San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Tuesday, 03/01/22, 11:30am SMA time
Due to Omicron, meetings at the Hotel Quinta Loreto community center are temporarily suspended.

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This Tuesday (03/01/22) - Topics sensationalized:

Oh, the ways AI can kill you - Larry's Data Crunch - Drawing in 3D space - Internet will not die in Ukraine - Hey, teacher! Leave that kid alone! - Stay fit for a fit mind - We learn more about Parkinson’s Disease - Mexico's vanishing stream oaks - Crop Circles remain unexplained - Passing over? Your life flashes before your brain - Nasty day for Dinosaurs: Deadly radiation - All the Genes we lost - The Fusion power thingee - Cosmic rivers - Tine Mexican robots on the Moon, for real! - Martian rock flower - When Mars lost its magnetic personality - largest under 100,000 years old - Martian bacterial rock, or not? - Life on Ceres? - What Happens if the Moon Crashes into Earth? - All the 3D Tilt Brush you can handle

Today's links:

6 mins - Genocide Bingo - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kDPxbS6ofw

Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/184urhl60325NGN-L5jRa0t9D2-7fHpj5/view?usp=sharing

1 min - Tilt Brush: Painting from a new perspective - YouTube

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

2 mins - Tilt Brush Art - Underwater Temple by Whole9 [Mixed Reality Video] - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M7cf81lD2Q

3 mins - Tilt Brush Artist in Residence - YouTube

https://youtu.be/LBJPIgNXUDI?t=111

Elon Musk Has Pledged To Send Starlink Terminals To Ukraine To Restore Internet Services

https://wonderfulengineering.com/elon-musk-has-pledged-to-send-starlink-terminals-to-ukraine-to-restore-internet-services/

New Research Shows That School Uniforms Don’t Improve Child Behavior

https://scitechdaily.com/new-research-shows-that-school-uniforms-dont-improve-child-behavior/

Improved Physical Fitness Linked to Lower Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/improved-physical-fitness-linked-to-lower-risk-of-alzheimers-disease/

Key Discovery Points to Possible Driver of Parkinson’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia

https://scitechdaily.com/key-discovery-points-to-possible-driver-of-parkinsons-disease-and-lewy-body-dementia/

STN member Laurenn Rowland - The mystery of Mexico's vanishing stream oaks - BBC Future

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220222-the-mystery-of-mexicos-vanishing-stream-oaks

Crop circles: Myth, mystery and history | Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/26540-crop-circles.html

First-ever scan of a dying human brain reveals life may actually 'flash before your eyes' | Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/first-ever-scan-of-dying-brain

The last day of the dinosaurs -- ScienceDaily

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/02/220223111235.htm

13 mins - STN member Susan NeuBeck - The Genes We Lost Along the Way - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vc2bM2aQsw&t=3s

"The failure of 'Big' Science and its consequences in the 21st Century"

http://goodfelloweb.com/nature/cgbi/plasmablame.html

13 mins - How close is nuclear fusion power? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4W1g-6JiY

15 mins - STN member Lawrence Dworsky - Former fusion scientist on why we won't have fusion power by 2040 - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JurplDfPi3U&t=48s

Swiss Plasma Center and DeepMind Use AI To Control Plasmas for Nuclear Fusion

https://scitechdaily.com/swiss-plasma-center-and-deepmind-use-ai-to-control-plasmas-for-nuclear-fusion/

13 mins -Study on Galactic Flows Reveals Secrets of the Great Attractor (And Nearby Structures) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAS-IoKLddU

STN member Laurenn Rowland - Tiny robots made in Mexico to explore moon in scientific first | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/tiny-robots-made-mexico-explore-moon-scientific-first-2022-02-25/

Curiosity Rover Finds a Bizarre Rock on Mars That Looks Like a Flower

https://scitechdaily.com/curiosity-rover-finds-a-bizarre-rock-on-mars-that-looks-like-a-flower/

12 mins - STN member Edward Hug - We May Finally Know Why Mars Lost Its Magnetosphere, New Study - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYpjquXwpH4&t=4s

Scientists uncover the largest crater on Earth under 100,000 years old | Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/young-impact-crater-found-china

14 mins - STN member Edward Hug - Martian Meteorite With Strange Bacterial Structures Finally Explained - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7jzrNrF6V4&t=10s

Salt Deposits and Organic Compounds Discovered on Dwarf Planet Ceres

https://scitechdaily.com/salt-deposits-and-organic-compounds-discovered-on-dwarf-planet-ceres/

12 mins - What Happens if the Moon Crashes into Earth? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lheapd7bgLA&t=639s

52 mins - TILT BRUSH PAINT OFF 2021 COMMENTARY - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL49re-8SY0

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

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