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Time Lapse Dam "Removal" Video | National Geographic - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LxMHmw3Z-U


Dam removal time-lapse on Washington's Middle Fork Nooksack River (2020) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHXCoJumpHI


Larry Dworsky's' latest Covid statistics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ANkwY_JmTBJrc_EB4f-oaLhgGaoVjUCB/view?usp=sharing


How The COVID-19 Vaccines Compare To Each Other | HuffPost Life

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-covid-vaccines-compare_l_60186e8fc5b6aa4bad36a3b0?ncid=newsltushpmgnews&fbclid=IwAR2-9Nuz6wWBiZY4sLM83QFxLiCqiK6IWwbH5OxiMmklV7oIiR_ihztVI6k


COVID Vaccine Update: Sputnik V: Hope, Skepticism, and Politics [] Jessica Frick-Liston | Discover San Miguel de Allende

https://www.discoversma.com/news/covid-19/covid-vaccine-update-sputnik-v-hope-skepticism-and-politics-jessica-frick-liston/


STN member Rob Lerner - Desperation grows as Mexico runs out of COVID-19 vaccines - Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-02-04/desperation-grows-as-mexico-runs-out-of-vaccines


STN member Susan NeuBeck - Five variants of coronavirus have been detected in Mexico: InDRE - Infobae

https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2021/02/05/se-han-detectado-cinco-variantes-de-coronavirus-en-mexico-indre/


Danish scientists see tough times ahead as they watch more contagious COVID-19 virus surge | Science | AAAS

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/danish-scientists-see-tough-times-ahead-they-watch-more-contagious-covid-19-virus-surge?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2021-02-05&et_rid=303445233&et_cid=3657088


7 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - COVID-19 Animation: What Happens If You Get Coronavirus? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DGwOJXSxqg&feature=emb_logo


Cancer patients weren't responding to therapy. Then they got a poop transplant. | Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/poop-transplants-melanoma-immunotherapy.html


8min STN member Roger Lamont - Where Did Viruses Come From? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X31g5TB-MRo&feature=emb_logo


1hr 30mins - NOVA - Human Nature (CRISPR Documentary) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoOWt4cZsfg


Scientific Research Uncovers Benefits of Reading Outdoors

https://scitechdaily.com/scientific-research-uncovers-benefits-of-reading-outdoors/


Grape Consumption Protects Human Skin from UV-Induced Photodamage | Medicine | Sci-News.com

http://www.sci-news.com/medicine/grape-consumption-human-skin-uv-induced-photodamage-09324.html


STN member Roger Lamont - Army Ants Build Bridge to Invade Wasp Nest || ViralHog - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUNKQqCRFuQ&feature=emb_logo


3 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - What Happens When Lava Meets Ice? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvSmPqqZB3Q&feature=emb_logo


5 mins STN member Roger Lamont - The Active Volcano in Italy; Mount Stromboli - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqezB1hJJFo&feature=emb_logo


STN member Dirk Bakker - Watch This Billion-Year Journey of Earth’s Tectonic Plates - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/science/tectonic-plates-continental-drift.html


STN member Bill Warren -GPlates Cesium

http://portal.gplates.org/cesium/?view=rift_v


10 min - Heresy! Expanding Earth and Pangaea Theory - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HDb9Ijynfo&t=51s


STN member Hameed Faridani - Stressful animation shows blue whale dodging hundreds of ships while trying to feed | Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/whale-stress-animation.html


2 hrs - SMA Founder Doug Wind - Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality | A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6YEKYIkrzI&feature=emb_logo


1 min - STN member Roger Lamont - Vacuum Implosion - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS6IckF1CM0&feature=emb_logo


Intriguing Remains of a Rare Stellar Explosion Discovered in Milky Way Center

https://scitechdaily.com/intriguing-remains-of-a-rare-stellar-explosion-discovered-in-milky-way-center/


[Clip] Stellar Explosion | S0 News Feb.9.2021 - YouTube

https://youtu.be/yivlyAtzRHo?t=139


[Clip] Repeated implosions water at 27,450 frames per second (Part 2) - Smarter Every Day 97 - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp5gdUHFGIQ


11:00 mins - How do planets orbit in multi-star systems? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ji4PcqIBEg&ab_channel=Astrum


10 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Second Trojan Of Earth Just Discovered By an Amateur Astronomer! - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ3B20EqtgY&feature=emb_logo


7 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - How Ice Ages Happen: The Milankovitch Cycles - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA788usYNWA&feature=emb_logo


55 mins - Dan Britt - Orbits and Ice Ages: The History of Climate - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yze1YAz_LYM&list=FLNBqKYb7-xr6B3ZszxkCZkA&index=6&t=0s


3 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Why Do Electric Plugs Have Holes? Answered - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db-dt5U3MCc&feature=emb_logo


STN member Roger Lamont - Archaeologists Unearth 600-Year-Old Golden Eagle Sculpture at Aztec Temple | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-600-year-old-obsidian-eagle-mexico-180976894/


Scientists One Step Closer to Cracking Minoan Linear A Script | Archaeology, Linguistics | Sci-News.com

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/minoan-linear-a-script-09329.html

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Although not directly related (Everything is connected,) to the topics in SciTechNature, there was a request for information on the Mongolian Empire, so I have included it here:

11 mins - Wait For It...The Mongols!: Crash Course World History #17 - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szxPar0BcMo


48 mins - Genghis Khan Documentary Temujin The Conquer - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh6PnADeqsU


58 mins - Genghis Khan - Rise Of Mongol Empire - BBC Documentary - by roothmens - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAFnxV2GYRU


1hr 8 mins - Mongols Season 1 Full - from Genghis to Kublai - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzatw32j-i4






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