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Tuesday, 07/05/22, 11:30am SMA time
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This Tuesday (07/05/22) - Topics sensationalized:
Poison Garden - Last and Future Human - Objectivity is a Myth - The sticky topic of misinformation - Evolution fixer - Your mind goes back in time - Empathy, not the best tool in our kit - Biology musing - Slime - Hunting the glow - Big leaf - Easier breathing for Asthmatics - Poo Bank - Wealth distribution through AI - Methane Into Methanol Using Light - Crohn's and your Doggy - Dog, man's best friends, at least twice - Bacteria concrete for strength - Natural Gas, what's in it? - Starlink, in motion? You can still use it - Astronaut bones in space - Mars, six feet underground - Are you a 7%ter - Anti-drone jamming - Aud the Deep Minded - Great White Sharks have two predators - Alaskan islands Super Volcano - Lasers making Magnetospheres - Webb Telescope pointing deep for first shots - Visiting Carrington - 3D printing in space - Blobby blue Stars
Today's links:
6 mins - Deadly Garden
https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p0cj109h/the-deadly-plants-hiding-in-your-garden
Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l7ob6-GY8Yq7lenwOUQG0oQBKBdHD2zr/view?usp=sharing
CERN’s particle accelerator starts up after a three-year hiatus - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/22/23037077/cern-particle-accelerator-restarts-upgrades-dark-matter
13 mins - The Last Human – A Glimpse Into The Far Future - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEENEFaVUzU
Objective Reality May Not Exist, Scientists Say | Quantum Reality
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a40460495/objective-reality-may-not-exist/
How managers of social media platforms could slow the spread of misinformation
https://phys.org/news/2022-07-social-media-platforms-misinformation.html
Do we need a new theory of evolution? – Productivity Hub
https://productivityhub.org/2022/07/04/do-we-need-a-new-theory-of-evolution/
15 mins - STN member Edward Hug Your mind is much older than you think | genetic memory & Carl Jung's collective unconscious - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4gFC6uDX1M
5 mins - Against Empathy
5 mins - The Beauty of Biology | Biology Motivational Video - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McWNVTrkHMY
10 mins - STN member Edward Hug - Breakthrough: The Slime Minder - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYQG6ac38UA
8 mins - GLOW | The 490 BioTech Story - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdbbWpIajns
'One of the botanical wonders of the world': Giant waterlily grown at Kew Gardens named new to science
https://phys.org/news/2022-07-botanical-world-giant-waterlily-grown.html
Biochemistry Breakthrough May Soon Have Asthmatics Breathing Easier
https://scitechdaily.com/biochemistry-breakthrough-may-soon-have-asthmatics-breathing-easier/
Experts Say We Should All Be Storing Our Poo in a Bank, And Here's Why
https://www.sciencealert.com/experts-say-we-should-all-be-storing-our-poo-in-a-bank-and-here-s-why
Poo continued, OpenBiome
AI Seems to Be Better at Distributing Wealth Than Humans Are, Study Hints
https://www.sciencealert.com/ai-could-be-be-better-at-distributing-wealth-experiment-suggests
Scientists Discover “Holy Grail of Catalysis” – Converting Methane Into Methanol Using Light
Having a Pet Dog Could Protect You Against Crohn’s Disease and Improve Your Intestinal Health
Dogs Could Have Joined Humans More Than Once, Ancient Wolf DNA Has Revealed
Applying a Special Type of Bacteria to Concrete Increases Its Strength by 30%
Do You Know What's in Your Natural Gas? This Small Study Wanted The Answer
Elon Musk's Starlink Can Now Beam Wi-Fi To Moving Cars, Boats, And Planes
New Study Reveals Devastating Effect on Astronaut Bones From Living in Space
Mars Has So Much Radiation, Any Signs of Life Would Be Buried Six Feet Under
https://www.sciencealert.com/signs-of-life-on-mars-may-ironically-be-six-feet-under
Only seven percent of adults have good cardiometabolic health
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-07-percent-adults-good-cardiometabolic-health.html
WATCH: Ukrainian Fighters Demonstrate An Anti-Drone Rifle To Take On The New Threat
5 mins - Aud the Deep-minded - The Truth about Vikings - BBC Reel
https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p0chhpnz/why-scottish-women-and-icelanders-are-closely-linked
Great White Sharks Are Being Scared From Their Habitat by Just Two Predators
An enormous supervolcano may be hiding under Alaskan islands | Science News
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mysterious-supervolcano-alaska-aleutian-islands
High-Power Laser Creates a Miniature Magnetosphere
https://scitechdaily.com/high-power-laser-creates-a-miniature-magnetosphere/
The JWST Will Soon Reveal The Deepest Images Of The Universe Ever, NASA Says
5 mins - STN member - Edward Hug - Could a solar storm destroy modern civilization? - Fabio Pacucci - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PCHd5banhE
10 -Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization? Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHHSSJDJ4oo&t=266s
10 mins - Redwire's Archinaut Will Revolutionize the Space Industry: Here's Why - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGZOYilHFYw
Astronomers Have Discovered A New Kind Of Star System - Blue Blobs
https://wonderfulengineering.com/astronomers-have-discovered-a-new-kind-of-star-system-blue-blobs/
Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his July heads-up. 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