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PEEC To Host Enchanting Evening ‘Poetry Under The Stars’ With New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp July 16

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New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp will grace the stage July 16 at the Los Alamos Nature Center, at 2600 Canyon Road, as part of the exciting ScienceFest 2024 celebration powered by Los Alamos Mainstreet. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

The community is invited to join PEEC for an enchanting evening, “Poetry Under the Stars” with New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, 2024, at the Los Alamos Nature Center as part of the exciting ScienceFest 2024 celebration powered by Los Alamos Mainstreet.

Prepare for an evening that seamlessly blends the magic of poetry with the awe-inspiring Read More

Heinrich Cosponsors Bipartisan Bills To Strengthen Border Security, Boost Staffing And Inspection Technology At Ports Of Entry

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

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

          • “From our front row seat to the dysfunction at the border and in our immigration system, New Mexicans see the effects — on immigrants, border communities, and national security. We want action.” –Sen. Heinrich

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (N.M.) is cosponsoring two bipartisan bills, both led by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), to strengthen border security at ports of entry: 

The Securing America’s Ports of Entry Act would fully staff America’s airports, seaports, and land Read More

DeVolder: I Remember

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By Mark DeVolder
Los Alamos

I was saddened by the Presidential Debate.

Per Ken Burns’ Jazz series of videos, Duke Ellington was given a great deal of encouragement by his mother Daisy. Ellington was once asked how he felt about his treatment as a black American. Ellington responded, “I used the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”

Therefore, I wrote some words:

After World War II, America was not war-torn like Europe and America was strong. However, America incurred a huge national debt for the war which was never repaid. America melted down aluminum aircraft, made aluminum pots and Read More

Learn Safe Sun-Viewing At Jemez Historic Site July 14

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The July 14 presentation at Jemez Historic Site will be followed by safe sun observation through two types of solar telescopes. Courtesy/JHS

Jemez Historic Site News:

The community is invited to join Jemez Historic Site for Looking to the Skies: Solar Viewing, co-presented with The Albuquerque Astronomical Society (TAAS) and New Mexico Arts 10 a.m. to noon Sunday, July 14.

TAAS member Tom Grzybowski will give a 45-minute presentation about “The Sun’s Nature and How to Observe its Features,” exploring the Sun’s key features that allow it to generate the earth’s life-giving environment.

The Read More

DOE: $2.7B To Boost Domestic Nuclear Fuel Supply Chain

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DOE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In support of President Biden’s efforts to strengthen America’s energy security and create new good-paying jobs, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a request for proposals (RFP) to purchase low-enriched uranium (LEU) from domestic sources.

Today’s action will help spur the safe and responsible build-out of uranium enrichment capacity in the United States, promote diversity in the market, and provide a reliable supply of commercial nuclear fuel to support the energy security and resilience of the American people and domestic industries, free Read More

Swimmer With Local Ties Secures Spot At 2024 Olympics

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Los Alamos resident Ruth Lier’s grandnephew Luke Hobson, second from left, is interviewed by NBC after securing a first place finish in 200 M Freestyle during the 2024 Summer Olympic trials held June 17 in Indianapolis. He will be going to the Summer Olympics in Paris in July. LADP Screenshot

Los Alamos resident Ruth Lier’s grandnephew Luke Hobson reacts to his first place finish in the 200 M freestyle during the 2024 Summer Olympic trials held June 17 in Indianapolis. LADP Screenshot

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

For Los Alamos resident Ruth Lier, watching Read More

2024 Spaceport America Cup Comes To A Close

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View of the spaceport’s eastern approach along Spaceport America Boulevard. Courtesy/Spaceport America

Spaceport America News:

The latest edition of the world’s largest intercollegiate rocketry competition is in the books.

Concluding with the closing ceremony Saturday, June 22, 2024, at the Pan America Center on the campus of New Mexico State University, the 2024 Spaceport America Cup again featured the technical prowess of thousands of the world’s most intellectually gifted college students centered around the field of intercollegiate rocketry.

Of the 152 teams who signed up to Read More

New Mexico Museum Of Natural History & Science To Celebrate International Asteroid Day Sunday June 30

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NMMNHS News:

Celebrate International Asteroid Day at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS) with hands-on activities, special programming, and visits from New Mexico space scientists 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, June 30.

This international event is held June 30 every year, the anniversary of the largest impact from a space object to happen in human history, the “Tunguska event”.

Asteroid Day will feature hands-on activities and family-friendly demonstrations. Learn how to tell the difference between meteorites and Earth rocks with experts from the University of Read More

D-Day … ‘They Stormed The Beaches And Saved The World’

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Commemorating the events of June 6, 1944, the largest amphibious invasion in history, which the world now knows as D-Day. Courtesy/defense.gov

D-Day 2024:

They stormed the beaches and saved the world.

The roughly 160,000 Allied troops who landed in Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944, not only successfully executed the largest air, land and sea invasion in history, they did so amid daunting obstacles, terrible bloodshed and stakes that couldn’t have been higher.

“We will accept nothing less than full Victory!” their commander, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, told them. And victory, in this Read More

St. John’s College Offers ‘Year Of Classics’ Series

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St. John’s College News:

“…books are the most important teachers.” –SFC

SANTA FE — St. John’s College announced Tuesday that registration is open for the Year of Classics seminar series. Year of Classics is a nine-month journey online or in-person in Annapolis, Washington and – for the first time – in Santa Fe – with fellow lovers of intellectual inquiry. Together they examine great works inspired by the ideals and curriculum of the St. John’s College program, based on the premise that the “books are the most important teachers.”

The seminars, led by faculty, begin with an opening question Read More