Welcome to San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Tuesday, 11/30/21, 11:30am SMA time
Meetings at the Hotel Quinta Loreto community center temporarily suspended - Delta Covid rise.

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This Tuesday (11/30/21) - Topics sensationalized:

The Omicron Covid variant and other related news - Eyesight, blindness reversal - Plants and anti-cancer - Pentagon & UFO's - Cave topics - Ancient Snake Lizard - Electricity, not what we thought - The Webb Telescope (Sigh!) - Mars Drone update - Geology, the Niagara Escarpment - An ancient South American impact - The beauty of the Sun's surface, again - Quantum time reversal - Asteroid pool - AI, garbage in - The Biology of aging - The secret life of lightning


Links for today:
3 mins - Undiscovered Mexico - Beautiful nature (drone footage) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xh_6HVWQdM



Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bG0KT-Y1SOQzPKoDA8tsvf05Fm6zWUzv/view?usp=sharing


Scientists warn of new Covid variant with high number of mutations | Coronavirus | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/24/scientists-warn-of-new-covid-variant-with-high-number-of-mutations


Several Manufacturers Are Already Testing Their COVID-19 Vaccines Against Omicron

https://www.sciencealert.com/moderna-cmo-suggests-early-2022-date-if-vaccines-need-to-be-updated-for-omicron


Experimental Chewing Gum That Traps Virus Particles Could Help Fight COVID-19

https://www.sciencealert.com/experimental-chewing-gum-that-traps-virus-particles-could-help-fight-covid-19


Molecule Derived From Poisonous Plant Blocks All SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Cell Cultures

https://www.sciencealert.com/molecule-found-in-poisonous-plant-blocks-all-sars-cov-2-variants-in-cell-cultures


Study Reveals Wide Spectrum of COVID-19 Brain Complications – Including Stroke, Hemorrhage, and Other Fatal Complications

https://scitechdaily.com/study-reveals-wide-spectrum-of-covid-19-brain-complications-including-stroke-hemorrhage-and-other-fatal-complications/


COVID May Trigger Heart Condition in Young Athletes | Health News | US News

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-11-29/covid-may-trigger-heart-condition-in-young-athletes


Declining Eyesight Could Be Given a Boost by Short Morning Doses of Seeing Red

https://www.sciencealert.com/declining-eyesight-could-be-given-a-boost-by-short-morning-doses-of-seeing-red


14 mins - BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists Reverse Blindness [CRISPR Technology] - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbVvu_104Pg


Plants Used by The First Australians Seem to Stop Cancer Cells Rejecting Treatment

https://www.sciencealert.com/plants-used-by-the-first-australians-show-benefits-for-cancer-treatment


The Indian Government Wants Elon Musk's Starlink To Stop Selling Satellite Internet Without A License

https://wonderfulengineering.com/the-indian-government-wants-elon-musks-starlink-to-stop-selling-satellite-internet-without-a-license/


Inexplicable Phenomena Spur Pentagon to Launch New UFO Investigation Force

https://www.sciencealert.com/inexplicable-phenomena-spurs-pentagon-to-launch-new-ufo-investigation-force


The Mystery of the Longyou Caves - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/08/the-mystery-of-the-longyou-caves/134874


Mysterious Vanishing of Advanced Chinese Civilization 4,000 Years Ago Finally Solved

https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-vanishing-of-advanced-chinese-civilization-4-000-years-ago-finally-solved


Oldest Remains of Mysterious, Extinct Human Ancestors Unearthed in Siberian Cave

https://www.sciencealert.com/oldest-fossils-of-the-mysterious-denisovans-unearthed-in-a-siberian-cave


STN member Dennis Taylor - A Fossil of a Bizarre Snake-Like Lizard Has Generated Controversy Beyond Its Identity

https://scitechdaily.com/a-fossil-of-a-bizarre-snake-like-lizard-has-generated-controversy-beyond-its-identity/


14 mins - The Big Misconception About Electricity - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY


5 mins - James Webb Telescope Delayed Due to "Incident" - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfLoayApkk4


4 mins - First high frame rate video from Ingenuity helicopter - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD04pPjrLrQ


11 mins - Niagara Escarpment – Its Fascinating Geological and Environmental History - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VEgoT2Ojn0


14 mins -STN member Edward Hug- Something Happened on Earth a Million Years Ago, Making Ice Ages More Extreme - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksR0x2nqym8&t=1s


11 mins - Signs of a Tunguska Like Event, but in Chile and 12000 Years Ago - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ssjk7ttS80


8 mins - Plasma Dance - Remastered | 4k - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGkIKV5Pf_Y


Study suggests Sun is likely an unaccounted source of the Earth's water

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-sun-unaccounted-source-earth.html


Time-Reversal Phenomenon: In the Quantum Realm, Not Even Time Flows As You Might Expect

https://scitechdaily.com/time-reversal-phenomenon-in-the-quantum-realm-not-even-time-flows-as-you-might-expect/


2 mins - STN member Susan NeuBeck - NASA to test planetary defense technique to avoid potential asteroid collisions - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5829TWRQgY8&t=9s


12 mins - The Real Reason to be Afraid of Artificial Intelligence | Peter Haas | TEDxDirigo - YouTube

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


13 mins - The Biology of Aging - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHlNXzfCv0o


54 minutes - The Secret Life of Lightning: The Science of Giant Tesla Coils | Greg Leyh - YouTube

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


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