Welcome to San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature
Zoom Get-Togethers
07/13/21 - (Mexican) Covid certificates - Covid & lice pills - Starlink over Mexico - Lightning map
Space, a sense of scale - Cosmic molecules for life - Breaking carbon monoxide - 'Puters

Greetings fellow awe seekers, It's going to be SO good to see y'all in the flesh again!
This Tuesday we're back at the Hotel Quinta Loreto community center for SciTechNature in-person AND we're still doing Zoom! If it works then we'll continue in this format on our usual Tuesday schedule (11:30am SMA time)

  • Important: You MUST be vaccinated to attend.

  • If you are not feeling well, Zoom instead.

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Links for this week:

6 mins - so you want to build a nuke - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1rN-gdkgfU


Larry Dworsky's' latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsvSAph5ygh7tenooSZEGwsndYF1VCYp/view?usp=sharing


Vaccinated in Mexico? Get your ID confirmation

https://cvcovid.salud.gob.mx/


Laurenn and her covid vaccination certificate

https://photos.app.goo.gl/VuB1GpZ8XD1145tP9


STN member Hameed Faridani - Cheap hair lice pill from the UK 'cures' Covid, according to new research

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cheap-hair-lice-pill-uk-102800289.html


STN member Laurenn Rowland - People given 'friendly' bacteria in nose drops protected against meningitis

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-07-people-friendly-bacteria-nose-meningitis.html


Satellite Internet coming to Mexico in October 2021 – The Yucatan Times

https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2021/07/satellite-internet-coming-to-mexico-in-october-2021/


2 mins - SpaceX satellite internet Starlink being tested in remote areas of Canada - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PwuNLp6PeM


Real Time Lightning Map

http://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;y=16.552;x=-96.4105;z=4;d=2;dl=2;dc=0;


11 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Molecule of Life Found In a Cloud Near Center of Milky Way - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCl0TtoJDD0


STN member Bill Warren - This Bendable Ice Is Freaking Us Out

https://gizmodo.com/this-bendable-ice-is-freaking-us-out-1847262155


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


27 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Why China's Largest Volcano Is So Unusual - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C2HVOB-g5s


12 mins - STN member Bill Krajec - Is Mycelium Fungus the Plastic of the Future? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cApVVuuqLFY&t=11s


Why not split harmful carbon dioxide into harmless carbon and oxygen? - Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/splitting-carbon-dioxide/


Breaking CO2 faster, cheaper, and more efficiently - UConn Today

https://today.uconn.edu/2019/11/breaking-co2-faster-cheaper-efficiently/


Scientists Just Created a Bacteria That Eats CO2 to Reduce Greenhouse Gases | Discover Magazine

https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/scientists-just-created-a-bacteria-that-eats-co2-to-reduce-greenhouse-gases


26 mins - The Younger Dryas, Roseau Structure & The Serpent That Ate The World - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U65OfiJ8EaA&t=311s


13 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Photonic Neuromorphic Computing: The Future of AI? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBFLeQlG2og


STN member Judit Kenyeres - Harvard-MIT Quantum Computing Breakthrough – “We Are Entering a Completely New Part of the Quantum World”

https://scitechdaily.com/harvard-mit-quantum-computing-breakthrough-we-are-entering-a-completely-new-part-of-the-quantum-world/


STN member Roger Lamont - Mysterious Population of Rogue Planets Spotted Near the Center of Our Galaxy

https://scitechdaily.com/mysterious-population-of-rogue-planets-spotted-near-the-center-of-our-galaxy/


Dark wings supercharge seabird flight | Science | AAAS

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/dark-wings-supercharge-seabird-flight?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2021-07-09&et_rid=303445233&et_cid=3843197


Songbirds are mysteriously dying across the eastern U.S. Scientists are scrambling to find out why | Science | AAAS

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/songbirds-are-mysteriously-dying-across-eastern-us-scientists-are-scrambling-find-out?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2021-07-09&et_rid=303445233&et_cid=3843197


42 mins - STN member Susan NeuBeck - What can fungi teach us? | DW Documentary - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbcIQpmiZ3Y


Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his monthly heads-up on in July. 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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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