09/21/21 Welcome to San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Meetings at the Hotel Quinta Loreto community center temporarily suspended - Delta Covid rise.
This week: Timelapse Stadium - The Covid booster - Vaccine & Periods - Gut bacteria & the Brain - Overeating? - Moon & Sleep - Way too big a Virus - Musical Star Explosion - Dark Matter Detector speculations - Swirling Helium Tornado - Longest Cave system got Longer - Them pesky Super volcanos - Freshwater to Toxic Soup - Dinosaur Asteroid hit, from where? - Pythagoras Theory, Greeks? Nah, 1000 years before - Math breakthroughs 2020 - Tidal Rock Pools - New species off of New Zealand - Climate Shapeshifting Species - Deep Sea Symbiosis - Wild Islands of Europe.
Links for this week:
3 mins - Raiders Allegiant Stadium - Must-see 4K time-lapse movie - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grYDheMLhHk
Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wzt_zuFIpq08jxshbKPoJhyMpzQ7nIvh/view?usp=sharing
STN member Hameed Faridani - Most People Don't Need a Covid Vaccine Booster, New Review Says - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/health/covid-vaccine-booster-lancet.html
COVID-19 Vaccines Seem to Affect Periods, And That's Finally Being Investigated
https://www.sciencealert.com/covid-19-vaccines-impact-on-periods-are-finally-going-be-investigated
Large-Scale Study Shows The Moon Exerts a Powerful Influence on How We Sleep
https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-study-shows-the-moon-exerts-a-powerful-influence-on-how-we-sleep
Gut bacteria influence brain development: Researchers discover biomarkers that indicate early brain injury in extreme premature infants -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210903132656.htm
Scientists claim that overeating is not the primary cause of obesity -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210913135729.htm
11 mins - This Virus Shouldn't Exist (But it Does) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-NxodiGPCU
NASA Has Turned An Exploding Star Into Music - And The Result Is Amazing
An Odd Result From a Dark Matter Detector Might Be Something Even Wilder
Physicists Use First-Ever Atomic Vortex Beam To Form A Swirling Helium Tornado For The First Time
The World's Longest Cave System Just Got Even Bigger
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210903085900.htm
Mass Extinction Events Can Turn Freshwater Into Toxic Soup, And It's Already Happening
15 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Where Exactly Did the Dinosaur Killing Asteroid Come From? New Study - YouTube
11 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Babylonians Used Pythagoras Theory 1000 Years Before He Was Born - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de0O-BOGa88&t=1s
8 mins - 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math and Computer Science - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL7DEkXV_60
13 mins - The Secret Life of Rock Pools - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OncyTg9Dlec
The Deep Seas Near New Zealand Have Yielded 6 New Species of Bizarre Sponges
The warming climate is causing animals to 'shapeshift' -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210907110718.htm
11 mins - Deep Sea Symbiosis | The Key to Survival - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3gRQEOC6M4
13 mins - Wild Islands Of Europe | HD | Nature Documentary | Discover the underwater beauty - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRjjldQF8Jk}
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