LANL Foundation Announces New Scholarships Program Manager John McDermon
John McDermon is the new scholarship program manager for the LANL Foundation. Courtesy/LANLF
LANL FOUNDATION News:
ESPAÑOLA — The LANL Foundation, a non- profit organization, which among other community services provides dozens of local students with scholarships to college, recently hired John McDermon as its new scholarship program manager.
McDermon joins the Foundation staff after nine years as a member of the Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund advisory committee, where he also served in leadership roles as committee chair and chair of the student ranking sub-committee. Read More
LAFD Prepares Six New Fire Units For Service
Los Alamos Fire Department personnel prepare six new trucks for service. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
LAFD firefighters train on new fire apparatus at the facility on DP Road. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
The Los Alamos Fire Department is in the process of preparing six new fire apparatus for service.
The six units include:
- Two Pumper Trucks capable of 1,500/gpm capacity;
- One Heavy Rescue Truck;
- One Light Rescue Truck;
- One Type Four Wildland Engine; and
- One Type Five Wildland Engine.
The pumpers and rescue trucks are replacements Read More
Among Our Distant Cousins: An Extinct Pig-Turtle With Tusks
Christian Kammerer is a paleontologist at the Museum fur Naturkunde (Museum of Natural History) in Berlin, studies mass extinctions and the ancestors of mammals. The photo was taken with a timer in the Paleontological Institute in Moscow while he was examining fossils of mammal-related ancestors from the Ural Mountains. Courtesy photo
Artist’s recreation of Bulbasaurus by M. Celeskey. Courtesy imageBy ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post
Naturalists worry about endangered species and the threat of a sixth great extinction in the contemporary world, which some fear might sweep Read More
NNSA: W88 ALT 370 Program Reaches Milestone
NNSA News:
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) officially authorized the start of the production engineering phase for the W88 Alteration (Alt) 370 program Feb. 22.
The alteration of the W88 nuclear warhead is part of NNSA’s multi-faceted strategy to ensure the American nuclear arsenal continues to be safe, secure, and effective.
“Thanks to a team of talented scientists and engineers, we reached this important milestone in the W88 Alt 370 program on schedule,” said NNSA Administrator Lt. Gen. Frank G. Klotz (Ret). “This accomplishment Read More
Councilor Rick Reiss At Regional Coalition Of LANL Communities Meeting In Washington, D.C.
From left, Santa Fe City Councilor Peter Ives, Los Alamos County Councilor Rick Reiss and Santa Fe County Commissioner Robert Anaya at today’s Regional Coalition of LANL Communities Federal Legislative Agenda meetings in Washington, D.C.Courtesy photo Read More
Sig Hecker To Address Nuclear North Korea, Moderated By Valerie Plame Thursday
CIR News:LANL: Science Versus ‘Horatio Alger Myth’
LANL News:
- Physicists use condensed matter theory to explore whether personal initiative can overcome frustration and create more equality
In a new study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have taken a condensed matter physics concept usually applied to the way substances such as ice freeze, called “frustration,” and applied it to a simple social network model of frustrated components. They show that inequality of wealth can emerge spontaneously and more equality can be gained by pure initiative.
It’s a computer-modeling exploration of Read More
