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09/08/20
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Links for this week:
A quick word about the changed SciTechNature website.
STN member Tom Driscoll's new song - Say Goodbye - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er5F2jESAkU&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=tomdriscoll
Larry's Covid Data for the past week:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_DfLVcE_yawa-PxZpJy5n96AtJwWKw_5/view?usp=sharing
Democracy Now Covid section:
https://youtu.be/nd67pxTS0MY?t=208
Larry's potpourri of unsolved mysteries
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q6HPxa_z0RKdSvA4qHY4bklGltxfZ58c/view?usp=sharing
STN member Hameed Faridani - Heuristics and Cognitive Biases
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-heuristic-2795235
5 mins - STN member Hameed Faridani - Kahneman and Tversky: How heuristics impact our judgment - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IjIVD-KYF4&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=IntermittentDiversion
10 mins - STN member Hameed Faridani - THINKING, FAST AND SLOW BY DANIEL KAHNEMAN | ANIMATED BOOK SUMMARY - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqXVAo7dVRU&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=FightMediocrity
Helen Rivas-Rose - How Bacteria-Eating Bacteria Could Help Win the War Against Germs - The New York Times
12 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Nature has learnt how to eat our plastic! - YouTube
New Species of Bacteria Eats Plastic - WSJ
Ice Sheet Melting Is Perfectly in Line With Our Worst-Case Scenario, Scientists Warn
3 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - World’s Largest Bee Is Seen for the First Time in 40 Years | The Dodo - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXRm6S6aDfo&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=TheDodo
A Strange Form of Life Could Flourish Deep Inside of Stars, Physicists Say
6 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - What is the universe expanding into? - Sajan Saini - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PiyUjVxukI&feature=emb_logo
3 mins - STN member Hameed Faridani - The Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources
2 mins- STN member Roger Lamont - steve goodman, talk backwards - YouTube
10 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World (w/ SciShow!) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=YWZgfPGtQEs&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=PBSEons
7 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - The Most Useful Fossils in the World - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=cQ2YFsqaVTE&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=PBSEons
10 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - What were the final images NASA's Cassini ever took? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=82&v=tyMbktsAScE&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=Astrum
6 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - What is the universe expanding into? - Sajan Saini - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PiyUjVxukI&feature=emb_logo
STN member Hameed Faridani - Sciency Jokes
1hr 6mins - The Vital Cells of Existence: The Science of Your Microbiome - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIPbtxDwXgI
1 hr - Symbiosis Oddest Friendships Between Animals | Animal Odd Couples | Real Wild - YouTube
https://youtu.be/_BvB0182xag?t=3041
Links from last week
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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:
SMA Rotary Club rests upon a foundation of compassion and science, so it too gets a heads up from SciTechNature.
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Stephen Goodfellow