02-18-20 R. Lerner - Viruses & Bacteria - Bill's Brain - S. Goodfellow-Titan

02/18/20

Welcome to SciTechNature get-togethers

|Intros | News | Presentations|

Rob Lerner:

Viruses & Bacteria

Presentation

Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates

Coming up,

Stephen Goodfellow:

News, Updates

Presentation

Saturn's Moon Titan; the most Extraordinary Moon in our Solar System

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Links from this week: Rob Lerner's links: Antibiotic resistance: scientists are reengineering viruses to cure bacterial infections

https://theconversation.com/antibiotic-resistance-scientists-are-reengineering-viruses-to-cure-bacterial-infections-127283

CRISPR-edited chickens made resistant to a common virus

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2230617-crispr-edited-chickens-made-resistant-to-a-common-virus/#ixzz6ELZsKfgk

The Startling Secret of an Invincible Virus

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/12/startling-secret-invincible-virus/603412/

Megavirus, the biggest known virus

http://www.virology.ws/2011/12/14/megavirus-the-biggest-known-virus/

A New Discovery Upends What We Know About Viruses

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/the-revolutionary-discovery-of-a-distributed-virus/584884/

How the next generation of nuclear reactors could be smaller, greener and safer

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-the-next-generation-of-nuclear-reactors-could-be-smaller-greener-and-safer

Stephen Goodfellow's links:

Titan: Saturn's Largest Moon - An Alternative Earth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiD-NMq0pRE

And - hopefully not abusing my power too much as web administrator, my art studio is open Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd.

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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 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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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