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Tuesday, 06/14/22, 11:30am SMA time
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This Tuesday (06/14/22) - Topics sensationalized:
Catfish likes Pigeons - Webb gets hit by small impact - Webb Telescope, disturbing - Human Genome linked - Diabetes research news - Yay, Coffee! - Optimistic women live longer - Less TV, live longer - Get rid of Menopause? - Good news about Death - Secrets - 4-Day Workweek - Nightmares? Is it Parkinson's? - Don't eat too much fish - Robots do the surgery better - How fast can you get out of an Aluminium Factory that catches Fire? - Microplastics everywhere - Island not an Island - Ocean current collapse - Goodbye Tundra - Eating Mummies - Ocean turbine - Prehistoric crystal weapons - Inscrutable Jellyfish - Styrofoam-eating superworms - Crows as smart as 7yo's - Oldest tree - Historic Shipwreck - Shipwrecks and ocean ecology - Strange Moon light - Anatomy of Lightning - Starlink PEZ dispenser - Moving the Big Bang goal posts - Space and Time - Pointy rocks on Mars - Milky Way a'shakin' - Starquakes! -Genetics and COVID - More Drone Warfare
Today's links:
The Fish That Hunts Pigeons | Planet Earth II | BBC Earth - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on7cixfDl8I
Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tXlm83YSNQSwR7x3YEIgXtYbmGaVBqa3/view?usp=sharing
NASA Says a Tiny Space Rock Has Impacted The James Webb Space Telescope
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-space-rock-hit-the-james-webb-space-telescope-and-everything-is-fine
Webb Telescope and the Lagrange 2 point
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15wuLFMVHmQAGDO291ULoimu23bHHnk0n/view?usp=sharing
New Comprehensive Map Ties Every Human Gene to Its Function
https://scitechdaily.com/new-comprehensive-map-ties-every-human-gene-to-its-function/
Newly Approved Diabetes Drug Delivers Record-Breaking Weight Loss in Clinical Trial
Harvard Scientists Have Developed a Revolutionary New Treatment for Diabetes
5 Surprising Benefits of Your Morning Cup of Coffee
https://scitechdaily.com/5-surprising-benefits-of-your-morning-cup-of-coffee/
High optimism linked with longer life and living past 90 in women across racial, ethnic groups -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220608161431.htm
Reducing Your TV Time Can Actually Help Prevent Coronary Heart Disease - New Study Finds
Is It Time to Cancel Menopause? - NEO.LIFE
https://neo.life/2022/06/is-it-time-to-cancel-menopause/
6 mins - More good news about death
https://bigthink.com/video-library/
How many secrets are you holding from these 38 categories? - Big Think
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/secret-life-of-secrets/
Sharing a Bed With Your Partner Could Have Unexpected Sleep Benefits, Study Finds
https://www.sciencealert.com/sharing-a-bed-might-come-with-some-surprising-benefits-survey-finds
Huge 4-Day Work Week Experiment Begins in The UK: The Largest Ever Conducted
Frequent Nightmares Could Be an Early Sign of Parkinson's, Study Finds
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-early-signs-of-parkinson-s-in-men-could-literally-be-the-stuff-of-nightmares
Large Study Found a Strange Link Between Eating Fish And Skin Cancer
Research Shows That Robotic Surgery Is Safer and Improves Patient Recovery Time by 20%
Watch An Aluminum Factory Turn Into A Burning Inferno In A Matter Of Seconds After Fire Erupts
Microplastics Have Been Found In Fresh Snow In Antarctica For The First Time - And The Alarm Bells Are Ringing
Unwrapping, Grinding Up, Eating – European History of Mummies Is Truly Disturbing
https://www.sciencealert.com/europeans-used-to-eat-dug-up-mummies-cause-of-course-they-did
Japan Is Dropping a Gargantuan Turbine Into The Ocean to Harness 'Limitless' Energy
The Prehistoric weapons made from crystal - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/06/the-prehistoric-weapons-made-from-crystal/143821
How species form: What the tangled history of polar bear and brown bear relations tells us -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220606181204.htm
The Curious Case of the Arctic Desert Island That's Not Actually an Island - Atlas Obscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bunge-land-russia
The Collapse of an Atlantic Ocean Current Would Ripple Across The World, Says Study
Iconic Siberian Tundra Is on Track to Entirely Vanish Off The Face of The Planet
https://www.sciencealert.com/iconic-siberian-tundra-is-on-track-to-disappear-by-2500
13 mins - The Incredible Way This Jellyfish Goes Back in Time - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSLQYTt8BjA
Scientists Found Superworms That Love Eating Styrofoam, And It Could Be a Good Thing
https://www.sciencealert.com/styrofoam-munching-superworms-could-lead-to-plastic-upcycling
16 mins - Why Crows Are as Smart as 7 Year Old Humans - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aWL2iEb6y4
Famous 'Great Grandfather' Tree in Chile Could Be The Oldest Tree in The World
3 mins - 340-Year-Old Shipwreck May Change What We Know About 17th-Century Maritime History
Millions of Shipwrecks Lost to The Ocean Are Changing Life in The Deep Sea
https://www.sciencealert.com/deep-sea-microbiomes-are-thriving-on-the-ocean-s-submerged-shipwrecks
8 mins - "There's a Strange Light" NASA Astronauts Spot Campfires on the Moon | NASA's Unexplained Files - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLkRntzgi4o
3mins - STN member Stephen Goodfellow - Disclaimer - Anatomy of a Lightning Strike - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vd7Q4saewE
Watch How SpaceX's New Starship Will 'Spit Out' Starlink Satellites Like a PEZ Dispenser
The 'Cosmic Dawn' of Our Universe Ended Far Later Than We Thought
9 mins - STN member Hameed Faridani - Lee Smolin - How Can Space and Time be the Same Thing? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOAcQCFNtbo
Curiosity Has Found Some Truly Weird-Looking, Twisty Rock Towers on Mars
https://www.sciencealert.com/check-out-the-twisting-towers-of-rock-curiosity-found-on-mars
Gaia Satellite Detects a Shake in the Milky Way
https://scitechdaily.com/gaia-satellite-detects-a-shake-in-the-milky-way/
Starquakes! Gaia Spacecraft Sees Strange Stars in Most Detailed Milky Way Survey to Date
29 mins - Susan Neubeck - Genetics and covid deaths - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ItF7uZgRWI
3 mins Dones SPEAR 103 UW - Sub to Air Loitering UAS - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcAdhRNqCQU
Watch: This Is What The Future Of Warfare Could Look Like With Drones And AI
Watch: This Is The World's First Quadcopter Drone That Can Be Launched From A Submarine Underwater
42 mins - Drones, hackers and mercenaries - The future of war | DW Documentary - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ60UDys_ZE&t=188s
Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his monthly heads-up for June. 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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Stephen Goodfellow