05-07-19 Rob Lerner-Food-Climate Change-CRISPR-Engineering Plants-AI

05/07/19

Welcome to SciTechNature get-togethers

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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Links from this week: Rob Lerner's Links: Your Questions About Food and Climate Change, Answered

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/30/dining/climate-change-food-eating-habits.html

A New Discovery Upends What We Know About Viruses

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/the-revolutionary-discovery-of-a-distributed-virus/584884/

SCIENTISTS DISCOVER NEARLY 200,000 KINDS OF OCEAN VIRUSES

https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-discover-nearly-200000-kinds-of-ocean-viruses/?CNDID=36340453&CNDID=36340453&bxid=MjM5NjgxMDk0ODMwS0&hasha=c76c54f01b5b879c2f6865f9bdc3f336&hashb=65da5cd1ffcb2ce3df942f51779abc56e5633f56&mbid=nl_042819_daily_list1_p3&source=DAILY_NEWSLETTER&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIRED%20NL%20042819%20(1)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl

We contain microbes so deeply weird they alter the very tree of life

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232250-200-we-contain-microbes-so-deeply-weird-they-alter-the-very-tree-of-life/

THE PLAN TO GRAB THE WORLD'S CARBON WITH SUPERCHARGED PLANTS

https://www.wired.com/story/the-plan-to-grab-the-worlds-carbon-with-supercharged-plants/

U.N. Issues Urgent Warning on the Growing Peril of Drug-Resistant Infections

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/health/un-drug-resistance-antibiotics.html

THE ANTIBIOTICS BUSINESS IS BROKEN—BUT THERE'S A FIX

https://www.wired.com/story/the-antibiotics-business-is-broken-but-theres-a-fix/?CNDID=36340453&CNDID=36340453&bxid=MjM5NjgxMDk0ODMwS0&hasha=c76c54f01b5b879c2f6865f9bdc3f336&hashb=65da5cd1ffcb2ce3df942f51779abc56e5633f56&mbid=nl_050119_paywall-reminder_list3_p4&source=PAYWALL_REMINDER_NEWSLETTER&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=Paywall%20Reminder%20NL%20050119%20(2)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl

WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENHANCE OR HACK HUMANITY?

https://www.wired.com/story/will-artificial-intelligence-enhance-hack-humanity/

(video link in the article)

04/30/19 links here********

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:

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

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Stephen Goodfellow