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Greetings fellow awe seekers, 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:
2 mins - 13 rather amazing Slow Motion Animals - YouTube}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaBMKgRkDqQ&t=1s
Shark kills Octopus, or... | National Geographic - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q36_8s5z6S8
For The First Time, a Tortoise Has Been Filmed Going in For The Kill… Very Slowly
Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h6rZG_WEWCgHnd5yCJ0Z2UKJ-nDI8wh2/view?usp=sharing
Item: We have to discuss:
A grim warning from Israel: Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta | Science | AAAS
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/grim-warning-israel-vaccination-blunts-does-not-defeat-delta
Terra's presentations:
* 1) Cannabis was domesticated 12,000 yrs ago in China
(Science Advances, doi.org/gnzn)
* 2) How pets conquered the Americas with us
(Proceedings of the Royal Society, doi.org/fxc3)
* 3) Human made stuff outweighing nature
(Nature, doi.org/fmzv)
3 mins - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7lIjEESXIE
* 4) Shaping someone's dream as it happens
(Current Biology, doi.org/fwck)
* 5) AI can read a cow's face to tell if it's stressed - or excited
(bioRxiv,doi.org/f78m)
* 6) Glancing at your phone prompts others to do it too
(Journal of Ethology, doi.org/f764)
* 7) Dogs playing fetch may be body aware (!!?!!)
(Scientific Reports, doi.org/fwp2)
Part #1 - WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?
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10 mins - What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck4RGeoHFko
6 mins - Crab vs Eel vs Octopus | Blue Planet II | BBC Earth - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7cGyYaxUnI
6 mins - Stingray Ambushes Army Of Crabs | Blue Planet II | BBC Earth - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4qRdlfJcs
30 mins - Antikythera Mechanism solved - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDFaAjjWzt8
30 mins - Doggerland, The Lost World Of Europe Destroyed By Disasters. - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNtJXlscd_Q
8 mins - How do neutrino oscillations work? | Even Bananas - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBT1-dV1BTM
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
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