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Monday, November 23, 2009 LANL computer joins HIV battle By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer In the deadly game of cat and mouse between HIV and the human immune system, the immune system has acquired an unusual ally. A New Mexico supercomputer built for nuclear weapons research, using ... Friday, November 20, 2009 Report: No New Nukes Needed By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer The nuclear weapons lab and factory teams maintaining U.S. warheads have done such a good job that there is no need to design replacements, a key government advisory panel has concluded. “Lifetimes ... Tuesday, November 17, 2009 El Nino Outlook: Wet Winter for N.M. By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer Joe Galewsky pointed at a computer image of last weekend's storm. It rolled in from the northwest, dumping snow in Colorado and clipping the northern half of New Mexico before charging out onto ... Sunday, November 15, 2009 Cranes return to winter home at Bosque del Apache By John Fleck Copyright © 2009 Albuquerque Journal Journal Staff Writer BOSQUE DEL APACHE — The full-throated call of returning sandhill cranes in the golden light of a fall afternoon brought a smile to Colin ... Saturday, November 14, 2009 Sandia Landfill Report Released By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer The New Mexico Environment Department this week made public a January 2006 consultant's report on groundwater risks from a Sandia National Laboratories landfill, ending a three-year battle over ... Friday, November 13, 2009 Tagging To Help Track Fish By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer Ten years after U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials asked Albuquerque's BioPark to give minnow husbandry a try, there's an assembly line in Terina Perez's hatchery. Perez and eight colleagues are tagging ... Saturday, November 07, 2009 Computer Scores Against HIV By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer In the deadly game of cat and mouse between HIV and the human immune system, the immune system has acquired an unusual ally. A New Mexico supercomputer built for nuclear weapons research, using ... Friday, November 06, 2009 Sandia Director Earns $1.7 Million Copyright © 2009 Albuquerque Journal By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer Sandia National Laboratories Director Tom Hunter makes $1.7 million per year. Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Michael Anastasio makes $800,000 per year ... Tuesday, November 03, 2009 Watering Restrictions Lifted for Now By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer You can water any time you want now in Albuquerque, with the Nov. 1 end of summertime watering restrictions. But you probably don't need to water much at all, according to Katherine Yuhas, head ... Tuesday, November 03, 2009 'Time Machine' Peers Back 13 Billion Years By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer No human has ever seen an object as distant as the tiny dot of light that showed up in telescopes April 23. "Thrilled" is how Socorro astronomer Dale Frail described his emotions the day ...
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Written by: John Fleck
...Yesterday's cautiously worded National Nuclear Security Administration response to the new JASON report has a nuance to it that I didn't quite capture accurately in my story in this morning's newspape...
Friday, Nov 20, 2009, 19:41 MST
Word count: 416
Written by: John Fleck
...New Mexico's two senators today introduced legislation intended to smooth the way for a new generation of small nuclear power reactors.
New Mexico's Democratic senators, Jeff Bingaman and Tom...
Friday, Nov 20, 2009, 15:16 MST
Word count: 345
Written by: John Fleck
...Some reading from around the 'Net:
Drought worsening in Arizona. (Where's that El Nino rain?)
El Nino means something different in Latin America, where drought is rapidly spreading.
The Internati...
Friday, Nov 20, 2009, 08:41 MST
Word count: 126
Written by: John Fleck
...Some things I've been reading:
Given recent discussions about the unusually cold October in the United States, a global perspective is perhaps helpful. (MT has the map.)
From Australia, a remarkab...
Thursday, Nov 19, 2009, 16:39 MST
Word count: 188
Written by: John Fleck
...A long-awaited report requested by Congress concludes there is no need for new nuclear warhead designs to maintain confidence in the reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent.
Jeffrey Lewis a...
Thursday, Nov 19, 2009, 12:54 MST
Word count: 363
Written by: John Fleck
...Some things I've been reading in the last 24 hours:
Texas's neo-Malthusians have taken note of the fact that their dwindling water supply, nearly inadequate for the state's current population and e...
Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009, 13:50 MST
Word count: 261
Written by: John Fleck
...Sandia Labs will get $4.2 million in stimulus act money for its battery research program, Department of Energy officials announced today.
Sandia's Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory is the depa... Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009, 11:09 MST
Word count: 357
Written by: John Fleck
...Jaguar, a computer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, edged Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roadrunner at the top of the "Top 500" list of the world's fastest supercomputers, out today.
