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Tuesday, 06/21/22, 11:30am SMA time

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This Tuesday (06/21/22) - Topics sensationalized:

BIZARRE Pollination - Larry's COVID data crunch - New COVID variant weaker - COVID, higher Risk of Parkinson’s Disease - Prevent Deadly Infections Without Antibiotics - Statins increase the Risk of Cataracts - Drug Provides Protection Against Depression - Drug for Cataracts instead of surgery - Vitamin D Deficiency could lead to Dementia - Sitting down can kill you - Single brain scan to check for Alzheimer's disease - Beer, good for your Microbiome - The science of sex - Inhaled toxic particles zip from lungs to brain - Exercise in a Pill - Struggling to breastfeed - Waterloo soldiers were sold as fertilizer - Discovered Spanish Shipwreck, $17 Billion in Coins And Gems - Oldest Wildfires 430 Million Years Ago - Teaching Physics to AI - Polar Bear Population in 'Impossible' Location - Crows Are as Smart as 7 Year Old - Marbled crayfish spreading over Earth - Space/Time, the Same Thing? - Webb Space Telescope, first Images - More galaxies too close to the supposed Big Bang - Dust way out from Galaxies - PEZ Dispenser Starlink satellites - SpaceX for Mars is a GO - Garbage Littering on Mars - Smallest Portable Toilet - Photoshop Free For Everyone - So much Science News sucks

Today's links:

David Attenborough Witnesses a BIZARRE Pollination Process | Nature Bites - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1TkEXdivXs

Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cJjPgabxNJZZrmCoiv3Y_-gJ5zMsH9Hh/view?usp=sharing

Omicron Variant Less Likely To Cause Long COVID

https://scitechdaily.com/omicron-variant-less-likely-to-cause-long-covid/

Catching COVID-19 Could Increase Your Risk of Parkinson’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/catching-covid-19-could-increase-your-risk-of-parkinsons-disease/

Scientists Have Created a Method To Prevent Deadly Infections Without Antibiotics

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-have-created-a-method-to-prevent-deadly-infections-without-antibiotics/

Genetic Study Shows Cholesterol-Lowering Statins May Increase the Risk of Cataracts

https://scitechdaily.com/genetic-study-shows-cholesterol-lowering-statins-may-increase-the-risk-of-cataracts/

Scientists Have Developed A New Treatment For Leukemia That Can Make Cancer Cells Harmless

https://wonderfulengineering.com/scientists-have-developed-a-new-treatment-for-leukemia-that-can-make-cancer-cells-harmless/

Single-cell analysis reveals clues about promising cancer therapy

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-single-cell-analysis-reveals-clues-cancer.html

Wonder Drug Could Provide Protection Against Depression

https://scitechdaily.com/wonder-drug-could-provide-protection-against-depression/

Drug Treatment for Cataracts Might Soon Become a Reality

https://scitechdaily.com/drug-treatment-for-cataracts-might-soon-become-a-reality/

New Research Shows Vitamin D Deficiency Leads to Dementia

https://scitechdaily.com/new-research-shows-vitamin-d-deficiency-leads-to-dementia/

An Enormous International Study Just Confirmed The Ugly Truth About Sitting Too Much

https://www.sciencealert.com/around-the-world-people-are-dying-too-soon-because-they-sit-around-too-much

Single brain scan can diagnose Alzheimer's disease

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-brain-scan-alzheimer-disease.html

Cheers! Lager Beer Could Help Men’s Gut Microbes, Reduce Risk of Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/cheers-lager-beer-could-help-mens-gut-microbes-reduce-risk-of-disease/

14 mins - The science of sex, love, attraction, and obsession - Big Think

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/the-science-of-sex-love/

Study shows inhaled toxic particles take direct route from lungs to brain

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-inhaled-toxic-particles-route-lungs.html

Major Scientific Breakthrough Toward the Benefits of Exercise in a Pill

https://scitechdaily.com/major-scientific-breakthrough-toward-the-benefits-of-exercise-in-a-pill/

Many women struggle to breastfeed. Scientists are starting to ask why.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/many-women-struggle-to-breastfeed-scientists-are-starting-to-ask-why

More digging needed to determine whether bones of fallen Waterloo soldiers were sold as fertilizer

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-bones-fallen-waterloo-soldiers-sold.html

This Japanese Company Has Made The World's Smallest Portable Toilet

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-japanese-company-has-made-the-worlds-smallest-toilet/

10 mins - 18th-Century Spanish Shipwreck Has $17 Billion Worth of Coins And Gems Aboard

https://www.sciencealert.com/18th-century-spanish-shipwreck-has-17-billion-worth-of-gold-coins-jewels

Scientists Have Found The Oldest Wildfires on Record, Dating Back 430 Million Years

https://www.sciencealert.com/430-million-year-old-wildfires-are-the-oldest-ever-found-and-have-lots-to-teach-us

Teaching Physics to AI Can Allow It To Make New Discoveries All on Its Own

https://scitechdaily.com/teaching-physics-to-ai-can-allow-it-to-make-new-discoveries-all-on-its-own/

A Secret Polar Bear Population Has Been Found in an 'Impossible' Location

https://www.sciencealert.com/polar-bears-discovered-secretly-living-in-seemingly-inhospitable-habitat

16 mins - Why Crows Are as Smart as 7 Year Old Humans - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aWL2iEb6y4

Marbled crayfish born in aquarium is spreading over Earth | SYFY WIRE

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/marbled-crayfish-born-in-aquarium-is-spreading-over-earth

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

First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope | NASA

https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

Once Again, Galaxies Look Surprisingly Mature Shortly After the Beginning of the Universe - Universe Today

https://www.universetoday.com/156359/once-again-galaxies-look-surprisingly-mature-shortly-after-the-beginning-of-the-universe/

The 'Cosmic Dawn' of Our Universe Ended Far Later Than We Thought

https://www.sciencealert.com/we-now-know-the-precise-moment-the-cosmic-dawn-of-the-young-universe-ended

New Images Show The Dust in Nearby Galaxies, And You've Never Seen Them Like This

https://www.sciencealert.com/new-images-show-the-dust-in-nearby-galaxies-and-you-ve-never-seen-them-like-this

Watch How SpaceX's New Starship Will 'Spit Out' Starlink Satellites Like a PEZ Dispenser

https://wonderfulengineering.com/watch-how-spacexs-new-starship-will-spit-out-starlink-satellites-like-a-pez-dispenser/

SpaceX Has Received Approval For Starship Launch By The FAA - Meaning Humans Could Soon Be Going To Mars

https://wonderfulengineering.com/spacex-has-received-approval-for-starship-launch-by-the-faa-meaning-humans-could-soon-be-going-to-mars/

100,000-year-old polar bear genome reveals ancient hybridization with brown bears -- ScienceDaily

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220616121602.htm

New NASA Photos Show Human Garbage Littering Mars

https://www.sciencealert.com/perseverance-captures-images-of-how-mars-is-already-becoming-a-human-junkyard

Adobe Is Planning To Make Photoshop Free For Everyone - Here Is How You Could Use It

https://wonderfulengineering.com/adobe-is-planning-to-make-photoshop-free-for-everyone-here-is-how-you-could-use-it/

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