09/28/21 Welcome to San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Meetings at the Hotel Quinta Loreto community center temporarily suspended - Delta Covid rise.

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This Tuesday (09/28/21) Bernie Reim's October Astronomy heads-up - COVID-19 Can Affect The Brain - Parental Burnout in The US - Reliable Method For Triggering Lucid Dreams - Does Your Mind Create The Universe? - Can YOU Fix Climate Change? Bullseye in Jupiter's Bullseye - Massive Mexican Ancient City - Ancient Etruscan DNA - World’s oldest known beads - Ancient footprints - Ancient Fungi - When a Billion Years Disappeared - Oxygenation Event & Earth´s rotation - More Webb Telescope - A Massive Comet Is Approaching, 2031 - The Great Filter - Giant, Empty Cavity Lurking in Space - Mariana Trench, the Abyss - Cnidarians...who?


Links for this week:

David Attenborough meets a very glamorous hummingbird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag6-pLu3qE8


Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his monthly heads-up on in October. Go to this delicious mind-candy here on our site.


Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QOmtqc4umclSjW_bzAV3jtOmUj0EsbxW/view?usp=sharing


Even Mild COVID-19 Can Affect The Brain, And We Don't Know How Long It Lasts

https://www.sciencealert.com/even-mild-covid-19-can-affect-the-brain-and-we-don-t-know-how-long-it-lasts


Parental Burnout in The US Is Among The Highest in The World, And We May Know Why

https://www.sciencealert.com/parental-burnout-in-the-us-is-among-the-highest-in-the-world


There's a Reliable Method For Triggering Lucid Dreams, Scientists Have Found

https://www.sciencealert.com/there-s-a-reliable-method-for-triggering-lucid-dreams-study-shows}


18 mins - Robert Lanza - Does Your Mind Create The Universe? | Answers With Joe - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCGg543DZNQ


16 mins - Can YOU Fix Climate Change? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw6_JakZFc


Hidden Traces of a Massive Ancient City Are Still in Mexico's Landscape Today

https://www.sciencealert.com/modern-day-mexico-follows-the-contours-of-this-ancient-city


Humans as geomorphic agents: Lidar detection of the past, present and future of the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0257550


DNA Has Finally Revealed The Mysterious Origins of The Ancient Etruscans

https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-has-finally-revealed-the-mysterious-origins-of-the-ancient-etruscans


World’s oldest known beads found in Morocco | Science | AAAS

https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-oldest-known-beads-found-morocco


Ancient footprints could be oldest traces of humans in the Americas

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02597-1


2 mins - Hubble Observes Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Changing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dIfQIDjtOg


Jupiter Changes | S0 News Sep.28.2021 - YouTube

https://youtu.be/uZ1pchuLOLE?t=152


STN member Hameed Faridani - Fungi Might Have Helped Drag the Planet Out of Its 'Snowball Earth' Phase - Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fungi-might-have-dragged-the-planet-out-of-its-lsquo-snowball-earth-rsquo-phase/


12 mins - When a Billion Years Disappeared - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R_NAV8Ieuo


15 mins - STN member Roger Lamont - Unexpected Link Between Earth Rotation and Great Oxygenation Event - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuwveutgfNo&t=3s


Webb telescope to explore forming planetary systems

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-webb-telescope-explore-planetary.html


The Nail-Biting Journey of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Is About to Begin - Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-nail-biting-journey-of-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-is-about-to-begin/


A Massive Comet Is Approaching The Sun - And It Is Bigger Than The Biggest Martian Moon

https://wonderfulengineering.com/a-massive-comet-is-approaching-the-sun-and-it-is-bigger-than-the-biggest-martian-moon/


12 mins - Could We Avoid the Great Filter By Escaping Earth? Timeline Proposed - YouTube

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


Astronomers Have Discovered a Giant, Empty Cavity Lurking in Space

https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-have-found-a-giant-spherical-cavity-in-space


14 mins - Mariana Trench | In Pursuit of the Abyss - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoEVezcE0k0


12 mins - The Fascinating World of Cnidarians - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50Y5sVF5ktQ


Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his monthly heads-up on in October. Go to this delicious mind-candy here on our site.

Links from last Session

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SMA Science Book Club (Presently closed)

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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:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/scitechnature/

The SciTechNature get-together is also on Facebook.

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Caminos de Agua

https://caminosdeagua.org/en/home

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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