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

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Zoom link:
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This Tuesday (03/22/22) - Topics sensationalized:

Tidal Octopussies - We get out rocks off on Faces - Better drug for impaired vision - Starve the Pneumonia - Malaria drugs for your Heart - New therapies for Parkinson's - More efficient Farmland - Faster charged electric cars - Are you boring? - Going to Mars...and beyond? - Strange coincidences that made Einstein famous - More about the Hiawatha Crater - UFO? - Jellyfish in Space? - Bunch'a stuff about the Webb Telescope - The New Moon Rocket - Starlink App downloads in Ukraine - Moon crash into Earth? What happens?

Today's links:


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


Extraordinary Octopus Takes To Land | The Hunt | BBC Earth - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebeNeQFUMa0


Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qU_uQ-MPBf0mYyhFEvfU712eTzXkukAx/view?usp=sharing


Looking at a Human Face Triggers Activity in Our Brains Unlike Any Other Object

https://www.sciencealert.com/looking-at-a-human-face-triggers-a-specific-pattern-of-brain-activity-study-shows


FDA-Approved Drug May Help Revive Vision in People With Progressive Blinding Disorders

https://scitechdaily.com/fda-approved-drug-may-help-revive-vision-in-people-with-progressive-blinding-disorders/


New Antibiotics Could Work by Starving Pneumonia-Causing Bacteria of Their Favorite “Food”

https://scitechdaily.com/new-antibiotics-could-work-by-starving-pneumonia-causing-bacteria-of-their-favorite-food/


Researchers discover that anti-malaria drugs can fight pulmonary disease

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-anti-malaria-drugs-pulmonary-disease.html


New Therapies Could Stop T Cells From Attacking Brain Cells in Parkinson’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/new-therapies-could-stop-t-cells-from-attacking-brain-cells-in-parkinsons-disease/


Relocating Farmland Could Increase Biodiversity and Turn Back Clock 20 Years on Carbon Emissions

https://scitechdaily.com/relocating-farmland-could-increase-biodiversity-and-turn-back-clock-20-years-on-carbon-emissions/


New Quantum Technology To Make Charging Electric Cars As Fast as Pumping Gas

https://scitechdaily.com/new-quantum-technology-to-make-charging-electric-cars-as-fast-as-pumping-gas/


The Most Boring Person in the World Discovered by Researchers

https://scitechdaily.com/the-most-boring-person-in-the-world-discovered-by-researchers/


16 mins - Red Dead No Redemption...Mars - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IT_rnV1LBw


18 Mins - Ed Hugg How the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics Made Einstein Famous - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueqVVa4iA24


11 mins - Major Updates About 31km Crater Found In Greenland In 2018 - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VwLwH1hzQw


28 mins - Extraordinary Until Proven Otherwise - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpeSpA3e56A


Weird Circular Objects Observed in Space May Finally Be Explained

https://www.sciencealert.com/odd-astronomer-baffling-radio-circles-appear-to-be-incredibly-giant-explosions


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

https://scitechdaily.com/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


WATCH: NASA's Rolling Out Its Moon-Bound Megarocket For The First Time Right Now

https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-live-nasa-is-about-to-roll-out-its-moon-bound-megarocket-for-the-first-time


Starlink Has Become Ukraine's Most Downloaded App

https://wonderfulengineering.com/starlink-has-become-ukraines-most-downloaded-app/


Thousands of People Are Teaming Up To Build New York City In Minecraft

https://wonderfulengineering.com/thousands-of-people-are-teaming-up-to-build-new-york-city-in-minecraft/


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

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


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