07/31/18
Welcome to SciTechNature get-togethers
Intros | News with Terra Mizwa
Rob Lerner Presentations:
“Fermi Paradox Redux",
"Further notes on 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
Presentations
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Links from last week:
What If You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb In The Marianas Trench? (Science not Fantasy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tbxDgcv74c
Clean energy production
https://www.sandersinstitute.com/blog/renewable-energy-around-the-world
The sun shrinks and grows again by 2 kilometres every 11 years
Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Aaron Swartz's dad: They broke him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpYF6X2rOj4
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is aiming for the sun
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nasa-parker-solar-probe-aiming-sun
Parker Solar Probe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBudjihQKsw
Rob Lerner's links:
5 reasons it might be OK to be optimistic about our oceans
https://ideas.ted.com/5-reasons-it-might-be-ok-to-be-optimistic-about-our-oceans/
Champion of the Oceans: Sylvia Earle
https://blog.ted.com/how-a-ted-prize-wish-helped-one-woman-create-a-sea-change/
Sustainable Aquaculture (TED Talk)
https://www.ted.com/talks/mike_velings_the_case_for_fish_farming#t-407472
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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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Link to John Wharton's Shelter Space; an excellent source of SciTechNature trace elements:sheltervg4.com
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Best,
Stephen Goodfellow