08-25-20 Doug Wind - The Dunning-Kruger - Hummingbirds and Waterfalls
08/25/20
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Links for this week:
Dumb Ways to Die - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw
Larry's Covid Data for the past week
Larry Dworsky, Presentation: What is Quantum Tunneling?
Scientists Film Hummingbirds Flying Through Waterfalls, And It's Beautiful And Genius
https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-the-genius-and-beautiful-way-hummingbirds-fly-through-waterfalls
Doug Wind Presentation
10 mins - STN member Doug Wind - The Dunning-Kruger Effect - Cognitive Bias - Why Incompetent People Think They Are Competent - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y50i1bI2uN4&feature=emb_logo
5 mins - STN member Doug Wind - Why incompetent people think they're amazing - David Dunning - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOLmD_WVY-E&feature=emb_logo
STN member Doug Wind - dunning kruger effect - Google Search *******
Groupthink - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink
PYSci: Groupthink, a silent threat to your Science - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=28&v=KH8GugvYbfg&feature=emb_logo
Groupthink - YouTube Search
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Groupthink
160 papers - Groupthink - Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=1,44&as_vis=1&q=groupthink&scisbd=1
STN member Helen Rivas-Rose - Galileo's Lessons for Living and Working through a Plague - Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/galileos-lessons-for-living-and-working-through-a-plague/
Will lockdown loneliness make us loners? Reduced social preference in isolated zebrafish is caused by stress and anxiety, not observed anti-social patterns -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200610112057.htm
Newly Identified Social Trait Could Explain Why Some People Are Particularly Tribal
Milky Way-like galaxy found in deep space puzzles astronomers - CNET
https://www.cnet.com/news/galaxy-like-milky-way-found-in-deep-space-vexes-astronomers/
Behind the Strange Dead-Water Phenomenon: What Makes Ships Mysteriously Slow Down or Even Stop?
Battle of Actium - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Actium
Set to specific time - ACTIUM 31 BC - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPO4ms1KdgY
17 mins - The Great Kansas Grasshopper Plague of 1874 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxqgBWxLZa0&t=566s
STN member Laurenn Rowland - Researchers find method to regrow cartilage in the joints | News Center | Stanford Medicine
12 mins - The global coffee crisis is coming - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IN4ZcZAUbA
15 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - How did life begin? Abiogenesis. Origin of life from nonliving matter. - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=806&v=nNK3u8uVG7o&feature=emb_logo
10 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=534&v=mAkjETPM1s4&feature=emb_logo
NASA Researchers Track 'Dent' in Earth’s Magnetic Field | NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-researchers-track-slowly-splitting-dent-in-earth-s-magnetic-field
Photographer Captures Eerie And Majestic Sky 'Jellyfish' During a Storm
Ancient Mars Had Planet-Wide Rainstorms So Intense They Breached Its Lakes
An Exploding Star 65 Light-Years From Earth May Have Triggered a Mass Extinction
An Asteroid Just Made The Closest Earth Fly-by on Record, And We Didn't See It Coming
4 mins - The Chelyabinsk Meteor: What We Know - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB2eoQfOGBA
Defend Earth | The Planetary Society
https://www.planetary.org/defend-earth
3 mins - New Findings From NASA's Dawn Mission at Dwarf Planet Ceres - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRgpuvjV_Vs
For The First Time in Years, Earth Overshoot Day Has Been Pushed to a Later Date
https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-overshoot-day-is-a-month-later-then-last-year-thanks-to-covid-19
Tardigrades Have DNA Armour, And We Just Got Closer to Understanding How It Works
1 hr - Symbiosis Oddest Friendships Between Animals | Animal Odd Couples | Real Wild - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BvB0182xag
Links from last week
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