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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'' // or contact John Rudy, Peter Albin, Bob Primak, or Steve Isenberg directly – Thank you.\\ //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'' // or contact John Rudy, Peter Albin, Bob Primak, or Steve Isenberg directly – Thank you.\\
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-  Women in Science, Scientists in Other Cultures (Charlie ask Dan for suggestions; **GeorgeG**  to ask CAAL; **Harry**  to ask Indian Association; for speaker possibilities) (Need contact with Black Americans – **Harry**  to search). +
-  - Advances in Surgery (interesting but need speaker); past, present, future.  **George Gamota** to fup with Barbara Hughey (Dan Kleppner knows her) +
-  - Solar Panels, Solar Technology. Mark Sandeen (Lex SelectPerson); Cindy Ariens?; Frank van Mierlo, owner of solar technology company, explains science of solar panels. (Harry  email to Mark & Cindy cc:PeterA) **Dick Wagner** to fup. +
-  - idea: Telescopes (JohnR; huge telescope being decommissioned. Rich Ralston has contacts at Lincoln Lab & MIT, possible talks on optical, ground, space, x-ray in space, large bodies in space, etc) (**Larry Wittig**, after it launches. Reconsider Dec or 2022) +
-  - idea: ISO-NE webinar being presented by the Attorney General's office; **JohnBrown**  to see if it is recorded and if it's good for the group [20201125 email JohnBrown. **Peter**; 20210820: Peter to pull out interesting stuff from his video, or Peter to discuss w/Brown to see if he can do it live or maybe Peter. Peter to fup.] +
-  - **Chris Hess**: Musicians record themselves at home on their phones. They send me their files and I build virtual video performances in software. We've done a couple dozen virtual ensemble pieces at First Parish since the lockdown started. I work on a PC, with tools in the Adobe Creative suite. If that's of interest, I could do an introduction to the process and tools and then do some Q&A. Zoom isn't directly relevant, although we do stream the stuff I make over Zoom at virtual Sunday services at First Parish. +
-  - Revisit Cloud Storage Options (update from December 2019, **steveI**) //Potpourri option// +
-  - The first LASER of 2021 explores the relationship between humans, DNA, and data, featuring media artist and TED speaker Refik Anadol in conversation with Dr. Robert Grass from ETH Zurich, and Christine Choirat from Harvard and the Swiss Data Science Center. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCMaMEyYpdw|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCMaMEyYpdw]] (90 min) TED Talk +
-  - Count Rumford (Supplemental to Dan Kleppner's, but emphasis is on history). **Howard Cohen**; talk is prepared +
-  - Automatic Bucks meeting: Programmed Trading and Internet Fastlanes //Not sure what or how to present// +
-  - Approach LHS Grad Brandeis, MD, now at Penn; re Moderna technology **Harry** +
-  - Weather Models. (Need speaker; **John Rudy** will research.) +
-  - Meandering Rivers (proposed by **John Rudy**) Concord River is a good example. e.g., [[https://www.ausableriver.org/blog/why-do-streams-meander|https://www.ausableriver.org/blog/why-do-streams-meander]] +
-  - Virus package update; both real-time (e.g., Defender) and off-line (e.g., Malware Bytes). Consider Windows, but also Mac/OSX. **Peter** +
-  - **Al Sherman**: "Everything" from [[https://www.voidtools.com/|https://www.voidtools.com/]] (**John Rudy**  to contact, where is he, when can he speak) +
-  **Al Sherman**: "Advanced Renamer" from [[https://www.advancedrenamer.com/|https://www.advancedrenamer.com/]] (NOTE Al can be recorded off-line for replay on Weds.) +
-  - **Shelly Lowenthal**: Total Commander, Irfanview [[https://www.irfanview.com/|https://www.irfanview.com/]] <fc #008080>**smi to put on calendar, tell peter, ask Shelly**</fc> +
-  - Barbara Liskov (**John Rudy** to fup) +
-  - Shiela Widnel and Women in the Air Force (**David Kahan**) +
-  - Best of Freakonomics, an interview with Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, moderated by Faith Salie. Recorded at the 92nd Street Y on May 2015. (**Peter Albin** has link to 70min video) +
-  - BOLLI talk on advances in knee surgery (**John Rudy**) (John has name and has sent email, no response as of 20210820) +
-  - NFT - Non Fungible Tokens (need speaker **John** to search for speaker)+
  
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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~~|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~~|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 or CharlieH 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~~|The Technology of the Ukraine War: Drones, missiles and guidance systems, electronic warfare, etc |Need to fup if pertinent|
