San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Tuesday, 05/03/22, 11:30am SMA time
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This Tuesday (05/03/22) - Topics sensationalized:
David Attenborough & Water Lilies - The invisible COVID wave - Molecule for Sleep - Plant Protein nails Bacterial Cells - Fatty Drug - Look Ma, Desalination/w no Batteries - Floating ocean cities - Solar panel windows - Smile! you're on mini drone camera - Run! You're on Military Drone camera! - Enzyme nails plastic...FAST! - Running out of Sand - Terraforming Venus - Fort Worth mining Bitcoin - Live Giant Squid washed up - Roman Shipwrecks - The upside to Megafires - Studying Fire in Space - Shrimps and a new path to Fusion - Webb Telescope updates - Cells and Quantum Mechanics - Blue Lights in Space - Jupiter, Ganymede's Shadow - Solar Eclipse on Mars - Truse scale of the Solar System - Gravity NOT a Force - Flaw in Math
Today's links:
David Attenborough Encounters an Incredible Evolutionary Quirk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovYwMEe300c
Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fo6jTxs3ppXUTjRaFmLElPv2j0I2IR3C/view?usp=sharing
STN member Hameed Faridani - Is America in the Middle of an Invisible COVID Wave? - The Atlantic
New sleep molecule discovered: 'It shows just how complex the machinery of sleep is'
Plant Protein Kills Bacterial Cells – New Model for Antibacterial Mechanism Could Result in New Antibiotics
This New Drug Can Slash Body Weight By 20%, According To An Anti-Obesity Trial
This New Desalination Unit Made By MIT Researchers Doesn't Need Any Filters
This Is What The World's First Floating City Could Look Like
https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-is-what-the-worlds-first-floating-city-could-look-like/
13 mins - These New Transparent Solar Panels Could Start Replacing Windows Soon
Snap Is Launching A Flying Camera Named Pixy - And It Costs $230
https://wonderfulengineering.com/snap-is-launching-a-flying-camera-named-pixy-and-it-costs-230/
Engineers Create an Enzyme That Breaks Down Plastic Waste in Hours, Not Decades
3 mins - Scientists Say That We Are Running Out Of Sand - Here Is Why You Should Be Concerned
13 mins - New Idea From NASA: Trillions of Floating Balloons To Terraform Venus - YouTube
https//:www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmqyUqV1Ic4
This Is The First City In The U.S To Officially Start Mining Bitcoin
Watch Scientists Captured A Giant Squid In The Flesh In Japan
https://wonderfulengineering.com/watch-scientists-captured-a-giant-squid-in-the-flesh-in-japan/
STN member Laurenn Rowland - The shipwrecks rewriting ancient history - BBC Future
Megafires Are Catastrophically Destructive, But These Microbes Thrive in Them
https://www.sciencealert.com/these-microbes-not-only-survive-but-actually-thrive-in-megafires
ACME Project: The Space Station’s Quest for the Secrets of Fire
https://scitechdaily.com/acme-project-the-space-stations-quest-for-the-secrets-of-fire/
STN member Hameed Faridani - A new path to nuclear fusion? A novel pistol shrimp-inspired system succeeded
2 mins - Amazing Pistol Shrimp Stun "Gun" | World's Deadliest - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkY_mSwboMQ
Look! Webb Telescope captures 5 different, dazzling views of a nearby galaxy
https://www.inverse.com/science/james-webb-space-telescope-first-images
7 mins - JWST Alignment COMPLETED! New Images from James Webb Space Telescope - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx1fc6UZAnw
7 mins - Biology: Cell Structure I Nucleus Medical Media - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URUJD5NEXC8
Otherworldly blue lights in space are no longer shrouded in mystery
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/otherworldly-blue-lights-space-no-194947242.html
Ganymede Casts a Massive Shadow Across Jupiter in Spectacular New Image From NASA’s Juno Spacecraft
What Does a Solar Eclipse Look Like on Mars? NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Captures “Amazing” Video
Astronomer's Mind-Blowing Animation Shows The True Scale of Our Solar System
4 mins - The Magical Leaf: The Quantum Mechanics of Photosynthesis - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RSKI5A_lsg&t=141s
Anesthetic Has Been Found to Drastically Change Primate Brain Waves. Here's How
https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-how-anesthetic-drastically-changes-brain-wave-travel
11 mins - How Quantum Mechanics Affects Your Life - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU9Z6WivvOg
18 mins - Why Gravity is NOT a Force - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRr1kaXKBsU
34 mins - Math's Fundamental Flaw - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQX2HjkcNo&t=21s
Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his monthly heads-up for May. 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