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 - !
Video: https://youtu.be/0fXaDCZNOJc?t=174
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Debate Is Over: COVID Vax Doubled Protection for the Previously Infected | MedPage Today
US develops CRISPR-based hand held COVID-19 test for mass screening
Harvard And MIT 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
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.
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