 +|#~~#@1~~|The Science of Cooking (John Rudy)|
 +|#~~#@1~~|The Rubin Observatory (a remarkable ground-based optical observatory, scheduled to see first-light in two years (~2025) (Marc Gorenstein)|Ted K|
 +|#~~#@1~~|John Rudy to F/U with Jerry Harris and Ted Kochanski.  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~~|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 noted this)|**PeterA**|
 +|#~~#@1~~|Dealing with Wifi Issues (Ramin Taraz)|RaminT fup?|**Steve I**|
 +|#~~#@1~~|10-fold increase in top Internet speeds: 6G? (being developed)|**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)|Need to find Cooke|
 +|#~~#@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)|Need to find Cooke|
 +|#~~#@1~~|Mars sample return (speaker tentative) [Speaker to be confirmed by Ted; postponed from original 8/2/2023 date]|**TedK to followup** should have info by March2024 GASP|
 +|#~~#@1~~|Larry Sass on 3-D house printing, [[https://spectrum.mit.edu/fall-2022/larry-sass-wants-a-tech-upgrade-for-housing/]] (a/o 9/15/2023 he's not ready yet. 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.) Marc Gorenstein |TedK|
 +|#~~#@1~~|History and Technology of Deep Sea Exploration (<fc #ff0000>SpeakerTBD</fc>)\\ 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~~|Sleep Deprivation: A meeting to stay awake for.\\ [[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-just-one-sleepless-night-makes-people-emotionally-fragile/|SciAm article 8/16/2023: why one sleepless night makes people emotionally fragile]]; video possibilities:\\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_irU28cajj4]] . [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqONk48l5vY]] . [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9SiyStcIU8]] . [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F39IBJZlsek]] TED talk|**JohnR**|
 +|#~~#@1~~|History and Practice of Heart Surgery and Medication|**JohnR**|
 +|#~~#@1~~|Predictions for 2035 (Quantum Supremacy, or others)|
 +|#~~#@1~~|NASA speaker: NASA Technology|Jerry|
 +|#~~#@1~~|The History of Technical Developments that made an impact|DavidK|
 +|#~~#@1~~|Talks at Google [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbmNph6atAoGfqLoCL_duAg]]|JohnR|
 +|#~~#@1~~|Retro Technology, how it works and how to use. Sliderule, rotary telephone, abacus, etc|JohnR|
 +|#~~#@1~~|Alarm systems you can buy/rent and the systems and webcams you can install yourself. How they work, best choices, etc.|
 +|#~~#@1~~|Discuss [[https://www.wired.com/story/antitrust-case-against-apple-weaponizes-the-cult-of-cupertino/]] |
  
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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] +  - [[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 Tyso explains; need to turn out 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=OWJCfOvochA|Quantum Computing Expert explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty]] [19m]+
   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KC32Vymo0Q|Physicist Explains Dimensions in 5 Levels of Difficulty]] [28m]   - [[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]   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eTogq7rknQ|Physicist Explains Lasers in 5 Levels of Difficulty]] [24m]
-  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcUey-DVYjk|Astrophysicist Explains Gravity in 5 Levels of Difficulty]] [36m] 
-  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMlf1ELvRzc|How Pi was calculated for years until Isaac Newton came along.]] [19m] //suggested by Larry Wittig// 
   - Other Mark Rober youtube videos (he did Squirrel vid) [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY1kMZp36IQSyNx_9h4mpCg|https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY1kMZp36IQSyNx_9h4mpCg]]   - Other Mark Rober youtube videos (he did Squirrel vid) [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY1kMZp36IQSyNx_9h4mpCg|https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY1kMZp36IQSyNx_9h4mpCg]]
-  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=094y1Z2wpJg|the Simplest Math Problem No one Can Solve -- Collatz Conjecture]] [22m]+  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUTGFQpKaPU|The Most Beautiful Equation in Math]] [4m] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dhHrg-KbJ0|e to the pi]] [16m] 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4PTvXtz4GM|Faster Than a Calculator]] [15m] 
