03-26-19 Allan Rydberg- ALZHEIMERS-DEMENTIA DEATH RATE BY COUNTRY - Terra Mizwa-Homo Deus-History of Tomorrow-Yuval Harari

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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Links from this week (03/26/19)

Comments from members:

Loy Geddes and Michael Tessler pointed out that Turmeric Forte has an impact on memory, dementia and Alzheimer's. They state that only Turmeric passes the blood/brain barrier.

There is a significant amount of scholarly papers on the subject.Allan Rydberg links:

ALZHEIMERS/DEMENTIA DEATH RATE BY COUNTRY

https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/alzheimers-dementia/by-country/

Altzheimer -Google Ngram Viewer

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=alzheimers&year_start=1970&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Calzheimers%3B%2Cc0

Terra Mizwa links:

Yuval Noah Harari

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval_Noah_Harari

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow with Yuval Noah Harari - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ChHc5jhZxs&feature=youtu.be

Stephen Goodfellow links - not presented, but worth a gander:

Astronomers Have Detected 83 Black Holes in The Early Universe, Challenging Cosmology (Actually, calling these objects 'Black Holes' are a bit of an optimistic jump; the origional paper refers to them as Quasars. Quasars forming a mere 500 million light years from the Event Horizon (or the hypothesized 'Big Bang',) pose quite a problem for the Big Bang theory: We now know that Quasars are a kind of active galactic nuclei. Galaxies being pretty large, and galaxies with Quasars are of the more massive class of galaxy. It begs the question, how can Quasars, a massive accumulation of matter, organize into coherency in a mere 500 million years? To put it into perspective, it takes our Milky Way Galaxy 230 million years to male one rotation. One rotation ago, life on Earth was pretty far along; Dinosaurs appeared around 230 million years ago.

So on a geological time-scale, 500 million years in a Universe that is supposed to be 13,7 billion years old, is a relatively short time. Certainly short enough to make one wonder how Quasars evolved so fast. - SG)

https://www.sciencealert.com/there-shouldn-t-be-supermassive-black-holes-in-the-early-universe-astronomers-have-just-found-83/amp

Recognizing Defeat? – Investigating Knowledge

https://investigatingknowledge.com/2018/10/31/recognizing-defeat/

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SMA Science Book Club news

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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: