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-|#~~#@1~~|Women in Science, Scientists in Other Cultures |(Charlie ask Dan for suggestions; **GeorgeG**  to ask CAAL; Someone should ask Indian Association for speaker possibilities) (Need contact with Black Americans – **Harry**  to search). (Umesh fup; Dan K fup; StephenQ fup)\\ **[9/6]Harry contacting Lex friend about speaking**|
+|#~~#@1~~|Past Predictions on future technology. How did these play out? 1970s or thereabout. David Kaiser to give such a talk? Historian of science.\\ \\ Director of the Harvard Museum, John Duran| DanK StephenQ|
-|#~~#@1~~|Advances in Surgery and/or Medicine (interesting but need speaker); past, present, future.  |**Dan Kleppner** or George to fup with Barbara Hughey (Dan Kleppner knows her)|
+|#~~#@1~~|Anti-drone technology: Drones, missiles and guidance systems, electronic warfare, etc |JohnR|
-|#~~#@1~~|Past Predictions on future technology. How did these play out? 1970s or thereabout. David Kaiser to give such a talk? Historian of science.\\ \\ Director of the Harvard Museum, John Duran| DanK to fup (Steve Quantro fup)\\ \\ \\ StephenQ fup|
-|#~~#@1~~|Quantum Technology, relating to recent discovers/accomplishments (eg 9000 years in 36 microseconds). |DanK to search for speaker|
-|#~~#@1~~|Anti-drone technology: Drones, missiles and guidance systems, electronic warfare, etc | |
 |#~~#@1~~|The Rubin Observatory (a remarkable ground-based optical observatory, scheduled to see first-light in two years (~2025) (Marc Gorenstein)|Ted K|
 |#~~#@1~~|Further consideration: Can we do anything more about climate change? Do we want to get into data collection and looking at whether the data we use now are applicable to the long-range questions about climate change? Are data sets really applicable to the problem we are studying? Ted Kochanski and Jerry Harris have proposed doing more about this topic. Still following up with the group about the nature of our interests on this topic. |Keep on list? Push to future.|
-|#~~#@1~~|Further consideration: COVID update ca. Feb. 2023? Universal vaccine for all COVID variants? Common antigen for the virus. Not new science. But there are new developments. |Likely not much to present, per JerryS. JerryS to fup.|
 |#~~#@1~~|Cosmic Background (Rainer Weiss) (PeterA & DanK to attempt contact)| |
-|#~~#@1~~|Larry Sass on 3-D house printing, [[https://spectrum.mit.edu/fall-2022/larry-sass-wants-a-tech-upgrade-for-housing/]] |**TedK**|
+|#~~#@1~~|Larry Sass on 3-D house printing, [[https://spectrum.mit.edu/fall-2022/larry-sass-wants-a-tech-upgrade-for-housing/]] |**JohnR**|
 |#~~#@1~~|The art of Space-Time (Anna Barnackna/CEO Mind Mix) Gravitational Lens Effect. (Since the discovery of the first lensed quasars in 1979, this quirky phenomenon has become central to cosmology, as light rays from distant galaxies are deflected (a bit) by gravitational effects of both dark matter and dark energy. DM and DE are the two big mysteries of cosmology – and in physics for that matter.)|**TedK** to contact Barnackna|
 |#~~#@1~~|History and Technology of Deep Sea Exploration (SpeakerTBD)\\ newsletter from Woods Hole\\ Mythbusters video on implosion\\ [[https://ted.com/talks/robert_ballard_the_astonishing_hidden_world_of_the_deep_ocean?language=en|Ballard talk]] (18m)| **TedK**|
 |#~~#@1~~|Development of car navigation devices starting in ~1910 and evolving to the present day using digital computers, map database, and GPX. (Donald Cooke)|[4/27/24] Cooke not sure when he can present|
-|#~~#@1~~|The development of photogrammetry from ~1930 to the current state of the art using a $500 "toy" drone and free software to produce orthophotography 50 or more  times as detailed as the imagery in Google Maps and Google Earth. (Donald Cooke)|[4/27/24] Cook not sure when he can present|
+|#~~#@1~~|The development of photogrammetry from ~1930 to the current state of the art using a $500 "toy" drone and free software to produce orthophotography 50 or more  times as detailed as the imagery in Google Maps and Google Earth. (Donald Cooke)|[4/27/24] Cooke not sure when he can present|
-|#~~#@1~~|History and Practice of Heart Surgery and Medication|**JohnR**|
+|#~~#@1~~|<fc #ff0000>SCHEDULED</fc>History and Practice of Heart Surgery and Medication (Geltman)|**JohnR**|
 |#~~#@1~~|Future Predictions from the Past.\\ Predictions for 2035 (Quantum Supremacy, or others)|**JohnR**|
-|#~~#@1~~|Talks at Google [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbmNph6atAoGfqLoCL_duAg]]|**Peter**|
+|#~~#@1~~|More talks at Google [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbmNph6atAoGfqLoCL_duAg|link]]|Peter|
-|#~~#@1~~|Retro Technology, how it works and how to use. Sliderule, rotary telephone, abacus, etc|JohnR|
