Chad ‘The Science Guy’ will bring a free bubble presentation to the Betty Ehart Senior Center 12:30-1:30 p.m. Tuesday at 1101 Bathtub Row. Families and seniors are welcome to the event to help kick off the 6-day celebration of ScienceFest next week. Jordan Holsapple is seen here enjoying a heads on experience with science. Photo by Bernadette Lauritzen Read More
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Los Alamos Faith & Science Forum Presents Lectures Next Wednesday And Thursday July 10-11
Professor Warren Brown
LAF&SF News:
Next week the Los Alamos Faith & Science Forum presents two lectures by Professor Warren Brown.
Brown is director of the Lee Edward Travis Research Institute and professor of psychology in the Department of Doctoral Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif.
Professor Brown has co-authored several books including Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will. Oxford, U.K., Oxford University Press, 2007.
Professor Brown’s talk Wednesday, July 10 is entitled Read More
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ScienceFest 2019 Kicks Off Tuesday July 9
LACD News:The time of year has arrived when we celebrate the hard work and innovation of a community of educators, with ScienceFest 2019.
Los Alamos MainStreet and the Creative District with the duo of Kate Cleveland and Jennifer Loveless, unofficially dubbed Loveland, have gotten things off to a great start.
Cleveland, along with the rest of the LACDC squad have formed a team effort behind the planning and execution of this year’s events. Their tireless crews are eager to energize visitors, vendors, and patrons to partake of their six-day event. The interactive demonstrations
Read More SFI: ‘Swarm Engineering Across Scales’ July 9
Andrew Lincoln Nelson, Robot 18 (2008) from the series entitled ‘The Living Machines’. www.nelsonrobotics.orgSFI News:
Santa Fe Institute (SFI) Community Event: “Swarm Engineering Across Scales” with Sabine Hauert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 9, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe.
Birds do it, bees do it. Even ants and fish in the sea do it. When certain individuals group together, they create a “swarm intelligence”— a collective brain capable of solving complex problems, which would be insurmountable for an isolated individual.
Read More LANL: Researchers Cast Neural Nets To Simulate Molecular Motion
New deep learning models predict the interactions between atoms in organic molecules. These models will help computational biologists and drug development researchers understand and treat disease. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- Machine learning allows quantum mechanics to be efficiently applied to molecular simulations for drug development, detonation physics and more
New work from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Florida is showing that artificial neural nets can be trained to encode quantum mechanical laws to describe Read More
Enchanted Evening 2019 Features Women In STEM
Bradbury Science Museum Director Linda Deck served as master of ceremonies at the at the Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails at the Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails (GSNMT) annual fundraiser, Enchanted Evening, Saturday evening at the Sandia Resort in Albuquerque. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Dr. Jennifer Harris specializes in biosecurity at LANL and was the keynote speaker GSNMT annual fundraiser Saturday at Sandia Resort. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com
Bradbury Science Museum Director Linda Deck Read More
AGU: Space Station Mold Survives Ionizing Radiation
Mold grows on the International Space Station on a panel where exercise clothes were hung to dry. Courtesy/NASA
Scanning electron micrograph of a Pennicillium mold producing chains of spores. Courtesy/David Gregory & Debbie Marshall, CC BYAGU News:
BELLEVUE, Wash. — The International Space Station, like all human habitats in space, has a nagging mold problem.
Astronauts on the ISS spend hours every week cleaning the inside of the station’s walls to prevent mold from becoming a health problem.
New research being presented here finds mold spores may
Read More Inside Out And Outside In: Layne Kalbfleisch Uses Neuroscience And Psychology To Help Clients
Layne Kalbfeisch, M.E.d Ph.D, recently stopped by the Los Alamos Daily Post to talk about her business, 2E Consults ® LLC. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.comBy BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post
Los Alamos Daily Post
bjgordon@ladailypost.com
Educational psychologist and neuroscientist Layne Kalbfleisch , M.Ed. Ph.D., has recently moved her base of operations to northern New Mexico.
Her practice, 2E Consults ® LLC, spans Los Alamos, Espanola and Santa Fe. She currently sees Los Alamos clients at Project Y, 150 Central Park Square.
After years spent as an academic and researcher, Kalbfleisch Read More
PEEC: Watch ‘Interstellar’ And Explore The Science Behind The Film June 27-28
Watch ‘Interstellar’ tonight at the Los Alamos Nature Center. The movie is part of the nature center’s Suds & Shows summer movie and beer night series. Beer and wine are available from Pajarito Brewpub starting at 6 p.m. and the movie starts at 7 p.m. Guests are welcome to bring a picnic to enjoy outside before the show. Then, join Peter Polko at 6 p.m., Friday in the planetarium to explore the science behind the film. Courtesy/PEEC
PEEC News:
Watch “Interstellar” this evening in the Los Alamos Nature Center’s planetarium for PEEC’s summer movie series “Suds & Shows.”