 +  - [[https://media.csuchico.edu/media/0_r326m51m/|Beyond Earth: 50 Years since Apollo 11]] [1h] from October 2019 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybn8-_QV8Tg|How James Webb Telescope Orbits Nothing]] [15m] (LarryW recommended) 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIMihpDmBpY|5 Fun Physics Phenomena Explained]] (6m) (John Rudy)\\ . 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA|Solving Wordle using information theory]] (31m) (John Rudy) 
 +  - [[https://youtu.be/G8MnxTxxJ98|Diary for a Pandemic Year]] (8m) (Dick Wagner)\\ //A composition prepared for the MIT commencement of 2021 using layering of tracks.  The visuals may bring back memories.// 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMAF2f10pl4&t=1730|Secret Windows Features, Wifi passwords, HDMI Cables & Ports, and more]], part of Tech for Seniors (from 3/21/2022, episode 104) (1h11m) 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcUey-DVYjk|Astrophysicist Explains Gravity in 5 Levels of Difficulty]] [36m] 
 +  - [[https://youtu.be/t3RQnRjD5JE?start=1000|new results from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), from the team that brought us the first-ever image of a black hole, from 5/16/2022]] 1h38m but last 30m is Q&A (Ted Kochanski) 
 +  - Black Holes: Seeing the Unseeable (60min; World Science Festival) (John Rudy)\\ //Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is observing black holes; latest achievement is first image of supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Video explores the breakthroughs.(this video dated around June 2022)// 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QAB6iH-QrE|Physics of the Future]] (39m) Dr. Michio Kaku (John Rudy)\\ John R. to f/u. Technical topics brought down to a layman's perspective. Sabine Hassenfelder -- Dan K. could give refs. Would need someone to look into these videos and choose some examples. MIT Frank Milchuk(sp?). More advanced topics. See next item. 
 +  - [[https://youtu.be/dWxGXIPx5A4|Can we tell if there's a wormhole in the Milky Way?]] (5m) by the scientific skeptic, Sabine Hossenfelder  
 +  [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqSV_6dxafw|Interview with someone who has made a billion with crypto currency]] (24m) 
 +  [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSNquPUriIw|2020 Fusion progress at Tokamak Energy]] (5m)  (1/4/2021) (Larry Wittig)\\ . 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAv6p3grFVM&t=16s|Celebration when MIT achieved 20 Tesla in large bore magnet]] (4m)  (Larry Wittig) 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4|Breakthrough in nuclear fusion?]] (1h39m)  (2/24/2016 by Prof. Dennis Whyte of MIT) (Larry Wittig) 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esQyYGezS7c|Strange Items]] (18.5m) (John Rudy) 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4DAGabiGms|Is the Universe really a hologram?]] (11m) by the scientific skeptic, Sabine Hossenfelder 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRLNVvsxfFo|Why can't anything go faster than the speed of light? History of the speed of light part II]] (12m) Dr. Becky speaks (Barry Kort)\\ //<fs x-small>mostly about relativity with maybe 5 seconds on why you can't go faster than speed of light [smi]</fs> GeorgeG additional material and fup// 
 +  - Quantum Entanglement and Action at a Distance on Video. Suggested by Ted. K. Dick W. could give his follow-up impressions after the videos. 
 +  - Lisa Randall at Harvard -- particle physics. (Dan Kleppner) 
 +  - [[https://youtu.be/KrDdc_pSQGo?t=102|A Hackers Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules and How to Bend Them Back]] (Bruce Schneier) a Harvard Science Book Talk Series Lecture  (59m) 
 +  - [[https://youtu.be/AL2Chc6p_Kk|uniform circular motion 18.5m]] suggested by our own Charles Holbrow. 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Are9dDbW24|large and small views in (3m)]]\\ . 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZX0TREOjas|perfect husband (1m)]] a bit off-topic 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziv9BG61k-M|What it really means, science comedian brian malow, TED talk (12m)]] 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS2aEfbEi7s|7 into 28 (LouC) (3.5m)]] a bit off-topic 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-gLKG80Vsw|New Office Math (1m)]] a bit off-topic 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAhbFRMURtg|Brian Greene explains Time in 5 levels of difficulty]] (32m) 
 +  - Quantum Fields the Real Building Blocks of the Universe **TedK** 
 +  - Brian Greene “World Science Festival” 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYVZh5kqaFg|Egg Drop from Space (Mark Rober)]] (27m) 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAaESb4wTCM |How does a computer mouse work? (12m)]] 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7-h3FO-KKo|Testing can you blow your own sail? Mark Rober (17m)]]\\ . 
