San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Tuesday, 02/01/22, 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 (02/01/22) - Topics sensationalized:

Icefish - more than we thought - Cell flushing for a longer life - Sex in Space? - Gas leaks - Strange Bacteria - Iceberg Mirage - Old Ball Lightning chronicle - Lost city abandoned, why? - Ancient Maya Cacao - Center of the Solar System - Noodles in the heart of the Milky Way - Another explanation for Plate Tectonics - Ocean fear - Cartilaginous Fish - Ocean slide - Solar Storm of the past - Oumuamua, playing catchup - About Graphene - Trees a'talkin' - Lizard Camouflage - Ferns - Dust - Life after 1st mass extinction - Pompeii revisited


Huge icefish colony of 60 million nests found on Antarctic seabed - YouTube

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


SMA SciTechNature T-Shirt?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RsnzLQPmxDrtP0gePg-yOSw6PmoplMAo/view?usp=sharing


Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q_x0aOpmLFkQGzeBhtjxl8yaDWPHMqvi/view?usp=sharing


This New Anti-Ageing Vaccine Can Clear Out Cells That Cause Diseases

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-new-anti-ageing-vaccine-can-clear-out-cells-that-cause-diseases/


It's time to take reproduction in space seriously - Axios

https://www.axios.com/reproduction-sex-in-space-research-0f20f3a2-d8d1-46a6-bb97-f0f94f28d20b.html


New study finds gas stoves leak methane even when they're off : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/27/1075874473/gas-stoves-climate-change-leak-methane?ft=nprml&f=


11 mins - Ancient Bacteria Makes Oxygen In a Never Before Seen Way Without Photosynthesis - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyhJJLk7St8


‘It looked so real’: ghostly ‘iceberg’ was a wonder of nature – just not an iceberg | Canada | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/25/ghostly-iceberg-canada-superior-mirage


800-Year-Old Chronicle Turns Out to Be Earliest Report of Ball Lightning in England

https://www.sciencealert.com/marvellous-sign-could-be-the-earliest-report-of-ball-lightning-being-seen-in-england


Ball Lightning Survey

http://goodnessgraciousgreatballsoffire.com/


The Lost City of Cahokia Was Mysteriously Abandoned, And We Still Don't Know Why

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-mystery-over-why-the-lost-city-of-cahokia-was-abandoned-continues-to-deepen


By the Numbers: Vikings arrived in North America 1,000 years ago - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD0N9Dscz2A


Researchers discover locations of ancient Maya sacred groves of cacao trees

https://phys.org/news/2022-01-ancient-maya-sacred-groves-cacao.html


11 mins - Center of Our Solar System Found - It's Not Inside the Sun! - YouTube

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


Hundreds of mysterious strands found at the heart of the Milky Way - CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/26/world/milky-way-strands-scn/index.html


Amazing New View of The Milky Way Reveals Mysterious Structures Dangling in Space

https://wonderfulengineering.com/amazing-new-view-of-the-milky-way-reveals-mysterious-structures-dangling-in-space/


Wild New Paper Suggests Earth's Tectonic Activity Has an Unseen Source

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-pull-of-the-sun-and-moon-could-be-affecting-plate-motion


10 mins - The Real Reason Why We Don't Explore The Oceans | Unveiled - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5g1T3RclIo


17 mins - Exploring Jawless and Cartilaginous Fish - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl6LhvGdozo


4 mins - 5 Massive Landslides Caught On Camera - YouTube

https://youtu.be/THyt_Irnk1Q?t=295


Mysterious Solar Storm Occurred 9,200 Years Ago – Revealed by Ancient Ice

https://scitechdaily.com/mysterious-solar-storm-occurred-9200-years-ago-revealed-by-ancient-ice/


12 mins - Oumuamua Finally Explained Using a Brilliant Analysis - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkZRUs8A_9Q


A Spacecraft Could Catch Up With Interstellar Object ’Oumuamua in 26 Years – If Launched by 2028

https://scitechdaily.com/a-spacecraft-could-catch-up-with-interstellar-object-oumuamua-in-26-years-if-launched-by-2028/


Graphene experiment - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K29C6XDUUAA


Study unveils a Moiré nematic phase in twisted double bilayer graphene

https://phys.org/news/2022-01-unveils-moir-nematic-phase-bilayer.html


Secret of Lizard Camouflage: A Simple Mathematical Equation

https://scitechdaily.com/secret-of-lizard-camouflage-a-simple-mathematical-equation/


16 mins - The Secret Language of Trees - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HiADisBfQ0


4 mins - Ferns | Fern Plants Full Documentary | Amazing Facts about Ferns. - YouTube

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


11 mins - What is Dust? A Microscopy Video | #amateurmicroscopy #microscopy #documentary - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K29C6XDUUAA


28 mins - How Did Life Recover From The First Mass Extinction? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwHFwltF4yk


15 mins - Behind the Scenes of the First Excavation of Pompeii in 70 Years - YouTube

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


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

Links from last Session

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SMA Science Book Club (Presently closed)

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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:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/scitechnature/

The SciTechNature get-together is also on Facebook.

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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