Welcome to the New Year! San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Tuesday, 01/18/22, 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
Passcode (if required): 652662
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82668788731?pwd=bVcvRnJQSGpJcHIveEl3STJQZFZpUT09
This Tuesday (01/18/22) - Topics sensationalized:
Fish at the Wheel - Starlink; and we thought is was for better internet. Wrong. It's for cats - Watch out! Fish driving! - Omicron; falling rates in the UK? - Headway against Multiple Sclerosis - All the light the shrimp can see - Plankton - News from the Deep - Ichthyosaur, an' it's a BIG 'un! - Snail, and it's a small 'un! - China's plasma fusion world record - Quantum Tornados - The Giant Void - A dance in our Galactic center - Humans, back in time - The Tyranny of the Map
Links for today:
Outdoor Cats Are Using $500 Starlink Satellite Dishes as Self-Heating Beds | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
This Robotic Aquarium Allows Fish To Drive Around On Roads
https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-robotic-aquarium-allows-fish-to-drive-around-on-roads/
Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his monthly heads-up for February. Go to this delicious mind-candy here on our site.
Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bmsQUf0le1AjEd7BPyAMACK9SvsatnHN/view?usp=sharing
Covid-19 news: Falling cases in UK suggests omicron wave has peaked | New Scientist
Multiple sclerosis: Best evidence yet that condition is caused by Epstein-Barr virus | New Scientist
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
Sponge Bob - Plankton:
https://youtu.be/NZ6UVdgW0lM
Planktonium: the microscopic beauty of plankton – and their predators | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/video/2303460-the-microscopic-beauty-of-plankton-and-their-predators/
The microscopic beauty of plankton – and their predators - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Me-I1RAV8&t=8s
10 mins - Copepods: The Diatom-Devouring King of Plankton - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZZ_RmpzSFQ
Rare observation of a female blanket octopus in the wild
https://phys.org/news/2022-01-rare-female-blanket-octopus-wild.html
Scientists Find the World's Deepest-Dwelling Squid | Science | Smithsonian Magazine
Microbes: Ocean-dwelling species produces oxygen in a way we have never seen before | New Scientist
Ichthyosaur: Huge 'sea dragon' fossil dating back 180 million years found in UK reservoir - CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/10/uk/uk-sea-dragon-ichthyosaur-scli-scn-intl-gbr/index.html
World's smallest snail: Newly discovered land snail could fit inside a grain of sand | New Scientist
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
The Solar System Exists Inside a Giant, Mysterious Void, And We Finally Know Why
The Deepest Images Yet of The Galactic Center Reveal a Beautiful Cosmic Dance
3 mins - Star Dances Around Black Hole - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arszJgVnI58
East Africa's Oldest Modern Human Fossil Is Way Older Than Previously Thought | Science | Smithsonian Magazine
20 mins - Humanity 100,000 Years Ago - Life In The Paleolithic - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCjsnopmYdw
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