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Facebook And Google Say They’re Joining Net Neutrality Day Of Action July 12

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INTERNET News:
 
Representatives for Facebook and Google have told multiple reporters that the web giants plan to participate in the Internet wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality scheduled for July 12 to oppose the FCC’s plan to slash Title II, the legal foundation for net neutrality rules that protect online free speech and innovation.
 
Twitter, Reddit, Netflix, Amazon, Kickstarter, Etsy, Vimeo, Private Internet Access, Mozilla, OK Cupid, Imgur, PornHub, Medium, and hundreds of other major sites are also participating.
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World Futures: Who Do You Trust – Or Is It Whom? Part One

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World Futures: What Do We Need?

By ANDY ANDREWS
Los Alamos World Futures Institute

In the winter or spring of 1973, I attended a required lecture by Walter Cronkite, the anchor of CBS Evening News and “the most trusted man in America.” At the end of each broadcast he said “And that’s the way it is.” I was 31years old and I believed him. Again, it was a required lecture. I was lucky attendance was required.

During the lecture Mr. Cronkite spoke about different coverage of the same event by different reporters from different newspapers and networks (mainly we had ABC, CBS, and NBC – Fox wasn’t around). Read More

Net Neutrality Day Of Action July 12 May Be the Largest Online Protest In Years

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FFTF News:
 
Urban Dictionary, Bandcamp, Automattic (who run WordPress) and Discord are among the latest major web platforms to join the Internet-wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality scheduled for July 12 to oppose the FCC’s plan to slash Title II, the legal foundation for net neutrality rules that protect online free speech and innovation.
 
Twitter, Reddit, Netflix, Amazon, Kickstarter, Etsy, Vimeo, Private Internet Access, Mozilla, OK Cupid, Imgur, PornHub, Medium, and dozens of other major sites also are participating.
 
More than 50,000
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Scenes From Bandelier Naturalization Ceremony

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Fifteen newly-sworn United States citizens at Bandelier National Monument Tuesday with Superintendent Jason Lott, far right, and Los Alamos County Council Chair David Izraelevitz, second from right, who was the guest speaker. Courtesy photo

Nicholas Maestas, left, representing U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan and Los Alamos County Council Chair David Izraelevitz at Tuesday’s naturalization ceremony at Banderlier. Courtesy photo

​Some of the new United States citizens being sworn in at Tuesday’s naturalization ceremony at Bandelier National Monument. Courtesy photo Read More

Girl Scouts Of America Show Support To US Servicemen And Women With Local Million Thanks Drive

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The Girl Scouts of America show support to the servicemen and servicewomen of America, by assisting with the local A Million Thanks drive. The Albuquerque North Stake of the LDS Church held a Leadership Conference for Girl Scouts recently and used the A Million Thanks project as their service project. Our local program received over 100 cards from girls of all ages. Five bundles were sent to local and regional young men serving across the United States and in South Korea. The goal of the project is to regularly sent mailings to boost the spirits of our military. The local box is the only drop Read More

Four Local Experts Discuss Recent Discoveries In Astronomy At Nature On Tap Thursday

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PEEC News: 
 
The community is invited to discuss the latest findings in astronomy Thursday at Nature on Tap.
 
Local astronomers and astrophysicists Dr. Joyce Guzik, Dr. Paul Arendt, Dr. Galen Gisler and Dr. Steve Becker will provide an engaging discussion about black holes, the upcoming solar eclipse, NASA’s latest probes, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, the night sky and upcoming planetarium shows.
 
Nature on Tap is part of a series of conversations about art, history, nature and science. PEEC is hosting Thursday’s talk 5:30-7 p.m. at UnQuarked in Central
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Happy Independence Day Los Alamos!

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Signing the Declaration of Independence. Courtesy/military.com

Staff Report

July 4, 1776, the thirteen colonies claimed their independence from England, an event which eventually led to the formation of the United States.

Each year on July 4th, Independence Day, Americans celebrate this historic event.

Conflict between the colonies and England was already a year old when the colonies convened a Continental Congress in Philadelphia in the summer of 1776. In a June 7 session in the Pennsylvania State House (later Independence Hall), Richard Henry Lee of Virginia presented a resolution Read More

Distant Earthquakes Trigger Underwater Landslides

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AGU News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — New research finds large earthquakes can trigger underwater landslides thousands of miles away, weeks or months after the quake occurs.
 
Researchers analyzing data from ocean bottom seismometers off the Washington-Oregon coast tied a series of underwater landslides on the Cascadia Subduction Zone, 80 to 161 kilometers (50 to 100 miles) off the Pacific Northwest coast, to a 2012 magnitude-8.6 earthquake in the Indian Ocean – more than 13,500 kilometers (8,390 miles) away. These underwater landslides occurred intermittently for nearly four months
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Korean War Veteran Paul Elkins Tells His Story: Part 1

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Korean War Veteran Paul Elkins of Los Alamos shares his experiences prior to and during the war. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

MSgt. Paul Elkins. Courtesy photo

 

By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series about Korean War Veteran Paul Elkins of Los Alamos.

Last month marked 67 years since the beginning of the Korean War, sometimes called the Forgotten War, in which almost 40,000 Americans died and more than 100,000 were wounded. This war, which lasted three years and two days, will never be forgotten Read More

Former Los Alamos Resident Dr. Jessamyn Fairfield Receives Institute Of Physics’ Award

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Dr. Jessamyn Fairfield is the 2017 recipient of the Institute of Physics’ Mary Somerville Medal and Prize. Courtesy photo

SCIENCE News:

Dr. Jessamyn Fairfield of the National University of Ireland Galway and former Los Alamos resident is the recipient of the 2017 Mary Somerville Medal and Prize.

She received the medal and prize for her work as a speaker and writer on physics for a popular audience, and for having organized and hosted many innovative events bringing physics to the Irish public.

Fairfield has an extensive and varied track record of bringing physics to the public, Read More