San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Tuesday, 03/08/22, 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 (03/08/22) - Topics sensationalized:
Pangolins - COVID Penis pain - Ultrasound Help Treat Alzheimer’s? - Pancreatic Cancer Susceptible to Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy? - Women more Susceptible to Alzheimer’s Disease - Mineral to Boost Learning - DNA Test speeds up diagnosis - Zombie shark - Underwater Topography, lots of lakes - The intimate problem of war going nuclear - Coffee: There IS too much of a good thing - Pigs’ Emotions - Spiders swarm prey - Alexa, talk With a Doctor - Harvesting Energy From Air - Mexican robots on the Moon, for real! - Martian rock flower - largest under 100,000 years old - Martian bacterial rock, or not? - Life on Ceres? - Less foam, more Beer in your glass - AI Machine-Learning and Biased Datasets - Europa Clipper Spacecraft - Lost Civilizations in the WAY past? - Can a Planet Become Intelligent - Earth...and Plastics - Asteroid defence - Meteors and history - James Webb update
Today's links:
6 mins - Saving a Pangolin's Life | Natural World | BBC Earth - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8JWIhD628Y
Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BqR4IgKqgJ4zXQzggXyiFVFJ4A6tRzJW/view?usp=sharing
COVID Infects Penis, Testicles and Prostate – Causes Pain, Erectile Dysfunction, Reduced Sperm Count
Can Ultrasound Help Treat Alzheimer’s?
https://www.aarp.org/health/dementia/info-2022/ultrasound-alzheimers.html
Novel Treatment Makes Pancreatic Cancer Susceptible to Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy
New Evidence Uncovered: Women Are More Susceptible to Alzheimer’s Disease
https://scitechdaily.com/new-evidence-uncovered-women-are-more-susceptible-to-alzheimers-disease/
Natural Mineral May Reverse Memory Loss and Boost Learning
https://scitechdaily.com/natural-mineral-may-reverse-memory-loss-and-boost-learning/
Single DNA Test for Over 50 Genetic Diseases Will Cut Diagnosis From Decades to Days
Haunting images of 'zombie' shark and other decaying aquarium animals revealed in eerie footage | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/zombie-shark-found-in-abandoned-aquarium
Scientists Map Underwater Topography of More Than 1.4 Million Lakes and Reservoirs Around the World
Elon Musk Warns That Starlink Could Be Targeted By Russia In Ukraine, As Ukrainian Minister Says It Is 'Saving Lives'
4 mins - Nuclear War Simulation - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxJHecyYBno
9 mins - What if We Nuke a City? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iPH-br_eJQ
Man dies after consuming drink equivalent to 200 cups of coffee | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/caffeine-overdose-200-cups-of-coffee
Scientists Can Now Decode Pigs’ Emotions From the Sound of Their Grunts
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-can-now-decode-pigs-emotions-from-the-sound-of-their-grunts/
Spiders hunt in packs of hundreds to swarm prey | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/social-spiders-hunt-in-packs
STN member Laurenn Rowland - You Can Now Use Amazon Alexa Devices to Talk With a Doctor - CNET
https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/you-can-now-use-amazon-alexa-devices-to-talk-with-a-doctor/
Harvesting Energy From the Air: Metasurface-Based Antenna Turns Ambient Radio Waves Into Electric Power
More Beer in the Glass With Physics: How Water-Repellent Coatings Can Reduce Foaming
Can AI Machine-Learning Models Overcome Biased Datasets?
https://scitechdaily.com/can-ai-machine-learning-models-overcome-biased-datasets/
NASA Begins Assembly of Europa Clipper Spacecraft – Will Search for Alien Life on Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa
STN member Laurenn Rowland, Mexico Will Be the First To Send Robots to the Moon To Mine Soil
https://wearemitu.com/wearemitu/things-that-matter/mexico-will-send-robots-on-the-moon/
12 mins - Are There Lost Alien Civilizations in Our Past? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRvv0QdruMQ
14 mins - Can a Planet Become Intelligent and Evolve Its Own Mind? New Study - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur7YLnjaZqk
Does Planet Earth Have a Mind of Its Own?
https://scitechdaily.com/does-planet-earth-have-a-mind-of-its-own/
8 mins - Nature and Sentience - Why is SETI not receiving signals? - by Stephen Goodfellow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGDdtAXdmbI
12 mins - Surprising Ways How Life Is Adapting To Plastics On Planet Earth - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Ghe-3YW3U
A short George Carlin comment on the Earth plus plastic :
https://youtu.be/rld0KDcan_w?t=189
An Asteroid Impact Could Wipe Out an Entire City – NASA’s Planetary Defense Plans To Prevent a Catastrophe
14 mins - Meteor Weapons - Space Gear for the Bronze Age DOCUMENTARY - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AQivD_S-gk
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/
A solar illusion: Coronal loops may not be what they seem
https://phys.org/news/2022-03-solar-illusion-coronal-loops.html
This article; What caught my eye:
"...The discovery that coronal loops may be illusions was made possible thanks to an extremely detailed simulation of the solar corona produced by MURaM, a radiative magnetohydrodynamic model that was extended to model the solar corona in an effort led by NCAR...."
Why trust your eyes, when you can rely on a simulation based on assumptions about plasma configurations that are - to put it mildly - are questionable at best and likely completely faulty? These are the same reasons we cannot construct a stable controlled fusion reactor.
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/
Scientists uncover the largest crater on Earth under 100,000 years old | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/young-impact-crater-found-china
Salt Deposits and Organic Compounds Discovered on Dwarf Planet Ceres
https://scitechdaily.com/salt-deposits-and-organic-compounds-discovered-on-dwarf-planet-ceres/
5 mins - What Will The James Webb Space Telescope Look At First? Webb's Next Steps. - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCM6GPuEK8w
Webb Space Telescope To Examine Planetary Leftovers in the Solar System Graveyard
Exploring Alien Worlds With NASA’s Webb Space Telescope: TRAPPIST-1 System
https://scitechdaily.com/exploring-alien-worlds-with-nasas-webb-space-telescope-trappist-1-system/
2 mins - Exploring Alien Worlds With NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jdnvNrYYKE
Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his monthly heads-up for March. 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