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Ambassador Vicki Huddleston Lecture Thursday

November 15, 2016 by Submitted by Chris Clark

Ambassador Vicki Huddleston

CIR News:

In support of the Center For Interantional Relations upcoming trip to Cuba, Ambassador Vicki Huddleston will offer her reflections on that beautiful, unique country during a talk at 5 p.m., Thursday in the CIR conference room (413 Grant Ave, Suite D) in Santa Fe.

Her talk will explore “The Long Struggle to Defeat Castro’s Revolution.” Tickets are $15 for members and $20 for nonmembers, and are available here.

The CIR spectacular trip will depart for Cubu in March 2017 (in

Science On Tap: ‘Why Disarming A Terrorist Nuke Is like Defending Against Aliens In Space’

November 15, 2016 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

CREATIVE DISTRICT News:

Science On Tap happens every third Thursday of the month, featuring a new topic each time. At 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Barry Charles will discuss “Creativity under Pressure, or Why Disarming a Terrorist Nuke Is like Defending against Aliens in Space”. Science On Tap is at UnQuarked Wine Room, 145 Central Park Square.

For this talk, Charles, with the Lab’s Global Security organization, will recreate the TEDxLANL talk he gave earlier this year. Disarming an improvised nuclear weapon is a challenge the world has never faced. Yet nuclear emergency responders Read More

Supermoon Illuminates Sky Over Los Alamos

November 14, 2016 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

There is an amazing spectacle in the sky tonight as the first supermoon in almost 70 years appears. In fact, if you’re younger than 68 you have never witnessed this record-breaking supermoon in your lifetime. Tomorrow morning, Nov. 14, the moon will be the closest it has been to Earth since 1948. It will appear 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than the average monthly full moon. The next supermoon is scheduled to appear Nov. 25, 2034. A supermoon typically refers to the concurrence of two phenomena. One is when the moon is within 90 percent of its closest position to Earth in its orbit. Since Read More

New Flesh-Eater Identified In NM Triassic Quarry

November 12, 2016 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Matt Celeskey, New Mexico exhibit designer and natural history illustrator created this reconstruction of Vivaron haydeni, from a few pieces of 200-million-years-old remains found at Ghost Ranch in Northern New Mexico. Courtesy image

By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

For many years the area around Ghost Ranch in Northern New Mexico has been spooked by phantom monsters and the specter of death. The spirit of the area was captured in the iconic cow skull motif in Georgia O’Keefe’s paintings, inspired by what was for her a common, everyday object.

Legends of wizards and witches Read More

Local Employee Discovers Great Grandfather Worked For YMCA In China

November 12, 2016 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

One of the 70 lantern slides (ca. 1912, hand tinted) of the Great Wall of China made by Luther Newton Hayes (1883-ca. 1979) and the explorer Edgar Geil. Luther Newton Hayes is the the grandfather of Los Alamos Family YMCA employee Jocelyn Chapman. Courtesy photo

By DIANA MARTINEZ
Senior Program Director

Family YMCA

As a Los Alamos High School student in 1993, Jocelyn Hayes picked up a part-time job at The Family YMCA. She guided youth as a substitute counselor at the Y’s afterschool program at Mountain and Aspen elementary schools.

In 1995, a year after her high Read More

Daylight Saving Time Ends At 2 a.m. Sunday

November 6, 2016 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

By CRISTINA SILVA

International Business Times

Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday. Many Americans and people across the world will get an “extra” hour of sleep as clocks change from 2 a.m. back to 1 a.m. Sunday.

The United States has for decades changed its clocks back by one hour in the fall, and forward an hour in the spring. The practice ensures long days in the summer, when nightfall often falls after 9 p.m., and short days in the fall and winter months, with many cubicle dwellers leaving their offices long after sunset. So why do we do this

Cyberwar: Growing Worries About Russia Hacking, Disrupting U.S. Election

November 4, 2016 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Courtesy/bgr

CYBER SECURITY News:

The U.S. government is worried that Russia government hackers may try to hack and disrupt the upcoming presidential election.

The U.S. intelligence community, DHS, and private cybersecurity experts have already identified a broad and sustained hacking effort by hackers working for two government agencies – the FSB (the Russian domestic security agency, successor to the KGB) and the GRU (the Russian army’s intelligence branch) — aiming to undermine the campaign of Hilary Clinton and help Donald Trump. Among other things, the Russian government Read More

Ancestral Puebloan Constellations Presentation Nov. 18

November 4, 2016 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Mark Raney, here with a friend, presents Pueblo astronomy at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, at the Los Alamos Nature Center. Courtesy/PEEC

Kokopelli, an Ancestral Puebloan constellation and cultural icon. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

What did Ancestral Puebloans know about stars? What constellations did they use? What do we have in common?

Mark Raney will answer these questions and more at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, in the Los Alamos Nature Center planetarium. Raney will describe shared religious concepts between the Pueblos and surrounding cultures. This planetarium show will link images of Ancestral Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory: Experiment Helps To Advance Nuclear Explosion Monitoring

November 2, 2016 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Workers at the NNSS prepare to insert a canister holding explosives and diagnostic equipment into a 31-meter deep hole in preparation for the SPE-6 experiment. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Last month, Los Alamos National Laboratory participated in the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) sixth detonation of an underground conventional explosive at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) as part of its ongoing Source Physics Experiment (SPE) series.

SPE seeks to improve the nation’s capability to detect and characterize underground nuclear explosions to help develop an Read More

War And Peace In The Middle East: Challenges And Options For The Next President Nov. 2

October 29, 2016 by Submitted by Chris Clark

Ambassador Frederic C. Hof

CIR News:

Speaker Ambassador Frederic C. Hof, Director, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, Atlantic Council will present: “War and Peace in the Middle East: Challenges and Options for the Next President,” at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2 at the Santa Fe University of Art & Design, in Tipton Hall, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr.

The cost is $15 for CIR members and $20 for non-members and guests. Qualified students with appropriate I.D. are welcome to attend this event for free.

As part of their World Affairs