Zero Waste Team: Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Everywhere! A Guide To Minimize Waste
Zero Waste News:
Tip: Decomposing carved pumpkins can be composted in the backyard or put in the Los Alamos County Environmental Services Pumpkin Collection Dumpster, which will be available Oct. 29-Nov. 1 at the Fuller Lodge Art Center parking lot.
Its fall and time for Halloween, Thanksgiving and all things pumpkin! Pumpkins are believed to have originated in Central America, with traces of their seeds found throughout North America thousands of years before European colonization.
These hearty fruits were an important staple due to their hard skin and longevity of storage.
Today, the Read More
Whipple: Strength Training Is Medicine
By Dr. Laura Whipple DC
Los Alamos
Besides diet, stress reduction and daily cardiovascular activity, strength training is an important and often overlooked way to stay young.
Inactive adults over the age of 30 lose an average of 3 percent of their muscle mass per year and adults over 60 lose 8 percent per year.
Why is this important? Muscle burns more calories than fat and more muscle results in a faster metabolism. In addition, adults who strength train have less overuse injuries, perform better in their chosen activities and have better cardiovascular function overall.
Research shows that Read More
McQuiston: How To Prepare Your Home For Winter
By ALLEN MCQUISTON
Jemez Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963
I don’t know about you, but fall is my favorite season. The weather is perfect, the leaves turn beautiful colors, and it means the holidays are quickly approaching.
The worst part about the autumn season is that it goes too fast and all of a sudden, winter is here. Freezing temperatures, snowy and icy weather, more dangerous roads, and did I mention freezing temperatures? Brrr! Is your home prepared for the winter season? Here are a few things you can do as a homeowner to prepare their homes for the coming winter.
Check heating unit – This Read More
Skolnik: COVID Briefing Note #5 – Better News For Los Alamos
By RICHARD SKOLNIKLos Alamos
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in a series of COVID-19 Updates by Richard Skolnik that appear bi-weekly in the Los Alamos Daily Post. These are meant to keep the community informed on the status of the pandemic, critical new findings on the pandemic, and what this information suggests for our community’s response to COVID-19. These updates complement the data that Eli Ben-Naim prepares for the Post. Unless otherwise noted, data is from the New York Times and the New Mexico Department of Health.
Pandemic Data and Trends – For the Week Ending Oct. 25, 2021
In Read More
Woodring: Collaboration Is Key
By LAURA WOODRING
Candidate for Position 2
UNM-LA Advisory Board
As a part of the UNM-LA Advisory Board, I would bring new ideas to the table. We live in an amazing community, and we have a lot of possibilities for students. We need to work towards creating more of a balanced workforce within the community.
The following are a couple of ideas I have that will help us reach out to new and current students at UNM-LA. We could go well beyond the opportunities provided by our existing welding and machining programs.
We also need to reach out to LANL to extend high school programs here in Los Alamos and Espanola Read More
Skolnik: COVID Fact Vs. COVID Science Fiction #2 – ‘Treatment Is (NOT) Our Best Course Of Action’
By RICHARD SKOLNIK
Los Alamos
We continue to hear from a number of people, including in our own community, that “treatments should have been the focus from the beginning”.
Such comments reflect a lack of understanding about how vaccines work and their costs. They also reflect a lack of understanding of the costs and effectiveness of COVID treatments and who bears such costs.
With this in mind, I lay out some facts below about the relative costs and effectiveness of vaccines and some of the available and soon to be available COVID treatments. References are given at the end for all data used in the Read More
Posts From The Road: Lathrop State Park In Colorado
Vibrant Sunset: A vibrant sunset at Lathrop State Park filled the sky with color and lit the lake water with reflections of the breath-taking colorful sunset during one of our overnight visits to the park. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos
Lathrop State Park is in southern Colorado near the town of Walsenburg. The park, which sits near the Spanish Peaks, happens to be Colorado’s first state park, and is named after the state’s first director of state parks, Harold Lathrop.
We drove by this park for years without ever entering the gate. It looked Read More
