San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Tuesday, 04/19/22, 11:30am SMA time
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Zoom link:
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This Tuesday (04/19/22) - Topics sensationalized:
One Earth - Larry's COVID Data Crunch - Tiny Engine that could? - Coffee is GOOD for you - Why do we snuff it around 80? - Licorice, maybe not so bad for you - Different prostate cancers - Devices to alleviate Parkinson's - Science attempts to define what makes an Ass hole - Declining Antibiotic resistance - Lucid Dreaming for All - Chlorinated water for young children? No Problem - Regular blood donations are good for you - Nailing the Yellow Fever Mosquito - Science and History of Vanilla - Antikythera mechanism, built when? - Ancient Tsunami and no beach-goers for 1000 years - Neptune being strange - Pluto's Dark Side - Webb cooling down so it can see - Humans & Space - Quantum internet and teleportation stuff - What's wrong with Math - How to make Non-Stick Cookware.
Today's links:
4 mins - One Earth - Environmental Short Film - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQYgCxu988s
Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cjUkWvBgiybT9zbmwmNiX5XUX4IXMU4Z/view?usp=sharing
A Tiny New Heat Engine With No Moving Parts Just Hit an Incredible Energy Milestone
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-heat-engine-with-no-moving-parts-just-hit-an-incredible-milestone
4 Science-Backed Benefits of Your Morning Cup of Coffee
https://scitechdaily.com/4-science-backed-benefits-of-your-morning-cup-of-coffee/
Mystery of why humans die around 80 may finally be solved
Substance Derived From Licorice May Have Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Cancer Effects
Doctors suggest new names for low-grade prostate cancer
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-04-doctors-low-grade-prostate-cancer.html
New Devices Could Help Alleviate Two Debilitating Symptoms of Parkinson's
https://www.sciencealert.com/new-devices-could-help-people-with-parkinson-s-walk-and-sleep-better
Scientists Ran an Experiment to Identify the Personality Profile of an A-Hole
15 mins - How Serious is Antibiotic Resistance? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSoOave8hdY
There's a Reliable Way to Trigger Lucid Dreams, Scientists Have Found
https://www.sciencealert.com/there-s-a-reliable-way-to-trigger-lucid-dreams-scientists-have-found
Chlorinated Drinking Water Doesn’t Disrupt Healthy Gut Microbiomes in Young Children
Regular Blood Donations Have a Strange Hidden Benefit We Never Knew About
Nanoparticles prove effective against the yellow fever mosquito
https://phys.org/news/2022-04-nanoparticles-effective-yellow-fever-mosquito.html
5 mins - Why Is the History of Vanilla so Terrifying? - YouTube
https://youtu.be/ObDjw-E0irE?t=50
Researchers home in on possible “day zero” for Antikythera mechanism | Ars Technica
An Atacama Super-Quake We Never Knew About Sent Humans Into Hiding For 1,000 Years
12 mins - Neptune Just Experienced an Unexpected and Dramatic Change in Temperature - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3B4DiKsPIM
14 mins - Major Pluto and New Horizons Updates - Dark Side, Cryovolcanoes and Planetesimals - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mR992S9Hp4
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Is Now Ready For Calibration After Cooling Down
21 mins - The Problem with Deep Space Travel - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk8KG1T-HZ8
Quantum Internet Breakthrough – Bell State Analyzer Presents Giant Leap Toward Fully Quantum Internet
Not Science Fiction: Quantum Teleportation Provides Express Lane for Data Communication
34 mins - Math's Fundamental Flaw - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQX2HjkcNo&t=21s
5 mins - How It's Made: Non-Stick Cookware - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFOic_MQIkE
19 mins - Documentary on Silver: Silver Mining, History & Science - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUA3CaWnoZo
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