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LANL Employees Pledge Record $356,550 To Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund Drive

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2015 LAESF Scholarship Drive Champion Steven Girrens

LANL News:

  •  More than 1,000 scholarships awarded through since 1997

Los Alamos National Laboratory employees pledged a record $356,550 to the 2015 Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund (LAESF) drive. The drive encourages Laboratory employees, retirees, and subcontract personnel to donate to a fund that awards college scholarships to Northern New Mexico students. Additionally, more employees participated in this year’s campaign than in past years.

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See Los Alamos History Through Edith Warner’s Eyes

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Edith Warner (Pat Beck) mixes up her famous chocolate cake for her tea room guests. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

A newly revised short play, “Sunrise at Otowi Bridge” by Los Alamos playwright Robert Benjamin is one of the highlights at this year’s ScienceFest.

Benjamin originally wrote the play in 1994. It’s about Edith Warner, the famous “Woman at Otowi Crossing,” who has been the subject of several biographies and novels. In a stirring one-woman performance as Edith, Pat Beck rises to the challenges of being the center Read More

Letter To The Editor: Former LANL Physicist Discusses Israel’s Nuclear Weapons

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By DOUGLAS REILLY, Ph.D.
Retired from LANL, US DOE, IAEA, and EURATOM
 
I realize that the Los Alamos Daily Post usually does not cover national news. However, I believe most of its readers are aware of the Iran nuclear talks and Israel’s, the United States’ and the world’s desire that Iran not develop nuclear weapons.

Unfortunately, very little is heard about Israel’s hundreds of nuclear weapons (atomic and hydrogen) and its ability to deliver them anywhere in the world, including the USA.

My wife, Dotty, and I are residents of Los Alamos. For 38 years I was employed as a physicist in Los Alamos

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New Mexico Angels Hosts DisrupTech – Early-Stage Technology From Los Alamos National Laboratory

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BUSINESS News:

The New Mexico Angels have partnered with the Richard P. Feynman Center for Innovation at Los Alamos National Laboratory to host DisrupTech, a showcase of the disruptive technology currently being developed by scientists at the national laboratory.

The innovation event is set for 1-5 p.m. Thursday, July 16 at the Los Alamos Golf Course Event Center. Eight entrepreneurial-minded scientists will present their early stage technologies in the areas of sustainable fracking, solar cell materials, biofuels, tamper forensics, neutralization of toxic chemicals, biotechnology, Read More

Artists Re-create Historic Los Alamos Gatehouse

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Livy Snyder and her students from the Art Center at Fuller Lodge were working this afternoon to re-create the historic gatehouse at the entrance to Los Alamos. The site will serve as an information center for ScienceFest. A period car will be parked in front of the façade and it will provide a photo opportunity for visitors. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
The young artists recreate the sign at the Main Gate to Los Alamos this afternoon. The sign asked people to show their passes when Los Alamos was a closed town. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
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SFI: Understanding Genius – The Neuroscience Of Extraordinary Creativity

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Nancy C. Andreasen
 
SFI News:
 
The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) presents community lecture “Understanding Genius: The Neuroscience of Extraordinary Creativity” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 15, at James A. Little Theater, 1060 Cerrillos Road.
 
How does one define extraordinary creativity? Is creative genius a product of nature or nurture? And can those of us who are less creative enhance the creative capacity in ourselves and others?
 
Andreasen uses neuroscience to analyze the connections between extraordinary creativity, intelligence, the social
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Neutrons Find ‘Missing’ Magnetism Of Plutonium

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Doug Abernathy, left, ARCS instrument scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Marc Janoschek, Los Alamos National Laboratory, prepare their sample for experiments at the Spallation Neutron Source. Photo by Genevieve Martin/ORNL.

 

LANL News:

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – Groundbreaking work at two Department of Energy national laboratories has confirmed plutonium’s magnetism, which scientists have long theorized but have never been able to experimentally observe.

The advances that enabled the discovery hold great promise for materials, energy and computing applications.

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Los Alamos ScienceFest Calendar Of Events

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SCIENCEFEST News:

Have you noticed the flurry of activity at the entrance to town?

Led by Fuller Lodge Art Center art instructor Olivia Snyder, her class of 12-14 year old artists are transforming Entrance Park and creating a façade of the iconic main gate from the Manhattan Project era. Entrance Park will function as an information booth for ScienceFest Saturday, July 18.

The only science festival in the state, Los Alamos ScienceFest is a 5-day festival that celebrates Los Alamos, New Mexico as a center of science and creativity. The festival will feature mind-blowing demonstrations, interactive Read More

Supplemental Ventilation System Arrives At WIPP

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WIPP employees unload sections of the SVS early this week at the WIPP facility. Courtesy/WIPP
 
 
WIPP News:
 
Sections of the new Supplemental Ventilation System (SVS) arrived this week at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad.
 
The SVS is designed to increase the total amount of air supplied to the underground. The fan assembly underwent factory acceptance testing last week and arrived at the WIPP facility early this week. The fan and associated equipment will be transported to the WIPP underground in four pieces where it will be assembled
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‘Voices of the Manhattan Project’ Presents Eye Witness Accounts of Trinity Test

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Oppenheimer with the ‘Gadget’ before the Trinity test. Courtesy https:////www.atomicheritage.org.

AHF News:

At 5:29:21 MT July 16, 1945, Manhattan Project scientists conducted the world’s first atomic bomb test at the Trinity site near Alamogordo. The Atomic Heritage Foundation is pleased to feature dozens of audio/visual interviews with Trinity test eyewitnesses on the “Voices of the Manhattan Project.”  From Manhattan Project director General Leslie R. Groves to scientists and soldiers, they recall the overwhelming force and terrifying beauty of the Read More