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We'd like your thoughts on these and other topics you are interested in seeing or maybe presenting. Send your thoughts via email to info@LCTG.toku.us – Thank you

• Florence Nightingale contributions to science (Jerry Slate to change title maybe great moments in science/medicine)
• Discovery platinum compound for radiation therapy (Jerry Slate to follow up)
• Search for life on other planets (research in progress; Cindy Bares doing research).
  • Ian Crawford, April 2018, 36min
• Mars Rover (George Gamota)
• Right to Repair - who has the right to repair your car; vendor lockout (Bill Quinn maybe potpourri)
• A bit on Zoom Webinars (John Rudy) (potpourri)
• Dan Kleppner: I was planning to suggest a talk that I think would mesh with the group’s interests. The subject is Fixit Clinics. These are hands-on clinics that were started at MIT perhaps fifteen years ago, and presented during IAP. They are the brainchild of Peter Mui, an MIT graduate (full disclosure: Peter is my son’s brother-in-law). The rationale is fundamentally conservation- he is appalled by the enormous waste of usable appliances. The issue of right-to-repair arises in these clinics: many appliances are intentionally unfixable. Fixit clines have gained in popularity and he has put them on them in many venues in the U.S. and also abroad.
• https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-plastic-problem (1hr video) Plastics having a recycle number on them leads people to think they will be recycled and are perhaps more accepting of then using them. However, many thin plastic containers such as salad boxes or clear takeout containers are not in practice recycled. (John Rudy, Bob Primak, George Burnell) This might be more than one week. Plastic bags biodegradeability, manufacture, disposal, recycling
• Actual accomplishments of things in the Frontiers of Science. a) has quantum computing ever solved a problem?, b) has blockchain produced a cost effective solution for anything?, c) has the Large Hadron Collider advanced science or provided the real confirmations the string theorists were looking for? (Jonathan Goode)
• A revised explanation, in an intuitively satisfying way, why do airplanes fly? This was presented earlier using incomprehensible equations that seem unsatisfying and suspicious. Can planes really achieve level flight upside down?
• The future of music – production and delivery (Charles J. Holbrow; “J”=Jr Charles Holbrow)
• Getting Streaming Programming Into Your TV (what to do when your TV just isn't smart enough)
• History relating to Rubber (John Rudy, George Burnell)
  Peter info on rubber
  Professor X?