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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
passcode (if required): 652662
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
12 mins - What Would Happen If We Covered The Whole Sahara Desert In Solar Panels?
NASA Returns Hubble Space Telescope to Science Operations | NASA
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
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
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
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