Regional Coalition of LANL Communities Meeting Cancelled
LANL News:Massive Rainfall Causes Retaining Wall Failure Near Biological Research Laboratory
Massive rainfall causes retaining wall failure this morning at the Biological Research Laboratory. Courtesy photoLANL’s Weather Machine Measures 6.62 Inches of Rainfall Since Tuesday
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Staff Report
Rainfall measurements at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Technical Area-6, which is the official weather station for Los Alamos, show an accumulation of 3.45 inches during the last 24 hours.
LANL Meteorologist Jean Dewart shared the following data captured at TA-6 showing a total of 6.62 inches of rainfall over the last four days:
- Tuesday rainfall = 1.35 inches;
- Wednesday rainfall = 0.10;
- Thursday rainfall = 1.72 inches; and
- Friday rainfall (at 11:15 a.m.) = 3.45 inches.
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Hear High Explosives Science @ the Bradbury
Surprise LANL Guest to Make Cameo Appearance in ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’
LANL News:
Surprise LANL Guest to Make Cameo Appearance in ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’
- Follows footsteps of Oppenheimer, other Lab scientists
An as-yet-undisclosed Los Alamos National Laboratory official will “revive” the 69-year-old tradition of playing a corpse on stage this weekend in the Los Alamos Little Theater’s production of “Arsenic and Old Lace.”
The Laboratory’s first director, Robert Oppenheimer, played the corpse in the Little Theater’s production of the same play in 1944. Other scientists filled in on occasion.
The appearances are scheduled for this Friday (the Read More
Bradbury Science Museum Launches Explosives Exhibit Sept. 18
A typical explosives experiment fired in front of the PHERMEX bunker produces a brilliant fireball long after the hydrodynamics measurements have been recorded. PHERMEX was the location for more than 1,000 hydrotests and was the premier radiographic test facility during the Cold War. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
For more than 70 years, Los Alamos National Laboratory has been a frontrunner in explosives research, development and applications. To highlight the Laboratory’s work in the field of explosives, the Bradbury Science Museum is opening a new exhibit titled “The Science of Explosives” Read More
John von Neuman’s Daughter Speaks at SFI
Marina von Neumann Whitman
SFI News:
The Santa Fe Institute presents The Martian’s Daughter: A Memoir, a talk by Marina von Neumann Whitman, at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16 in the Noyce Conference Room at the Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe. The event is free and open to the public.
One of the five Hungarian scientific geniuses dubbed “the Martians” by their colleagues, John von Neumann is often hailed as the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century and even as the greatest scientist after Einstein.
John von Neumann was a key figure in the Manhattan Project; Read More
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