to 'Gaia puzzle'
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180702111234.htm
Mike Pore's "Uncertainty is the only way forward."
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