10-30-18 D Wind Electron Probe Microscope D McClintock Planet Mercury

10/30/18

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Doug Wind "The electron probe microscope" David McClintock "Visiting Mercury"

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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Updated SMA Science Book Club news

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Links from this event:

Comments and links from David McClintock's presentation

Electromagnetism - Spotting fake science:

Free Energy Devices Build and Science - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15V0gUXUPko

Credit: Member Niccolo Famiglietti: That One Time It Rained On Earth For Two Million Years Straight - Digg

http://digg.com/video/rained-for-two-million-years

Submitted bymember Niccolò Giuseppi Funámbulo - "Schrödinger's Bacterium" Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone - Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/schroedingers-bacterium-could-be-a-quantum-biology-milestone/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sa-editorial-social&utm_content=&utm_term=&fbclid=IwAR3OpHaSi-Ly1kxO00po2xzu9Jb_IiDoO5DNH6U7rHCLgugF5UORV7m8wMo

Submitted by member Tom Schneider - What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness | Robert Waldinger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkKuTCFvzI&feature=youtu.be

Living Organisms May Have Been Put in Quantum Entanglement For First Time, Study Claims

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-may-have-put-microbes-in-a-state-of-quantum-entanglement/amp

Xconomy: Pre-Existing Immunity to CRISPR Found in 96% of People in Study

https://www.xconomy.com/boston/2018/10/29/pre-existing-immunity-to-crispr-found-in-96-of-people-in-study/

The West is losing the gene editing race. It needs to catch up - STAT

https://www.statnews.com/2018/10/29/west-is-losing-gene-editing-race/

Archaeologists find 300,000-year-old stone tools in Saudi Arabia – Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/archaeologists-find-300000-year-old-stone-tools-in-saudi-arabia/?amp=1

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SMA Lifelong learning program

http://instituto-allende.edu.mx/en/lifelong-learning-program/

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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:

Caminos de Agua

https://caminosdeagua.org/en/home

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Link to John Wharton's Shelter Space; an excellent source of SciTechNature trace elements:

sheltervg4.com

********Coming up:

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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SMA Rotary Club rests upon a foundation of compassion and science, so it too gets a heads up from SciTechNature.

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