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==== recents ====
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Recently released meeting videos you can watch now by category:
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**Computer Technology**
* [[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/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/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/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/wpAxPeHrxYc|Presentation Technologies (2/25/2026)]]
**Science & Medicine**
* [[https://youtu.be/sFS2H-ix-X4|Hearing Aids Update 2026 (3/18/2026)]]
* [[https://youtu.be/lIc4zt3z8m4|Federal Science Priority Update (10/15/2025)]]
* [[https://youtu.be/Nkhi3g9ME6A|The Methylene Blue Mystery (10/15/2025)]]
* [[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**
* [[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/YYciD4wGyPw|Event Horizon Telescope - part 2 (8/6/2025)]]
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::RECENT AND UPCOMING MEETINGS::
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|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 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 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 11, 2026|Space Update {{:lctg:20260211_2025_space_update.pptx|slides}} . [[:lctgmeetingsummary20260211|Feb 11 Meeting Summary]] . [[https://youtu.be/49uW95aoqEE|watch the presentation]] |
|Feb 18, 2026|Entering the Genomic Medicine Era: How technology, data, and biology can improve healthcare throughout our lives. (From November 2025) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGMM6-Eagp4|link to video]]|
|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 11, 2026|GASP Planning session|
|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]]|
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|Mar 25, 2026|Tesla self-driving vehicle technology| |Seth S|
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|Apr 1, 2026|Microplastics video| |John R|
|Apr 8, 2026|Potpourri\\ Buying pc (30m) & buying refurb (15m)| |Bob & Steve|
|Apr 15, 2026|Utilities Extravaganza| |Drew, others|
|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.//|
|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|Potpourri\\ How to encrypt your email inbox (30m)\\ Squash and Sailing| |Drew, Bob M|
|May 20, 2026|Mac utilities, tricks, and tips| |Harry, Steve, others?|
|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|GASP planning session|
|June 10,2026|Nobel prize talk: Proteins| |Dick|
|June 17, 2026|Potpourri\\ Meteorology: Weather or Not.| |Adam B|
|June 24,2026|Programming with an AI Assistant| |Harry|
|July 1,2026|Small Modular [Nuclear] Reactors - Update| |Jerry & David Duff|
|July 8,2026|Curated videos on current state of nuclear fusion| |Peter|
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\\ \\ ::RECENT MEETINGS::
|Aug 6, 2025|Potpourri \\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA|(31m) Solving Wordle using information theory]] . [[https://wiki.toku.us/doku.php?id=2025lctgmeetingchats#section20250806|chat messages]]. [[:lctgmeetingsummary20250806|Meeting Summary]] \\ [[https://youtu.be/t3RQnRjD5JE?start=1000|(1h8m+30m Q&A) 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]] [[https://youtu.be/YYciD4wGyPw|watch the presentation]]| | |
|Aug 13, 2025|Volcanic activity studies [[:lctgmeetingsummary20250813|Meeting Summary]] . [[https://youtu.be/1QcmpPk2QRg|watch the presentation]]| | |