+|#~~#@1~~|Altruism and Science (DanK)|Peter|
-|#~~#@1~~|Discuss [[https://www.wired.com/story/antitrust-case-against-apple-weaponizes-the-cult-of-cupertino/]] |
+|#~~#@1~~|Current state of animal transplants into humans.|**Ted**|
-|#~~#@1~~|Altruism and Science (DanK)|
+|#~~#@1~~|Current state of autonomous driving.\\ Justin Tse can talk about automatic driving capabilities in Tesla cars.(smi)|TedK|
-|#~~#@1~~|Current state of animal transplants into humans. (JerryK)|
-|#~~#@1~~|Current state of autonomous driving.|
-|#~~#@1~~|Alarm systems you can buy/rent and the systems and webcams you can install yourself. How they work, best choices, etc.(Jonathan Levis)|JohnR; previously sched 7/17|
 |#~~#@1~~|AI and Medicine (Quackenbush maybe, or Conor)|Jerry, JohnR|
+|#~~#@1~~|Discuss: [[https://www.wired.com/story/antitrust-case-against-apple-weaponizes-the-cult-of-cupertino/]]|
+|#~~#@1~~|<fc #ff0000>SCHEDULED</fc> Dick Wagner on either: RNA or Sociobiology (maybe not till 2025)|Dick W|
+|#~~#@1~~|<fc #ff0000>SCHEDULED</fc>Practical Fusion Power update and Challenges: breeding and handling Tritium (TedK, not till December)|Ted K|
+|#~~#@1~~|Robots in use nowadays and in the future (being researched)|JohnR, Peter|
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-  - [[https://talksat.withgoogle.com/talk/cryptocurrency-and-the-irs-what-no-one-knew-about-taxes|Cryptocurrency and the IRS: What No One Knew About Taxes]] [24min]\\ //Bob offered to do a bit of digging into "Crypto Culture" (social psychology of the crypto craze) and recent exchange collapses. (How they collapsed and whether this appears to experts to be a real bubble bursting or something else. BobP, Harry to update us on crypto basics.//
+  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRnr79Fa554|Why Craters are Round]] (Neil deGrasse Tyson explains; need to skip the "comedian") [~14min]
-  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRnr79Fa554|Why Craters are Round]] (Neil deGrasse Tyson explains; need to turn out the "comedian") [~14min]
   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KC32Vymo0Q|Physicist Explains Dimensions in 5 Levels of Difficulty]] [28m]
   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eTogq7rknQ|Physicist Explains Lasers in 5 Levels of Difficulty]] [24m]
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   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv8wqnk_TsA|Nicest car horn ever DIY. Mark Rober (5m)]]
   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwgaTYOx0RI|Escape Rooms, approach to solving them. Mark Rober (11m)]]
-  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP1C6EGEOR8|MIT classes 67&68 Bob Metcalfe on "Connectivity"]] (63m)
   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo|Best and worst ways to board a plane (8.5m)]]
   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et7XvBenEo8|Solving the Three Body Problem (16m)]]\\ .
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   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfKMkt5lq10|Boston Dynamics new humanoid robot shocks the entire industry (sic) (13m)]]
   - [[https://youtu.be/6akmv1bsz1M|Something Strange Happens When You Follow Einstein's Math]] - Veritasium posted 4/30/2024 (37m) -- Warning - one comment reads "Now I know what my dog feels like when I talk to him"
+  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2mO_MWRBo0|Dr Robert Langer talk at Cary Liby]] on smi's M
+  - [[https://youtu.be/9O4lGMBcxoY?feature=shared|Tech for Seniors Ep 177A 8/5/2024, last 20 minutes on speeds]]
+  - IgNobile: whether hair curls differently in the north or south hemisphere, and why fake medicines work better if they are more expensive\\ .
+  - Printing houses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obnhUcetrIo|Larry Sass TED (19m)]] [[https://infinite.mit.edu/video/lawrence-sass-sm-94-phd-00|MIT interview with Larry Sass (1h21m) with transcript]] [[https://youtu.be/TohrzJ1mBYU|Just the 1h21m talk]]\\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL2KoMNzGTo|How Concrete Homes Are Built with a 3D Printer (6m)]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IxVPpkkWXI|3D Printed Concrete House, Printed in 48 hours (3m)]]\\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhAwPFIUF_4|Why 3D Printing Buildings Leads to Problems (16m)]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVNZbl8in_Q|Move In Ready 3D Printed House in Germany (11m)]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG7KMjV8zMk|Inside a 3D Printed House That's Actually (kind of) Affordable (9m)]]
+  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL8QDqe7doI?feature=share|That's so lovely, thanks, Prof (1m)]]