San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Tuesday, 02/22/22, 11:30am SMA time
Due to Omicron, meetings at the Hotel Quinta Loreto community center are temporarily suspended.

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This Tuesday (02/22/22) - Topics sensationalized:

- Fast Track Aurora, not for epileptics - Bernie's Monthly Astronomy updates - Larry's COVID data crunch - Altruistic Magpies - Bioscience gurglings from deep in the Cornucopia - Orkney Dig - Plague & long-term effects - Blood Pressure and Diabetes, a link - Abortion, OK in my back yard - World's 'Happiest' Countries...really? - Have Heart Attacks and Reduce Parkinson's Risk - DNA Mutation and Evolution? Or..? - Captured Carbon Dioxide Into Valuable Chemicals - Rewired space brains - Modifying mosquitos to eradicate Malaria - Earth, an Intelligent Entity? - Quantum mechanics, does reality really exist? - Redshift and Heresy - Heretic schools of thought; Plasma Universe or an Electric Universe? - Massive Young Stars That Shouldn't Exist - Eta Carinae mystery

Today's links:

4 mins - Aurora Galleries, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico - on Speed..! - YouTube


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


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKKLnXUkh-M



Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:

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Scientists Attached Tracking Devices to Magpies. But Nobody Asked The Magpies

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-attached-tracking-devices-to-magpies-that-s-when-things-got-weird


STN member Laurenn Rowland - Moderna Expands Its mRNA Pipeline with Three New Development Programs | BioSpace

https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/moderna-expands-its-mrna-pipeline-with-three-new-development-programs/


‘Every year it astounds us’: the Orkney dig uncovering Britain’s stone age culture | Museums | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/feb/15/orkney-ghosts-of-past-world-of-stonehenge-british-museum#:~:text=%E2%80%9CEvery%20year%20it%20never%20fails,%2C%20they'll%20dig%20again.


Evidence suggests bubonic plague had long-term effect on human immunity genes: Scientists examined DNA from mass grave of plague victims in Germany -- ScienceDaily

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210518114827.htm


COVID-19 Genetic Risk Variant Inherited From Neanderthals Protects Against HIV

https://scitechdaily.com/covid-19-genetic-risk-variant-inherited-from-neanderthals-protects-against-hiv/


Long-Standing Enigma Finally Cracked – Link Discovered Between High Blood Pressure and Diabetes

https://scitechdaily.com/long-standing-enigma-finally-cracked-link-discovered-between-high-blood-pressure-and-diabetes/


A third person has been cured of HIV, scientists report | Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/third-person-cured-hiv-stem-cell-transplant-from-cord-blood



Nearly 50% of Anti-Abortion Americans Would Still Help a Loved One Arrange It

https://www.sciencealert.com/almost-half-of-anti-abortion-americans-would-still-help-friends-and-family-seeking-one


The World's 'Happiest' Countries Harbor a Dark Side, Wellbeing Study Reveals
https://www.sciencealert.com/in-countries-that-focus-on-happiness-people-are-susceptible-to-the-happiness-paradox


Study of Over 1 Million People Reveals Heart Attacks Can Reduce Parkinson's Risk

https://www.sciencealert.com/having-a-heart-attack-somehow-lowers-the-risk-of-developing-parkinson-s


14 mins - DNA Mutation and Evolution Are Not As Random As We Thought - YouTube

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


Engineered Bacteria Convert Captured Carbon Dioxide Into Valuable Chemicals for Fuels, Fabric, and Cosmetics

https://scitechdaily.com/engineered-bacteria-convert-captured-carbon-dioxide-into-valuable-chemicals-for-fuels-fabric-and-cosmetics/


Brains of Cosmonauts “Rewired” During Space Missions

https://scitechdaily.com/brains-of-cosmonauts-rewired-during-space-missions/


20 mins - Scientists are genetically modifying mosquitos to eradicate Malaria... - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWHZybf7keY


Astrobiologists Suggest the Earth Itself May Be an Intelligent Entity

https://futurism.com/astrobiologists-earth-intelligent-entity


11 mins - Has quantum mechanics proved that reality does not exist? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsjgtp9XZxo


16 mins - Plasma Universe & Electric Universe, What's the Difference? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK-IGi9wJHY


14 mins - 8 Reasons Quasars are not what they seem and why we can't trust Redshift - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nygjhV2tjAk


10 mins - Massive Young Stars That Shouldn't Exist, Explained in a New Study - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x707gToFobc


13 mins - Solving the Mystery of Eta Carinae - The Strangest Star in the Galaxy - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsetBA6um0M


1 hr - Halton Arp Intrinsic Red Shift - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EckBfKPAGNM&t=125s


The Plasma Universe

https://www.plasma-universe.com/


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

Links from last Session

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SciTechNature T-Shirts

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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