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05/18/21 - AI Predicts Cardiac Arrest Risk - A short History of living longer - More Michigan Copper Culture

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Links for this week:

4 mins - Bombardier Beetle Sprays Acid From Its Rear | Life | BBC Earth - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3sxJNt8CYw


Larry Dworsky's' latest Covid statistics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1deO4FaIMC5nS5YXzPVws4RRmF05ESbz2/view?usp=sharing


Ancient Zircons Date Onset of Plate Tectonics to 3.6 Billion Years Ago – Event Crucial to Making Earth Hospitable to Life

https://scitechdaily.com/ancient-zircons-date-onset-of-plate-tectonics-to-3-6-billion-years-ago-event-crucial-to-making-earth-hospitable-to-life/


STN member Roger Lamont - Rare plutonium from space found in deep-sea crust, study reveals NPR

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-find-plutonium-made-outer-space-deep-sea-crust-180977739/#:~:text=Scientists%20studying%20a%20hunk%20of,reports%20Nell%20Greenfieldboyce%20for%20NPR.



Mammals can breathe through their intestines | Science | AAAS

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/mammals-can-breathe-through-their-intestines?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2021-05-14&et_rid=303445233&et_cid=3774096


Piles of ancient poop reveal ‘extinction event’ in human gut bacteria | Science | AAAS

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/piles-ancient-poop-reveal-extinction-event-human-gut-bacteria?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2021-05-14&et_rid=303445233&et_cid=3774096


STN member Roger Lamont -Prehistoric Fossilized Footprints Show Earliest Known Evidence of Mammals at the Seashore

https://scitechdaily.com/prehistoric-fossilized-footprints-show-earliest-known-evidence-of-mammals-at-the-seashore/


'Extinct Fossil Fish' Dating Back 420 Million Years Found Alive in Madagascar

https://www.newsweek.com/extinct-fossil-fish-dating-back-420-million-years-found-alive-madagascar-1591688


STN member Roger Lamont - China lands on Mars in major advance for its space ambitions - ABC News

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/china-lands-mars-latest-advance-space-program-77702401


SpaceX rocket launches Starlink fleet and 2 small satellites, sticks landing at sea | Space

https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-27-launch-rocket-landing-success


Starlink

https://www.starlink.com/


New Evidence for Controversial Theory That the Electron Is Composed of Two Particles

https://scitechdaily.com/new-evidence-for-controversial-theory-that-the-electron-is-composed-of-two-particles/


AI Uses Timing and Weather Data to Accurately Predict Cardiac Arrest Risk

https://scitechdaily.com/ai-uses-timing-and-weather-data-to-accurately-predict-cardiac-arrest-risk/


Scientists Explore Tesla Roads Not Taken – And Find Potential New Utility in 100-Year-Old Invention

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-explore-tesla-roads-not-taken-and-find-potential-new-utility-in-100-year-old-invention/


53 mins - Run VPN to US - STN member Laurenn Rowland - Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer | Vaccines | Episode 1 | PBS

https://www.pbs.org/video/vaccines-huvzkv/


42 mins - Fact vs. fake – why don’t we trust science any more? | DW Documentary - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5UPnuSTRjA


28 mins - Old Copper Culture: North America's Forgotten Metal Workers - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpmMY_Rcbd8


12 mins - The Breathtaking First Images | Mars Perseverance Episode 1

https://youtu.be/bp_dmltPLIw


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

Links from last Session

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SMA Science Book Club

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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:

Caminos de Agua

https://caminosdeagua.org/en/home

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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