02-11-20 Dr. A. Semor-The Coronavirus - L. Dworski-SS Mathematics
02/11/20
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Dr. Andrew Simor:
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The Corona Virus
Dr. Simor specializes in infectious diseases and medical microbiology. He have worked for the past 35 years at a major university-affiliated teaching hospital in Toronto (Ontario, Canada), and is currently a Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Andrew was very actively involved in the local, provincial, and national response to SARS in Toronto and Canada, during the 2003 outbreak.
Lawrence Dworski:
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The Mathematics of Social Security retirement
Peter D. Lenn, Ph.D
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Power Learning for Everyone
How do people learn? How teachers help? What's the fastest way for you to learn?
Biographical Info:
Peter was a controlled nuclear fusion Ph.D. After failing to solve that little problem, he founded a training and curriculum development company. Over several decades their projects ranged from a Criminal Law course used at 85 California's police academies and Community College Police Science programs, to computer and electronics courses for the U.S. Army's 1125 Combat Arms Battalion Learning Centers (worldwide), to summer workshops for 9000 teens on a dozen college campuses on becoming power learners.
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Links from last week David McClintock's links:Physarum Polycephalum
An overview refresher video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YWbY7kWesI
Worth a look:
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/slime-mould-the-blob-paris-zoo
https://phys.org/news/2018-12-amoeba-approximate-solutions-np-hard-problem.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/an-amoeba-has-solved-an-exponentially-complex-problem-in-linear-time
https://www.quantamagazine.org/slime-molds-remember-but-do-they-learn-20180709/
https://www.wired.com/story/kids-world-slime-convention/
and much more at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=slime+mold
Garth Kiarga links from last week:
Chernobyl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(radiation)
http://www.chernobylgallery.com/chernobyl-disaster/radiation-levels/
Firefighters' clothing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4g3FkXUhx0
Radioactive Claw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9npqRJ_9P8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4C1BzMfvEY
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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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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