Welcome to San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Meetings at the Hotel Quinta Loreto community center temporarily suspended - Delta Covid rise.
09/07/21 - Beer now and then - Intelligence VS Consciousness - Vox Populi beats fake news - Why Polar Bears don't eat Penguins - Vox Populi beats fake news - The Insane Biology of The Dragonfly - the Great Unconformity - Doggerland's Ice Ages - and more!
Passcode (if required): 652662
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82668788731?pwd=bVcvRnJQSGpJcHIveEl3STJQZFZpUT09
Links for this week:
Striped Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lRL6YRY4os&t=2s
Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AkMBwQ1_PP5mOz2nu8xVUVYgwd8CbgyR/view?usp=sharing
STN member Laurenn Rowland - One in 5,000 - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/briefing/risk-breakthrough-infections-delta.html
Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his monthly heads-up on in August. Go to this delicious mind-candy here on our site.
Scientists Detect Tens of Thousands of Different Molecules in Beer – 80% Not Yet Described in Chemical Databases
STN member Roger Lamont - Beer Was Drunk in China 9,000 Years Ago, But It Likely Wasn't For Recreation
STN member Laurenn Rowland - Steps every day could lead to longer life
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-day-longer-life.html
STN member Terra Mizwa - STN member Terra Mizwa -Amazing images make New Scientist Photography Awards 2021 shortlist | New Scientist
10 mins - What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck4RGeoHFko
Groups of Laypeople Reliably Rate Stories As Effectively as Fact-Checkers
https://scitechdaily.com/groups-of-laypeople-reliably-rate-stories-as-effectively-as-fact-checkers/
25 mins - Why Polar Bears don´t eat Penguins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7cWtICGgHE
19 mins - The Insane Biology of The Dragonfly - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJi61NAIsjs
One of The Supercontinents Is Different from the Others (It’s Rodinia) | Carnegie Institution for Science
https://carnegiescience.edu/news/one-supercontinents-different-others-it%E2%80%99s-rodinia
Great Unconformity - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Unconformity
6 mins - Is the Mystery of Earth's 1.2 Billion Missing Years Solved? | SciShow News - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeWAkvZoN1k}
11 mins - How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ONwQV26L-k&t=5s
30 mins - Doggerland, The Lost World Of Europe Destroyed By Disasters. - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNtJXlscd_Q
Too long for us, but recommended:
1 hr 34 mins - Doggerland Documentary - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwKuTO0nv-0
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