 +  - [[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=Vk__KOrsIMM|9 levels of pick-pocketing, easy to complex, from Wired mag]] (18m) 
 +  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP1C6EGEOR8|MIT classes 67&68 Bob Metcalfe on "Connectivity"](63m) 
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 ==== Rich Ralston suggested topics ==== ==== Rich Ralston suggested topics ====
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 //Website for MIT Lincoln Lab: [[http://www.ll.mit.edu|http://www.ll.mit.edu]] Surf this yourselves to see if areas of R&D or system development would be of interest to you and the LCTG. LL develops technology which, as it matures, is incorporated into a prototype subsystem or system to demonstrate new capabilities for transfer to industry for government use. Intellectual property can be licensed by MIT for commercial applications// //Website for MIT Lincoln Lab: [[http://www.ll.mit.edu|http://www.ll.mit.edu]] Surf this yourselves to see if areas of R&D or system development would be of interest to you and the LCTG. LL develops technology which, as it matures, is incorporated into a prototype subsystem or system to demonstrate new capabilities for transfer to industry for government use. Intellectual property can be licensed by MIT for commercial applications//
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 Some topics I (Rich Ralston) propose within the next year, including the August 21 meeting. Some topics I (Rich Ralston) propose within the next year, including the August 21 meeting.
  
-  - Low-noise and large-area visible and x-ray focal planes in space- and ground-based telescopes. (~90 minutes)+  - (Low noise moved to 6/29/2022)
   - Flash LIDAR (LADAR) with single-photon sensitivity for rapid 3-D imaging with applications from look-through-foliage military surveillance to self-driving vehicles. (~90 minutes) – **not to be recorded for later viewing**\\ //Dr. Simon Verghese, head of Waymo’s (Google) sensor development for self-driving cars.  In their 5th generation, the sensors are designed to meet the challenging requirements of moving people and goods safely and efficiently in dense cities and on highways. The goal is to make them affordable while meeting the performance needed for driverless operation in various applications and weather conditions. The talk will review some history of the project and describe a few use-cases for sensors and machine learning on Waymo vehicles.//   - Flash LIDAR (LADAR) with single-photon sensitivity for rapid 3-D imaging with applications from look-through-foliage military surveillance to self-driving vehicles. (~90 minutes) – **not to be recorded for later viewing**\\ //Dr. Simon Verghese, head of Waymo’s (Google) sensor development for self-driving cars.  In their 5th generation, the sensors are designed to meet the challenging requirements of moving people and goods safely and efficiently in dense cities and on highways. The goal is to make them affordable while meeting the performance needed for driverless operation in various applications and weather conditions. The talk will review some history of the project and describe a few use-cases for sensors and machine learning on Waymo vehicles.//
   - High-sensitivity passive IR focal planes for wide-area surveillance. (Copious Imaging, a spin off in Lexington from LL). (~45 minutes)   - High-sensitivity passive IR focal planes for wide-area surveillance. (Copious Imaging, a spin off in Lexington from LL). (~45 minutes)
   - Bio-agent warning sensor with single aerosol particle sensitivity. (~45 minutes)   - Bio-agent warning sensor with single aerosol particle sensitivity. (~45 minutes)
   - Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond for quantum sensing. (~45 minutes)   - Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond for quantum sensing. (~45 minutes)
-  - Development of Terminal Doppler Weather Radar for Airports. (LL developed, manufactured by Raytheon.). (~90 minutes) +</hidden> 
-  - NOVA video on the Secret of Tuxedo Park. (Culminates in UK bringing magnetron to US during WWII). [[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/secret-tuxedo-park/|https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/secret-tuxedo-park/]] Rent $3.99 on Amazonk. (60 minutes) +\\ \\  
-  - Radar that looks for downdrafts at airports\\ //Dr. Jim Evans, leader of the work at MIT Lincoln on the “Terminal Doppler Weather Radar and its Deployment for the FAA to Avoid Microbursts at airports”.  This work was started about 25 years ago and has proven successful at many US airport sites.  The talk will review the development lessons learned in deployment, including human factors in communication between controllers and pilots.// + 
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   - home theater, camera monitor, media player   - home theater, camera monitor, media player
-  - Linux or other O/S 
   - Headsets and cameras for Zoom; auxiliary microphones?   - Headsets and cameras for Zoom; auxiliary microphones?
