08-14-18 Lawrance Dworski Precautionary Principle - Hiroshima Effect
08/14/18
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Stephen Goodfellow
A little more Paradox
Lawrance Dworski
Part 1: Insurance as Gambling and the Precautionary Principle
Part 2: Hormesis and the Hiroshima Effect - Is it real and what might we do with it?
Rob Lerner Presentation:
Book club announcements
“The Green Revolution" & additional news
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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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Goodfellow's links from last week:
A physics treasure hidden in a wallpaper pattern
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/07/19/physics-treasure-hidden-wallpaper-pattern
Penrose tiling - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiling
Penrose tiling - Google Search
The Penrose Tiles - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJnEIjqbkR4
Gault site research pushes back date of earliest North Americans: Luminescence dating confirms human presence in North America prior to 16 thousand years ago, earlier than previously thought
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180723142950.htm
Meet the Counter Strike e-sports team where everyone is over 60
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/20/16800924/silver-snipers-senior-counter-strike-team
Rob Lerner's links from last week:
i3 Presents, JAMES E. PALOMBO: Truth to Logic – Crime, Criminal Justice and Ideology, August 20, 2018
http://i3sma.org/james-palombo-truth-to-logic-august-20-2018/
News stories:
World Record Paper Airplanes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BNg4fDJC8A
We Might Absorb Billions of Viruses Every Day
The New Story of Humanity's Origins in Africa
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-new-story-of-humanitys-origins/564779/
Alpha Gal- tick-induce allergy to meat.
Podcast: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/alpha-gal/
KOCH-BACKED THINK TANK FINDS THAT “MEDICARE FOR ALL” WOULD CUT HEALTH CARE SPENDING AND RAISE WAGES. WHOOPS.
https://theintercept.com/2018/07/30/medicare-for-all-cost-health-care-wages/
The Earth’s carrying capacity for human life is not fixed
SCIENTISTS DISCOVER EVIDENCE OF THE FIRST LARGE BODY OF LIQUID WATER ON MARS
Fermi Paradox Redux:
Water on Mars
The Drake Equation
https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2018-06/Drake1.jpg
Fermi’s Pardox podcast (This American Life):
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/617/fermis-paradox
The Gaia hypothesis revived (podcast):
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/gaia/10017340
Where are the Aliens? (TED Talk)
https://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_webb_where_are_all_the_aliens#t-786530
Earth in Human Hands
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/earth-in-human-hands/
3D-printed mars habitat
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...Because the acquisition of clean water in our town is not only a science, but a necessity:
Link to John Wharton's Shelter Space; an excellent source of SciTechNature trace elements:
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JAMES E. PALOMBO: Truth to Logic – Crime, Criminal Justice and Ideology in the American Experiment
http://i3sma.org/james-palombo-truth-to-logic-august-20-2018/
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Stephen Goodfellow