|Aug 20, 2025|Hearing Aid Appliances for Dummies (What options are there to help you improve your hearing? How do you choose a Hearing Aid (HA)? Tricks and tips, things to look for in a HA and what to watch out for. Can you buy a useful HA without a prescription?) {{:lctg:20250820_ha_addition.pdf|George's slides}} . {{:lctg:20250820_hearingaidappliances.pdf|Charlie's Slides}} . [[:lctgmeetingsummary20250820|Meeting Summary]] . [[https://wiki.toku.us/doku.php?id=2025lctgmeetingchats#section20250820|chat messages]] . [[https://youtu.be/RfW7JGTR8JQ|watch the presentation]] \\ Pertinent videos \\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ0-aZHwOE4|Phonak Audeo Sphere (28m)]] \\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEXt8BwJy_Q|Jabra 30 (13m)]] \\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnoGiSNxVd0|Best Costco Hearing Aids 2025 (58m)]] \\ [[https://onlinehearing.com|Non-Costco provider, onlinehearing.com]] | | |
|Aug 27, 2025|Using AI Tools and Techniques to Explore Molecular Biology Findings by Monod \\ Covering: Monod's contributions to molecular biology and Demonstrating AI tools and techniques \\ Using the AI Group's [[https://jhnday.github.io/Chance-and-Necessity/ChncNeccPortal|Chance and Necessity Portal]] for this talk. [[:lctgmeetingsummary20250827|Meeting Summary]]| | |
|Sep 3, 2025|Robots in Everyday Life \\ [[:lctgmeetingsummary20250903|Meeting Summary]] . [[https://wiki.toku.us/doku.php?id=2025lctgmeetingchats#section20250903|chat messages]]|
|Sep 10, 2025|AI and Copyright Law, and CRISPR update \\ [[:lctgmeetingsummary20250910|Meeting Summary]] . [[https://wiki.toku.us/doku.php?id=2025lctgmeetingchats#section20250910|chat messages]] [[https://youtu.be/s9DOagxpJWE|watch the presentation]]|
|Sep 17, 2025|GASP Planning session|
|Sep 24, 2025|Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain: We will pay attention to the //tech// behind the curtain. \\ (RH day2) \\ - The Tech Behind Cruise Control, Crash Prevention and Lane Detection [[https://www.wsj.com/video/series/tech-behind/the-tech-behind-cruise-control-crash-prevention-and-lane-detection/7CEADC87-B070-4266-8EAF-2EA8ED91DE0D?mod=WSJvidctr__pos2|link]] \\ - How Wireless Charging Is Advancing to Make Power Cords Obsolete [[https://www.wsj.com/video/series/tech-behind/how-wireless-charging-is-advancing-to-make-power-cords-obsolete/4C7E1BF7-7268-4562-9EDC-0A590F7C9851?mod=WSJvidctr__pos4|link]] \\ - How shazam Makes Unique Audio Fingerprints to Identify Songs [[https://www.wsj.com/video/series/tech-behind/how-shazam-makes-unique-audio-fingerprints-to-identify-songs/9D7E86B7-73EF-4B92-8726-162E62B0EA3A?mod=WSJvidctr__pos7|link]] \\ - How Noise-Canceling Headphones Remove Background Sound [[https://www.wsj.com/video/series/tech-behind/how-noise-canceling-headphones-remove-background-sound/C150E958-1E2B-483D-87C4-01A33F1D19D9?mod=WSJvidctr__pos8|link]] \\ - The Tech Behind How Concert LED Light Wristbands Work [[https://www.wsj.com/video/series/tech-behind/the-tech-behind-how-concert-led-light-wristbands-work/EAA54145-D07A-4100-8153-2EAF8D671921?mod=WSJvidctr__pos9|link]] \\ - The Tech That Powers Tap-to-Pay [[https://www.wsj.com/video/series/tech-behind/the-tech-that-powers-tap-to-pay/F5C2DBC2-7CEB-4D03-BA48-E58580F05D20?mod=WSJvidctr__pos10|link]]|
|Oct 1, 2025|(YK eve) Windows Power Toys [[:lctgmeetingsummary20251001|Meeting Summary]] {{lctg:20251001_power_toys.pdf|slides}}|
|Oct 8, 2025|Susan Liebman, PhD, Protect Your Family with Genetic Testing and //The Dressmaker's Mirror// [[:lctgmeetingsummary20251008|Meeting Summary]] [[https://youtu.be/sYbVCtIUpcU|watch the presentation]]| |
