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Today Marks 200th Anniversary Of Beethoven’s Ninth

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Santa Fe Symphony News:

The first performance of the Ninth took place in Vienna on this day, May 7, 1824, when Beethoven was 53. He had been deaf for years, but he sat on stage with the orchestra and tried to assist in the direction of the music. This occasion produced one of the classic Beethoven anecdotes. Unaware that the piece had ended, Beethoven continued to beat time and had to be turned around to be shown the applause that he could not hear; the realization that the music they had just heard had been written by a deaf man  overwhelmed the audience.

Beethoven’s Ninth is at once his grandest Read More

Periodic Table: Climate Impacts On National Security May 13

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Travis Pitts 

BSM News:

Bradbury Science Museum (BSM) unveils its Periodic Table outreach talk for May: Climate Impacts on National Security.

Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) Travis Pitts will discuss  how modeling climate shifts helps researchers anticipate national security concerns.

This talk is open to the public at 5:30 p.m. Monday, May 13 at projectY Cowork, 150 Central Park Square. Read More

Los Alamos Student And Teacher Selected To Visit Cuba

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Los Alamos High School sophomore Tevita Funaki and LAHS teacher Tacarra Lake were selected to travel on a trip to Cuba over spring break. Courtesy/LAPS

By TEVITA FUNAKI
LAHS Sophomore
and
TACARRA LAKE
LAHS Teacher

Note: Los Alamos High School (LAHS) sophomore Tevita Funaki and LAHS teacher Tacarra Lake were selected to travel on a trip to Cuba over spring break. Here is their story:

“You’re going where?!”

“Yes mom, I’m going to Cuba.”

“My trip to Cuba was a life-altering experience. Thanks to Global Santa Fe, a nonprofit in Santa Fe dedicated to educating the next generation of New Mexico leaders, Read More

Learn Ancient & Modern Astronomy At Jemez Historic Site

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NMHS News:

Visitors can participate in a presentation 10 a.m. to noon Sunday, May 12 at Jemez Historic Site on N.M. 4 in Jemez Springs.

The presentation, Looking to the Skies: Ancient and Modern Astronomers focuses on activities related to different ways people in the ancient past viewed the day and night sky. This talk explains how people of the past interpreted the sky and how modern-day astronomy can tell what is out there. It will also include modern-day activities like safely viewing the sun using a telescope.

This program connects ancient practices of astronomy to modern-day study and introduces Read More

Rabbi Shlachter: A Thank You Letter To The Person Who Painted The Swastika On The Rock In White Rock

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By Rabbi Jack Shlachter
Los Alamos

Dear swastika painter:

I am the rabbi of the Los Alamos Jewish Center and am writing to thank you for painting the swastika on the rock in White Rock (link). I apologize for writing belatedly to you and also for using the Los Alamos Daily Post and the Los Alamos Reporter as the vehicles for this communication.

I was delayed in responding to the news as we were just finishing up the celebration of a major Jewish festival called Passover when you were painting the swastika. That holiday commemorates freedom from slavery, and Jews are indeed blessed to live in the United Read More

Tales Of Our Times: The Secret Mix For ‘Peacemaking’ Is Still A Work In Progress                              

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Tales Of Our Times
By JOHN BARTLIT
Los Alamos

Oscar night was the second Sunday in March. We heard: “For Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role … the Oscar goes to … Cillian Murphy in ‘Oppenheimer’.” On that news, Mr. Murphy worked his way through the theatrical crowd to the stage, where colleagues presented him with the golden figurine. As had others, he thanked and praised film folks and family. 

Then, he shifted and ended with an intriguing sentence. The Irish actor said: “We made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb and, for better or for worse, we’re all living Read More

Nancy R. Bartlit And Dr. John C. Hopkins To Present May 14 Lecture On Imperial Japan’s Conflicted Surrender And Japanese Nuclear Weapons Program During WWII

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Los Alamos Historical Society News:

The Los Alamos Historical Society has announced its upcoming lecture, a free event that will be held 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, May 14 at Fuller Lodge in the Pajarito Room. This marks the last lecture of the series. The Society thanks the community for its support.

Prior to the lecture, the Historical Society will host its annual Meeting of the Members 6-6:30  p.m., followed by the History Day Awards 6:30-7 p.m., and then Nancy Bartlit and Dr. John Hopkin’s lecture follows 7-9 p.m.

Bartlit will discuss the complex dynamics within Japan’s military culture during World Read More

Military And Overseas Qualified New Mexico Voters Begin Receiving 2024 Primary Election Ballots

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STATE News:

SANTA FE — Qualified New Mexico voters who are members of the military or living overseas began receiving their ballots for the 2024 Primary Election last weekend.

This is the first transmission of ballots to New Mexico voters for the 2024 election season.

This year, the Secretary of State’s Office implemented a new system for military and overseas voters to receive and return their ballots more securely, ultimately enhancing the entire voting process for these voters.

“Sending ballots to our military and overseas voters marks a critical step in the election process to ensure all Read More

The List Goes On: Rabbi Jack Shlachter To Discuss Jewish American Nobel Prize Winners In Physics May 1

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COUNTY News:

Los Alamos Public Library will host Rabbi Jack Shlachter for a talk on Jewish American Nobel Prize Winners in Physics, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 1.

As part of the library’s honoring of Jewish American Heritage Month in May, Shlachter’s talk will explore the outsized history of Jewish Nobel Laureates of the Physics prize. With far too many physicists to describe in detail, the list of Jewish Prize Winners includes names such as Richard Feynman, Fred Reines, Hans Bethe, Robert Hofstadter, Eugene Wigner and A. A. Michelson. Of the famous names, Shlachter will discuss the particular Read More

Santa Fe World Affairs Forum 2024 Annual Symposium April 25-26

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SFWAF News:

Registration closes Tuesday for the Santa Fe World Affairs Forum’s 2024 Annual Symposium.

The forum is Thursday April 25 and Friday April 26 in the Jemez Rooms at Santa Fe Community College, which is cosponsoring the event.

America’s Place in the World – Still Indispensable?

Is American influence waning? Is the United States stretched too thin? Or is the US still the world’s indispensable nation? Can it be both? If so, for how much longer? How stable – at home and abroad – is American democracy and US leadership? Or is it being irreparably eroded from within and without?

What can we do Read More