写真は堺市西区の南部に残る田園。2010年8月28日に撮影。もう稲穂の香りが漂っていて、幼い頃に住んだ田圃の多い小さな市（石川県七尾市。その後、村を併合して面積は拡大された）を思い出させた。写真中央の道の先を、昨日掲載の写真の和田川が横断している。
The photo, taken on August 28, 2010, shows rice fields remaining in the southern part of Nishi-ku, Sakai. There smelled ears of rice already. It reminded me of my childhood when I had lived in a small city (Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture) with a lot of rice fields. At the forward of the road lies Wada River in the photo posted yesterday.
From tweets of yesterday (edited by rephrasing, adding words, etc.)
About Astrophysics
[Retweet of newscientist's words] 'Astronomers create laser-powered "artificial star",' New Scientist. —"The glow helps astronomers to achieve sharper images by working as a reference point to correct their instruments, allowing them to adjust for the blurring effect caused by the Earth's atmosphere."
About Books
Began to read Marcia Bartusiak's The Day We Found the Universe (Vintage). —"While notorious for being a man of few words .." (p. x). You may ask if Dirac appears here. No, this man is Calvin Coolidge, the thirteenth president of the United States.
[madgestar's words came between my previous tweets about Bartusiak's book (sent in two), as follows: "Popular science books take off: a big bang in physics publishing," by TomChivers*, Telegraph. I wrote about this happening:] This is quite interesting, because the article cited writes about the publishing phenomenon of "the soaring popularity of popular physics books" like the one I am reading.
* The name of the person whose user name on Twitter is known is expressed by it.
[Retweet of oanasandu's words via astronomy2009 and chiamai]: Postcards from the Edge of the Universe". —A book with beautiful photos of astronomical bodies (free electronic versions downloadable).
[Retweet of oanasandu's words via astronomy2009 and chiamai]: Postcards from the Edge of the Universe". —A book with beautiful photos of astronomical bodies (free electronic versions downloadable).
About Physics
"Physicists build a memory that stores entanglement," Tech Rev arXiv blog. —"[T]he most exciting aspect of all this is that the entanglement survives the process of storage and release at all."
[Retweet of sciencedaily's words] "How long does selenium radiate in nuclear waste?" Science Daily. —"In order to estimate the safety of final storage for nuclear wastes, it is important to know the half-lives of the radioactive elements of the nuclear waste as accurately as possible."
"Peter Higgs, UCL and William Waldegrave," by jonmbutterworth, Guardian —This article refers to David Miller's cocktail party analogy of the Higgs mechanism. (Retweeted by jonmbutterworth with the comment, "Indeed. He [Miller] is the common link.")
About Psychology
"Forget what you know about good study habits," New York Times. —"The findings can help anyone from a fourth grader [. . .] to a retiree [. . .]"
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