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Light In The Desert: Photographs From The Monastery Of Christ In The Desert Opening At Governor’s Gallery

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Light in the Desert. Photo from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert by Tony O’Brien
 
NMHM News:
 
SANTA FE ― It was 1968 when Trappist monk Thomas Merton visited the Benedictine monastery Christ in the Desert, near Abiquiu shortly after it was founded.
 
Merton’s writings and photographs of the experience brought the secluded monastery to the attention of a wider community of people seeking sanctuary and spiritual inspiration.
 
An exhibition titled, Light in the Desert: Photographs from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert by photojournalist
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World Futures: Education, Training, Learning And Knowledge: Part 5

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By ANDY ANDEWS
Los Alamos World Futures Institute

In the previous columns of this series a bubble model was introduced with individual models bouncing around in a fluid of information and knowledge.

Bubbles can unite with other bubbles to form bigger bubbles such as families, companies, government entities, and other groups of bubbles and even countries. In so doing, the individual bubbles and amalgams must communicate with other bubbles, adapt and contribute.

The rules for interaction, which defines how the bubbles  all get along or not, defines the culture of a bubble, whatever its Read More

LANL: Finding Order In Disorder Demonstrates A New State Of Matter

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Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Cristiano Nisoli. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • ‘Spindoctors’ note that topological order, associated with quantum mechanics, also applies to classical material called artificial spin ice

Physicists have identified a new state of matter whose structural order operates by rules more aligned with quantum mechanics than standard thermodynamic theory. In a classical material called artificial spin ice, which in certain phases appears disordered, the material is actually ordered, but in a “topological” form.

“Our research shows for the first time Read More

Rotarians Hear Talk On Global Grant Empowering Women, Families In Bolivia Mining Communities

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Bob Reid of the Rotary Club of Hobbs presenting a resent talk to local Rotarians describing the Rotary global grant that is supported by Rotary International and Rotary Clubs in New Mexico and Bolivia. The grant, in connection with United 4 Change Center (www.united4changecenter.org), empowers women and families in mining communities in Bolivia through emphasis on literacy, healthcare and economic enterprise. Photo by Linda Hull
 
President-elect Vincent Chiravelle of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos presents a club banner to Hobbs Rotarian Bob Reid. Reid recently gave a program to
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Education, Training, Learning, Knowledge: Part 4

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By ANDY ANDEWS
Los Alamos World Futures Institute

In last week’s column, we ended by saying that education and training involves knowledge, information and beliefs. Albert Einstein said (or wrote) that “the value of education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.” Allegedly, he also said “Never memorize what you can look up in books.”

Knowledge is continually debated by philosophers in the field of epistemology. According to a classical definition, statement is considered knowledge if it is justified, true, and believed. But it is still debated. According Read More

AGU: Satellites And Cell Phones Form A Cholera Early-Warning System

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A Bangladeshi village woman collects water from a tube well, which taps a shallow unconfined aquifer, amid surroundings flooded with contaminated water. A new initiative combines satellite data with observations and communication networks on the ground to warn Bangladeshis of waterborne cholera hazards. Mushfiqul Alam/NurPhoto/Getty Images
 
AGU News:
 
Cholera, an acute waterborne diarrheal illness, poses a major threat to global health, especially in developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Estimates suggest that cholera affects approximately
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Passover: A Celebration Of Freedom

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Jacob Sigeti reads from the Haggadah, containing the story of the Exodus from Egypt during a Seder meal at his home in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

 

By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Passover begins Friday at sundown. On the first two nights of the eight-day Passover observance, Jews hold a family feast and celebration, the Seder, a ritual meal that includes four cups of wine, the eating of matzah (unleavened bread) and bitter herbs and the telling of the story of Exodus.

In Hebrew it is known as Pesach (which means “to pass over”), Read More

CIR: Ambassador Vicki Huddleston Talk April 5

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Ambassador Vicki Huddleston
 
CIR News:
 
Join the Council for International Relations (CIR) at 5:30 p.m. April 5 at La Posada, 330 East Palace Ave., for Ambassador Vicki Huddleston’s book launch.
 
Huddleston will talk about the book, first with an hour-long lecture on Cuba and then a Q&A. Copies of her book will be on sale at the event and she will sign them.
 
“Our Woman in Havana is a brilliant account of a diplomat’s challenges in formulating a sound policy consensus amid the shifting sands of domestic political, economic, and familial
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LANL: New Issue Of 1663 Magazine Now Available

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Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Science news from Los Alamos National Laboratory is now available in the new issue of 1663 magazine.

In this issue:

  • How lightning starts and what it can be used for;
  • Shocks, whirls, and the science of turbulence;
  • Ultrathin metasurfaces for electromagnetic signal control;
  • Zika and chikungunya risk in the United States;
  • The environment and its tiniest inhabitants;
  • …and more.

Click here to get your science and technology fix from Los Alamos. Read More