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Tipoffs for Santa Fe, New Mexico (City) Newsletter for Thursday October 31, 2024 ( 5 items )  

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: Vulnerable Republicans' New Strategy to Cover Up Their Anti-Abortion Records - Lie About It
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee issued the following news release: New reporting for NOTUS highlights how vulnerable Republicans who co-sponsored the Life at Conception Act, a national abortion ban with no exceptions, are now lying to voters about the bill. Republicans like Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Don Bacon are denying that the bill would ban abortion when pressed on debate stages. Yvette Herrell is calling the nationwide ban a "messaging bill" and S  more

MITRE and SFI Reflect on Decades-Long Relationship
SANTA FE, New Mexico, Oct. 31 -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: SFI has consistently nurtured relationships with insightful practitioners and radical innovators. In robust discussions, these leaders have raised provoking questions and offered access to data, while SFI scientists have shared insights and tools to help business leaders tackle real-world problems. Over the past 32 years, many of these partnerships have been organized within SFI's Applied Complexity Network (  more

Santa Fe Institute: Study - Stochastic Thermodynamics May Be Key to Understanding Energy Costs of Computation
SANTA FE, New Mexico, Oct. 30 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: Two systems exist in thermal equilibrium if no heat passes between them. Computers, which consume energy and give off heat as they process information, operate far from thermal equilibrium. Were they to stop consuming energy -- say you let your laptop discharge completely -- they would stop functioning. But how does the amount of energy required by a physical system to perform a computation depend o  more

SFI Welcomes Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Aanjaneya Kumar
SANTA FE, New Mexico, Oct. 31 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: No matter how mundane or life-changing, the decisions we make are necessarily based on whatever limited information is available to us. If you're weighing the risks of going outside during a pandemic, for example, you might base your decision on the news (which is updated only periodically) or whether you personally knew anybody who was sick (which is a small sample size.) SFI Complexity Postdoctoral  more

WildEarth Guardians: Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Plants Hundreds of Trees Along Elwha River
SANTA FE, New Mexico, Oct. 31 -- WildEarth Guardians issued the following news release: * * * Tree planting funded in part by the Drinking Water Providers Partnership * * * On October 26, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe (LEKT) hosted a tree planting event along the Elwha River in Olympic National Park as part of its ongoing vegetation restoration efforts following the removal of two dams over a decade ago. Hundreds of trees were planted to strengthen the riparian buffer zone on lands that were  more