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 **Computer Technology** **Computer Technology**
-  * [[https://youtu.be/kNAuifb_JZo|Networking Fundamentals part 1 2/4/2026]] +  * [[https://youtu.be/kNAuifb_JZo|Networking Fundamentals part 1 (2/4/2026)]] 
-  * [[https://youtu.be/_kLUEdV3kZw|Networking Fundamentals part 2: VLANS 2/25/2026]] +  * [[https://youtu.be/_kLUEdV3kZw|Networking Fundamentals part 2: VLANS (2/25/2026)]] 
-  * [[https://youtu.be/C4LXnRamnFo|Lexington High School AI Chatbot Project 12/3/2025]] +  * [[https://youtu.be/C4LXnRamnFo|Lexington High School AI Chatbot Project (12/3/2025)]] 
-  * [[https://youtu.be/s0LpBsQ9zvg|Lexington High School's AI Chatbot 1/14/2026]]\\ \\  +  * [[https://youtu.be/s0LpBsQ9zvg|Lexington High School's AI Chatbot (1/14/2026)]]\\ \\  
-  * [[https://youtu.be/kGlQWyXnXNI|Email Encryption 1/7/2026]] +  * [[https://youtu.be/kGlQWyXnXNI|Email Encryption (1/7/2026)]] 
-  * [[https://youtu.be/hVsPv7xAC28|Wifi 6, 6E, and 7. What are they, how do they differ? 12/10/2025]] +  * [[https://youtu.be/hVsPv7xAC28|Wifi 6, 6E, and 7. What are they, how do they differ? (12/10/2025)]] 
-  * [[https://youtu.be/rpnx_BpTa2g|What are Open Source Licenses? 11/19/2025]] +  * [[https://youtu.be/rpnx_BpTa2g|What are Open Source Licenses? (11/19/2025)]] 
-  * [[https://youtu.be/AnM_FQ-30v8|Windows Backups and Virtual Machines 10/29/2025]] +  * [[https://youtu.be/AnM_FQ-30v8|Windows Backups and Virtual Machines (10/29/2025)]] 
-  * [[https://youtu.be/wpAxPeHrxYc|Presentation Technologies 2/25/2026]]+  * [[https://youtu.be/wpAxPeHrxYc|Presentation Technologies (2/25/2026)]]
  
 **Science & Medicine** **Science & Medicine**
-  * [[https://youtu.be/lIc4zt3z8m4|Federal Science Priority Update 10/15/2025]]  +  * [[https://youtu.be/sFS2H-ix-X4|Hearing Aids Update 2026 (3/18/2026)]] 
-  * [[https://youtu.be/Nkhi3g9ME6A|The Methylene Blue Mystery 10/15/2025]] +  * [[https://youtu.be/lIc4zt3z8m4|Federal Science Priority Update (10/15/2025)]]  
-  * [[https://youtu.be/sYbVCtIUpcU|The Case for Genetic Testing 10/8/2025]] +  * [[https://youtu.be/Nkhi3g9ME6A|The Methylene Blue Mystery (10/15/2025)]] 
-  * [[https://youtu.be/s9DOagxpJWE|CRISPR, AI, Patents, and Copyright Law 9/10/2025]]+  * [[https://youtu.be/sYbVCtIUpcU|The Case for Genetic Testing (10/8/2025)]] 
 +  * [[https://youtu.be/s9DOagxpJWE|CRISPR, AI, Patents, and Copyright Law (9/10/2025)]]
  
 **Space/Astronomy** **Space/Astronomy**
-  * [[https://youtu.be/49uW95aoqEE|2025 Space Update 2/11/2026]] +  * [[https://youtu.be/49uW95aoqEE|2025 Space Update (2/11/2026)]] 
-  * [[https://youtu.be/b-HJqkUDHp4|Event Horizon Telescope - part 1 7/23/2025]] +  * [[https://youtu.be/b-HJqkUDHp4|Event Horizon Telescope - part 1 (7/23/2025)]] 
-  * [[https://youtu.be/YYciD4wGyPw|Event Horizon Telescope - part 2 8/6/2025]]+  * [[https://youtu.be/YYciD4wGyPw|Event Horizon Telescope - part 2 (8/6/2025)]]
  
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 ^Date^Subject & Description^Confirmed^Contact| ^Date^Subject & Description^Confirmed^Contact|
-|Jan 7, 2026|Potpourri\\ * Email encryption: what is it, why you need it, how to use it, free and paid choices (Drew) [[https://youtu.be/kGlQWyXnXNI|watch the email encryption presentation]] \\ * A new use for your old smart phone (other than as a paperweight) (Steve)\\ [[:lctgmeetingsummary20260107|Meeting Summary]]\\ \\ for a future meeting:\\ //* Some considerations on buying a pc nowadays (Bob)\\  * Hearing Aids update (CharlyS)\\ * Buying refurbished (one reliable and cost-effective option) (Steve)//|+|Jan 7, 2026|Potpourri\\ * Email encryption: what is it, why you need it, how to use it, free and paid choices (Drew) [[https://youtu.be/kGlQWyXnXNI|watch the email encryption presentation]] \\ * A new use for your old smart phone (other than as a paperweight) (Steve)\\ [[:lctgmeetingsummary20260107|Meeting Summary]]|
