11-19-19 T Mizwa-Treating Garbage R Lerner-Introducing Rob Dunn

11/19/19

Welcome to SciTechNature get-togethers

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Terra Mizwa:

Presentation

News,

"Treating garbage"

Rob Lerner:

Presentations

"Lots of News"

"Introducing Rob Dunn"

Microbes get a bad rap. Sure, some of them cause diseases, and for millennia before antibiotics, had been the scourge of humanity. But most that we encounter in our daily lives are benign, or even beneficial to our health. Recent advances have enabled us to detect the genetic signatures of this unseen underworld, revealing microbial life that is far more diverse, abundant—and stranger—than previously imagined. Microbes thrive everywhere we’ve looked: from the upper reaches of the atmosphere to the very bowels of the Earth, in frigid lakes hidden beneath Antarctic ice to scalding geothermal vents.

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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:

Healthy living lowers dementia risk regardless of genes

JAMA,

doi.org/cBbk

Many millions of pigs wiped out as African swine fever spreads

Journal of Biological Chemistry,

doi.org/ddqz

Brain cells could help recall missing objects