Welcome to the New Year! San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Tuesday, 01/11/22, 11:30am SMA time
Due to Omicron, meetings at the Hotel Quinta Loreto community center are temporarily suspended.
A Zoom link access will be sent (if you are on the email list) 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 EST
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Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82668788731?pwd=bVcvRnJQSGpJcHIveEl3STJQZFZpUT09
This Tuesday (12/21/21) - Topics sensationalized:
Looped Universe - Helmet Jellyfish - Bad news for Mexican Travel - SMA Buss Map - Pig Heart - Female? Pick a female surgeon - Hall of Human Origins - The Crab shape - Search for ET? Perhaps not - A BOOM! over Pittsburg - Webb Telescope update and "I´ll Eat my Hat!" Webb predictions - More Solar fireplace - Solar images from the Parker Probe - Solar Heating Problem revisited - 2nd Law of Thermodynamics...in song - Null Results - The Continent you never knew existed - Fish at the Wheel - Better eyes - Artificial Sun - Quantum Tornados - Oldest Rain Forest - The cosmic Dance - Tyranny of the Map.
Links for today:
Looped Universe
https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/s0hoh1/limitless/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
1 min - An extraordinary deep-sea sighting: The giant phantom jelly - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bzQYKm3xTA
Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GD-D9OWZMDLh1m0K-KGymgWzL1SMZyTF/view?usp=sharing
10 mins -THE END OF MEXICO TRAVEL AS WE KNOW IT - YouTube
https://youtu.be/RHEhD3RONZI?t=221
SMA Bus map
STN member Laurenn Rowland - Doctors transplant a genetically modified pig heart into a human : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/10/1071906223/doctors-transplant-genetically-modified-pig-heart
Risk of Death For Female Patients Is Much Higher if Surgeon Is a Man, Study Reveals
STN member -William Warren - Hall of Human Origins: Six Million Years of Evolution | AMNH
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/human-origins
6 mins - STN member William Warren - Seven Million Years of Human Evolution - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZv8VyIQ7YU&t=8s
Evolution Keeps Making And Unmaking Crabs, And Nobody Knows Why
https://www.sciencealert.com/evolution-keeps-making-and-unmaking-crabs-and-nobody-knows-why
12 mins - Why We Should NOT Look For Aliens - The Dark Forest - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAUJYP8tnRE
Meteor explodes in Pittsburgh, PA, Weather Service and NASA say
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/01/03/meteor-explodes-pittsburgh-2022/9078199002/
Gorgeous HD Footage Shows Humanity's Final View of The James Webb Space Telescope
https://www.sciencealert.com/enjoy-ariane-5-s-last-view-of-webb-as-it-sails-off-into-deep-space
2 mins - James Webb Space Telescope Deployment Sequence (Nominal) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzGLKQ7_KZQ
My "I'll Eat my Hat!" - My Web Space Telescope Predictions
Cosmic FIREPLACE - 12 Hours of SUN with Solar Om Soundtrack | 4K - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXnwyTkIux8
This Footage From The First-Ever Probe to Touch The Sun Will Leave You Speechless
The Solar Coronal Problem Visualized
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZznVkFbcsrJEwb429
Flanders & Swann - 'First And Second Law' - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnbiVw_1FNs
15 mins - Entropy: Origin of the Second Law of Thermodynamics - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7se7K0mnRaY
Why Discovering 'Nothing' in Science Can Be So Incredibly Important
https://www.sciencealert.com/everything-from-nothing-the-importance-of-the-neglected-null-result
8 mins - Is Zealandia Earth's 8th Continent? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qepWb_NVj4
This Robotic Aquarium Allows Fish To Drive Around On Roads
https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-robotic-aquarium-allows-fish-to-drive-around-on-roads/
The Weirdest Eyes in The Animal Kingdom See a World We Can't Imagine
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-weirdest-eyes-in-the-animal-kingdom-see-a-world-we-can-t-imagine
4 mins - True Facts About The Mantis Shrimp - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5FEj9U-CJM
STN member Hameed Faridani - China's 'Artificial Sun' Just Broke a Major World Record For Plasma Fusion
Physicists Observe Incredible 'Quantum Tornados' Formed From Ultra-Cold Atoms
16 mins - Daintree Rainforest Documentary in 4K | Australia Nature | Queensland - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSm93-hhZGg
The Deepest Images Yet of The Galactic Center Reveal a Beautiful Cosmic Dance
11 mins - Tyranny of the Map: Crash Course Geography #35 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDi-Lo0xOr8
Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his monthly heads-up on in January. 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