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08/31/21 - Gaia Hypothesis - Rain in Greenland - Leaded is eradicated - When you're a Stranger - Losing your time bias - The Great Unconformity - 'Bout them Black Holes - Doggerland Ice Ages and more!
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Greetings fellow awe seekers, we're back at the Hotel Quinta Loreto community center for SciTechNature in-person AND we're still doing Zoom! (11:30am SMA time)
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Links for this week:
4 mins - What Is The Gaia Hypothesis? | Gaia Theory Explained - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6PiDaGJHZ4
Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sSxoNn8LVGuWFAKpANo7f58FlXW4r40B/view?usp=sharing
Terra's presentations:
1) "Lost vision partially restores by optogenetics"
(Nature Medicine,
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01351-4
2) "Dangerous sun activity could hamper return to the moon"
(Solar Physics, doi.org/gdbv)
3) "Greenland ice sheet is releasing mercury"
(Nature Geoscience,
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00753-w
4) "The biggest drawing ever made may be a spiral found in India"
(Archeological Research in Asia, doi.org/giztrs)
5) "Tiny self-propelled submarines could help clean up waste"
6) "Bacteria from yogurt speed bone healing"
(Science Advances,)
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/46/eaba5723.abstract
7) "Fresh Lithium"
New Scientist 23 January 2021 issue
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19206-w
Rain in Greenland:
https://youtu.be/jiB6d7XVnhY
****Terra's presentation concluded****
9 mins - What if Every Second Lasted an Hour? - The Slow Mo Guys - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh2cZKQZ1XA
UN Declares Milestone Victory as Leaded Petrol Is Officially Eradicated
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-last-place-to-use-leaded-petrol-has-finally-stopped-says-un
Not All Cultures Are Equally Mindful of Strangers – Here's How Your Country Ranks
STN member Hameed Faridani - A 200-year-old geology mystery may be solved - Big Think
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/great-unconformity
One of The Supercontinents Is Different from the Others (It’s Rodinia) | Carnegie Institution for Science
https://carnegiescience.edu/news/one-supercontinents-different-others-it%E2%80%99s-rodinia
Great Unconformity - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Unconformity
Is the Mystery of Earth's 1.2 Billion Missing Years Solved? | SciShow News - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeWAkvZoN1k}
11 mins - How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ONwQV26L-k&t=5s
Request by STN member Hameed Faridani, "Could you please give us a refresher on your views about black holes and plasma?"
"Why Black Holes do NOT Exist"
https://sites.google.com/site/scitecnature/2017-scitechnature/12-13-17-why-black-holes-do-not-exist
2m mins - "M87 is a Plasmoid - NOT a Black Hole"
https://youtu.be/1GejukGvybs
30 mins - Doggerland, The Lost World Of Europe Destroyed By Disasters. - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNtJXlscd_Q
Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his monthly heads-up on in August. Go to this delicious mind-candy here on our site.
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:
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