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Living with COVID-19: When a pandemic becomes endemic
A talk from the Royal society, presented by Professor Bryan Cox on how Covid19 will become endemic.
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#Talk,#Covid19,#Medical,#Endemic,#Pandemic,#ProfessorBryanCox, #RoyalSociety,#Lecture,#Biology,#Virus,
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Trojans boot camp 2022 3
Date : Sunday 16th January 2022 Time : 10 am —> 13:00
Location : Foxhole playing field, Bellfield Road, Paignton
2022 is here, so on with training and we are no upping the training to include contact football in preparation for the season ahead.
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Decentralization, Free Software, and the Fediverse
Montreal Sauce – Decentralization, Free Software, and the Fediverse
Interview with Sean Tilley.
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Tech Ethics
Another interesting post on Mastodon. The original blog article may be a few years old but seems to raise some good points about teaching ethics in Technology and a link to a spreadsheet with where you can learn about this within courses.
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We can perhaps discuss further at the Feb Stem group meeting
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#Technology,#Ethics,#Syllabi,#Courses,#Discussions,#STEMGroup
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Moonhack 2022
Moonhack is a free international event bringing kids from across the world together for a week of coding! Suitable for kids ages 8-15, it's a free, easy and hands-on way to get coding, no matter where you are. Over the past 6 years, more than 150,000 kids have coded as part of Moonhack. founding partners
Details for 2022 are still due to be announced, however there is no reason why you can't look at lasts years projects and think about forming a team for this years Contest.
In fact why not use the Paignton Library STEM Group meetings as an opportunity to get a team together, meet up and see what help / support is needed, then look at registering your team.
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#STEM,#Coding,#Moonhack,#Contest
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Lithium Mining
This graphic was posted to Mastodon, I am sharing here as it demonstrates a really good point.
While the pipeline is probably going to be oil or gas, the so called green alternatives seems to have a huge environmental impact.
Before lockdown in 2020 I was planning a STEM activity around this topic, or more specifically the effect of Lithium mining on local groundwater, and how this takes groundwater away from farmers etc.
There is a video about the Extraction process on youtube.
More info on Lithium here from compound chem
So compared to Oil / Gas, using lithium to power cars does not release gasses such as $CO2$, $NO2$ and $CO$ so the batteries are cleaner, but are they cleaner if you look at the whole lifecycle of the battery from getting the raw materials ?
#Lithium,#Mining,#Environment,#Impact
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Proto School
This was posted to Mastodon, useful set of tutorials from Proto School [1]
Our self-guided interactive tutorials are designed to introduce you to decentralized web concepts, protocols, and tools.
These were posted by DignifiedSilence [2]
Courses on offer
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1 Proto School 2 DignifiedSilence
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Code Club 15/1/2022
The next Club will be on Saturday 15th January 2022 @ Paignton Library. Please contact the library to book.
We will carry on with what we were doing last session, hopefully expand on what we were doing with the Micro:bit
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#CodeClub,#FreeCodeCamp,#Microbit,#Scratch
Next Code Club
Next code club Saturday 5/2/2022 : Please contact Paignton Library to book.
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James Webb Launch 11/1/2022
The JWST launched on Christmas day 2021. The Launch and full deployment has gone as planned. Now starts the process of calibration and other tests etc before the science can start.
Lets discuss more at the next Paignton Library STEM group meeting
Update 11/1/2022
I have added a link to a discourse discussion [3] Along with a link to my Tuxiversity forum to discuss Astronomy / Science related courses. [4].
The JWST mission could be a good topic at the Paignton Library STEM group [5] on 12th February.
1 More info @ Nasa.gov 2 JWST Tracker 3 Discourse Discussion 4. Tuxiversity Forum 5. Paignton Library STEM Group
#NASA #JWST #Telescope #Astronomy,#JamesWebb
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Hubble Space Telescope Images
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