From ...
Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009, 12:05 MST
Word count: 157
Written by: John Fleck
...Jeff Bingaman said Monday he supports an expansion of nuclear power in this country, but that significant problems currently stand in the way.
Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Nuclear S... Monday, Nov 16, 2009, 21:21 MST
Word count: 379 10. Around the Tubes
Written by: John Fleck
...Some things I've been reading:
From the Oil Drum, a discussion of the need for regulatory stability for the development of renewable energy.
From Bloomberg, an example of the above: Spain (whi...
Saturday, Nov 14, 2009, 15:32 MST
Word count: 175
Written by: John Fleck
...The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for the mountains of northern New Mexico, with as much as a foot of snow in the forecast along the New Mexico-Colorado border.
From ...
Saturday, Nov 14, 2009, 10:07 MST
Word count: 230
Written by: John Fleck
...Despite the strengthening El Nino in the equatorial Pacific, abnormally dry conditions are expanding in parts of New Mexico, according to the latest federal drought monitor:
... Friday, Nov 13, 2009, 09:44 MST
Word count: 60
Written by: John Fleck
...Pacific Ocean temperatures have been increasing rapidly over the last month, suggesting that a stalled El Niño, harbinger of wetter winters here, has popped the clutch and is back in gear.
The... Saturday, Nov 07, 2009, 09:56 MST
Word count: 271
Written by: John Fleck
...Science writer Keith Kloor has a marvelous piece in the latest Archaeology magazine about the sensitive question of the collision between native cultural stories in the Southwest and what science can ... Saturday, Nov 07, 2009, 09:46 MST
Word count: 398
Written by: John Fleck
...Geoff Brumfiel at Nature reports that work at the Large Hadron Collider was temporarily stalled as a result of a short circuit caused by a baguette. Left by a bird. Really:
Can we say anything about ...
Friday, Nov 06, 2009, 12:06 MST
Word count: 201
Written by: John Fleck
...CORRECTION: The salary for George Miller of Lawrence Livermore has been corrected in this story.
Sandia National Laboratories Director Tom Hunter makes $1.7 million per year, according to data ma...
Thursday, Nov 05, 2009, 20:16 MST
Word count: 295 17. Around the Tubes
Written by: John Fleck
...Some things I've been reading (and writing?):
Dan Vergano has a story in today's USA Today on a survey of economsits regarding the costs and benefits of greenhouse gas reduction measures: "[T]he su...
Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009, 12:42 MST
Word count: 225
Written by: John Fleck
...Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank (political commentator? humorist?) sketches the scene at yesterday's U.S. Senate hearing on climate change as Republicans boycotted and Democrats talked to the r...
Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009, 12:09 MST
Word count: 69 19. Around the Tubes
Written by: John Fleck
...Some intriguing things I've been reading:
Mike Hulme, Roger Pielke Jr. and Suraje Dessai have an interesting piece in Nature Reports Climate Change on the intrinsic limitations of climate change mo...
Monday, Nov 02, 2009, 18:06 MST
Word count: 205
Written by: John Fleck
...My offspring pointed me to this wonderful Metafilter post asking readers to related stories from their childhoods about whether their community was on the Soviets' nuclear target list:
I grew up ...
Monday, Nov 02, 2009, 17:20 MST
Word count: 183
Written by: John Fleck
...Jeff Bingaman will join a group of congressional colleagues tomorrow afternoon to announce a deal on increased energy efficiency standards for outdoor lighting. Bingaman, chairman of the Senate Energy...
Monday, Nov 02, 2009, 13:05 MST
Word count: 100 22. Rhodes on WIPP
Written by: John Fleck
...Albuquerque nuke writer Page van der Linden published a great interview over the weekend with Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Rhodes' comments on the Waste Isolation Pilot Pla... Monday, Nov 02, 2009, 12:11 MST
Word count: 257
Written by: John Fleck
...Google's flu tracker suggests H1N1 peaked in New Mexico in mid-October, and is declining.
That's the conclusion of an experimental tool developed by Google and epidemiologists that keeps track of...
Wednesday, Oct 28, 2009, 12:12 MST
Word count: 158 24. Around the Tubes
Written by: John Fleck
...
The United States arriving empty-handed to December's Copenhagen climate talks could be the critical determining factor in their outcome, according to Bloomberg:
"Obama may send empty-handed envo...
