San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Tuesday, 08/23/22, 11:30am SMA time.

Today's links:
3 mins - Rat Race (animation)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1561406721364357121

Larry's COVID data crunch:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v9utysrk8MTyPcZ3iGCEBlwoKBoupYoQ/view?usp=sharing

What older adults do while they sit affects dementia risk, study indicates

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-08-older-adults-affects-dementia.html

Scientists Reverse Food Allergies by Targeting the Microbiome

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-reverse-food-allergies-by-targeting-the-microbiome/

Harvard Researchers Discover That People With This Type of Mindset Live Longer

https://scitechdaily.com/harvard-researchers-discover-that-people-with-this-type-of-mindset-live-longer/

Surprising Link Between Gum Disease and Alzheimer’s Discovered

https://scitechdaily.com/surprising-link-between-gum-disease-and-alzheimers-discovered/

Eye test could screen children for autism

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-08-eye-screen-children-autism.html

8 mins - 40,000 years of music explained in 8 minutes

https://bigthink.com/series/the-big-think-interview/history-of-music/

10 mins - YouTuber Shows How You Can Boil Water Using Just Magnets

https://wonderfulengineering.com/youtuber-shows-how-you-can-boil-water-using-just-magnets/

China Has Unveiled The World's Strongest Magnet - 1 Million Times Stronger Than The Earth's Magnetic Core

https://wonderfulengineering.com/china-has-unveiled-the-worlds-strongest-magnet-1-million-times-stronger-than-the-earths-magnetic-core/

Scientists Have Made A New Chemistry Breakthrough That Will Allow Them To Extract Oxygen From Water Using Magnets

https://wonderfulengineering.com/scientists-have-made-a-new-chemistry-breakthrough-that-will-allow-them-to-extract-oxygen-from-water-using-magnets/

YouTuber Creates A 4-Cylinder Engine That Weighs Only 3 Pounds - And Works Just Like A Normal One

https://wonderfulengineering.com/youtuber-creates-a-4-cylinder-engine-that-weighs-only-3-pounds-and-works-just-like-a-normal-one/

This New VR Goggle Prototype Is The Size Of Normal Glasses

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-new-vr-goggle-prototype-is-the-size-of-normal-glasses/

YouTuber Shows How You Could Make An Actual Space Suit From Duct Tape

https://wonderfulengineering.com/youtuber-shows-how-you-could-make-a-space-suit-from-duct-tape/

A “Mortality Gap” – Republicans Are Dying at a Higher Rate Than Democrats

https://scitechdaily.com/a-mortality-gap-republicans-are-dying-at-a-higher-rate-than-democrats/

Scientists Have Warned Of A Huge Megaflood That Could Drown California

https://wonderfulengineering.com/scientists-have-warned-of-a-huge-megaflood-that-could-drown-california/

8 mins - The Arctic Is Warming Up 4 Times Than The Rest Of The World - And We Should Be Worried

https://wonderfulengineering.com/the-arctic-is-warming-up-4-times-than-the-rest-of-the-world-and-we-should-be-worried/

The Great Barrier Reef Has Just Made A Massive Comeback

https://wonderfulengineering.com/the-great-barrier-reef-has-just-made-a-massive-comeback/

14 mins - Plastic Pollution In The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Created Something Incredible - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEuL925ovZ8

Does Time Exist? How Do We Know?

https://scitechdaily.com/does-time-exist-how-do-we-know/

12 minutes - The Secret Life of Brine Pools - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTT_Tlr8Dd8

12 mins - Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W93XyXHI8Nw

16 mins - The Best Science Hoaxes, Spoofs, and Nerd Jokes (500k subs celebration) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOngA8bBbkg

Not Accurate Enough: Scientists Remeasure the Gravitational Constant

https://scitechdaily.com/not-accurate-enough-scientists-remeasure-the-gravitational-constant/

STN member Tom Schneider - The extinct shark Otodus megalodon was a transoceanic superpredator: Inferences from 3D modeling

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm9424

Behold this award-winning image of fungus making a fly its “zombie” slave | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/zombie-fungus-caught-in-the-act-of-sprouting-spores-from-host-flys-body/

Scientists Discover a 4-Billion-Year-Old Ancient Piece of Earth’s Crust Underneath Western Australia

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-a-4-billion-year-old-ancient-piece-of-earths-crust-underneath-western-australia/

[Stephen Goodfellow] I've been waiting for the pushback, wondering how the Big Bang cosmology community were going to respond, because for almost an entire month now, you could hear a pin drop. Some quick thoughts on the article:
First, notice that the article does not give any detail as to the controversy that the James Webb Space Telescope brought forth, treating the reader as if they weren't intelligent enough to grasp these slight complications that the deep field images have revealed.
Secondly, likely due to poor research, the article piles onto Eric Lerner, only one of many critics of the Big Bang.
The article is a sloppy 'pappa knows best' defense, showing no actual content:
No, James Webb Space Telescope Images Do Not Debunk the Big Bang
https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/no-james-webb-space-telescope-images-do-not-debunk-the-big-bang/

10 mins - James Webb Telescope Shatters Records! Discovers Dozens of New Galaxies! - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1C1OtSWgF4

4 mins - Webb Telescope detects Object older than The Big Bang, Current theories fail to explain this. - YouTube

https://youtu.be/s-TQI4C-snc?t=294

9 mins - "Our Physics Is Broken" - JWST - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1jlQxN5poU

4 mins - BREAKING Laws of PHYSICS: - JWST's Confusing ‘Schrodinger's Galaxy Candidate’ Baffles Scientists - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2XqxJjl1HU

Assembly of NASA’s Europa Clipper Spacecraft Kicks Into High Gear

https://scitechdaily.com/assembly-of-nasas-europa-clipper-spacecraft-kicks-into-high-gear/

NASA’s Artemis I Moon Rocket Arrives at Launch Pad Ahead of Historic Mission

https://scitechdaily.com/nasas-artemis-i-moon-rocket-arrives-at-launch-pad-ahead-of-historic-mission/

13 mins - Lucky Event 550 Million Years Ago Saved Earth From Turning Into Mars Like Desert - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFObTVcDG9s

Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his August heads-up. Go to this delicious mind-candy here on our site.