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02/02/21 - Superspreaders - Cicadas! - Mongols & a Volcano - Bronze Age Collapse & Homer
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Links for this week:
9 mins - A Day in Pompeii - Full-length animation - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY_3ggKg0Bc
Larry Dworsky's' latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AjdCSCqpw7f8rvTQ4SkMs0XP27H1LpO0/view?usp=sharing
STN member Laurenn Rowland - Largest COVID-19 contact tracing study to date finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders
8 mins - How Gene Editing Will Change The World - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trjPZKmxMJI
STN Member Dirk Bakker - ‘A remarkable phenomenon’: billions of cicadas set to emerge across eastern US | Insects | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/26/cicadas-emerge-eastern-us
STN Member Dirk Bakker - The Webb Telescope, NASA’s Golden Surfer, Is Almost Ready, Again - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/science/webb-telescope-women-astronomy.html
13 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - What happens During a Quantum Jump? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5HyMNNSGqQ&feature=emb_logo
Sunspot behaviour | S0 News Jan.18.2021 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/embed/SFdcE2KM_6M?start=119&end=154
11 mins - New evidence AGAINST dark matter?! - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvmwqx5vjps
Tantalizing Evidence Hints Ancient Humans Had Stone Tools Before Opposable Thumbs
Biomechanics of the human thumb and the evolution of dexterity: Current Biology
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31893-5
10 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - The Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M3L_Kykl6w&feature=emb_logo
18 mins - Did a Volcano End the Mongol Empire? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8iUXeFxMKc
8 mins - Homer, the Trojan War & the Late Bronze Age Collapse - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTyMVwSvKV8
David Rohl - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rohl#New_Chronology
10 mins - Is the Bronze Age Collapse Wrong? ~ Dr. David Rohl - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFxZHg74nHg
17 mins STN member Roger Lamont - How We Know The Earth Is Ancient - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAgiHreswj0&feature=emb_logo
9 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - - The Most Exciting Telescope That No-one Is Talking About - YouTube
50 mins - Wildlife Takeover: How Animals Reclaimed Chernobyl | Free Documentary Nature - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaUNhqnpiOE
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