Wednesday, Oct 28, 2009, 07:48 MST
Word count: 256
Written by: John Fleck
...A major earthquake could cause serious radiation leaks at Los Alamos National Laboratory, according to a report today from federal nuclear auditors.
The four page letter from the Defense Nucl...
Tuesday, Oct 27, 2009, 12:01 MST
Word count: 642 26. Around the Tubes
Written by: John Fleck
...Some recent reading from around the 'Net:
Kent Holsinger notes that it's the second birthday of Dot Earth, New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin's excellent blog on issues facing humanity as we cre...
Monday, Oct 26, 2009, 20:24 MST
Word count: 167 27. Global Cooling?
Written by: John Fleck
...Critics of climate scientists' argument that human greenhouse emissions are warming the planet frequently argue that a global cooling trend over the last decade is evidence that the mainstream consens... Monday, Oct 26, 2009, 17:11 MST
Word count: 401 28. Freeze Warning
Written by: John Fleck
...The National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning for the Albuquerque metro area and the lower Rio Grande Valley for tomorrow morning (Tues. 10/27).
From the Weather Service (gotta love th...
Monday, Oct 26, 2009, 15:38 MST
Word count: 153
Written by: John Fleck
...Some intriguing new research being done by a group from New Mexico State University and Sandia National Labs has found that water consumption in traditional acequia irrigation systems is remarkably sm...
Saturday, Oct 24, 2009, 21:32 MST
Word count: 198
Written by: John Fleck
...Residents of the middle Rio Grande have made progress in recent years in using their water more wisely, experts said at a water conference going on today in Albuquerque. But much remains to be done.
...
Saturday, Oct 24, 2009, 12:48 MST
Word count: 205 31. 350
Written by: John Fleck
...Tomorrow's International Day of Climate Action looks like it has eight Albuquerque events scheduled. (One on that list has already happened). My favorite is a group of young people gathering at Albuqu...
Friday, Oct 23, 2009, 16:53 MST
Word count: 148
Written by: John Fleck
...Those interested in Albuquerque's water future will be gathering at UNM for tomorrow's annual meeting of the Middle Rio Grande Water Assembly.
From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Oct. 24), with some chit-...
Friday, Oct 23, 2009, 16:45 MST
Word count: 270
Written by: John Fleck
...In a speech earlier this week in Washington, D.C., Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hinted at a robust budget for the U.S. nuclear weapons complex in 2011 as part of the Obama administration's long-... Friday, Oct 23, 2009, 13:15 MST
Word count: 427
Written by: John Fleck
...In a speech today on energy and climate policy, President Obama praised the work of New Mexico's Jeff Bingaman on energy legislation.
From official White House transcript of the speech:
... Friday, Oct 23, 2009, 12:09 MST
Word count: 187 35. Around the Tubes
Written by: John Fleck
...Some recent reading around the 'net:
Simon Donner shares a letter from 18 U.S. scientific societies, ranging from chemistry to geology to climate, reiterating the broad scientific consensus about h...
Thursday, Oct 22, 2009, 21:48 MST
Word count: 108
Written by: John Fleck
...Los Alamos National Laboratory plutonium expert Joe Martz, who headed up the lab's effort to design the new Reliable Replacement Warhead, will spend the next year at Stanford reducing steps toward nuc... Thursday, Oct 22, 2009, 14:53 MST
Word count: 267 37. Around the Tubes
Written by: John Fleck
...Some notes from around the 'Net:
David Appell notes John Christy's comments on the unusually strong tropical warming despite a "nonchalant" El Nino.
Las Vegas (Nev.), ever creative in its search...
Monday, Oct 19, 2009, 15:40 MST
Word count: 94
Written by: John Fleck
...Significant expansion of drought conditions in Arizona has spread across the Four Corners area, bringing severe drought conditions to a sliver of northwest New Mexico, according to the latest federal ... Monday, Oct 19, 2009, 15:19 MST
Word count: 125
Written by: John Fleck
...Albuquerque was successful this summer in reducing its water consumption even further, according to Katherine Yuhas at the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority. September is the end (...
Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009, 16:03 MST
Word count: 100
Written by: John Fleck
...My column in this morning's newspaper examines "the ecology of national security", a concept being pushed by Howard Passell and other members of a group out at Sandia Labs (and many others):
Environm...
Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009, 07:58 MST
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