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09/22/20

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Links for this week:

6 mins - The Amazing Dance Of Nature: Watch Plants Grow - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3A8d-vEUpU&ab_channel=Ti%C3%AAnNguy%C3%AAnTV


Larry Dworsky's' latest Covid statistics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UepbAu4vov6R_M-I1-2ipqO8pfLocixx/view?usp=sharing


Clip - Corona virus data - Top U.S. & World Headlines — September 15, 2020 - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k05Hi0fq4o&ab_channel=DemocracyNow%21

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Back by popular demand, Larry's "Benford Statistics presentation."

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Presentation: Questions. Then Answers. Then...more Questions?

45 mins - The Day The Universe Changed - Infinitely Reasonable: Science Revises the Heavens - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ6XFcrh7IQ&ab_channel=filosofohistoricista


5 mins - The Mysterious Orbit of Mercury I The Great Courses - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSXNE0pNtr8&ab_channel=TheGreatCoursesPlus


Brian Cox visits the world's biggest vacuum chamber - Human Universe: Episode 4 Preview - BBC Two - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs


5 mins - Empty Space is NOT Empty - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3xLuZNKhlY&ab_channel=Veritasium


Steel Ball Dropped in a Viscous Fluid - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K389Fw2U5sk&ab_channel=TSGPhysics


3 mins - Strange Magnetic Bubbles at the Edge of the Solar System - YouTube

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


1 min - Animation showing Jupiter's magnetic field lines near the moon Europa - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx5ymOPly1g&ab_channel=IceWorlds


6 mins - The helical model - our Galaxy is a vortex - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4V-ooITrws&ab_channel=DjSadhu

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Clip - climate change - Top U.S. & World Headlines — September 15, 2020 - YouTube

https://youtu.be/1k05Hi0fq4o?t=516


Discovery of a New Mass Extinction – Carnian Pluvial Episode – 233 Million Years Ago

https://scitechdaily.com/discovery-of-a-new-mass-extinction-carnian-pluvial-episode-233-million-years-ago/


'Green' billionaires behind professional activist network that led suppression of 'Planet of the Humans' documentary | The Grayzone

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/07/green-billionaires-planet-of-the-humans/


Michael Moore Responds: New Report REVEALS Green Billionaire Attacks On Movie ‘Planet Of The Humans’ - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZige9bfXmU&ab_channel=TheHill


6 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Higgs Boson Discovery Wins Nobel Prize for Physics - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcHz3o4t6Rk&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=WorldScienceFestival


7 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Real Video of the Sun's Surface - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=auD_FLvfm_g&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=ElderFoxDocumentaries


A Multi-Decade Mystery Settled: Presence of Resonating Cavities Above Sunspots Has Been Confirmed

https://scitechdaily.com/a-multi-decade-mystery-settled-presence-of-resonating-cavities-above-sunspots-has-been-confirmed/


Sunspots short edited clip

https://youtu.be/F8hStTFQHq8?t=157


Melting ice sheets will add over 15 inches to global sea level rise by 2100 | Space

https://www.space.com/melting-ice-sheets-sea-level-rise-2100.html


125 million-year-old dinosaur found buried by a volcanic eruption in China - CNN

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/20/us/dinosaur-fossil-discovery-china-trnd/index.html


Asteroid Flyby Alert: NASA Tracks Two Rogue Space Rocks Making Their First Near-Earth Approach | Tech Times

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/252701/20200920/asteroid-flyby-alert-nasa-tracks-two-rogue-space-rocks-making-their-first-near-earth-approach.htm


Tardigrades: Chubby, Misunderstood, & Not Immortal - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kux1j1ccsgg&ab_channel=JourneytotheMicrocosmos


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