05-26-20 Penguins in an Art museum/Larry and the latest Covid figures/

05/26/20

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This week:

Penguins in an Art museum/ Larry's latest Covid data crunch/Flight behaviour/ Larry and the latest Covid figures/Oldest monuments and climate/green Antarctica/The Anthropocene/Old, old Galaxy/Blue takeoff & Landing/Planet eye-candy/Round Sun/Plant-biting Bees/Squid DNA/Brain & Pain/...and more.

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Links:

STN member Judit Kenyeres - Penguins go on a field trip to the art museum for a day - Insider

https://www.insider.com/penguins-visit-art-museum-for-the-day-2020-5

Kansas City Zoo penguins visit the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14bmdE-UjUU

STN member Dirk Bakker - Flight Behavior - Wikipedia (In regards to the previous week's topic on Monarch Butterflies)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Behavior

Watch Blue Origin's New Shepard Rocket Launch and Land - NS-12 Mission - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lfiVZY3sL4

STN member Larry Dworsky - How to Watch the Upcoming NASA SpaceX Rocket Launch Live (...which didn't go too well!)

STN member Larry again - latest Covid number crunch for Mexico

STN member Rob Lerner - We Live in a Patchwork Pandemic Now - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/patchwork-pandemic-states-reopening-inequalities/611866/

Huge Impact Crater Found Under Greenland’s Ice - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL3kC25c128

Next three links - It is amazing to think that there is an outside possibility that mankind's oldest permanent (temple?) structure may have been constructed at the time of the Greenland meteorite impact some 11,500 years ago!

Large Ground Meteorites - RocketSTEM

https://www.rocketstem.org/2020/05/23/ice-and-stone-special-topic-22/

Göbekli Tepe's construction 11,500 years ago was guided by geometry - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/05/gobekli-tepes-construction-11500-years-ago-was-guided-by-geometry/129063

Climate Change Could Mean More Of Antarctica Turning Green With Algae | HuffPost

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/green-snow-algae-antarctica-climate-change_n_5ec96726c5b6a11b8be765da?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGqCJVAkUwd9FleR1Af2dEUEQvZigV3pRikTIISdyynLLhY8509jMW-1t_A5NzGMkex5FjkNzHlmZ_5DcyekPH-kAgeToHEOpvOm-DVwo_E78iQm-bG-GzNC61qmxK-YmlRXmv7J5DfvNXfFSLjBOFYBUEBhU3_1EmlbwGAAyj5g

Green Antarctica - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=61&v=Ty7Y9srqPB0&feature=emb_logo

STN member Laurenn Rowland - Fuzzy Green 'Glacier Mice' Move In Groups And Puzzle Scientists : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/22/858800112/herd-like-movement-of-fuzzy-green-glacier-mice-baffles-scientists?fbclid=IwAR11vhFPY_btGOEGNWXWm532TiqH4k77rympi2De0JOIVlOag1cHQi_EgfQ

The Past We Can Never Return To – The Anthropocene Reviewed - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbgnlkJPga4