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AGU: COVID-19 Lockdowns Lessen Global Lightning Activity

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Lightning reduction during COVID-19 period detected by WWLLN. The months March through May are bracketed with colored lines for the years 2018, 2019 and 2020. Courtesy/Yakun Liu

AGU News:

NEW ORLEANS — Global lightning activity dropped almost 8 percent during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns, according to new research being presented at the AGU Fall Meeting. The cause of the drop appears to be a connection between lightning and air pollution.

“When COVID-19 led to lock-downs, there was a reduction in pollution everywhere,” Yakun Liu said, a meteorological researcher at the Massachusetts Institute Read More

Heinrich Cosponsors Inclusion Of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Amendment In Final National Defense Authorization Act

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U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, is cosponsoring an amendment included in the final National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2022.

The amendment is to establish an office that would replace the current Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force and would have access to Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community data related to UAPs.

The office will have the authority to establish a coordinated effort to report and respond to UAPs, significantly improve data-sharing Read More

Luján, Thune Lead Fight For Cattle Producers, Demand Halt Of Brazilian Fresh Beef Imports

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U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, led a bipartisan group of senators in expressing support for the cattle industry’s recent requests for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to immediately suspend fresh beef imports from Brazil.

In 2017, Brazilian fresh beef imports were suspended due to food safety concerns, and USDA allowed these imports to resume in 2020. The Senators are concerned with Brazil’s recent failure to quickly disclose two cases of atypical Read More

New Mexico Museum Of Natural History & Science Joins NASA Celebration Of James Webb Space Telescope Launch

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Celebrate the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope – read details here. Courtesy/NASA

NMDCA News:

ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science has joined almost 500 sites across the country to celebrate the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s next great space science observatory.

The museum will offer a range of public programs to bring the excitement of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) to children, teens and adults.

Webb is the largest and most complex space science telescope ever built – the premier observatory of the next Read More

Los Alamos High School Students Yunseo Kim And Violet Henderson Attend 2021 Model International Criminal Court

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LAHS Junior Yunseo Kim

LAHS News:

Los Alamos High School juniors Yunseo Kim and Violet Henderson attended the 17th Model International Criminal Court (MICC) Nov. 16-21.

The MICC is a simulation of trials before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for students from all over the world. Located in the Hague, Netherlands, the ICC is the world’s most sophisticated mechanism for the protection of Human Rights and rules of warfare. MICC is a project that aims to teach core principles of the ICC to high school and university students.

This year, 33 students from Germany, Israel, Poland and the United Read More

Daily Postcard: International Space Station Over Los Alamos

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Daily Postcard: A composite of wide angle photos of the International Space Station (ISS) traveling NW to SE over Los Alamos Wednesday evening Dec. 8, 2021. Information about the ISS including a link to sign up for notifications on when it might be visible in your area can be found at: https://spotthestation.nasa.gov. Photo by Marc Bailey
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Dr. Richard Sayre Elected To National Academy Of Inventors

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New Mexico Consortium Chief Scientist Dr. Richard Sayre has been elected to the prestigious NAI. Courtesy/LANL

New Mexico Consortium News:

Dr. Richard Sayre, a New Mexico Consortium Chief Scientist, has just been elected to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

In 2021, the NAI has elected 164 academic innovators from all over the world to NAI Fellow status. The NAI Fellows Program is a distinction that calls attention to academic inventors that have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a great impact on the quality of Read More

‘December 7, 1941–A Date Which Will Live In infamy’

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Scene from Dec. 7, 1941 when a swarm of 360 Japanese warplanes following a dive bomber out of the clouds descend on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in a ferocious assault. Courtesy/history.com

This Day In History:

At 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time, on Dec. 7, 1941, a Japanese dive bomber bearing the red symbol of the Rising Sun of Japan on its wings appears out of the clouds above the island of Oahu.

A swarm of 360 Japanese warplanes followed, descending on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in a ferocious assault.

The surprise attack struck a critical blow against the U.S. Pacific fleet and drew the United Read More

Scene From 27th Annual Los Alamos Creche Show

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Marianne Johnson, left, and Bonnie Cardin help set up the 27th Annual Creche Show Friday at the Los Alamos ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, featuring 248 creches. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Nativity set from Jerusalem owned by Rissa Baker. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Creche owned by Makayla Lui. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Nativity display owned by Robert Wells. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

A nativity set from South Africa. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

A creche from Germany owned by Kaye Mason. Photo Read More

African Library Project: Thank You Los Alamos For Books, Books And More Books … Still More Are Needed

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Kiwanis K-Kids at Aspen Elementary School hold up books collected for students in Africa. Courtesy/ALP

Kiwanis K-Kids at Pinon Elementary School hold up books collected for students in Africa. Courtesy/ALP

By SHARON ALLEN
African Library Project 
Los Alamos

Kiwanis K-Kids and Builders Club students all over Los Alamos and White Rock are so grateful for the MANY books that have been donated at their school sites and Los Alamos Schools Credit Union (LASCU) to help make school and community libraries in Africa.

Our goal was to make 10 libraries of 1,000 books each by the end of January and we are Read More