‘Time Team America’ Provides Hands-on Field School
PBS News:
This week, 24 Zuni middle school students experience what it’s like to be an archaeologist through a hands-on field school connected to the PBS prime time archaeology television series Time Team America.
“We want to inspire the next generation of archaeologists and scientists,” says field school director Dr. Alexandra Jones, “especially populations underrepresented in the sciences.”
From Sunday through Wednesday the students meet at the University of New Mexico, Zuni Campus to learn the basics of archaeology and how to survey a site; how to use a metal detector and conserve metal Read More
Whooping Cough Cases on the Rise Statewide
Courtesy/CDC
Staff report
Pertussis, or whooping cough, is on the rise in New Mexico, according to the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH.) Anyone can get whooping cough, and in fact, increases in disease are occurring in all age groups. But babies who get pertussis are the group at greatest risk of complications, including pneumonia, seizures, brain damage and death.
Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. It is known for uncontrollable, violent coughing, which often makes it hard to breathe.
After fits of many coughs, Read More
Astronaut Neil Armstrong Has Died
Astronaut Neil Armstrong in April 1969, while training for the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. Photo by Bettmann/Corbis
Staff report
American astronaut Neil Armstrong died Saturday Aug. 25, 2012, at age 82 following complications from recent heart surgery, according to a statement released by his family.
On July 20, 1969, Armstrong stepped off the lunar landing module Eagle, and became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.
Nearly 240,000 miles from Earth, Armstrong spoke these words to more than a billion people listening at home: “That’s one small step for man, Read More
Udall Announces $1.2 Million Award for STEM Education
ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M. announced Friday that the National Science Foundation has awarded the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology a $1.2 million grant to increase the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degrees throughout colleges in underserved communities in northern New Mexico. Bridge Work Begins Sunday on N.M. 84/285
NMDOT Traffic Advisory:
The New Mexico Department of Transportation will start work on a bridge maintenance project on N.M. 84/285 north of Santa Fe Sunday, Aug. 26.
The work will take place in the northbound lanes of the highway at mile marker 174.9 near Camel Rock Casino.
The work will be done at night from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. and will be completed in two to three weeks, weather permitting.
There will be single lane closures as crews work to stabilize the soil under the roadway and lift bridge approach slabs.
Drivers are asked to proceed through the work zone with caution, watch for traffic Read More
Senatorial Candidate Martin Heinrich Campaigns in Los Alamos
U.S. Senatorial Candidate Martin Heinrich meets with a consortium of major Los Alamos National Laboratory subcontractors at UNM- Los Alamos Thursday. Courtesy photo
U.S. Senatorial candidate Martin Heinrich lunches on a green chile cheeseburger at Chile Works in Los Alamos. Courtesy photo
Local Democrat Kyle Wheeler chats with U.S. Senatorial candidate Martin Heinrich at the Los Alamos Farmer’s Market Thursday. Photo by Robyn McCool Schultz Read More
Is It Really Cheating If You Don’t Get Caught?
Column: On the Mesa Facing North by Greg Kendall
Today, Lance Armstrong threw in the towel in his fight to clear his name in the ongoing Tour De France doping scandals. Armstrong issued a statement that has been published in an earlier Los Alamos Daily Post story (see link below.)
In his statement, Armstrong discusses how “enough is enough” after dealing with claims that he cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning his seven Tours since 1999.
As I read through his statement, I kept looking for one sentence from Armstrong, “I never used performance enhancing drugs Read More
Will the Metric System Make a Comeback?
One of eight proposed logos under consideration by Linda Anderman. Courtesy
METRIC SYSTEM News:
Los Alamos resident Linda Anderman has an ambitious plan: to produce an independent documentary about what happened to the metric system in the United States.
“As a product of the 1950s, I was taught that the metric system was an eventuality, but as a child, it didn’t really occur to me that it never came to pass,” Anderman said.
A discussion with a colleague near the end of last year prompted her to do some research about what had happened in the intervening years.
“As Read More
ChemCam Laser First Analyses Yield Beautiful Results
This photo mosaic shows the scour mark, dubbed Goulburn, left by the thrusters on the sky crane that helped lower NASA’s Curiosity rover to the Red Planet. It is located 16 to 20 feet (5 to 6 meters) to the left of the rover’s landing position. The sky crane appears to have uncovered an outcrop of loosely consolidated rocks during the rover’s landing. The mosaic consists of six images from the remote micro-imager (RMI) on the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument, shown around an image from the Mast Camera for context. Each RMI image has a field of view of 4 to 5 inches (10 to Read More
Case Study: How Standards Can Make U.S. More Secure
NIST News:
Courtesy/NIST
By Erik Puskar
Before 9/11, most radiation detectors were designed for use in laboratories. After 9/11, the new Office of Homeland Security, which became the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), needed to plan for the possibility that terrorists would try to smuggle “dirty bomb” components into the country.
Consequently the first responder community needs radiation detectors that are accurate, reliable, rugged, and easy to use.
DHS needed to develop and deploy rugged detector equipment that non-specialists and first responders could use easily Read More
