San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Tuesday, 03/15/22, 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 (03/15/22) - Topics sensationalized:
Bat Farmers - Sponges - Octopuses Are Increasingly Using Trash - Tired of hoping that I'll live forever, tired of wondering when it all ends - WAY less Dementia for Amazonians - Stroke, and presto! Hairy tongue - Microbiome revisited - Improve your reading? Play videogames - Hiawatha crater NOT the cause of the Younger Dryas - Blasting dangerous asteroids - Cosmic rays and the Giza Pyramid - What's happening in the Quantum World? - Drilling DEEP into the Earth again - Moon crashes into Earth. How does that work? - Saltin on Ceres - Webb Telescope & After Webb - Solar science silliness, Helioseismology and Cymatics - Starlink & Ukraine update
Today's links:
David Attenborough Investigates Bat Farmers | Nature Bites - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okGAGWxCYMY
Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rqW63WWDQyDmnAtL3XFmKYAxzYb-RYhL/view?usp=sharing
15 mins - The Mysterious Realm of Deep Sea Sponges - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYPiGt7E07A
3 mins - Octopuses Are Increasingly Using Trash For Shelter, Harrowing Study Shows
https://www.sciencealert.com/octopuses-are-using-human-rubbish-to-put-a-roof-over-their-heads
Indigenous Amazonians Have Just 1% Dementia Rates. We Can Learn From This
A Man Had a Stroke. Three Months Later His Tongue Turned 'Hairy' And Dark
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-man-had-a-stroke-three-months-later-his-tongue-turned-hairy-and-black
This Scientist Says That We Will Be Able To Prevent Ageing Within Two Decades
11 mins - Incredible Discoveries About Viruses Living Inside Our Guts - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-UxDO-3CZI
Playing Video Games Can Actually Help Improve Your Reading Skills, New Study Says
Controversial impact crater under Greenland’s ice is surprisingly ancient | Science | AAAS
https://www.science.org/content/article/impact-crater-under-greenland-s-ice-surprisingly-ancient
Scientists uncover the largest crater on Earth under 100,000 years old | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/young-impact-crater-found-china
This 'Space Shotgun' Could Destroy Asteroids Hours Before They Hit The Earth
Cosmic Ray Scans Could Reveal Hidden 'Voids' in The Great Pyramid of Giza
11 mins - New Experiment Creates Strange Quantum Domain Walls - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsTbMfQP7b0
Why NASA is testing quantum entanglement in space | Popular Science
https://www.popsci.com/technology/quantum-entanglement-nasa-demo/
Radical Plan to Make Earth's Deepest Hole Could Unleash Limitless Energy
12 mins - What Happens if the Moon Crashes into Earth? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lheapd7bgLA&t=639s
Salt Deposits and Organic Compounds Discovered on Dwarf Planet Ceres
https://scitechdaily.com/salt-deposits-and-organic-compounds-discovered-on-dwarf-planet-ceres/
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/
The video:
2 mins - Exploring Alien Worlds With NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jdnvNrYYKE
Webb Space Telescope To Examine Planetary Leftovers in the Solar System Graveyard
5 mins - What Will The James Webb Space Telescope Look At First? Webb's Next Steps. - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCM6GPuEK8w
11 mins - NASA Announces NEW Telescope to Replace James Webb - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-q45aqbwC0
4 solar loops - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlTF7X6RvKg
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.
How Paint And a Speaker Could Explain The Physics of The Sun's Plasma Jets
https://www.sciencealert.com/jets-of-plasma-on-the-sun-are-like-paint-on-a-vibrating-speaker
2 mins - helioseismology - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3W27IvJkvg
6 mins - CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3oItpVa9fs
4 mins - Stephen Goodfellow; the Oscillating Solar Shell - YouTube
https://youtu.be/lI4G6zUY4Lk?t=12
SpaceX Has Sent More Starlink Terminals To Ukraine
https://wonderfulengineering.com/spacex-has-sent-more-starlink-terminals-to-ukraine/
'Anonymous' Claims To Have Hacked Russian Streaming Services And Channels To Broadcast Ukraine War Footage
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