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Tuesday, 11/01/22, 11:30am SMA time.
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This Tuesday (11/01/22) - Topics sensationalized!:
Animals & Mirrors - Larry's COVID crunch - Mike Pore's presentation, Consciousness - Readily available chemical may to limit COVID-19 - Questioning colonoscopy screening - Omega-3 Fatty Acids Sharpen Thinking Skills - Virginia to drink Treated Wastewater - High energy density batteries - Megawatt-Scale Wave Energy Generator - Turn Desert Sand Into Fertile Soil In Just Seven Hours - Cancer Breakthrough, Clever Synthesis of Rare Cancer Fighting Compound - Ending Polio Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Our Brains Use Quantum Computation - Butterfly Mutants Reveal Secrets of Ancient “Junk” DNA - Bears Are Not Carnivores - Honeybees order numbers from left to right - ...And they play with their balls - Insects contribute to atmospheric electricity - Methane-Eating “Borgs” Assimilating Earth’s Microbes - Antarctica’s Ice Shelves Melting Even Faster - Low Water Levels, Backups on the Mississippi River - 439-Million-Year-Old Fossil Teeth - Sniper robot defends plants - 'Legally Dead' Humans and 100 Pets Waiting To Be Revived - Prototype Orbital Solar Farm To Orbit By December - Viking runes in th USA - Archeological Find Brakes History - Flung A NASA Satellite Into The Sky - Strange Asteroid behaviour - 12-Year Time-Lapse Of Night Sky - Gravity, how fast? - Space Elevator news - Proton Structure Anomaly - A little more Stable Diffusion & how to get you started!
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Today's links:
9 mins - Animals Seeing Themselves For The First Time! - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6ChEmjsXCM
Larry's Covid info
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17z9FQfM7l_VqlqXqw78mXsVOjhk7r7qk/view?usp=share_link
STN member Mike Pore presents a response to
Researcher offers new explanation for consciousness
Study shows inexpensive, readily available chemical may limit impact of COVID-19
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-inexpensive-readily-chemical-limit-impact.html
A study questioning colonoscopy screening’s benefits has big caveats
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/colonoscopy-screening-effectiveness-study-limitations
Eating Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Midlife May Sharpen Thinking Skills and Improve Brain Structure
Virginia Uses Treated Wastewater to Shore Up a Drinking Water Aquifer - The New York Times
9 minutes - The future of high energy density batteries | Hard Reset - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMP0x0DpxSY
This Huge, Megawatt-Scale Wave Energy Generator Is About To Be Tested In Scotland - Wonderful Engineering
This Startup Can Turn Desert Sand Into Fertile Soil In Just Seven Hours - Wonderful Engineering
Stanford Researchers Make a Cancer Breakthrough – Clever Synthesis of Rare Cancer-Fighting Compound
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Has Just Committed $1.2 Billion To Ending Polio - Wonderful Engineering
Shocking Experiment Indicates Our Brains Use Quantum Computation
https://scitechdaily.com/shocking-experiment-indicates-our-brains-use-quantum-computation/
Gene-Edited Butterfly Mutants Reveal Secrets of Ancient “Junk” DNA
https://scitechdaily.com/gene-edited-butterfly-mutants-reveal-secrets-of-ancient-junk-dna/
New Evidence Indicates That Bears Are Not Carnivores
https://scitechdaily.com/new-evidence-indicates-that-bears-are-not-carnivores/
Honeybees order numbers from left to right, a study claims
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/honeybee-mental-number-line-order-left-right
Bumble bees become first insects known to 'play with balls'
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/bumble-bees-become-first-insects-214735988.html
Insects contribute to atmospheric electricity
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-insects-contribute-atmospheric-electricity.html
Not Science Fiction: Methane-Eating “Borgs” Have Been Assimilating Earth’s Microbes
Antarctica’s Ice Shelves Could Be Melting Even Faster Than We Thought
https://scitechdaily.com/antarcticas-ice-shelves-could-be-melting-even-faster-than-we-thought/
Low Water Levels Are Causing Barge Backups on the Mississippi River
https://scitechdaily.com/low-water-levels-are-causing-barge-backups-on-the-mississippi-river/
439-Million-Year-Old Fossil Teeth Overturn Long-Held Views About Evolution
https://scitechdaily.com/439-million-year-old-fossil-teeth-overturn-long-held-views-about-evolution/
This Facility In The U.S Has 199 'Legally Dead' Humans And 100 Pets Waiting To Be Revived - Wonderful Engineering
8 mins - STN member Edward Hug - Sniper robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less chemicals | Challengers - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV0cR_Nhac0&t=4s
This Company Is Sending A Prototype Orbital Solar Farm To Orbit By December - Wonderful Engineering
The mysterious Viking runes found in a landlocked US state - BBC Travel
17 mins - The Archeological Find That Broke History - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZnW-E70wq8
SpinLaunch Has Just Flung A NASA Satellite Into The Sky For The Very First Time
12 mins - NASA Asteroid Mission Results Shocked Everyone at NASA, Currently No Explanation - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQiDJr3Mwjc
This 12-Year Time-Lapse Of The Entire Night Sky Is Absolutely Mesmerizing - Wonderful Engineering
https://wonderfulengineering.com/12-year-time-lapse-of-the-entire-night-sky/
How fast is gravity, exactly? - Big Think
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/speed-of-gravity/
Exciting New Updates About Space Elevator Technology...Possible After All? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEoClumDTGg
Physicists Baffled by Proton Structure Anomaly
https://scitechdaily.com/physicists-baffled-by-proton-structure-anomaly/
Stephen messing around with Stable Diffusion
DreamStudio - Use Stable Diffusion on the cloud with just your browser. Free, unless you go hog wild; and it you do, it's inexpensive.
Completely addictive!
https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/dream
17 mins - Bonus video: What AI art means for human artists - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBfrZ-N3G4
10 mins - Stable Diffusion animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqe4VTob-IQ
Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his November 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