08-25-20 Doug Wind - The Dunning-Kruger - Hummingbirds and Waterfalls

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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

https://www.sciencealert.com/experiment-identifies-new-kind-of-social-trait-that-may-determine-your-level-of-bias

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?

https://scitechdaily.com/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

http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/08/Researchers-find-method-to-regrow-cartilage-in-the-joints.html

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

https://www.sciencealert.com/otherworldly-jellyfish-sprite-lightning-was-captured-in-a-stunning-photo

Ancient Mars Had Planet-Wide Rainstorms So Intense They Breached Its Lakes

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-planet-wide-rainstorm-on-mars-breached-several-of-its-lakes-billions-of-years-ago

An Exploding Star 65 Light-Years From Earth May Have Triggered a Mass Extinction

https://www.sciencealert.com/exploding-stars-65-light-years-from-earth-may-have-triggered-ancient-mass-extinction

An Asteroid Just Made The Closest Earth Fly-by on Record, And We Didn't See It Coming

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-car-size-asteroid-just-made-the-closest-pass-of-earth-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

https://www.sciencealert.com/we-re-a-little-closer-to-understanding-how-the-tardigrade-s-dna-armour-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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SMA Science Book Club

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