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Rotary Speaker: Youth Exchange Student Olivia Hsieh

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Rotary Youth Exchange student Olivia Hsieh, studying at LAHS this school year, recently told Rotarians about her life in Taiwan. Photo by Linda Hull

By LINDA HULL
Vice President
Rotary Club of Los Alamos

Sept. 27, members of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos were captivated by the enthusiasm of guest speaker Olivia Hsieh, one of two youth exchange students the Club is sponsoring this year. 

Hsieh comes from Taipei, the large and bustling capital city of Taiwan, where her father is a telecommunications engineer, and her mother a docent at the National Taiwan University Museum of Zoology. Her older Read More

Republican Party Of New Mexico Shares Statement On Observance Of Yom Kippur

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Courtesy/RPNM

RPNM News:

ALBUQUERQUE — This evening marks the beginning of Yom Kippur, the Jewish “Day of Atonement” and the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.

The following is a statement from Republican Party of New Mexico (RPNM) Chairman Steve Pearce on Yom Kippur:

“We at the Republican Party of New Mexico would like to wish our Jewish friends and Jewish communities a blessed Yom Kippur. This special day is a time for reflection and focuses on repentance and asking forgiveness for any wrongs committed over the past year.

“Yom Kippur also provides an opportunity for Jews here in New Mexico and Read More

Time Change For Tub’s Charity Golf Tournament For Ukraine But Date Remains Oct. 7

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Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op News:

Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op is hosting a charity golf tournament with a shotgun start at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 7, at the Los Alamos County Golf Course.

This event is the Tub’s second relief effort for Ukraine, following a Ukrainian Beer Dinner held Aug. 28 and catered by Jessica Martinez and Pajarito Brewpub & Grill.

Registration is available at https://www.bathtubrowbrewing.coop/ until 11:59 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6.

All proceeds from the dinner and golf tournament will go toward purchasing medical packs to put in the hands of first responders in Ukraine. Santa Read More

Free Launch Pad Lecture Introduces New Worlds

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Using hundreds of hours of observations from the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, an international team of astronomers investigated a sample of 25 exoplanets, out of the 5,000+ identified by NASA. The team was able to identify some clear trends and correlations between the exoplanets’ atmospheric constitutions and observed behavior. Courtesy/ESA

NMMSH News:

The monthly Launch Pad Lecture at the Museum of Space History scheduled for 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 7 will feature Museum Outreach Coordinator Tony Gondola.

His topic will be “Exoplanets: We are Not Alone”, and will highlight the amazing Read More

Studying Vampire Bats To Predict The Next Pandemic

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Courtesy/Virginia Tech

VIRGINIA TECH News:

In June, Virginia Tech Assistant Professor Luis Escobar led a team of students into the Andes Mountains and lowlands of Colombia to understand how vampire bats can help predict and prevent the next big epidemic.

Escobar is an expert in assessing how diseases respond to climate and landscape change in the College of Natural Resources and Environment’s Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation. With a $358,000 grant from the National Science Foundation and support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), his latest project Read More

Two Upcoming Los Alamos Lectures Reveal Facts Behind CIA Raising Of Russian Sub K-129

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Rendering of the ship and its grappling mechanism. Artwork shows the secret US operation carried out by the CIA to recover a sunken Soviet submarine in the 1970s. Photo by  Clais Lunau. Courtesy/Science Photo Library

By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post
bonnie@ladailypost.com

The local chapter of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is bringing two distinguished engineers, Charles Canby and Gerhard Fuchs to Los Alamos for two lectures on the raising of K-129, a Russian submarine that sank in 1968, at the height of the Cold War.

“We think there will be a lot of interest in these Read More

Posts From Abroad: Excursions Around Zermatt

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During their excursion last week around the Swiss alpine town of Zermatt, Los Alamos residents Bill Priedhorsky and Melissa Bartlett hike down from the top station of the Gornergratbahn, the highest train in Europe, with the Matterhorn in the background. 2019 LANL summer student Clara Rittman, center, joined Priedhorsky and Bartlett on the way from her home institute in Freiburg, Germany, on the way to a conference in Milan. Courtesy/Bill Priedhorsky

View Sept. 22 from above Zermatt, Switzerland. The Breithorn (13,661 feet) on the right, Castor and Pollux in the middle, and the Grenz Glacier Read More

NNSA And Japan Commit To Convert Japan’s Last Research Reactor That Uses Highly Enriched Uranium

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NNSA Administrator Jill Hruby

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON — Building on years of close nonproliferation cooperation, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) announced a new commitment to convert the Kindai University Teaching and Research Reactor (UTR-KINKI) from highly enriched uranium (HEU) to low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel and to return all HEU to the United States. 

Following the removal of all HEU from the Kyoto University Critical Assembly, announced in August, Read More

DOD’s Largest Telescope AEOS Receives Mirror Recoat

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Workers strip and wash the Advanced Electro-Optical System’s primary mirror at the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing site, Maui, Hawaii, in preparation for its mirror recoat. AMOS is part of the AFRL, and the AEOS telescope supports the U.S. Space Force with the nation’s space domain mission to operate freely in space. Courtesy/Boeing

The 3.6-meter, 75-ton Advanced Electro-Optical System, or AEOS. telescope, shown with the mirror recoat team, is the largest optical telescope in the Department of Defense. The mirror received its second recoat since the installation of AEOS at the Read More

Fact Of The Day: Who Was The World’s First Computer Programmer?

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Courtesy/Interesting Facts

Interesting Facts:

The famous poet Lord Byron once wrote of his daughter Ada that he hoped “the gods have made her anything save poetical — it is enough to have one such fool in the family.”

He got his wish. Instead, Ada Lovelace followed a path many considered impossible for a woman in the early 19th century. Encouraged by her mother, Lady Byron, Lovelace developed a passion for mathematics at a young age. In 1833, a 17-year-old Lovelace met British mathematician Charles Babbage at a party, and he told her about a calculating machine he’d created called the Difference Read More