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Fuselier: Fear And Hope

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By BOB FUSELIER
Los Alamos

Like almost everyone across this world, I’ve been watching the news from Ukraine with a mixture of emotions, ranging from the worry of an authoritarian leader bringing war to western Europe (and devastating the world economy along with it) to the hope of victory and peace for a defiant people willing to risk their lives to protect their families, freedom, and homeland.

Worry has its roots in fear, whether it is an empathetic fear for the people of Ukraine or one for how this war will affect us here in the US, both personally and societally. Fear is a natural and important emotion. Read More

Wallace: Atacama Desert – An Ecosystem On The Edge

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A marshy area near a series of geysers. Courtesy/T. Wallace

An Atacama fox. Courtesy/T. Wallace

By TERRY WALLACE
Los Alamos

The Atacama Desert: an ecosystem on the edge. The Atacama Desert – usually just referred to as the Atacama – is a narrow strip of land between the high Andes in the east and the Pacific Ocean in the west, the Chile-Peru border in the north and the Chilean Matorral in the south.

The north-south length of the Atacama is about 1500 km and it is 70-120 km wide (east-west), and is often called the driest desert in the world (I am not really sure that is the case, but it is very dry!). The average Read More

Spotlight Will Shine On Northern New Mexico In Upcoming World Pro Ski Tour Taos World Championships

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NMTD News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Tourism Department (NMTD) is joining forces with the World Pro Ski Tour World Championships to highlight New Mexico as a premier destination for winter sports and the state’s commitment to a sustainable future.

The World Pro Ski Tour, presented by Rocket Mortgage, will host the Taos World Championships April 7-10, 2022 in Taos Ski Valley.

The event will draw professional athletes from all over the globe, including Olympic medalists and World Cup Competitors. Thousands of spectators, competitors, and sponsors are expected to attend, showcasing Taos Ski Read More

LANL: Perseverance Analyzes First Sounds From Mars

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The Perseverance with the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars April 7, 2021. Courtesy/NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

LANL News:

The NASA Perseverance rover, which has been exploring the Jezero Crater on Mars since February 2021, has recorded the acoustic environment of the red planet for the first time. Using the SuperCam microphone developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and a consortium of French universities under the Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales, an international research team published the first analysis of these sounds April 1 in Nature.

“For the first time we were able to record Read More

The Fool Behind The Day…

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Courtesy/history.com

About April Fools’ Day:

Celebrated each April 1, some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. In the Julian Calendar, as in the Hindu calendar, the new year began with the spring equinox around April 1.

People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to Jan. 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes and were called “April Read More

LANL: Pandemic’s Urgency Drove New Collaborative Approaches Worldwide

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Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • SAVE team changed how science is done, spanning 58 institutions

In a paper in the journal Nature, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) scientists Bette Korber, Hyejin Yoon, Will Fischer and James Theiler, among nearly 130 authors from institutions around the world, describe their groundbreaking collaborative work, “Defining the risk of SARS-CoV-2 variants on immune protection.”

Korber, Fischer, Yoon and Theiler are members of a rarified team that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases assembled in January 2021, drawing on experts from Read More

Morris Seeks 1,000 Volunteers For Upcoming Peace Glow Event At Overlook Park In White Rock To Help Ukraine

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Rotary President Oliver Morris stops by the Daily Post Tuesday to talk about seeking 1,000 volunteers to attend the Peace Glow fundraiser for Ukraine the Club is hosting April 16 at Overlook Park. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com 

Los Alamos Deputy Police Chief Oliver Morris in his role as president of the local Rotary Club stopped by the Los Alamos Daily Post Tuesday to talk about an event near to his heart.

“When I attended the FBI National Academy in 2019 there were 40 countries represented including an officer from Ukraine,” Read More

Carr Lectures On Secret Los Alamos At Smith Auditorium April 4

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LANL Historian Alan B. Carr stands near one of the Trinity Site bunkers positioned nearly two miles from ground zero where the first nuclear bomb test happened in the Jornada del Muerto desert, 35 miles southeast of Socorro. Carr Lectures On Secret Los Alamos At Smith Auditorium April 4. Courtesy/LANL

JROMC News:

Alan B. Carr, Program Manager and Senior Historian for Los Alamos National Laboratory, will give an illustrated talk on “Manhattan: The View from Los Alamos of History’s Most Secret Project” at 7 p.m. Monday, April 4 at the Duane Smith Auditorium.

Sponsored by the J. Robert Oppenheimer Read More

President’s FY-23 NNSA Budget Enables ‘Responsive And Responsible’ Nuclear Security Efforts

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NNSA News:

Request Funds Weapons Modernization, Nuclear Security and Infrastructure Investments

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration on Monday released President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request for NNSA, a proposal designed to support the nuclear deterrent and nuclear security at this crucial time.

The budget will allow NNSA to deliver the safe, secure, reliable, and effective nuclear deterrent the nation requires and continue NNSA’s progress in modernizing key production capabilities. It will advance nonproliferation Read More