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08/17/21 - Dancing Flowers - Diabetes remission - Reflections on Göbekli Tepe - Neolithic dairy farming - Traces of Denisovans - The Immune System - Animals Counting to Zero - Clever Slime Mold - Circling Marine Animals - News from Zealandia - Inside Jupiter - Plasma, almost all Matter in the Universe - Quantum Gravity headaches - Quantum Entanglement Demystified - More about Neutrinos - and more!

Greetings fellow awe seekers,
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Links for this week:

2 mins - Dancing flowers Beautiful blooming flower time lapse video - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryUxrFUk6MY

Larry Dworsky's' latest Covid statistics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15qIZrtozCGBE9hehcM6rvonTJJd-G4RK/view?usp=sharing

A Simple Diet Can Send Type 2 Diabetes Into Remission, According to Science

https://www.sciencealert.com/science-proves-diet-can-send-type-2-diabetes-into-remission-and-there-s-more-than-one-option

Terra's presentation:

1) * Stomach of COWS can digest plastic(!)

(Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology,

DOI:10.3389/fbioe.2021.684459/full)\https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/microbes-plastics-environment-animals-cows-biology/

2) * Best ever view of odd auroras on Mars

New Scientist, 10 July 2021

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2282573-best-ever-views-of-marss-weird-auroras-taken-by-uaes-hope-orbiter/

3) * Hummingbirds drop their temperature to save energy

(Biology Letters,doi.org/d8rc)

4) * Beetle walks on underside of water's surface

(Ethology,doi.org/gk95)

here's a A 33 SECOND VIDEO with it:

https://youtu.be/_ch4LY3AYBQ

5) * Mini-heart grown in the lab pumps fluid like the real thing

New Scientist 10 July 2021
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/lab-grown-minihearts-beat-real-thing

6) * Your ears can reveal if you are drunk

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-90146-1

7) * Super cetacean went on a globetrotting trip

(Biology Letter,
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0136

8) * Laughing gas could help ease depression

(Science Translation Medicine,
https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/13/597/eabe1376

I do have an (interesting) small article about "calories"...

if there's an extra 4 minutes....

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STN member Hameed Faridani - An immense mystery older than Stonehenge - BBC Travel

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210815-an-immense-mystery-older-than-stonehenge?ocid=global_travel_rss

6 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - We Need To REWRITE History Completely | Graham Hancock - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmyxxP-iHJc

Trellyffaint: Proof unearthed of Neolithic dairy farming in Pembrokeshire

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-58174481

One Living People Today Show More Traces of The Mysterious Denisovans Than Any Others

https://www.sciencealert.com/one-living-people-today-show-more-traces-of-the-mysterious-denisovans-than-any-other

10 mins - How The Immune System ACTUALLY Works – IMMUNE - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXfEK8G8CUI

STN member Hameed Faridani - Animals Can Count and Use Zero. How Far Does Their Number Sense Go? | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/animals-can-count-and-use-zero-how-far-does-their-number-sense-go-20210809/

10 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Unusual Circling Behavior in Marine Animals Puzzles Biologists - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KHiZ06RTEw&t=31s

15 mins - Is Slime Mold Really Intelligent? New Studies Suggest So - YouTube

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

A Chunk From The Sunken Continent of Zealandia Is Twice as Old as We Thought

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-portion-of-the-sunken-continent-of-zealandia-is-twice-as-old-as-we-thought

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

8 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - What's It Like Inside Jupiter? Below The Clouds Of A Gas Giant (4K UHD) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbvZ4d3ifzQ&t=2s

4 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Plasma, The Most Common Phase of Matter in the Universe - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVEGJZxglIg&t=6s

16 mins - STN member Roger Lamont -Quantum Gravity and the Hardest Problem in Physics | Space Time - YouTube

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

17 minutes - STN member Roger Lamont - Quantum Entanglement Demystified - How does it really work? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unb_yoj1Usk&t=1s

7 mins - Even Bananas 07: The three neutrino flavors - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze-a5CDyOFI

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