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09/01/20

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Links for this week:

5 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - The Deepest Dive in Antarctica Reveals a Sea Floor Teeming With Life - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6cX0wQP5NA&feature=emb_logo

Larry's Covid Data for the past week

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gGg0a6C24o17stsXOeKeOi_VylCyS8ic/view?usp=sharing


10 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - What's Under The Ice In Antarctica? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=oM_Ce3ITLtA&feature=emb_logo


30 New Species of Deep-Sea Life Forms Discovered Near The Galapagos

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-30-new-species-of-crustaceans-in-galapagos-depths


12 mins - The global coffee crisis is coming - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IN4ZcZAUbA


17 mins - The Great Kansas Grasshopper Plague of 1874 - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxqgBWxLZa0&t=566s


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


Photographer Captures Eerie And Majestic Sky 'Jellyfish' During a Storm

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


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


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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https://www.facebook.com/groups/scitechnature/

The SciTechNature get-together is also on Facebook. ********

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