10-01-19 R. Lerner Four Environmental Heresies - Sleep is your Superpower

10/01/19

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Terra Mizwa:

News and updates.

Rob Lerner:

Presentations

"Four Environmental Heresies"

"The Gut-Brain Connection"

"Sleep is your Superpower" a TED talk by Matt Walker, author of Why we sleep.

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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 this week:

Terra Mizwa's links: Taking a liking to Lichen

Xanthoparmelia Scarbrosa

https://youtu.be/CDLRYfxIW_4

Lab brains behave like those of early babies

Stem Cell.

doi.org/c9zw

Rob Lerner's links: If Sapiens were a blog post (digest of the book)

https://neilkakkar.com/sapiens.html

A deadly fungus is on the verge of wiping out the banana forever

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/banana-disease-tr4-latin-america

Forget single genes: CRISPR now cuts and splices whole chromosomes

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/forget-single-genes-crispr-now-cuts-and-splices-whole-chromosomes

New CRISPR class expands genetic engineering toolbox

https://phys.org/news/2019-09-crispr-class-genetic-toolbox.html

Uproar after research claims red meat poses no health risk

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/sep/30/research-red-meat-poses-no-health-risk

More Scientists Now Think Geoengineering May Be Essential

https://www.wired.com/story/more-scientists-now-think-geoengineering-may-be-essential/

Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/home/

Refreezing the Arctic: How to bring the ice back with geoengineering

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332450-700-refreezing-the-arctic-how-to-bring-the-ice-back-with-geoengineering/

Soil for Geoengineering

https://www.ted.com/talks/asmeret_asefaw_berhe_a_climate_change_solution_that_s_right_under_our_feet?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2019-09-06&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=top_right_image#t-191

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: The Future of Phosphorus in Agriculture

https://scitechdaily.com/reduce-reuse-recycle-the-future-of-phosphorus-in-agriculture/

Links from last week

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SMA Science Book Club

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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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http://i3sma.org/

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Stephen Goodfellow