San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Tuesday, 02/08/22, 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 (02/08/22) - Topics sensationalized:
Ferns - T-Shirts! - Covid & heart - Microbiome & Obesity - I'm not dead yet,,,I'm feeling much better - Smell sense declining - Plastic recycling - The miracle Mile - Graphene - Lizard math - Ents, well sort of - 'Supermountains' - Moon & Earth tectonics - Dust - A dearth of extinctions - Catching up with Oumuamua - Chandra eye candy - 1000 filaments - Globular clusters - Galactic center - cosmic mystery object - cosmic heretics - Plasma Universe
Todays links:
4 mins - Ferns | Fern Plants Full Documentary | Amazing Facts about Ferns. - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWtOxnWUmLw
SciTechNature T-Shirts!
https://www.cafepress.com/zappedpyramidproductions/17310343
Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s0c672SFx-0Zkl0Azwpu3huUH6v4JZAz/view?usp=sharing
Analysis shows that COVID-19 infections increase risk of heart conditions up to a year later
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-02-analysis-covid-infections-heart-conditions.html
Gut Microbes Can Cause Obesity, And We're Getting Closer to Understanding How
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-how-some-gut-microbiomes-could-be-promoting-obesity
A Man Declared Dead by Three Doctors Woke Up Shortly Before His Autopsy
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-man-3-doctors-declared-dead-woke-up-just-before-his-autopsy
Humans May Be Slowly Losing Their Sense of Smell, New Study Hints
https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-may-be-gradually-losing-their-sense-of-smell
Chemists develop radical way to make it easier, more profitable to recycle plastic
https://phys.org/news/2022-02-chemists-radical-easier-profitable-recycle.html
The World's First 1-Mile Stretch Of Wirelessly Charging Road Is Being Built In Detroit
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/
Rare Breed of Ancient Trees With Incredible Lifespans Help Keep Their Forests Alive
16 mins - The Secret Language of Trees - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HiADisBfQ0
Scientists discover lost range of 'supermountains' three times longer than the Himalayas | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/supermountains-drove-evolution-on-earth
14 mins - Earth's Plate Tectonics May Be Actually Driven By The Moon, Study Suggests - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPnmZclKevs
13,000 Years Ago, a Firestorm Covered 10% of Earth's Surface, Triggering an Ice Age
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
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/
A Cosmic Airburst May Have Devastated a Vast Native American Culture 1,500 Years Ago
15 mins - Behind the Scenes of the First Excavation of Pompeii in 70 Years - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlTqOmMSang
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
Breathtaking New Chandra Pics Show Cosmic Objects Like You've Never Seen Them Before
12 mins - 1000 Of Unexplained Radio Filaments Found In Milky Way's Center - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h59uLPBcXgs
14 mins - Black Hole Swarm Found Inside a Globular Cluster Solves a Mystery - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6sWdCcsf78
9 mins - What are Globular Clusters? Relics of the Early Universe - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjzptXhpsz8&t=5s
9 mins - What Does the Center of the Milky Way Look Like? A Journey to the Heart of Our Galaxy! (4K UHD) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCo2Tz4sRX8
STN member Neil Silberman - EarthSky | A new mystery object within our Milky Way galaxy
19 mins - The Electric Universe Theory – An Alternative Model of Cosmology - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzw6s4nbTZA
The Plasma Universe
https://www.plasma-universe.com/
Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his monthly heads-up on in February. 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