10/12/21 Welcome to San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Meetings at the Hotel Quinta Loreto community center temporarily suspended - Delta Covid rise.

A Zoom link access will be sent to your email on Tuesday mornings at around 9:00am - Click the link when it's Tuesday at 11:30am (Central Daylight Time), 12:30pm ESTPasscode (if required): 652662 Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82668788731?pwd=bVcvRnJQSGpJcHIveEl3STJQZFZpUT09

This Tuesday (10/12/21) - Mushrooms? No, Balloons! - Malaria Vaccine - Turbine blades to Bicycle shelters - 700 Stars Disappear - Lost Mangrove - The impossible Sacsayhuamán Walls - Longyou Caves...why? - Cetaceans - Ocean Cleanup - Mammals go daylight - Today's CME from the Sun - How I learned to love pseudoscience - When Trees Took Over the World - Great Geology site - Bayes theorem - the Pelagic Zone


Links for this week: Being updated, ready Tuesday morning

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta: Special Shapes Rodeo Timelapse Day 7 (4K) (2021) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L9NXx2R-S4


Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta: Mass Ascension Timelapse Day 2 (4K) (2021) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIQXqi9lOsI


Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XQuWZMWPtfXh0FsAEtl0dTh3udH103Hk/view?usp=sharing


The World's First Malaria Vaccine Has Been Approved By The WHO

https://wonderfulengineering.com/the-worlds-first-malaria-vaccine-has-been-approved-by-the-who/


Denmark Has Found A New Way To Recycle Junk Wind Turbine Blades - Bike Shelters

https://wonderfulengineering.com/denmark-has-found-a-new-way-to-recycle-junk-wind-turbine-blades-bike-shelters/


13 mins - Over 700 Stars Mysteriously Vanished In The Last 70 Years, But Why? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3xddkS4H80


STN member Helen Rivas-Rose - Mysterious Mexican mangrove forest is 'trapped in time' hundreds of miles from the coast | Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/origin-of-landlocked-mangrove-forest-mexico


18 mins - A Megalithic Mystery Possibly Revealed: How were Peru’s Sacsayhuamán Walls Built? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9S4CqY3eSA


Longyou Caves - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longyou_Caves


18 mins - Still Unknown: The Strange Story of China’s Longyou Caves | Odd Salon UNKNOWN 7/7 - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGca5SraD-Y


14 mins - Cetaceans, the Giants of the Open Ocean - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLdO9MBI7eQ


The Ocean Cleanup Has Just Gathered A Colossal Pile Of Trash From The Ocean

https://wonderfulengineering.com/the-ocean-cleanup-has-just-gathered-a-colossal-pile-of-trash-from-the-ocean/


12 mins - When Mammals Only Went Out At Night - YouTube

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


Part I - Right now (Tuesday) - Solar plasma event smacks into Earth

https://youtu.be/PSp1rdQI_lY?t=18


Part II Sun: When and What - CME Impact

https://youtu.be/omZdmN-Iykw?t=61


Part III Solar CME Impact wrap-up

https://youtu.be/6gB-6ItpKLg?t=18


13 mins - How I learned to love pseudoscience - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWV0XIn-rvY


8 mins - When Trees Took Over the World - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrwMUQbUR30


Historical Geology Christopher White - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Px_TvQyyMCGrQjDKR90Gw/videos


16 mins - STN Member Mike Pore - Bayes theorem, the geometry of changing beliefs - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZGCoVF3YvM&t=13s


12 mins - Deep Sea Wonders of the Pelagic Zone - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqHSZ23x1LE


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