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Tuesday, 04/19/22, 11:30am SMA time

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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

https://news.yahoo.com/mystery-why-humans-die-around-173539273.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=fb&tsrc=fb

Substance Derived From Licorice May Have Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Cancer Effects

https://scitechdaily.com/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

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-ran-an-experiment-to-identify-the-personality-profile-of-a-holes

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

https://scitechdaily.com/chlorinated-drinking-water-doesnt-disrupt-healthy-gut-microbiomes-in-young-children/

Regular Blood Donations Have a Strange Hidden Benefit We Never Knew About

https://www.sciencealert.com/regular-blood-donations-can-reduce-the-levels-of-forever-chemicals-in-the-blood

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

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/researchers-home-in-on-possible-day-zero-for-antikythera-mechanism/

An Atacama Super-Quake We Never Knew About Sent Humans Into Hiding For 1,000 Years

https://www.sciencealert.com/ferocious-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

https://wonderfulengineering.com/nasas-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

https://scitechdaily.com/quantum-internet-breakthrough-bell-state-analyzer-presents-giant-leap-toward-fully-quantum-internet/

Not Science Fiction: Quantum Teleportation Provides Express Lane for Data Communication

https://scitechdaily.com/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 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