08-18-20 Covid - Early Humans - Casimir Effect

08/18/20

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Links for this week:

See Hummingbirds Fly, Shake, Drink in Amazing Slow Motion | National Geographic - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtUQ_pz5wlo

Larry's Covid Data for the past week:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzbWF0aGV1bml2ZXJzZXxneDozNDVjMTc4NDlkODlkNjk4

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STN member Dennis Taylor - Climate change: How to drive fossil fuels out of the US economy, quickly - Vox

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/21349200/climate-change-fossil-fuels-rewiring-america-electrify

Greenland's Melting Ice Sheet Has 'Passed The Point of No Return', Scientists Say

https://www.sciencealert.com/greenland-s-melting-ice-sheet-has-passed-the-point-of-no-return-scientists-say

10 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - The Origins of the Neanderthals - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7pQEDg9WRY&feature=emb_logo

12 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Homo Naledi - New Questions On Human Evolution - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=22&v=OgBJmdpqWsU&feature=emb_logo

New blood test shows great promise in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease -- ScienceDaily

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200729114404.htm

Could CRISPR gene editing solve the opioid epidemic? - Big Think

https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/crispr-opioid-epidemic?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

Bacteriophages and Covid-19 | Bacteriophage.news

https://www.bacteriophage.news/bacteriophages-and-covid-19/

(Short Video clip) 43 mins BBC 2002 - Bacteriophages - YouTube

https://youtu.be/mQbL6zBYJBY?t=343

Is our solar system shaped like a deflated croissant? | Space

https://www.space.com/solar-system-heliosphere-shape-croissant.html

Previous concept - The Heliosphere - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IE2VUZ6wZM

3 mins - New realization of the Heliosphere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq3U5o4Yblw&list=PLFB7114A38CFAF6A4

Search result for "campfires on the sun - YouTube"

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=campfires+on+the+sun

7 mins - Donald Scott: Campfires on the Sun?

https://youtu.be/czqYufTtZAU?t=171

A super speedy acid cloud has been hiding on Venus for decades | Space

https://www.space.com/venus-weird-decades-old-cloud.html

19 mins - Venus - Earth's Lost Twin - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIgL4h2S270

Liked the above Venus video? More videos from that site

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9ShGbASoiwHwFcLcAh9EA

4 mins - The Casimir Effect - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDxW9ZF5wGs&t=212s

Casimir force used to control and manipulate objects

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-casimir.html

Poop stains visible from space reveal hidden colonies of Antarctic penguins | Space

https://www.space.com/new-emperor-penguin-colonies-satellite-poop-climate-change.html

Behind the Strange Dead-Water Phenomenon: What Makes Ships Mysteriously Slow Down or Even Stop?

https://scitechdaily.com/behind-the-strange-dead-water-phenomenon-what-makes-ships-mysteriously-slow-down-or-even-stop/

22 mins - The Pentagon UFO Videos - YouTube

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

Angkor Wat - Google Maps

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Angkor+Wat/@13.6856403,102.5873631,7.52z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x3110168aea9a272d:0x3eaba81157b0418d!8m2!3d13.4124693!4d103.8669857

50 mins (video clipped) Why Was The Angkor Wat Abandoned? | The City Of God Kings | Timeline - YouTube

https://youtu.be/KsDGDzwuQ-I?t=1796

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:

Caminos de Agua

https://caminosdeagua.org/en/home

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Stephen Goodfellow