Welcome to San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature
Zoom & In-person Get-Togethers
08/10/21 -Glass Octopus - Covid update - Feeding us; Seaweed, Algae & Microbes - Ocean Currents
- Earth tilt - Coronal Heating Problem made Understandable - Universe model & No Dark Matter - Experiment - Mass Psychosis - Mars & Water - 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:

STN member Laurenn Rowland - Glass Octopus - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tVH5MkJZ8

Larry Dworsky's' latest Covid statistics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mNwPlJ2NQyfG2Q48kTrrl95SnWRxIt-h/view?usp=sharing

Announcement by Helen Rivas-Rose: Concert August 19 San Francisco Church

Terra's presentation:

1) Soil microbe transplants could boost tree growth

New Scientist 5 June 2021

2) Seizure alert dogs may detect smell of fear

(Epilepsy & Behavior,doi.org/ghz5)

3) Why fish in the deep sea take so many strange forms

(Ecology Letters, doi.org/gkbjb8)

4) Interceptor takes out drones with SillyString-like strands

New Scientist 9 June 2021

5) Fox breeding suggests that domestication boosts brains

(The Journal of Neuroscience, doi.org/ghz6)
(Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-EXeZXwO08&t=136s

6) Speedy A.I. makes people lip sync - !

(arxiv.org/abs/2008.10010)

Video: https://youtu.be/0fXaDCZNOJc?t=174

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Debate Is Over: COVID Vax Doubled Protection for the Previously Infected | MedPage Today

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/93940?fbclid=IwAR10Nv2Mn2ALU0KkKnInEs-dPnGbutXPGhtBV-KGjdL3_OiOZM7iy-Mhpc8

US develops CRISPR-based hand held COVID-19 test for mass screening

https://www.biospectrumasia.com/news/105/18774/us-develops-crispr-based-hand-held-covid-19-test-for-mass-screening.html

Harvard And MIT Scientists Have Created A 3D-Printed Device That Can Detect COVID-19 Variants In Your Spit

https://wonderfulengineering.com/harvard-scientists-have-created-a-3d-printed-device-that-can-detect-covid-19-variants-in-your-spit/

STN member Hameed Faridani - Researchers may have discovered a new and better genome editing tool than CRISPR

https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/researchers-may-have-discovered-a-new-and-better-genome-editing-tool-than-crispr

8 mins - Why the world needs more algae, not less. - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcyIbq3NhI0

15 mins - Why Demand For Seaweed Is About To Boom - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYnGAAU-05Y

Solar-Powered Microbes Could Be Used To Feed The World - Here Is How

https://wonderfulengineering.com/solar-powered-microbes-could-be-used-to-feed-the-world-here-is-how/

3 mins - New Studies Show Ocean Currents Are Weakening, Could Lead To More Extreme Climate | Mach | NBC News - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il86wI0hxxw

Magnitude of the Solar Coronal Heating Problem made Comprehensible

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

10 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Earth Tilted on Its Side And Then Suddenly Reversed, 84 Million Year Ago - YouTube

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

16 min - STN member Roger Lamont - The Standard Model: The Most Successful Scientific Theory Ever - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unl1jXFnzgo

12 mins - Dark Matter: The Situation has Changed - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_qJptwikRc

4 mins - A proposed induced gravity laboratory experiment 2019 - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNzaLRozQD4

Chris Monk Sellye - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwC-UOBjGKgmUP9fTYYFX2A

15 mins - STN member Bill Krajec - Are Space Elevators Possible? - YouTube

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

21 mins - MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M

11 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - What If Those Liquid Water Lakes on Mars Are Something Else Entirely? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0tOSrvCKBI&t=1s

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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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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Stephen Goodfellow