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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
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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.
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