Welcome to San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Tuesday, 12/07/21, 11:30am SMA time
Meetings at the Hotel Quinta Loreto community center temporarily suspended - Delta Covid rise.
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This Tuesday (12/07/21) - Topics sensationalized:
The critters we are made of - Omicron comes to Mexico - Covid Meter - Omicron breakdown - Hard on beats Alzheimer's - Saturated fat, the Good, the Bad - Critters go for Ocean Garbage Dump - Tough Snail - Nothing - Ants Vomiting Into Each Other's Mouths - DIY Rocket - Military around the Moon - Pricy Dangerous Asteroid - A Croissant Solar System - Webb Telescope, nail biting - Gen X Nuclear Power - Big sky explosions, one predicted - Quantum Mechanics: Schrödinger's Cat - Camera The Size of a Grain of Salt - On the Human Nature of Policy Failure
Links for today:
7 mins - DNA animations by wehi.tv for Science-Art exhibition - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hk9jct2ozY
Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QoUY3cenyVAAEa5ecEPkT1y3qPXBfltr/view?usp=sharing
Presentation by Larry:
Follow-up on Transmission line problem from last week's "The Big Misconception About Electricity"
7 mins - DNA animations by wehi.tv for Science-Art exhibition - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hk9jct2ozY
First case of the omicron variant detected in Mexico
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/coronavirus/first-case-omicron-variant-mexico/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=jeeng
STN member Bill Krajec - COVID Live Update Deaths from the Coronavirus - Worldometer
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
5 mins STN member Edward Hug - Omicron Variant - The Good, Bad, and Ugly - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsKYcBu9SWY
Giant Study Finds Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's
https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-study-finds-viagra-is-linked-to-almost-70-lower-risk-of-alzheimer-s
Major Discovery Challenges Decades of Advice to Avoid All Saturated Fats
https://www.sciencealert.com/major-discovery-challenges-decades-of-advice-to-avoid-saturated-fats
Plants And Animals Have Started Living on The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
STN member Bill Krajec - Why The Volcano Snail Is Nature's Toughest Gastropod
https://allthatsinteresting.com/volcano-snail
16 mins - What Is Nothing? This New Documentary Tries To Answer The Ultimate Question
12 mins - Edward Hug - Ants Vomit Into Each Other's Mouths And We Finally Know Why - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb5rfK1KJHk
Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space? - IEEE Spectrum
https://spectrum.ieee.org/diy-rocket-program
'Potentially hazardous' asteroid worth nearly $5 billion will enter Earth’s orbit next week, NASA says | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/nereus-asteroid-to-pass-by-earth
12 mins -Can DART Deflect an Asteroid?
Military interest in the moon is ramping up | Space
https://www.space.com/military-interest-moon-cislunar-space
Astronomers Have Discovered Why The Solar System Might Be Shaped Like a Croissant
12 mins - STN member Edward Hug - James Webb Telescope Launch: 30 Days of Absolute Horror - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-QI5rCOc0I
5 mins - STN member Edward Hug - The Next Generation of Nuclear Power Is Here - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9E_VDxrX5c&t=21s
9 minutes - STN Edward Hug-You Will See This Supernova Explosion In The Sky! - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4HFRDeONyY
11 mins - STN member Edward Hug - Understanding Quantum Mechanics: Schrödinger's Cat Experiments - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GerzZ6GDe-0&t=2s
10 mins - STN member Edward Hug - MOST Powerful Explosion In the Universe Recently Discovered - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmWKV69rXZU
This New Ultra-Compact Camera Is The Size of a Grain of Salt And Takes Stunning Photos
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-new-ultracompact-camera-is-the-size-of-a-grain-of-salt
1 hr: STN member Nicolo Famiglietti - Day 9 - William E. Rees: The Enigma of Climate Inaction – On the Human Nature of Policy Failure - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDWhjSUu8UY&t=49s
Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his monthly heads-up on in October. 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