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07/28/20
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Links for this week:
Mantis Shrimp Packs a Punch | Predator in Paradise - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Li1k5hGBE
Larry Dworsky's weekly Covid data crunch
Larry Dworsky - More Space Elevator
Laurenn Rowland Presentation:Brain MRI reliability Duke researchers say all brain activity studies are wrong
Studies of Brain Activity Aren’t as Useful as Scientists Thought | Duke Today
Presentation - member Laurenn Rowland - Duke scientist questions his own research with new study faulting task fMRI | Ars Technica
Is There An fMRI Crisis? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8thDuVfqCCM
Test retest reliability (PDF)
The banana as we know it is doomed | Popular Science
https://www.popsci.com/banana-panama-disease-deadly-fungus/
Likely active volcanoes found on Venus, defying theory of dormant planet | Space | The Guardian
Enthusiasm in any language
Long March-5 Y4 launches Tianwen-1 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXYkS6VIVCQ
Follow-up from last week
Mesmerizing Animation Reveals Our Entire Solar System Doesn't Exactly Orbit The Sun
Everything in the Solar System orbits the center of mass (it's rarely in the center of the Sun!) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oauf6W3Uz04&feature=emb_logo
Mike Lester-Garcia writes, The wobble also affects how the apparent solar noon varies...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJhgZBn-LHg
...and as we learned a few weeks back, the Milankovitch Cycles have a huge impact on Earth's global climate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
Giant 'thread' of radio emissions found linking galaxy clusters
Breathtaking Image Reveals The Colossal Magnetic Field of a Distant Spiral Galaxy | Physics-Astronomy.com
Astronomers use slime mold model to reveal dark threads of the cosmic web
https://phys.org/news/2020-03-astronomers-slime-mold-reveal-dark.html
Astronomers Have Found the Universe's Missing Matter | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/astronomers-have-found-the-universes-missing-matter/
15 minutes - The heretics - Magnetic Universe — it's Electric! | Space News - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBsBUypc1VE&feature=youtu.be
NASA's Ingenuity--the First Ever Off-World Helicopter--Is Set for a 'Wright Brothers Moment' on Mars - Scientific American
Incredible Science of NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Captured in New Video
https://scitechdaily.com/incredible-science-of-nasas-perseverance-mars-rover-captured-in-new-video/
Mission Overview: NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=49&v=fSICYcne94A&feature=emb_logo
Enthusiasm and awe - 2019 Nautilus Expedition Highlights | Nautilus Live - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woTi--GCzwM
Vikings had smallpox and may have helped spread the world's deadliest virus -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200723143733.htm
COVID-19 lockdown caused 50 percent global reduction in human-linked Earth vibrations -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200723143728.htm
STN member judit kenyeres - vpro extra - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTLrhK07g6LP-JtT0VVE56A
STN member Judit Kenyeres - A Glorious Accident - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Glorious_Accident
If You Invested $100 in CRISPR Therapeutics' IPO, This Is How Much Money You'd Have Now
https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/07/26/if-you-invested-100-in-crispr-therapeutics-ipo-thi.aspx
Return of the Zombie Cicadas: Manipulative Qualities of Fungal-Infected Flyers Unearthed
“Bad Exosomes” – Cell Communication Mechanism That Drives Cancer Adaptation Discovered
Your Eyes Can Reveal if You’ve Suffered a Traumatic Experience in the Past
https://scitechdaily.com/your-eyes-can-reveal-if-youve-suffered-a-traumatic-experience-in-the-past/
Links from last week
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