07-24-18 Rob Lerner - antibiotic resistance-sustainability

07/24/18

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Rob Lerner: “News notes in cosmology, antibiotic resistance, and sustainability”

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

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Presentations

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Links from last week:

Sunspot

https://img.purch.com/h/1000/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzAwNS82MjAvb3JpZ2luYWwvc3Vuc3BvdC1pbWFnZS0xMDA5MDMtMDIuanBn

Hiding in plain sight: The mystery of the sun's missing matter

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23631482-800-hiding-in-plain-sight-the-mystery-of-the-suns-missing-matter/

New South African Telescope Releases Epic Image of the Galactic Center

https://gizmodo.com/new-south-african-telescope-releases-epic-image-of-the-1827572028

This Is The Clearest View of The Centre of The Milky Way to Date, And It Is Breathtaking

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-brand-new-telescope-just-captured-the-clearest-image-of-the-milky-way-s-centre-ever-and-it-is-breathtaking

Electric Fields Elicit Ballooning in Spiders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKOhuOxKv_I

Rob Lerner's links:

How Eating Seaweed Can Help Cows to Belch Less Methane

https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-eating-seaweed-can-help-cows-to-belch-less-methane

Factory Farms Put Climate at Risk

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22052017/factory-farms-cafos-threaten-climate-change-world-heath-organization

Allan Savory · Grassland ecosystem pioneer

https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change#t-1318762

FAKE MEAT, SERVED SIX WAYS

https://www.wired.com/story/ideas-joi-ito-on-fake-meat/

WHAT IS MEAT, ANYWAY? LAB-GROWN FOOD SETS OFF A DEBATE

https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-meat-anyway/

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