08-06-19 R. Lerner Amazing Octopuses
08/06/19
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Presentation
Rob Lerner:
"Amazing Octopuses (following up on Terra’s article)
"Genetically engineered Salmon"
"The power of Sleep"
"Quantum Computing"
Plus news
Due to time constraints, Stephen Goodfellow's presentation will be delayed until next week
Presentation
Stephen Goodfellow:
"Solved Mystery of the 11 Year Long Solar Cycles - or is it?" (following up on Terra’s article)
"Sunspots and the Maunder minimums."
"Tiny Bombs in your Blood - The Complement System"
"Is Meat Bad for You? Is Meat Unhealthy?"
"Seafood Watch"
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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 last get-together (08/06/19)
Terra Mizwa'a links
"Smart skin for sensitive robots"
(ScienceRobotics, doi.org/c8jq)
"Secrets of how vital drugs harm hearing"
(ScienceAdvances, doi.org/c8jn)
"Antarctica's sea ice is vanishing and we don't know why"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262407919312059
"Mini-brains fire up like the real thing"
(Stem Cell Reports, doi.org/c7r9)
"There's plenty more uranium in the sea"
(Advanced Functional Materials, doi.org/c5k6)
Rob Lerner's linksA Quarter of Humanity Faces Looming Water Crises
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/06/climate/world-water-stress.html
Would you drink desalinated seawater? Recycled sewage water?
This Is the Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry
https://www.outsideonline.com/2399736/impossible-foods-beyond-meat-alt-meat
Designing the Impossible Burger (podcast)
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/usable/designing-the-impossible--jkpN_V1f2X/
Got Impossible Milk? The Quest for Lab-Made Dairy
Tainted Pork, Ill Consumers and an Investigation Thwarted
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/health/pork-antibiotic-resistance-salmonella.html
Tech will fix our future food crisis
https://qz.com/1665188/tech-will-fix-our-future-food-crisis/
For Smart Animals, Octopuses Are Very Weird
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/why-did-octopuses-become-smart/593155/
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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:
Link to John Wharton's Shelter Space; an excellent source of SciTechNature trace elements:
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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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Best,
Stephen Goodfellow