[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Meeting Reminder With Special Preparation Suggested: At Zoom Address 972 6146 0830. Shelly Lowenthal on Climate Change. 10:00AM Wednesday, August 26, 2020. Online Meeting via Zoom.

[Jonathan Goode]

(NOTE: Repeated Reminder with updated September 9 description and a video
suggested to be viewed in advance at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE )



* August 26, 2020  Myths and Facts on Climate Change - a non-alarmist
perspective Presented by Shelly Lowenthal who says: “I developed a class on
climate change that I give to life long learning organizations. It’s part
of my History Course that I present. … There is science involved.” Shelly
recommends that you watch Michael Moore's movie on YouTube, “Planet of the
Humans” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE> (1hr 40min) before the
meeting. It is a documentary on wind and solar green energy. Here's a 37
second teaser for the movie:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXCftKF4uI
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXCftKF4uI> *

We will meet at the usual 10AM Wednesday time, BUT ONLINE, using the Zoom
Video Conferencing Application, facilitated by Steve Isenberg.

There is an instruction page at https://toku.us/zoomish but note that the
URL and phone number shown are examples.


Some time after 9:45AM on Wednesday, choose one of the following options:

   - If you have the Zoom application installed, start it and join meeting
   with ID 972 6146 0830
   - From your browser, go to: https://zoom.us/j/97261460830
   - From your smartphone, tap this: +16468769923,,97261460830
   - From a “dumb” telephone, call 1 646 876 9923 and enter meeting ID: 972
   6146 0830

Once the connection is established, you may need to locate and use the
on-screen controls that turn on the sound and the video. You should be able
to see and hear others and they should be able to see and hear you, if you
have a camera and microphone (each of which you can unmute selectively).


If this email wasn't addressed to you and you would like to join the group,
or if you have a friend or colleague who might also be interested in
joining, it's easy.  Ask them to go to the group's wiki page at
http://LCTG.toku.us and follow the simple instructions under "Join the
Email List".  By being a member of the group you'll get reminders of
upcoming meetings and infrequent related messages. No advertising.  The
list is tightly managed.

Membership is free and given that all meetings are using Zoom you only need
to be connected to the Internet to join.  It's ok to join from anywhere you
can get a decent Internet connection, even if you're in orbit around Earth
or on another planet or a moon (if you're connecting from somewhere not on
Earth, we'd like to chat).


*Below are some of our plans for Upcoming Meetings. For more schedule
information, please refer to
https://wiki.toku.us/doku.php?id=lctg_speaker_schedule
<https://wiki.toku.us/doku.php?id=lctg_speaker_schedule>  We will continue
to have an online presentation every Wednesday until it is prudent for us
to resume meeting in person.*

Sept 2, 2020 *Count Rumford and his 18th Century Technology Innovations*
Dan Kleppner: Quite a few years ago I became interested in *Benjamin
Thompson* (1752-1814) , aka Count Rumford. He was a great applied scientist
and we owe much of our modern domestic technology to him: the kitchen
range, double boiler, layered clothing and thermal underwear, steam
heating,…. He was the first person to clearly understand all the modes of
heat transfer. He was a public benefactor, initiated poor houses in many
European cities, and he founded the Royal Institution in London which
supported the research of Michael Faraday. His career was a series of rags
to riches. He would be better remembered if it were not for a character
flaw: he antagonized everyone he dealt with to such a degree that he had to
flee the country time and again.
Sept 9, 2020 *Blind Bombing by Norman Fine* Presented by author Norman
Fine, who is a native of Newton MA*.*
One reader says “I found this book spellbinding and with insight into the
development of a new and advanced secret radar system that permitted the
allies to penetrate through inclement weather and enable the allies to
reverse the dominance of the Nazis at the onset of WWII. Blind Bombing has
a warm sensitive side, in that Norman Fine’s uncle (Stanley) brought the
first production model of the new airborne radar system to Europe
permitting allied bombers to destroy factories supplying the German forces
that were usually obscured by overcast weather”.
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