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10/27/20

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Links for this week:

4 mins - STN member Hameed Faridani - Oh hello, you're alive - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLAAy_pM-k8&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=exurb1a


Larry Dworsky's' latest Covid statistics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oGOJPUDjxUiT8wL2NX8x5UKPbjR03HQZ/view?usp=sharing


STN member Paul Christopherson - Nikon photo contest reveals the miniature worlds that surround us

https://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/nikon-photo-contest-reveals-miniature-worlds-surround-us-n1242832


Clipped video - Lightning in Super Slow Motion - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLWIBrweSU8&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=RobertPatterson


Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit, Shocking Scientists

https://scitechdaily.com/black-silicon-photodetector-breaks-the-100-efficiency-limit-shocking-scientists/


Can You Really Overdose on Black Licorice? Here's The Science on The Hidden Dangers

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-spooky-and-dangerous-side-of-black-licorice


Texas A&M Expert: New Clues Revealed About Clovis People - Texas A&M Today

https://today.tamu.edu/2020/10/23/texas-am-expert-new-clues-revealed-about-clovis-people/


Video clipped - Massive crater under Greenland's ice points to climate-altering impact in the time of humans - YouTube

https://youtu.be/gg0mAihbm58?t=121


These Ancient Stone Troughs Contained an Unlikely Beverage - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZeB6-Xi6Is&ab_channel=SmithsonianChannel


SMA member Hameed Faridani - Black hole kills star by 'spaghettification' as telescopes watch | Space

https://www.space.com/black-hole-star-death-spaghettification


Spaghetti-fication| S0 News Oct.13.2020 - YouTube

https://youtu.be/5Xx18NVZUTs?t=109


Globular clusters and dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgE3bHLFqOw&ab_channel=ESAScience%26Technology


Metal-poor globular cluster forces astronomers to re-think theories | Space | EarthSky

https://earthsky.org/space/metal-poor-globular-cluster-ext8-found-in-andromeda-galaxy


STN member Bill Warren - An earlier universe - existed before the Big Bang, and can still be observed today, says Nobel winner

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/earlier-universe-existed-big-bang-174323010.html


21 mins - The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48sCx-wBs34&ab_channel=Veritasium


STN Member Hameed Faridani - Comet collides with the Sun - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PSUO7wQ1j0&ab_channel=apvari


STN member Doug Wind - Unnatural Selection: Season 1 | Main Trailer | Netflix - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIIVh7H6nvI&ab_channel=Netflix


STN member Doug Wind - The Great Hack | Official Trailer | Netflix - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX8GxLP1FHo&ab_channel=Netflix


STN member Doug Wind - The Social Dilemma | Official Trailer | Netflix - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaC57tcci0&ab_channel=Netflix


These Tiny, Little-Winged Dinosaurs Were Probably Worse at Flying Than Chickens

https://www.sciencealert.com/these-little-winged-dinos-might-have-been-worse-at-flying-than-chickens


Do Dinosaurs Pose a Gravity Problem? | Space News - YouTube

https://youtu.be/okMOfYcbdI8?t=45


Theodore A Holden Biography

https://www.ancient-origins.net/author-profiles/ted-holden-00586


10 mins - Expanding Earth and Pangaea Theory - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HDb9Ijynfo&ab_channel=CoolScienceVideos


Neal Adams - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Adams#Advocacy_of_expanding_Earth_hypothesis


Video clip - Rupert Sheldrake The Gravitational Constant - TED TALK

https://youtu.be/JKHUaNAxsTg?t=774


52 mins - First Horse Warriors - Botai,Yamnaya - YouTube

https://youtu.be/0AGw8sMeZjg?t=181


Why did horses die out in North America? - Features - Horsetalk.co.nz

https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2012/11/29/why-did-horses-die-out-in-north-america/


8 mins - You (Probably) Don't Exist - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kX62n6yNXA&ab_channel=exurb1a


56 mins - Good dramatization - The Founding Fathers Of Paleontology | Dinosaur Hunters | Absolute History - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtXdemthgmo&ab_channel=AbsoluteHistory


2 hrs 17 mins - Nature's Deadliest Predators In The World | Nature Documentary HD 1080P [Animal Compilation] - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCzT7n5XRyk&t=4228s&ab_channel=NatureDocumentaryHDByDocuEngsubChannel


47 The Ordovician Extinction Documentary - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSInXqf446s&t=300s&ab_channel=MichaelZaza


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