Welcome to the New Year! San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Tuesday, 01/25/22, 11:30am SMA time
Due to Omicron, meetings at the Hotel Quinta Loreto community center are temporarily suspended.

A Zoom link access will be sent (if you are on the email list) to your email on Tuesday mornings at around 9:00am - Click the link when it's Tuesday at 11:30am (Central Daylight Time), 12:30pm EST
Passcode (if required):
652662
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82668788731?pwd=bVcvRnJQSGpJcHIveEl3STJQZFZpUT09

This Tuesday (01/18/22) - Topics sensationalized:

Links for today: The Beast of the Pond - Pot and Covid - Brain development and stinginess - 3rd cause of death, and growing - Bacteriophage wins again - Beating peanut allergy in children - Hand washing under a microscope - A champion to beat baldness - The Ainu and their strange journey - Inbred Royals - Load your Wagon, but not with pioneers - Spaceflight and Anemia - Pacific ocean as a Neutrino Telescope - Webb Telescope update - Fake Webb clickbait - A heretic and the Solar Parker Probe - Oldest Rainforest - The First Mass Extinction; Recovery - Pompeii brought to life - Microcosmos interplay - Animals in Spring


4 mins - The Tyrant of the Deep | The Green Planet | BBC Earth - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM-Ilh2lHZk


Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/180Mrh-HYySJUEGfA2aotwmVNhJLvDRao/view?usp=sharing


New Research Suggests High-Purity CBD May Help Block COVID-19 Virus From Replicating

https://scitechdaily.com/new-research-suggests-high-purity-cbd-may-help-block-covid-19-virus-from-replicating/


Brain development: Giving low-income US families $4000 a year boosts child brain activity | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2305683-giving-low-income-us-families-4000-a-year-boosts-child-brain-activity/


The 3rd Leading Global Cause of Death Is Likely Not What You Think, New Study Reveals

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-third-leading-cause-of-death-globally-in-2019-was-antibiotic-resistant-bacterial-infection


Using a bacteriophage to successfully treat a patient infected with a drug-resistant bacteria

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-01-bacteriophage-successfully-patient-infected-drug-resistant.html


13 mins - The Terrifying Viruses of the Microcosmos - YouTube

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


New Immunotherapy Study Gives Encouraging News For Children With Peanut Allergy

https://www.sciencealert.com/new-immunotherapy-study-gives-encouraging-news-for-children-with-peanut-allergy


Lab-Grown Hair Cells To Help Against Baldness Are On Their Way

https://wonderfulengineering.com/lab-grown-hair-cells-to-help-against-baldness-are-on-their-way/


16 mins - The Fascinatingly Mysterious Origins of the Ainu - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFohbr7ALeQ&t=407s


13 mins - Top 10 Inbred Royals - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgHFP2Ej1PU


4 mins - The Real Reason People Rarely Rode In Wagons On The Oregon Trail - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bfzaPbrqjc


Spaceflight makes people anemic and it doesn't get better with time | Space

https://www.space.com/spaceflight-destroys-red-blood-cells


Astronomers Want to Build a Neutrino Telescope By Using The Pacific Ocean

https://wonderfulengineering.com/astronomers-want-to-build-a-neutrino-telescope-by-using-the-pacific-ocean/


James Webb Space Telescope Reaches Its Destination in Huge Mission Milestone

https://www.sciencealert.com/webb-telescope-has-reached-its-space-home-1-million-miles-away


NASA’s Webb Space Telescope: Capturing All That Glitters in Galaxies

https://scitechdaily.com/nasas-webb-space-telescope-capturing-all-that-glitters-in-galaxies/


15 mins - Donald E. Scott: Probing Parker's Solar Probe Data | Thunderbolts - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De-lCwHnjQ0


16 mins - Daintree Rainforest Documentary in 4K | Australia Nature | Queensland - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSm93-hhZGg


28 mins - How Did Life Recover From The First Mass Extinction? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwHFwltF4yk


15 mins - Behind the Scenes of the First Excavation of Pompeii in 70 Years - YouTube

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


11 mins - The Complicated Relationships of the Microcosmos - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgZeYxl3aL8


52 mins - Springtime Stories - The Secrets of Nature - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qIM9CtJL4Q


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

Links from last Session

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SMA Science Book Club (Presently closed)

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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:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/scitechnature/

The SciTechNature get-together is also on Facebook.

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Caminos de Agua

https://caminosdeagua.org/en/home

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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