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Tuesday, 12/14/21, 11:30am SMA time
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This Tuesday (12/14/21) - Topics sensationalized:

Thistles - Omicron's looking more like blessing than a curse - Asthma? No brain tumors - Replicating Cancer Research a dud - Kitty Psychopath Questionnaire - We lied...again... - Mars Rover pictures - Webb Telescope matter? - 12,000/yo Hiawatha Crater, evidence says maybe - Early America Fossil footprints - cracked tectonic plates - So, what's going on with CRISPR? - Found: Old Chile Tsunami - World Fungi Maps - Ad hoc cure for Type 1 Diabetes? - Biggest firework in the sky! Perhaps - Pluto! Pluto! Pluto! - Zap! Hammering chrystals.

Links for today:

Thistle flower time lapse. The Thistle is the National Emblem of Scotland - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNZOPjdvYN4

Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XRRhPBlA7LaV-9-pLG1Il7-aphh1hHvn/view?usp=sharing

STN member Laurenn Rowland - Pfizer says its antiviral pill slashes risk of severe COVID-19 by 89% | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-says-antiviral-pill-cuts-risk-severe-covid-19-by-89-2021-11-05/

25 mins - STN member Bill Krajec - Omnicron,. Latest data, looking good - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Paq17X6ucQ

We Just Got Closer to Understanding Why Asthma Might Protect From Brain Tumors

https://www.sciencealert.com/there-s-a-strange-perk-to-asthma-it-comes-with-fewer-brain-tumors

Strenuous 8-Year Effort to Replicate Key Cancer Research Finds an Unwelcome Surprise

https://www.sciencealert.com/massive-8-year-study-finds-only-25-percent-of-cancer-research-can-be-reproduced

Scientists Developed a Questionnaire to Identify Whether Your Cat Is a Psychopath

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-develop-a-questionnaire-to-identify-whether-your-cat-is-a-psychopath

10 mins - We lied...And We'll Do it Again - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFqn3uy238E

5 mins; New Views from Perseverance Rover Sol 275 | This Is Mars | 4k - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS8JttdFOIY

Why NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Matters So Much | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-matters-so-much-20211203/

Massive crater under Greenland's ice points to climate-altering impact in the time of humans | Science | AAAS

https://www.science.org/content/article/massive-crater-under-greenland-s-ice-points-climate-altering-impact-time-humans

9 mins - STN member Edward Hug -New Human Fossil Footprints Push Arrival to North America Back Thousands of Years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYpwgVPtPo4&t=5s

Fate of Sinking Tectonic Plates Has Long Puzzled Scientists – Now They’ve Found an Answer

https://scitechdaily.com/fate-of-sinking-tectonic-plates-has-long-puzzled-scientists-now-theyve-found-an-answer/

28 mins - Brad Ringeisen Works to Bring CRISPR Innovation to Climate Change - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omJtaFrbQQ0

Nearly 300 Years Ago, a Tsunami Hit The Coast of Chile, But Nobody Found It Until Now

https://www.sciencealert.com/experts-just-found-signs-of-an-unrecorded-centuries-old-tsunami-off-the-coast-of-chile

World’s vast networks of underground fungi to be mapped for first time | Fungi | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/nov/30/worlds-vast-networks-of-underground-fungi-to-be-mapped-for-first-time

A 'Functional Cure' For Type 1 Diabetes Has Passed First Human Trials

https://wonderfulengineering.com/a-functional-cure-for-type-1-diabetes-has-passed-first-human-trials/

9 minutes - STN Edward Hug-You Will See This Supernova Explosion In The Sky! - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4HFRDeONyY

This Group Of Scientists Is Seeking To Reinstate Pluto As A Planet

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-group-of-scientists-is-seeking-to-reinstate-pluto-as-a-planet/

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

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