Pawlak: Keep Your A, We Need More R
By JOHN PAWLAK
Los Alamos
Scores of movies have echoed a common plot; the destruction of the human race by the onset of AI (Artificial Intelligence). Thinking machines roam the streets, wiping out the last vestiges of human civilization and replacing it with artificial life forms that over time will form proud nations, create wonderful cultures, identify differences, and wage destructive wars against each other. Artificial or not, having intelligence has little to do with using intelligence.
For now, the main worry seems to be how AI will be used, or misused. Will AI be used to instruct our children? Read More
Amateur Naturalist: From Small To Large
By ROBERT DRYJA
Los Alamos
Lizards are remarkable in many ways. On one hand all the species are similar, based on the length of their tails. Half to three-fourths of their total length is in their tail. Their tail appears more as a continuation of their central body section. It is not that distinct except when emerging after their back legs. Their head and body sections also are more of a single unit.
They do not have a distinct neck between their head and body. Their front legs are what clearly shows where the separation occurs. A lizard would look more like a snake if it did not have legs.
Lizard species Read More
Robinson: Feds To New Mexico – Burn, Baby, Burn
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2025 New Mexico News Services
Our beautiful New Mexico skies have been stubbornly blue for months, and we know what that means. A few weeks ago, Patrick Lohmann, of the online Source New Mexico, reported severe drought across the state.
Lohmann has racked up more fire coverage than any New Mexico journalist, so when I see a fire story with his byline, I pay attention.
He also reported that “federal cuts could leave one-third of the state without dispatchers to monitor for nascent blazes and fewer firefighters to respond if they blow up.”
Go online and you’ll find Read More
Dannemann: A Special Session For Healthcare
By MERILEE DANNEMANN
© 2025 by Merilee Dannemann
When the medical malpractice bill, Senate Bill 176, was killed in its first Senate committee, after more than 40 days of delay in that committee, I wondered whether that failure by itself would be enough to trigger a crisis response. Several other bills intended to help ease New Mexico’s healthcare situation were still going through the process.
We don’t have to wonder any more. Enough healthcare-related bills failed to set our collective hair on fire. Our already precarious access to healthcare got a little worse. Republican legislators proposed Read More
Posts From The Road: Death Valley National Park … Badwater Basin & Devil’s Golf Course
Long Desert Highway: After exiting from I-15 at Baker, Calif. visitors still have 115 miles of desert highway to cover before arriving at Death Valley National Park Visitor Center in Furnace Creek. Views such as this are plentiful along the way. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Salt Flats: Salt Flats cover hundreds of square miles in the floor of Death Valley National Park. Shown are visitors as they explore the salt flats at Badwater Basin in the national park. The flats look like snow from a distance but are hard as a rock to walk across. In the distance in the photo is Telescope Peak which is Read More
Fr. Glenn: Not Exalting Self
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
There sure is a lot of screaming and vitriol these days. Accusations of fascism here, genocide there … every “-phobia” and “-ism” imaginable … and some never thought of before. Much of it, of course, is just political or protester hyperbole to manipulate others toward a their “side”, or even to just score cheap points without taking into account all the facts or the whole of often myriad various concerns and variables. But underlying so many of demonizations seem to be airs of superiority. But for a true evaluation of self, humility is an essential ingredient, for “Arrogance Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: March 30, 2025
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
New Mexico’s snowpack remains below normal. The measure of snow water equivalent, which is the amount of water you will have once the snow is melted, is below 30-percent of normal in the Upper Rio Grande, Jemez River and Pecos River basins. The Chama River Basin is now 40-percent of normal.
The upper tributaries of the Jemez River are becoming accessible, as very little snowpack remains.
The snowpack in Southern Colorado, including the headwaters of the Rio Grande, is also below normal. Snow water equivalent in the Rio Grande headwaters Read More
