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World Futures: Distance Learning And Teaching – Part Three

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By ANDY ANDREWS
Los Alamos World Futures Institute

Learning is a process controlled by the learner, at least when the learner is exposed to learning material.

Every day we experience exposure to real learning material through sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. We might add vestibular and proprioception, to add some big words as the list goes on.

Real learning occurs when we personally experience something and create some code in our brains. If this is real learning, is there artificial learning?

As an argument one can say that learning is the receipt of information and its transformation Read More

ProjectY Celebrates International Day Of Coworking Aug. 10

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projectY cowork News:

  • The Los Alamos Community Encouraged to Work Together at Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op Outdoor Patio, Following COVID-Safe Guidelines 

projectY cowork Los Alamos announced today that it will co-host a free coworking day Monday, Aug. 10 at the outdoor patio of Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op to celebrate the International Day of Coworking.

The community is encouraged to participate in this day, which promotes working solo (but not alone), from noon to 4 p.m. while also supporting other local businesses.  

“The event is open to the community for all who are working remotely during Read More

Los Alamos Historical Society Membership Campaign Underway … Become Part Of An Organization Dedicated To Preserving The History Of The Town That Changed The World

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Board Member Sharon Snyder cuts the cake on the 50th anniversary of the Los Alamos Historical Society, which preserves, promotes and communicates the remarkable history and inspiring stories of Los Alamos and its people for the community, global audience and future generations. Courtesy/LAHS

By WENDY M. HOFFMAN
Secretary
LAHS Board of Directors

Los Alamos Historical Society’s annual membership campaign is underway. It’s a chance to become part of an organization dedicated to preserving the history of the town that changed the world.

Our history, however, doesn’t focus only on the events Read More

Catch Of The Week: Avoiding Scam Calls

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By BECKY RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos

Your cell phone rings, someone claiming to be from Verizon account services is on the other end of the line. They are calling to let you know that your account service is going to be discontinued or suspended unless you can update your information – right now.

They might request your PIN, the code that secures your account from unauthorized changes. What should you do? Hang up, and immediately block the number. If they call back from a different number, block that, too. This is likely the first step in an elaborate and painful scam known as SIM swapping.

What is a SIM card Read More

LANL Builds SuperCam For Latest Mars Rover

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A rendering of NASA’s Perseverance rover. Courtesy/NASA/JPL-Caltech

SuperCam Lead Scientist Roger Wiens

By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post
bjgordon@ladailypost.com

Roger Wiens is Los Alamos National Laboratory’s lead scientist on SuperCam, the instrument that sits atop the new Mars Rover Perseverance. He spoke with the Los Alamos Daily Post Monday about LANL’s role developing Supercam and the mission of the new Mars rover. Perseverance launched this morning at 6 a.m. on its journey to Mars. It will land Feb.18, 2021.

Perseverance joins NASA’s Curiosity Rover, launched about Read More

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich Calls On Facebook To End Its Exemption Of Climate Denial From Fact-Checking Program

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From the Office of U.S Sen. Martin Heinrich:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is urging Facebook to end its policy of labeling climate change content as “opinion content,” creating a fact-checking exemption for climate denial.

“It is deeply disappointing to see Facebook ignoring dangerous lies and articles that spread disinformation about climate change while it aims to help its users fact check posts on other important scientific topics like the Covid-19 pandemic. By exempting climate denial from its third-party fact checking process, or labeling these lies Read More

An Evening With NNSA’s Dr. Brent Park Thursday July 30

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NATM News:

Join in at 6 p.m., 9 p.m., Thursday, July 30 for an evening with Dr. Brent Park, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation.

Dr. Park, a nuclear physicist, with 30 years of experience at DOE National Laboratories, now leads NNSA’s efforts to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation and reduce the threat of nuclear and radiological terrorism around the world.

Register Now.

The museum is now open open four days a week! 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Book early! All tickets must be Read More

LANL: Simulating Quantum ‘Time Travel’ Disproves Butterfly Effect In Quantum Realm

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In research by a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Alice prepares her qubit and applies the information scrambling unitary U to this and many other qubits altogether. Bob measures her qubit in any basis, flipping the qubit to the state not known to Alice. Alice still can reconstruct her information via a single decoding unitary U†. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Evolving quantum processes backwards on a quantum computer to damage information in the simulated past causes little change when returned to the ‘present’

Using a quantum computer to simulate time travel, researchers have demonstrated Read More

Los Alamos To Celebrate Milestone WWII Anniversaries

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Title chart from a virtual presentation by LANL Senior Historian Alan Carr. Courtesy/LANL

COUNTY News:

Los Alamos is known as the place where discoveries are made, but during World War II, it had many names—project Y, the Atomic City, the Secret City, and the town without a name, among others.

Recognized for its integral role in developing the science that ended the war, Los Alamos will be offering a variety of virtual options in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII.

“August and September 2020 are full of milestone dates of international importance, in which Los Alamos played Read More