San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Tuesday, 04/05/22, 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
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Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82668788731?pwd=bVcvRnJQSGpJcHIveEl3STJQZFZpUT09
This Tuesday (04/05/22) - Topics sensationalized:
David Attenborough gets High - Larry's COVID data crunch - Excess mortality & the Pandemic - Brains while they die - BIG Bacteria - Human Genome, done - Drone attack - Old tires & Concrete - Cryptorises - What's with the Megalithic Age and Hunter Gatherers vs Agrarian? Good reads - Ass-crazy warriors, then gone - Earth, Blobby interior - The Ozone thingee again - Mars calling - Europa ocean, oxygen rich? - Saturn's Rings, going, going? - The Sun sings, latest helioseismology report - Helioseismology, is it a science? - Intriguing Sonoluminescence theory - ...And why your Barker likes the theory - Radioactive Brazilian sand - So very, very small - The little green men we got wrong - Platinum
Today's links:
Has David Attenborough Just Found a HALLUCIGENIC Plant?! | Nature Bites - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9jfTQjzCnI
Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q-2XlbbElbvRuj9_L3Gg7tYAC8atG4SA/view?usp=sharing
What Excess Mortality Tells Us About the COVID-19 Pandemic
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/covid-excess-mortality.html
What Happens in Our Brains When We Die? | Does Your Life Flash Before Your Eyes When You Die?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a39454993/dying-brain-waves/
10 mins - Incredibly Large 2cm Long Bacteria Breaks a Lot of Rules of Biology - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PjZlCR7G4E
Scientists Just Unveiled The Most Complete Human Genome of All Time, And It's Glorious
8 mins - Scientists finally decode the first complete human genome | The World - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLj-ljKvTtY
There Is A New Military Trend – Building Cheap Drones And Launching Them In Swarms
Scientists Have Made Concrete From Old Tires - And It Has Shown Promising Results In The First Real-World Test
The Crypto Market Has Crossed Over $2 Trillion As Bitcoin Surged Again
Strange, Giant Stone Jars Created by a Mysterious People Were Just Found in India
Built by an Unknown Culture, This Is The Oldest Sun Observatory in The Americas
6 mins - Megalithic Marvels at Ollantaytambo - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZOVlADuGkU
The Columbian Exchange - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Columbian_Exchange
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus
The Dawn of Everything - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything
Mystery warriors made the fastest migration in ancient history | Science | AAAS
https://www.science.org/content/article/mystery-warriors-made-fastest-migration-ancient-history
Two Giant Blobs Lurk Deep Inside Earth, And It Looks Like They're Shape-Shifters
Ozone may be heating the planet more than we realize: Ozone in the atmosphere found to have weakened one of Earth's main cooling mechanisms -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220331121243.htm
Perseverance records the first ever sounds from Mars -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220401122138.htm
New Model Suggests That Europa Has an Oxygen-Rich Ocean Very Similar to Earth
Saturn's Rings Are Disappearing, Scientists Have Revealed
https://wonderfulengineering.com/saturns-rings-are-disappearing-scientists-have-revealed/
Discovery of high-frequency-retrograde vorticity waves in the Sun | Nature Portfolio Astronomy Community
4 mins - Punching Water So Hard LIGHT Comes Out - Sonoluminescence - YouTube
https://youtu.be/puVxGnl_3y8?t=1192
Stephen Goodfellow - Dropping Solar interior temperature
https://photos.app.goo.gl/qPbYTrGoz5WZPSHZ9
Stephen Goodfellow Helioseismology - Rings like a Bell? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7cD3S-_LzY
This Beach In Brazil has Black Sand - Because It Is 400 Times More Radioactive Than Normal
17 mins - The Strange World of Nanoscience | 2010 | Documentary | SCIENCE - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2k-zOkhOM8
34 mins - Bygone Visions of Cosmic Neighbors - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhfCietvDZo
15 mins - Platinum Documentary: Platinum Mining, Science and History - YouTube
https://youtu.be/NG2Y_GpNCds?t=79
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