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LANL: Strings Of Magnetic Energy Shown To Flex, Wiggle And Reconnect

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A microscopy snapshot of a lattice of frustrated nanomagnets. The red lines connect dynamic points of high energy at the vertices of the lattice, which are indicated by the yellow dots. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Arrays of nanomagnets have string structures with complex topological processes

A multi-institutional team exploring the physics of collective behavior has developed and measured a model nanomagnetic array in which the behavior can be best understood as that of a set of wiggling strings. The strings, which are composed of connected points of high energy among the lattice, can stretch Read More

Rotary Youth Exchange Student Wiertzema Highlights Year

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Hannes Wiertzema, a Youth Exchange student sponsored by the Rotary Club of Los Alamos, thanked Club members May 2 at Cottonwood on the Greens for the opportunities he has had during his 2022-2023 studies here. He is especially grateful to the Metcalf, Sullivan, and Morris families for hosting him in their homes during the school year. Wiertzema hails from the small farming community of Kirchweyhe, just south of Bremen, in Lower Saxony, Germany and will return home in June. Photo by Linda Hull

Youth Exchange student Hannes Wiertzema traded Club banners with Rotary Club of Los Alamos President Read More

World Press Freedom Day: 40+ Organizations Call On Leaders To Protect Encryption, Privacy, Press Freedom, Essential Human Rights

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World Press Freedom Day News:

Today marks World Press Freedom Day and a global network of more than 40 organizations are demanding that democratic governments around the world commit to protecting encryption, privacy, and ensure a free and open Internet.

Thirty years ago, the United Nations General Assembly declared May 3 World Press Freedom Day to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press and remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to freedom of expression enshrined under Article 19 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Today’s Read More

Statues As History

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The Mussolini Obelisk at the Foro Italico sports complex in Rome. (Photo by Pino Pacifico/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

By FRANCIS MORRONE
City-Journal.org

On the periphery of Rome, not far from the Vatican, stands a towering obelisk named for Benito Mussolini, Italy’s fascist dictator and ally of Adolf Hitler. On a recent visit to the city, my taxi driver knew exactly where it was and found nothing remarkable about a request to go there.

The Mussolini Obelisk, standing watch over the Foro Italico sports complex, served as the starting point for my atypical tour of the Read More

LANL News: Limitless, Renewable, Nonpolluting Energy? You’re Standing On It

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LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) shares a compilation of news stories including:

  • Limitless, renewable, nonpolluting energy? You’re standing on it
  • How a trip to the Arctic could help us find life on other planets

Science: Limitless, renewable, nonpolluting energy? You’re standing on it

In the quest for energy sources that reduce carbon emissions to stave off global warming, geothermal energy is coming into the spotlight—and it should. Virtually limitless, ‘always on’ and widely available across all 50 states, geothermal resources offer a tantalizing opportunity to provide Read More

Los Alamos Students Load Books For Nine Malawi Libraries

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Barranca Elementary School. Courtesy photo

Aspen Elementary School. Courtesy photo

By SHARON ALLEN
African Library Project

Friday, March 17 dawned snowy, slippery, and sloppy in Los Alamos but that could not stop the rented U-Haul truck from visiting six schools and three homes in Los Alamos to pick up boxes of books for Malawi schools!

It took six hours to load 185 boxes containing 11,154 books but K-Kids (elementary schools), Builders Club kids (LAMS) and Mountain School’s first graders enthusiastically bid their hard work (collecting and packing the books) good-bye as the boxes for the Read More

Stansbury Leads 17 Members Of Congress Urging Biden To Join United Nations Convention On Biological Diversity

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Congressional News:

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Friday, U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) led 17 Members of Congress to urge President Biden to prioritize the United States’ ratification of the United Nations (UN) Convention on Biological Diversity.

In a letter, the lawmakers point to the global extinction crisis, the unique role of Indigenous nations protecting biodiversity worldwide, and the need for U.S. leadership and partnership to halt and reverse global nature loss.

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity is the international legal agreement that encourages signatory policy Read More

Today Marks Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023

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Today is the internationally recognized date for Holocaust Remembrance Day. Courtesy/arapahoelibraries.org

From The White House:

Today, April 18, marks Holocaust Remembrance Day.

President Joe Biden issued the following proclamation:

Days Of Remembrance Of Victims Of The Holocaust, 2023

During Yom HaShoah and throughout these days of remembrance, we mourn the six million Jews who were murdered during the horror of the Holocaust — as well as the millions of Roma and Sinti, Slavs, disabled persons, LGBTQI+ individuals, and political dissidents who were murdered at the hands of the Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory Celebrating 80 Years Of Science, Innovation And Discovery Entire Month Of April

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Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has designated the entire month of April for its 80th birthday bash.

The public is invited to take part in the celebration by attending a talk by historian Madeline Whitacre from the Lab’s National Security Research Center, where she’ll discuss the facts, photos and stories from the Lab’s origins, on April 17, 5:30 – 7 p.m. at ProjectY in Los Alamos. 

Video gives a peek at rare footage

Additionally, you can see rare footage of the Laboratory’s history in this video, where Senior Historian Alan Carr narrates the story of the Lab from Read More

Rotary Speaker: Brian Kliesen Speaks About Program On White Rock Ambulance To Ukraine

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Local resident Brian Kliesen, who donated an ambulance for Ukraine relief efforts, recently told Rotarians about his inspiration and the steps that led him from New Mexico to Ukraine’s war zones. Photo by Linda Hull

By LINDA HULL
Vice President
Rotary Club of Los Alamos 

“Ukraine needs help. Ukraine needs ambulances and fire trucks,” began Brian Kliesen, White Rock resident and retired wildland firefighter, as he spoke to the Rotary Club of Los Alamos March 28, describing the donation of his ambulance to Ukraine.

Upon retirement, Kliesen, who is an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) and former Read More