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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
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
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?
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
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
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
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.
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