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.

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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

https://www.sciencealert.com/we-now-have-the-most-complete-gapless-sequence-of-the-human-genome-in-dazzling-detail


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

https://wonderfulengineering.com/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

https://wonderfulengineering.com/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

https://wonderfulengineering.com/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

https://www.sciencealert.com/weird-giant-stone-jars-created-by-a-mysterious-people-have-been-found-in-india


Built by an Unknown Culture, This Is The Oldest Sun Observatory in The Americas

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-oldest-known-astronomical-observatory-in-the-americas-long-predates-the-incas


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

https://www.sciencealert.com/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

https://www.sciencealert.com/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

https://astronomycommunity.nature.com/posts/discovery-of-high-frequency-retrograde-vorticity-waves-in-the-sun


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

https://wonderfulengineering.com/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.

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Stephen Goodfellow