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07/20/21 - SciTechNature now in-person & Zoom weekly - Lichen discovery - Villa mysteriously appears on beach - 'Ancient' Bitcoin emerges - Solar panels gone crazy - It's alive! Hubble Telescope revived - Birds, Cephalopods & Skin.

Greetings fellow awe seekers,
Thanks to generous donations from members at our last get-together, we have been able to reserve the community space until October.
So from hereon in, since last Tuesday we're back at the Hotel Quinta Loreto community center for SciTechNature in-person AND we're still doing Zoom! (11:30am SMA time)

Important: You MUST be vaccinated to attend.
If you are not feeling well, Zoom instead.

A Zoom link access will be sent to your email on Tuesday mornings at around 9:00am - Click the link when it's Tuesday at 11:30am (Central Daylight Time), 12:30pm EST

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Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82668788731?pwd=bVcvRnJQSGpJcHIveEl3STJQZFZpUT09

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Links for this week:

3 mins - AMAZING KING OYSTER MUSHROOM GROW TIME LAPSE - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjLlKyirKF4

Larry Dworsky's' latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hvfPSwpuJp2Wk4T71tB-VONi1g5hiwvU/view?usp=sharing

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

Terra's presentation:
In this evolved format that we have used since the introduction of Zoom, Terra's links will be displayed as the topics are presented:
AffectiveSpotlight: Facilitating the Communication of Affective Responses from Audience Members during Online Presentations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.12284

Ring molecule found in Titan's sky may be building block of life

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020NewSc.248...19C/abstract

Octopuses taste food with their arms

Spider listens with its legs to grab flying prey

In-ear gadget aids in language learning

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4 mins - What's in a Lichen? How Scientists Got It Wrong for 150 Years | Short Film Showcase - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkw_VF5zDT0&list=WL&index=49

A Villa Has Mysteriously Appeared At A Beach In El Salvador

https://wonderfulengineering.com/a-villa-has-mysteriously-appeared-up-at-a-beach-in-el-salvador/

A Wallet Containing Millions Worth Of Bitcoin Has Come Alive After 9 Years

https://wonderfulengineering.com/a-wallet-containing-millions-worth-of-bitcoin-has-come-alive-after-9-years/

12 mins - What Would Happen If We Covered The Whole Sahara Desert In Solar Panels?

https://wonderfulengineering.com/what-would-happen-if-we-covered-the-whole-sahara-desert-in-solar-panels/

NASA Returns Hubble Space Telescope to Science Operations | NASA

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/operations-underway-to-restore-payload-computer-on-nasas-hubble-space-telescope

9 mins - Great News! NASA Managed to Fix The Hubble Telescope...For Now - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDbN0duVDD8

12 mins - Why is the Closest Planet Also the Most Difficult to Visit? | NASA's MESSENGER Mercury Probe - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MwGXzKjFfY

10 New Phases Of Plasma Have Been Discovered Bringing Us A Step Closer To Fusion Power

https://wonderfulengineering.com/10-new-phases-of-plasma-have-been-discovered-bringing-us-a-step-closer-to-fusion-power/

Physicists take big step in race to quantum computing: Team develops simulator with 256 qubits, largest of its kind ever created -- ScienceDaily

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210709104157.htm

China Says It Has The World’s Most Powerful Quantum Computer, Beats Google

https://wonderfulengineering.com/china-says-it-has-the-worlds-most-powerful-quantum-computer-beats-google/

5 mins - Explaining the Tree of Life | BBC Earth - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pktDqFy5IcE&list=WL&index=44

20 mins - The Origin of Birds — HHMI BioInteractive Video - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4nuWLd2ivc&list=WL&index=47

10 mins - The Unique Biology of Cephalopods - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlsBta849io&list=WL&index=45

19 mins - The Biology of Skin Color — HHMI BioInteractive Video - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFw8mMzH5YA&list=WL&index=43

Only a tiny fraction of our DNA is uniquely human | Science News

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/only-a-tiny-fraction-of-our-dna-is-uniquely-human

12 mins - 10 Things About Humanity That Biologists Can't Quite Explain - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg6PHQBqyGI

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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http://i3sma.org/

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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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Stephen Goodfellow

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