 |Jan 14, 2026|LHS Seniors share the process of making their AI Chatbot (Jerry Xu)\\ [[:lctgmeetingsummary20260114|Meeting Summary]] [[https://youtu.be/s0LpBsQ9zvg|watch the presentation]]| |Jan 14, 2026|LHS Seniors share the process of making their AI Chatbot (Jerry Xu)\\ [[:lctgmeetingsummary20260114|Meeting Summary]] [[https://youtu.be/s0LpBsQ9zvg|watch the presentation]]|
-|Jan 21, 2026|Brian Green interviews Kip Thorne, part 1 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTs--eFrzGo|the 2hr+ interview]]\\ //Brian Greene is a theoretical physicist and bestselling author known for making complex physics accessible to the public through books like The Elegant Universe and his work as co-founder of the World Science Festival, where he regularly hosts conversations with leading scientists.\\ Kip Thorne is a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist whose groundbreaking work on gravitational waves led to the detection of these ripples in spacetime by LIGO in 2015, and who also served as scientific consultant and executive producer for the film Interstellar.//\\ [[:lctgmeetingsummary20260121|Jan 21 Meeting Summary]]|+|Jan 21, 2026|Brian Green interviews Kip Thorne, part 1 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTs--eFrzGo|the 2hr+ interview]]\\ <fs small>//Brian Greene is a theoretical physicist and bestselling author known for making complex physics accessible to the public through books like The Elegant Universe and his work as co-founder of the World Science Festival, where he regularly hosts conversations with leading scientists.\\ Kip Thorne is a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist whose groundbreaking work on gravitational waves led to the detection of these ripples in spacetime by LIGO in 2015, and who also served as scientific consultant and executive producer for the film Interstellar.//</fs>\\ [[:lctgmeetingsummary20260121|Jan 21 Meeting Summary]]|
 |Jan 28, 2026|Brian Greene interviews Kip Thorne, part 2 [[:lctgmeetingsummary20260128|Jan 28 Meeting Summary]]| |Jan 28, 2026|Brian Greene interviews Kip Thorne, part 2 [[:lctgmeetingsummary20260128|Jan 28 Meeting Summary]]|
 |Feb 4, 2026|IoT and your home wi-fi network; networking fundamentals part 1 [[2026lctgmeetingchats#section20260204|Chat messages]] . [[:lctgmeetingsummary20260204|Feb 4 Meeting Summary]] . [[https://youtu.be/kNAuifb_JZo|watch the presentation]]| |Feb 4, 2026|IoT and your home wi-fi network; networking fundamentals part 1 [[2026lctgmeetingchats#section20260204|Chat messages]] . [[:lctgmeetingsummary20260204|Feb 4 Meeting Summary]] . [[https://youtu.be/kNAuifb_JZo|watch the presentation]]|
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 |Feb 25, 2026|Potpourri\\ Jerry S: Presentation technologies [[https://youtu.be/wpAxPeHrxYc|watch Jerry's presentation]]\\ Seth S: Networking Fundamentals (continued) -- VLANS  [[https://youtu.be/_kLUEdV3kZw|watch Seth's VLANs presentation]] . [[:lctgmeetingsummary20260225|Feb 25 Meeting Summary]]| | | |Feb 25, 2026|Potpourri\\ Jerry S: Presentation technologies [[https://youtu.be/wpAxPeHrxYc|watch Jerry's presentation]]\\ Seth S: Networking Fundamentals (continued) -- VLANS  [[https://youtu.be/_kLUEdV3kZw|watch Seth's VLANs presentation]] . [[:lctgmeetingsummary20260225|Feb 25 Meeting Summary]]| | |
 |Mar 4, 2026| Selected videos.\\ * ​[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bTpEKfeEjw|Artificial Intelligence: New Patterns of Adoption and New Levels of Disruption]]\\ * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTDFhWWPZ4Q|(37m) Amelia Earhart- what happened?]]\\ [[:lctgmeetingsummary20260304|March 4 Meeting Summary]]| |Mar 4, 2026| Selected videos.\\ * ​[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bTpEKfeEjw|Artificial Intelligence: New Patterns of Adoption and New Levels of Disruption]]\\ * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTDFhWWPZ4Q|(37m) Amelia Earhart- what happened?]]\\ [[:lctgmeetingsummary20260304|March 4 Meeting Summary]]|
