Smart windows can significantly reduce indoor pathogens
Smart windows can significantly reduce indoor pathogens
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The researchers found that, compared to windows with blinds, the smart windows significantly reduce bacterial growth rate and their viability. [1]
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An idea / question from this is could this technology be used on space missions to help protect spacecraft from harmful UV radiation but also take advantage of sanitising properties of UV Radiation. As a quick reference, I have put a link to a wikipedia article below, please note: Wikipedia is not an academic source of information the link is there for reference purposes only.
Perhaps discuss at a STEM group meeting or on a forum. Links
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University of British Columbia Okanagan campus. “Smart windows can significantly reduce indoor pathogens: Daylight can disinfect surfaces.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 19 January 2022. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220119121350.htm.
Journal Reference:
Man In Lam, Kinga Vojnits, Michael Zhao, Piers MacNaughton, Sepideh Pakpour. The effect of indoor daylight spectrum and intensity on viability of indoor pathogens on different surface materials. Life Sciences (accepted), 2022 [abstract]
Fosdem 2022
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.
Dates: 5 & 6 February 2022 Location: Online
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#Conference,#Free,#Software,#Technology,#FOSS,#Developers
Smart soil bugs offer farmers an ecofriendly route to controlling crop diseases
Smart soil bugs offer farmers an ecofriendly route to controlling crop diseases*
So given we have managed without chemicals for 1000's of years, this is going back to what we have done before, only the research will allow us to grow crops better based on science based knowledge of soil composition.
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The REINFORCE Winter Challenge & Prize Draw
Just sharing this to help promote so sorry about the formatting. Pasted As is from the website, you need to be logged in to zooniverse to be entered in to the prize draw.
Our partners on the REINFORCE project are running a Winter Challenge over the next few weeks to try and increase participation on their two Zooniverse projects, and help their researchers get their data processed faster, so they can do some awesome science!
From Tuesday the 18th of January 2022 to Monday the 21st of February 2022 the REINFORCE projects GWitchHunters
and New Particle Search at CERN teams invite you to take part and submit as many classifications as you are able to contribute. If all the Zooniverse volunteers who are receiving this email did just a single classification we could complete these two projects before the end of the Winter Challenge!
As an added incentive, registered participants* who complete a qualifying amount of classifications will automatically be entered into a prize draw for four scholarships to the REINFORCE International Training Course https://reinforce.ea.gr/international-training-course/ taking place 10th-14th July near Athens, Greece. For full details on how to join the winter challenge and how to qualify for the prize draw, please visit https://reinforce.ea.gr/winter-challenge.
*NOTE: Only volunteers who are logged into their Zooniverse account while classifying are eligible for the prize draw, and only adults who live in Europe will be able to receive the prize if drawn.
Thanks so much for your continued efforts on all Zooniverse projects!
Grant & the Zooniverse Team Facebook https://www.facebook.com/therealzooniverse | Twitter https://twitter.com/the_zooniverse | Blog https://daily.zooniverse.org/
Perhaps discuss at the next STEM group meeting
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More Starlink satellites – effect on astronomy
Looks like the deployment of star link satellites is now causing more issues. While professional astronomers can use software etc to mitigate the effects of the trails. Amateur astronomers probably can't do this as easily.
With more planned, and other companies planning their own deployment. Astronomy is hard enough as it is, with light pollution, so this will affect other areas, and the economy built up around clear skies.
If you live somewhere with good view of the night sky, will your house price go DOWN as a result of these satellites.
We don't need all this extra junk in space, if the price we pay affects our view of the night sky.
Evaluating scientific claims
Six questions physicists ask when evaluating scientific claims
Interesting article, not writing much as to avoid influencing the reading of this. Lets support good Evidence based science.
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Trojans photos 16-1-2022
Next session
Date : Sunday 23rd January 2022 Time : 10 am —> 13:00
Location : Foxhole playing field, Bellfield Road, Paignton
All photos creative commons by-sa * Torbay Trojans – Website * British American football * NFL * NCAA College Football * Videos
Scismic webinar January
I am looking forward to the next Scismic webinar 'event next month is 'LinkedIn for The STEM Jobseeker' which will take place in January.
Date : Wednesday January 19 2022 Time: 9:00 to 10:00 pm gmt
Tickets: : here
For details, please see the Scismic Website. I get access to these because I am signed up on their website (free).
If you are interested in a career within Biotech then these webinars are really worth checking out, as is Scismic. I would also recommend the CV template workshop they did in association with Overleaf a while back. Please see the Overleaf Webinars page for more details.
However these webinars / workshops are interesting anyway and have some useful ideas / advice etc.
James Webb Update 16/1/2022
The JWST is fully deployed, at time of writing this it is 89 percent of the way to its L2 destination.
Mirror segment deployment is now in progress, this can be tracked via the link below.
Update 16/1/2022
Lets discuss more at the next Paignton Library STEM group meeting.
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