San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Tuesday, 03/29/22, 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 (03/29/22) - Topics sensationalized:
Oldest pot plant - COVID stadium surprise - Wind & Solar boost - Napping yourself into Dementia - Poor? More Dementia - Antibiotics And Cognitive Decline - Listen yourself into Mental Health - World Happiness during COVID and Surprising Benefit - The Flight of the Ion Engine - Killer Fungus nails invading Ants - Antarctica's Ice Shelf Cracks - The Mystery of Rubber Bands - Strange Galaxy Halos - A buncha Webb Telescope stuff - The Atlas is rolled out - Starlink in Ukraine - A tiny star pumping it out - An older Milky Way - Fun stuff to do with the Moon & Earth - Why the Ocean has risen 128 meters - Botany & Gene editing.
Today's links:
The OLDEST Pot Plant in the World with David Attenborough | Nature Bites - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0TkWdGRJPw
Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gZRjMzSB1tvhBJZjPMoAwbd92ymvl1t4/view?usp=sharing
Research Shows NFL Stadium Openings in 2020 Had No Impact on Local COVID-19 Infections
Wind And Solar Energy Will Be The Fastest-Growing Occupations Over The Next Decade, The U.S Government Says
More Daytime Napping in Seniors Might Be an Early Sign of Dementia, Says New Study
There's a Depressing Link Between Where You Live And Dementia Risk
https://www.sciencealert.com/people-living-in-more-affluent-areas-are-less-likely-to-get-dementia
Large-Scale Study Reveals Strange Link Between Antibiotics And Cognitive Decline
Music Is Just as Powerful at Improving Mental Health as Exercise, Review Suggests
The World Happiness Report Has Revealed A Very Unlikely Benefit That Came Out Of The Pandemic
STN member Bill Krajec - MIT engineers built an airplane that flies without any moving parts
5 mins - STN member Bill Krajec - Ion drive: The first flight - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boB6qu5dcCw&t=62s
A Killer Fungus Is Coming After The Destructive Ants Invading Texas
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-killer-fungus-is-coming-after-the-destructive-ants-invading-texas
In an Unexpected First, an Ice Shelf in Antarctica's "Coldest Region" Has Collapsed
https://www.sciencealert.com/ice-shelf-collapses-in-previously-stable-east-antarctica
3 mins - STN member David McClintock - Feynman: Rubber Bands FUN TO IMAGINE 3 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRxAn2DRzgI&t=72s
8 mins - STN member Davit McClintock - A refrigerator that works by stretching rubber bands - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfmrvxB154w&t=5s
Weird Circular Objects Observed in Space May Finally Be Explained
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
WATCH: NASA's Rolling Out Its Moon-Bound Megarocket For The First Time Right Now
NASA’s New Moon Rocket Is So Huge You Can Actually See It from Space
Starlink Has Become Ukraine's Most Downloaded App
https://wonderfulengineering.com/starlink-has-become-ukraines-most-downloaded-app/
STN member Bill Krajec - Tiny Star Unleashes Gargantuan Beam of Matter and Anti-Matter That Stretches for 40 Trillion Miles
Gaia Spacecraft Discovers Parts of the Milky Way Are Much Older Than Thought
12 mins - What Happens if the Moon Crashes into Earth? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lheapd7bgLA&t=639s
8 mins - Younger Dryas - Lake Agassiz - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cawrBvT1MHM
18 mins - Catastrophe and Cartography - Ice Age Floods Visualized - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCBEBIBsJzM&t=626s
25 mins - Gene editing: should you be worried? | The Economist - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7DpdOHRDR4
1 hr - Hidden World | Botany: A Blooming History - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4kx2_5UDtw
Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his monthly heads-up for April. 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