-|@#9999ff:<fs small>N e x t . M e e t i n g </fs>|||| +|Mar 11, 2026|GASP Planning session| 
-|Mar 11, 2026|<bg yellow>GASP Planning session</bg> *ONLINE ONLY*\\ //<ff serif>Please join and help us plan future meetings.  Can you speak on a topic? Do you know someone who would like to?</ff>//|+|Mar 18, 2026|Charly's, Tony's and George's Hearing Aids 2026 update\\ George showed this really good video: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XKsL8u5h54]] and recommended this longer one dealing with Costco's 2026 offerings: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMSZqC_D4Cs]]\\ {{:lctg:20260318_hearing_aids_v2.pdf|George's slides}} . {{:lctg:20260318_charly_help_for_hearing_loss.pdf|Charly's slides}} . {{:lctg:20260318_tony_hearingaidsslides.pdf|Tony's slides}} . [[:lctgmeetingsummary20260318|March 18 Meeting Summary]] . [[https://youtu.be/sFS2H-ix-X4|watch the presentation]]| 
 +|@#9999ff:<fs small><fc #ffff00>N e x t . M e e t i n g</fc></fs>|||| 
 +|Mar 25, 2026|Tesla self-driving vehicle technology| |Seth S|
 |@#9999ff:<fs small> . </fs>|||| |@#9999ff:<fs small> . </fs>||||
-|Mar 18, 2026|Charly and George's Hearing Aids 2026 update //with Tony//| 
-|Mar 25, 2026|Tesla self-driving video| |Seth S| 
 |Apr 1, 2026|Microplastics video| |John R| |Apr 1, 2026|Microplastics video| |John R|
-|Apr 8, 2026|Potpourri| +|Apr 8, 2026|Potpourri\\ Buying pc (30m) & buying refurb (15m)| |Bob & Steve| 
-|Apr 15, 2026| +|Apr 15, 2026|Utilities Extravaganza| |Drew, others| 
-|Apr 22, 2026| +|Apr 22, 2026|Nobel prize talk: Physics (Machine Learning)| |Dick| 
-|Apr 29, 2026|Plastic Pollution: Health, Climate, & Solutions (Eileen Ryan)\\ //Eileen Ryan is the leader of Beyond Plastics Greater Boston and a trained public speaker on plastic pollution with the Beyond Plastics Speakers Bureau.  She is also on the steering committee of Plastic Free Mass.  In addition to her work educating people about the perils of plastics she uses her creative talents to make costumes and art as a climate and social justice activist.  Eileen lives in Watertown and is the mother of three grown children and a grandmother of two.//| +|Apr 29, 2026|Plastic Pollution: Health, Climate, & Solutions (Eileen Ryan)\\ <fs small>//Eileen Ryan is the leader of Beyond Plastics Greater Boston and a trained public speaker on plastic pollution with the Beyond Plastics Speakers Bureau.  She is also on the steering committee of Plastic Free Mass.  In addition to her work educating people about the perils of plastics she uses her creative talents to make costumes and art as a climate and social justice activist.  Eileen lives in Watertown and is the mother of three grown children and a grandmother of two.//</fs>| 
-|May 6, 2026| +|May 6, 2026|Your Own Wiki? What's a Wiki? What can it do for you?  How can you use it? How does LCTG's Wiki work? How can I have my own Wiki? (on the cheap!) | |steve| 
-|May 13, 2026| +|May 13, 2026|Potpourri\\ How to encrypt your email inbox (30m)\\ Squash and Sailing| |Drew, Bob M| 
-|May 20, 2026| +|May 20, 2026|Mac utilities, tricks, and tips| |Harry, Steve, others?| 
-|May 27, 2026| +|May 27, 2026|[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD7_jelvxew|(1h21) Putting the ”Bang” in the Big Bang]] (1h47 w/q&a) Alan Guth (John Rudy)| 
-|June 3, 2026| +|June 3, 2026|<bg yellow>GASP planning session</bg>| 
-|June 10,2026| +|June 10,2026|Nobel prize talk: Proteins| |Dick| 
-|June 17, 2026| +|June 17, 2026|Potpourri\\ Meteorology: Weather or Not.| |Adam B| 
-|June 24,2026| +|June 24,2026|Programming with an AI Assistant| |Harry| 
-|July 1,2026| +|July 1,2026|Small Modular [Nuclear] Reactors - Update| |Jerry & David Duff| 
-|July 8,2026| +|July 8,2026|Curated videos on current state of nuclear fusion| |Peter| 
-|July 15,2026|+|July 15,2026|Potpourri|
 |July 22,2026| |July 22,2026|
 |July 29,2026| |July 29,2026|
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