San Miguel de Allende SciTechNature Zoom Get-Togethers
Tuesday, 11/01/22, 11:30am SMA time.

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

https://scitechdaily.com/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

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-huge-megawatt-scale-wave-energy-is-about-to-be-tested-in-scotland/

This Startup Can Turn Desert Sand Into Fertile Soil In Just Seven Hours - Wonderful Engineering

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-startup-can-turn-desert-sand-into-fertile-soil-in-just-seven-hours/

Stanford Researchers Make a Cancer Breakthrough – Clever Synthesis of Rare Cancer-Fighting Compound

https://scitechdaily.com/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

https://wonderfulengineering.com/the-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-has-just-committed-1-2-billion-to-ending-polio/

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

https://scitechdaily.com/not-science-fiction-methane-eating-borgs-have-been-assimilating-earths-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

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-facility-in-the-u-s-has-199-legally-dead-humans-and-100-pets-waiting-to-be-revived/

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

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-company-is-sending-a-prototype-orbital-solar-farm-to-orbit-by-december/

The mysterious Viking runes found in a landlocked US state - BBC Travel

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20221030-the-mysterious-viking-runes-found-in-a-landlocked-us-state

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

https://wonderfulengineering.com/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.