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The last 30 minutes of last week's Zoom get-together was rudely cut off due to technical difficulties, so I have added that section to this week's presentation...
Links for this week:
3 mins - AGE 12 TO MARRIED – I Took A Photo Every Day - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65nfbW-27ps
Larry Dworsky's' latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cn1FsGBGKkkuCaHc7r0mRPrAuD3O7waQ/view?usp=sharing
Researchers Discover Existing Drug That May Treat COVID-19 Debilitating Long-Haul Symptom
17 mins STN member Roger Lamont - Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Seth - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyu7v7nWzfo&feature=emb_logo
...Last week we saw one instance of the fantastic structures ants can construct with their bodies. Here's more -
10mins - UNBELIEVABLE Ant Buildings - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYodwRsGv1M&feature=emb_logo
3 min - STN member Roger Lamont - Scientists discover new giant fish species off Japan's coast - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3FVUgiEjsg&feature=emb_logo
STN member Roger Lamont - Egypt archaeologists discover 5,000-year-old beer factory in Abydos - CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/14/middleeast/egypt-beer-factory-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html
STN member Bill Krajec - New Technique Used to Spot Possible Super-Earth in Alpha Centauri's Habitable Zone
9 mins - How big can planetary systems get? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDHouMEXHQg&ab_channel=Astrum
STN member Roger Lamont - “Farfarout” – Astronomers Confirm Solar System’s Most Distant Planetoid
https://scitechdaily.com/farfarout-astronomers-confirm-solar-systems-most-distant-planetoid/
STN member Laurenn Rowland - After long split, Earth and Voyager 2 talking again
https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2021/feb/14/after-long-split-earth-and-voyager-2-talking-again/
STN member - Hameed Faridani - Ten-Mile-Wide Object That Killed the Dinosaurs Was Actually a Comet Brought to Earth by Jupiter - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfd6aKmnsUw
13 mins - Our Solar System's Moons: Enceladus - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y35LTzFB-2E&ab_channel=Astrum
9 mins - STN member Keith - Why the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapsed - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXTSnZgrfxM&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
[Clip] Stellar Explosion | S0 News Feb.9.2021 - YouTube
https://youtu.be/yivlyAtzRHo?t=139
[Clip] Implosions under water at 27,450 frames per second - YouTube
vhttps://youtu.be/cp5gdUHFGIQ?t=271
STN member - Hameed Faridani - Climate Change Could Shred Guitars Known for Shredding - Scientific American
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
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
14 min - [Clipped]STN member Roger Lamont - This Revolutionary Computer Is About to Change The World for Good - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZP9CU-RPpw&feature=emb_logo
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