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06/15/21 - Galaxy center; Black Hole? Dark Matter? Or something else? - The Drought - What is Light?

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Coming up: We're back at the Hotel Quinta Loreto for SciTechNature AND we're still doing Zoom! As it stands now, we're going to start slowly, Tuesday July 13th and Tuesday August 3rd then if all goes we'll do it weekly.
Links for this week:

3 mins - Official One Vanderbilt Construction Time-lapse Movie - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab_2_bHt_GE


Larry Dworsky's' latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OovlJQ8DuHV6OypQfeE2cSzXdIJj0tmB/view?usp=sharing


New COVID-19 "Mexican Variant" Identified: Increasingly Spreading Across North America

https://scitechdaily.com/new-covid-19-mexican-variant-identified-increasingly-spreading-across-north-america/


Coffee Lovers, Rejoice! Drinking More Coffee Linked With Decreased Heart Failure Risk

https://scitechdaily.com/coffee-lovers-rejoice-drinking-more-coffee-linked-with-decreased-heart-failure-risk/


Judit - Curiosity Stream - Exploring Quantum History With Brian Greene | Part 1: Uncovering a New Reality

https://curiositystream.com/video/1196


STN member Bill Krajec - Microsoft looks ready to launch Windows 11 - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/3/22466394/microsoft-windows-11-launch-teaser-rumors


Physicists Have Broken The Speed of Light With Pulses Inside Hot Plasma

https://www.sciencealert.com/pulses-of-light-can-break-the-universal-speed-limit-and-it-s-been-seen-inside-plasma?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0BAWvv4ABMmGpNs8zQI34S1u5_ah4R_6-t6ws7ztI_pG0vDk0VoTyAiJU#Echobox=1621575267


10 mins - How Ripples on Titan's Lakes Shocked NASA Scientists - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc_oaundDK4


12 mins -Could Milky Way's Central Black Hole Actually Be Something Else? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WuULyyIYqo&t=324s


A gas cloud collides with the black hole at the center of our galaxy, and we get to watch | PBS NewsHour

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/massive-gas-cloud-collide-black-hole-get-watch-live


Black Hole Fails to Destroy Mystery Cosmic Cloud

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/141106-space-g2-black-hole-science#:~:text=A%20cosmic%20gas%20cloud%20seemingly,a%20gas%20cloud%20after%20all.


Black Holes Dark Matter - or plasma? - SciTechNature

https://sites.google.com/site/scitecnature/2017-scitechnature/12-13-17-why-black-holes-do-not-exist


31 mins - STN member Roger Lamont -Where Did Earth's Water Come From? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjDnh7zfO98


Long-Term Drought Grips the Western U.S. – Soils and Plants Are Parched

https://scitechdaily.com/long-term-drought-grips-the-western-u-s-soils-and-plants-are-parched/


3 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Hoover Dam reservoir hits alarming record low - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TK41kBv2Hc


12 Dam Failures CAUGHT ON CAMERA - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNRFGlc4qNc


8 mins - Where Are All The Squid Fossils? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL-K7yuhSxA


25 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Finding America: The Arrival of the First Americans - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYK425sWziA&t=719s


12 mins - Surviving The Younger Dryas ~ Sheriden Cave, Platinum & Extinct Mega Fauna - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2z7Z6XN9RQ


11 mins - Yiftahel ~ 9,000+ Y. O. - Concrete Floors, Plastered Skulls & The Tsunami - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iydfodM9sE


STN member Roger Lamont - Archaeologists find unique 7,000-year-old stamped sealing in northern Israel - Archaeology - Haaretz.com

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/archaeologists-find-unique-7-000-year-old-stamped-sealing-in-northern-israel-1.9891723


5 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - What Is Light? - YouTube

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


STN member Roger Lamont - Scientists Have Proved What Causes The Northern Lights : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/10/1004859458/what-causes-the-northern-lights-scientists-finally-know-for-sure


STN member Roger Lamont - Map of the Nearby Universe Created by Cosmic Cartographers Reveals the Diversity of Star-Forming Galaxies

https://scitechdaily.com/map-of-the-nearby-universe-created-by-cosmic-cartographers-reveals-the-diversity-of-star-forming-galaxies/


11 mins - STN member Roger Lamont -Extremely Rare Ancient Star Found That Could Help Us Solve a Mystery - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wumWwb1dcrA


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

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


Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his monthly heads-up on the subject. Go to this delicious mind-candy here on our site.

Links from last Session

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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.

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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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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