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08/03/21 Liquid Sheep - Helpful Parrots - Cowardly Termites - Modified moths - Extinct date palms live again - Spiders, Female bondage - Guts for long life - Rocks & Polar Bears - Big Comet approaching - News from Doggerland - Everything Moves - Neutrinos (Part 1) - Comprehending the Coronal Heating Problem - Metallic water - Simplified: Gravity, Uncertainty, Entanglement & Quantum Mechanics -and more!

Greetings fellow awe seekers,
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We're back at the Hotel Quinta Loreto community center for SciTechNature in-person AND we're still doing Zoom! (11:30am SMA time)

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Links for this week:

Time-lapse drone footage turns sheep into moving work of art - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8drxafsHiA

Larry Dworsky's' latest Covid statistics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZZBZsAkV6Zat8x1m7CyRxV_PqEXqzxTy/view?usp=sharing

Terra's presentation:

*1 Parrot joins tiny club of Speceis That Are Helpful

(Current Biology doi.org/dh4m)

*2 Termites use cowardice to sidestep their hosts' anger

(Ecology and Evolution, doi.org/d5hc)

*3 A tablet that could replace injections

(New Scientist, 8 Feb 2020)

*4 Modified moths head into the field

(Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, doi.org/dkvp)

*5 Extinct date palms sprout again thanks to ancient seeds

(Science Advances, doi.org/dk8b)

*6 Some male spiders tie up females to avoid being eaten(!!!)

(Animal Behavior, doi.org/fhw2)

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People who live to 100 have unique gut bacteria signatures | Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/centenarians-gut-bacteria-aging-bile-acids.html

The Little Known Cells That Are As Important As Neurons For Cognition

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gabrielasilva/2021/07/13/the-little-known-cells-that-are-as-important-as-neurons-for-cognition/

Polar bears sometimes bludgeon walruses to death with stones or ice | Science News

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/polar-bears-bludgeon-walrus-stones-tools-ice-inuit

A Hoist to the Heavens - IEEE Spectrum

https://spectrum.ieee.org/a-hoist-to-the-heavens

Greece’s Santorini volcano erupts more often when sea level drops | Science News

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/greece-santorini-volcano-eruption-sea-level

16 mins - Links to the Younger Dryas - The Huge Mystery Of The Carolina Bays - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h2Bmk67fVY

Doggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis’ of the North Sea gives up its ancient secrets | Neanderthals | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/01/doggerland-lost-atlantis-of-the-north-sea-gives-up-its-ancient-secrets

12 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Woah! Giant Comet/Minor Planet Is Approaching From Oort Cloud - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Ht_yqf_b4&t=7s

How Fast Are You Moving When You Are Sitting Still?

https://astrosociety.org/file_download/inline/d1394916-a529-4107-9cb1-a0e3f3a76bf5#:~:text=And%20how%20fast%20is%20the,2.1%20million%20km%2Fhr)!

5 mins - Even Bananas: Neutrino - The Mystery Particle - YouTube

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

Magnitude of the Solar Coronal Heating Problem made Comprehensible

https://photos.app.goo.gl/n3jkWdZHvKgzhEvQ9

Department of Energy announces $9.35 million for research on high energy density plasmas

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Department_of_Energy_announces_9_35_million_for_research_on_high_energy_density_plasmas_999.html

Metallic Water Has Been Created For The Very First Time

https://wonderfulengineering.com/metallic-water-has-been-created-for-the-very-first-time/

8 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - The REAL source of Gravity might SURPRISE you... - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5PfjsPdBzg&t=8s

5 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? - Chad Orzel - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQKELOE9eY4&t=1s

6 mins - STN Member Roger Lamont - Entanglement Theory may Reveal a Reality we can't Handle - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OefsPBDOcFE&t=2s

10 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains The Weirdness of Quantum Physics - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDxzZHSBhw0&t=60s

The Amazon rainforest now emits more carbon than it absorbs - BBC Science Focus Magazine

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/the-amazon-rainforest-now-emits-more-carbon-than-it-absorbs/

Home | Drought.gov

https://www.drought.gov/

The Earth Is Dying, Says A New Scientific Report

https://wonderfulengineering.com/the-earth-is-dying-says-a-new-scientific-report/

These Are The Countries That Are Most Likely To Survive A Global Civilization Collapse

https://wonderfulengineering.com/these-are-the-countries-that-are-most-likely-to-survive-a-global-civilization-collapse/

A New Doomsday Vault Is Under Progress To Save Music From The Apocalypse

https://wonderfulengineering.com/a-new-doomsday-vault-is-under-progress-to-save-music-from-the-apocalypse/

Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his monthly heads-up on in August. 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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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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Best,

Stephen Goodfellow