チョウセンアサガオ (Angel's Trumpet)

　チョウセンアサガオ（朝鮮朝顔、ナス科）。2010年7月25日、ウォーキング途中で撮影。

Angel's trumpet, devil's trumpet, or metel; botanical name, Datura metel; family, Solanaceae. The photo was taken in the course of walking exercise on July 25, 2010.

From tweets of yesterday (rephrased)

About Arts

"Matisse: Radical Invention 1913-17", The Art Institute of Chicago (http://bit.ly/dozIee, via Internet Scout) - The site shows processes of making his works with images and film. (via Internet Scout)

About Neuroscience

[Retweet of PLos's words with an addition] The left hand of Obama (http://tinyurl.com/obamalefthand) - Is there a correlation between handedness and good-gesture-lateralization?

About Peace and Politics

Kenzaburo Oe, "Hiroshima & the Art of Outrage", http://nyti.ms/dwoHts -Yesterday, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan just said what Oe was anxious about, i.e., about the former's wish to keep a nuclear umbrella. (Retweeted by fermin771009)

[From fermin771009 in reply to my tweet above] Great article by Kenzaburo Oe! Thanks for the link.

About Physics

[Retweet of sc_k's words with a comment] What a ridiculous story! Poor Sean … @seanmcarroll "My diva moment: a cautionary tale" (http://is.gd/e6C7B) - A bad TV producer!

"Metamaterials [might] probe changes in spacetime structure," Phys Rev Focus (http://bit.ly/blvJDf).