   - Your experience with Raspberry or other tiny computer   - Your experience with Raspberry or other tiny computer
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   - Railway Car identification (George Burnell; Greg Sheehan)   - Railway Car identification (George Burnell; Greg Sheehan)
   - “Book Review” of Walter Isaacson’s book Code Breaker about the competing CRISPR teams. Maybe we can bring back Allan Kleinman   - “Book Review” of Walter Isaacson’s book Code Breaker about the competing CRISPR teams. Maybe we can bring back Allan Kleinman
 +  - Backup Strategies, ranging from the kinds of backup we use (Data, System Image, Cloud, other) to how to make and maintain (and test) our backups, and what the various hardware and software options are for making and maintaining a reliable backup.
  
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   - Computational Photography - changing what's used as a camera. [[https://www.dpreview.com/articles/9828658229/computational-photography-part-i-what-is-computational-photography|link]] e.g., replacing DSLR with cellphones; more (Jonathan Goode?, Harry Forsdick?) (needs a lead)   - Computational Photography - changing what's used as a camera. [[https://www.dpreview.com/articles/9828658229/computational-photography-part-i-what-is-computational-photography|link]] e.g., replacing DSLR with cellphones; more (Jonathan Goode?, Harry Forsdick?) (needs a lead)
   - How one builds a web application (e.g., using spreadsheets) (**Harry Forsdick**)   - How one builds a web application (e.g., using spreadsheets) (**Harry Forsdick**)
   - (**Harry**) Getting Streaming Programming Into Your TV (what to do when your TV just isn't smart enough)   - (**Harry**) Getting Streaming Programming Into Your TV (what to do when your TV just isn't smart enough)
-  - [resched from 6/2/21] Eli Brookner would like to present to the group "Fun Family Talk on Contributions of Radar to Winning WWII". Abstract from Eli: \\ //Radar was in its infancy at the start of World War II. The British were using radar effectively along their coastline with a network of antennas on very tall towers to warn of approaching German aircraft, but they needed an invention that would allow radars to be small enough to fit on ships and aircraft. They came up with the cavity magnetron. However they looked to American manufacturing know-how and resources to mass produce this device in a hurry. After turndowns by all the major US firms, a small Boston newcomer, Raytheon Company, came up with a solution and ended up making 85% of all magnetrons used by the allies in the war, and changed the course of the war.// 
   - [orig sched 7/28/2021] CERN and the Hadron Collider. History, Why It Was Built, Hoped Outcomes, Discovery of Bison, What is Next (Harvey Newman, professor Cal Tech). Harvey will introduce the status and outlook for the LHC, its past and present and near term outlook, and provide a panorama of the future including some of the leading programs. (John Rudy)   - [orig sched 7/28/2021] CERN and the Hadron Collider. History, Why It Was Built, Hoped Outcomes, Discovery of Bison, What is Next (Harvey Newman, professor Cal Tech). Harvey will introduce the status and outlook for the LHC, its past and present and near term outlook, and provide a panorama of the future including some of the leading programs. (John Rudy)
-  - [orig sched 8/11/2021] Retrospective on election security, allegations, concerns, why is it so hard to have a closed and secure system? Securing mail-in voting; how states got it to happen. Involve Town clerk or rep to participate? (George Burnell) +  - [orig sched 8/25/2021] Archeology presented by Jeffrey Rose (archeologist) in Israel (Stan Rose) \\ //Stan R to fup// 
-  - [orig sched 8/25/2021] Archeology presented by Jeffrey Rose (archeologist) in Israel (Stan Rose)  + 
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