|Oct 15, 2025|Potpourri \\ Federal Science Priority Update (George) \\ Why is there no methylene in methylene blue? (Jerry) [[:lctgmeetingsummary20251015|Meeting Summary]] . [[https://wiki.toku.us/doku.php?id=2025lctgmeetingchats#section20251015|chat messages]] [[https://youtu.be/lIc4zt3z8m4|Watch the Federal Science Priority Update presentation]] [[https://youtu.be/Nkhi3g9ME6A|Watch the Methylene Blue Mystery presentation]]| | |
|Oct 22, 2025|Edwin Land [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k2XVoJDS_0|Mr. Polaroid]] |
|Oct 29, 2025|Drew on image backups, recovery to virtual machines, and temporarily pausing your Windows updates (caveat emptor) \\ //and other topics of note// [[https://wiki.toku.us/doku.php?id=2025lctgmeetingchats#section20251029|chat messages]] . [[:lctgmeetingsummary20251029|Meeting Summary]] . [[https://youtu.be/AnM_FQ-30v8|watch the presentation]] | | |
|Nov 5, 2025|//LCTG AI Research Group// \\ Turing's paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" with a live discussion with "Alan Turing" [[https://jhnday.github.io/AI-Research-Collective/turing_presentation_outline|slides]]\\ [[:lctgmeetingsummary20251105|Meeting Summary]] . [[https://youtu.be/ZptaFNJ9lM0|watch the presentation]] . [[https://jhnday.github.io/AI-Research-Collective/AlanTuringLCTG|visualization of the presentation]]|
|Nov 12, 2025|Potpourri\\ * [[https://blog.cfs.energy/half-of-sparcs-heart-a-48-ton-steel-vessel-arrives-at-cfs/|The installation of the vacuum vessel where the ions will collide and produce energy]]\\ * [[https://www.wsj.com/video/series/tech-behind/how-google-translate-uses-math-to-understand-134-languages/5E6035BC-36E2-4681-B71A-2E549B634665?mod=WSJvidctr__pos3|How Google Translate Uses Math to Understand 134 Languages]]\\ * [[https://www.wsj.com/video/series/tech-behind/how-google-remapped-the-world-the-tech-behind/8D9A4088-3A5A-40CA-8BC9-5C8D7CF9017D?mod=WSJvidctr__pos12|How Google Remapped the World]]\\ * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPZh9BOjkQs|Large Language Models Explained]]\\ * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esQyYGezS7c|The world depends on a collection of strange items; they're not cheap.]]\\ [[https://wiki.toku.us/doku.php?id=2025lctgmeetingchats#section20251112|chat messages]]|
|Nov 19, 2025|Open Source and Creative Commons Licensing (also copyright, copyleft (sic), public domain, and more!) [[:lctgmeetingsummary20251119|Meeting Summary]] [[https://youtu.be/rpnx_BpTa2g|watch the presentation]] {{lctg:20251119_OpenSourceLicensing.pdf|notes}} . {{lctg:20251119_OpenSourceLicenses_Revised.pdf|slides}}|
|Nov 26, 2025|//Thanksgiving eve - Happy Thanksgiving! - no meeting// | | |
|Dec 3, 2025|High School Chatbot Project (Wei Ding) [[:lctgmeetingsummary20251203|Meeting Summary]] {{:lctg:20251203_wei_ding.pdf|slides}} [[https://youtu.be/C4LXnRamnFo|watch the presentation]]|
|Dec 10, 2025|What are Wifi 6, 6E, and 7? What's new/improved? What do you get? [[:lctgmeetingsummary20251210|Meeting Summary]] . [[https://youtu.be/hVsPv7xAC28|watch the presentation]] {{:lctg:20251210_wifi_6_7.pdf|slides}}|
|Dec 11, 2025 Th|2pm: Rump session, the impact of AI on cognitive Skills (John Day). See [[https://jhnday.github.io/AI-Research-Collective/AIRCPortal|link]] for info and the link to this online meeting. |||
|Dec 17, 2025|GASP Planning session||
|Dec 24 & 31, 2025|//no meetings//|
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