Dr. Steven Squyres to Deliver 43rd Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture Aug. 19
Safeguarding Wetland on Laboratory Property
The wetlands in Sandia Canyon on LANL property provide a home to a large amount of wildlife. Work is taking place to preserve the area and manage its water supply. Courtesy/LANL
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From Los Alamos National Laboratory Community Connections August Edition:
Safeguarding Wetland on Laboratory Property
The Laboratory is in the process of reducing the number of its outfalls (discharges of liquids into the environment—most often treated wastewater) for a number of reasons:
- Every outfall requires a separate characterization and permit with the state
- Each requires sampling to ensure it’s
Seating Limited For Little Boy Weaponeer Talk
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The Bradbury Science Museum https:////www.lanl.gov/museum is located at 15th Street and Central Avenue in downtown Los Alamos, New Mexico. The museum’s regular hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday, and 1-5 p.m. Sunday and Monday. Admission is free and photography is allowed.
Information on future lectures can be found at: https:////www.lanl.gov/museum/events/70th-events.shtml Read More
SFI Lecture Ponders Moral Progress
Psychologist and author Steven Pinker and philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. Photo coutesy of https:////www.jakewallissimons.com/SFI News:
The Santa Fe Institute presents a Community Event, “On Moral Progress: Is the Human Conscience Led by the Head or the Heart?”
The lecture will be 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 14 in the James A Little Theater (1060 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe). Lectures are free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
Is the human conscience led by the head or the heart? Is the moral progress we have enjoyed – religious freedom, the abolition Read More
LANL’s Frontiers in Science Lectures Focus on Epigenetics
Cells in the human body contains strands of DNA nearly 10 feet long that look like this and are packed into cellular sacks less than a millionth of an inch in diameter. Courtesy of LANL.Is Behavior Hardwired by DNA or a Product of Environment?
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Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Karissa Sanbonmatsu, will discuss epigenetics in a series of Frontiers in Science lectures beginning Tuesday, Aug. 13, at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque.
The 7 p.m. talk, titled “Nature, Nurture or Neither: The New Science of Epigenetics,” focuses on the age-old question Read More
Udall, Bingaman, McMillan, Hommert Speaking at Tech Transfer Conference
Sen. Tom Udall
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SANTA FE ─ U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M. will host a conference on ways to help spur innovation and create high-tech jobs and businesses in New Mexico by encouraging technology transfer from the national labs and universities to private entrepreneurs at 7:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 12, in the Jemez Room at Santa Fe Community College.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman
Udall will present the keynote address at 10:40 a.m. at the half-day event and workshop, co-hosted by Technology Ventures Corporation (TVC), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Read More
LANL’s Next 70th Anniversary Lecture Focuses on Little Boy Weaponeer ‘Deak’ Parsons
Little Boy weaponeer William ‘Deak’ Parsons, wartime Los Alamos division leader, is the focus of the Aug. 14, 70th Anniversary lecture at the Bradbury Science Museum. Courtesy/LANL
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- Former Laboratory historian Roger Meade to talk about life, career, contributions to Lab, the nation by “The Last Commodore”
Los Alamos National Laboratory historian emeritus Roger Meade talks about William S. “Deak” Parsons, one of wartime Los Alamos’ first division leaders and the contributions he made as an ordnance engineer to the success of the Lab — including his role as the Little Read More
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