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11/19/19
Welcome to SciTechNature get-togethers
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Terra Mizwa:
Presentation
News,
"Treating garbage"
Rob Lerner:
Presentations
"Lots of News"
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,
Many millions of pigs wiped out as African swine fever spreads
Journal of Biological Chemistry,
Brain cells could help recall missing objects
bioRxiv,
We may have spotted alien water on comet Borisov
Rob Lerner's Links:
Researcher Finds New Use for Revolutionary Gene-Splicing Tool CRISPR
https://scitechdaily.com/researcher-finds-new-use-for-revolutionary-gene-splicing-tool-crispr/
Lab-Grown Meat That Doesn’t Look Like Mush
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/science/lab-meat-texture.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
The Future of Meat
https://qz.com/guide/future-of-meat/
Leading Maggot Farmer to Expand From Cape Town to California
How to Develop an Appetite for Insects
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/science/eating-insects-entomophagy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
This new ‘battery’ aims to spark a carbon capture revolution
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/this-new-battery-aims-to-spark-a-carbon-capture-revolution
Links from last week
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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:
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
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