10-16-18 T. Miswa - extended news | R. Lerner - extended new items

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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Updated SMA Science Book Club news

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Links posted after event.

David McClintock's notes on the Hayabusa2 mission

Rob Lerner's links:

First, this is an email from Dr. Ede, that she sent to everyone who signed up for email list at the i3 event:

Diagnosis Diet

http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/

How a Wasp Turns Cockroaches into Zombies

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-wasp-turns-cockroaches-into-zombies1/

CRAWLING DEAD: HOW ANTS TURN INTO ZOMBIES

https://www.wired.com/story/plight-of-the-living-dead/?CNDID=36340453&mbid=nl_100218_paywall-reminder_list3_p1

What Ecstasy Does to Octopuses

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/octopuses-on-ecstasy-prefer-each-other-to-chewbacca/570763/

Quirks & Quarks: Great Canadian Ganja Experiment

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/oct-13-2018-the-great-canadian-ganja-experiment-1.4860201

HOW A THIRST FOR BEER BROUGHT US CEREALS—AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND

https://qz.com/quartzy/1389173/beer-inspired-ancient-farmers-to-grow-cereals/

Are you and your microbes a community or a single entity?

https://aeon.co/ideas/i-holobiont-are-you-and-your-microbes-a-community-or-a-single-entity?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=704574c0f0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_26_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-704574c0f0-70550801

Can science build a better burger?

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/can-science-build-better-burger

Farming the ocean to save the world

https://qz.com/1402088/farming-the-ocean-to-save-the-world/

Will You Eat CRISPR Produce?

https://medium.com/neodotlife/crispr-food-aa074305cf5c

HERE'S THE PLAN TO END MALARIA WITH CRISPR-EDITED MOSQUITOES

https://www.wired.com/story/heres-the-plan-to-end-malaria-with-crispr-edited-mosquitoes/?CNDID=36340453&mbid=nl_092518_daily_list3_p3

SILICON VALLEY’S TECH ELITE ZOOM IN ON CRISPR

https://www.wired.com/story/wired25-sean-parker-alex-marson-jiwoo-lee/

This Scientist-Turned-VC Wants to Extend Life

https://medium.com/neodotlife/this-scientist-turned-vc-wants-to-extend-life-a84b2ad31ca2

BIG DATA AND THE END OF PAINFUL, INVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES

https://www.wired.com/story/wired25-stephen-quake-anne-wojcicki/

Speeding up evolution to create useful proteins wins the chemistry Nobel

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/speeding-evolution-create-useful-proteins-wins-chemistry-nobel

Nobel Prize for the economics of innovation and climate change stirs controversy

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/roles-ideas-and-climate-growth-earn-duo-economics-nobel-prize

Stephen Goodfellow's links:

The “Big Bang Galaxy” –Brightest in the Early Universe at 13 Billion Years Old Discovered to Harbor Carbon

This is interesting, because the galaxy is merely 700 million light years from the hypothesized Big Bang and would be only 700 million years old. The problem is that the galaxy contains carbon, which must have come from 2nd generation stars, and these have a life span of several billion years before they expand into a red giants and begin to manufacture carbon atoms by fusing helium atoms.

It is hard enough to envisage a galaxy forming in 700 million years. It is even harder to explain a galaxy forming stars with carbon in said amount of time.

We will have to wait and see what observations the Webb Telescope afford us in 2020. -SG-https://dailygalaxy.com/2018/10/the-big-bang-galaxy-brightest-in-the-early-universe-at-13-billion-years-old-discovered-to-harbor-carbon/

Gene editing in human embryos takes step closer to reality

https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/08/gene-editing-in-human-embryos-takes-step-closer-to-reality

(Only available to FB accounts) Stem Cell Discussion & Information:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stemcelldiscussionandinformation/

Offered by SciTechNature member Pat Sommer: Alzheimer’s Disease and Dietary Copper

https://nutritionfacts.org/2018/10/04/alzheimers-disease-and-dietary-copper/?utm_source=NutritionFacts.org&utm_campaign=ac7d0cd442-RSS_BLOG_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_40f9e497d1-ac7d0cd442-23612869&mc_cid=ac7d0cd442&mc_eid=ff1d619932

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...Because the acquisition of clean water in our town is not only a science, but a necessity, especially in the San Miguel de Allende area: