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06/22/21 - Hiccup Straw - Genomes, Africa - Hubble offline - What is Light? - No Squid Fossils? - Universe stuff.
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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:
Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his monthly heads-up on in July. Go to this delicious mind-candy here on our site.
9 mins - 10,000 More Years of the Scientific Method - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE0UimODxNg
Larry Dworsky's' latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WLGam0vTMniYHXWAh1giyWbYDfCs1ORF/view?usp=sharing
Everything We Know So Far About The COVID-19 Delta Variant
https://www.sciencealert.com/everything-we-know-so-far-about-the-covid-19-delta-variant
COVID-19 Survivors May Experience Loss of Brain Tissue, According to New Data
STN member Laurenn Rowland - New drugs may kill and limit reproduction of bowel cancer cells
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-drugs-limit-reproduction-bowel-cancer.html
STN member Laurenn Rowland - Sequence three million genomes across Africa
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00313-7
This Weird Straw Claims to Cure Hiccups Better Than Any Remedy You Know
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-special-straw-could-fix-hiccups-better-than-most-home-remedies
Signs of 'Insect Apocalypse' Could Be Linked to Particular Human-Made Structures
https://www.sciencealert.com/are-dams-responsible-for-the-population-collapse-of-insects
Hubble Space Telescope sidelined by issue with its 1980s computer | Space
https://www.space.com/hubble-telescope-shutdown-1980s-payload-computer
5 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - What Is Light? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXxZRZxafEQ
STN member Roger Lamont - Map of the Nearby Universe Created by Cosmic Cartographers Reveals the Diversity of Star-Forming Galaxies
7 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - How Ice Ages Happen: The Milankovitch Cycles - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA788usYNWA
10 mins - The Big Mystery Of Ancient Sulawesi - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfK2elFTehA
8 mins - Where Are All The Squid Fossils? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL-K7yuhSxA
13 mins - STN member Roger Lamont -Giant Arc 3.3 Billion Light Years Long That Shouldn't Really Exist - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj1ULGmPe6s
A Ginormous Arc of Galaxies Was Just Detected in The Distant Universe
https://www.sciencealert.com/there-appears-to-be-a-giant-arc-of-galaxies-in-the-distant-universe
12 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Strange Filament Structures Found in Milky Way's Center - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xt6OKey7OQ
12 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Unexpected Discovery: Largest Rotating Structure in the Universe - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpDAQpzJPdM
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
NASA Sun stamps
18 mins - 5 Discoveries Parker Solar Probe Made (and HEARD) on the Sun - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kywlUtQfKw
18 mins - Incredible Close Up Video Of Our Sun - Solar Flares, Corona Mass Ejections (CMEs) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUuHA9WbVCY
11 hrs 55 mins - Video Highlight: "Rings Of Fire" Thermonuclear Action on the Sun - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47a3wuLUHmQ
10,000 Years of Climate Memory Have Been Preserved in The Oldest Ice From The Alps
Climate change: The amount of heat the Earth traps has doubled in just 15 years, study shows - CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/17/us/earth-trapped-heat-doubled/index.html
STN member Roger Lamont - Oldest fossils of Ediacaran biota from about 550 million years ago discovered in China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau - Global Times
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1226235.shtml
Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his monthly heads-up on in July. Go to this delicious mind-candy here on our site.
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:
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