日本人の引き揚げ時期が近づいたため1941年末（私が5年生のとき）に廃校になった大連嶺前小学校の、日本での同窓会（嶺前会）総会が2年毎に開催されて、今年第16回を迎え、さる11日に東京のホテル・グランドパレス（1枚目の写真）で開催された。参加者総数は210余名で、われわれの同期生は11名だった。現会長（2枚目の写真）は、もう少し若い卒業生に席を譲ることになったが、全員の高齢化（最も若い会員もすでに70歳を超えている）に伴い、4年後に開催される第18回総会で打ち切りとなる予定である。
Near the end of 1941 (when I was a fifth-year pupil), Dalian Reizen Primary School was closed to prepare for the start of Japanese people's returning to the homeland, and graduates of the school have had a reunion (general meeting of Reizen Association) every two years in Japan. The 16th reunion was held last Monday at Hotel Grand Palace (the upper photo) in Tokyo. The total number of participants was about 210, and there were eleven classmates among them. The current chairman of the association (the lower photo) gives the role to another graduate younger than the former, but the reunion is planned to be discontinued after having the 18th meeting in 2014 because of the aging of all the members (the youngest ones are already over seventy years old).
From tweets of October 12 and 13 (edited by rephrasing, adding words, etc.)
About Astrophysics
"Milky Way is square, according to new galactic map," Technology Review, Physics arXiv blog (October 13, 2010). —"Some of our galaxy's spiral arms are straight rather than curved, giving the Milky Way a distinctly square look, say astronomers."
About Books
[Retweet of New Physics Books's word] Judging Edward Teller: A Closer Look at One of the Most Influential Scientists of the Twentieth Century by Istvan Hargittai (Prometheus, 2010).
About Life Science
"Neuroscience, free will and determinism: 'I'm just a machine'," Telegraph (October 12, 2010). —What we think of as freedom, Professor Patrick Haggard says, is a product of complexity.
About Physicists
"Newton, Moonlighting as an Alchemist," New York Times (October 11, 2010).—The scope and details of his interest in alchemy are now becoming clear.
[From Edmund Harriss] Newton spent even more time on theology and the age of the world (his conclusion, about 10,000 years) Calculus was somewhat of a hobby. Newton's excellent biography: Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton, By Richard S. Westfall (Cambridge University Press, 1983).
[In reply to Edmund] Thanks about Newton. I have a copy of the biography but have not yet time to read it.
[From Neil Gunther] "Isaac Newton the alchemist," Google video, PBS NOVA (2005).
About Physics
"White holes and kitchen sinks," Technology Review, Physics arXiv blog (October 12, 2010). —Scientists' long belief has been proved experimentally. (Retweeted by Colin Peters in a modified form)
"Synopsis: Leveraging the LHC advantage in energy," Physics (October 11, 2010). —"Although the ATLAS Collaboration at the LHC has just begun taking data, they are already able to place new bounds on some models of physics that go beyond the standard model."
About Technology
"Computer beats human at Japanese chess for first time," New Scientist (October 12, 2010) (via Cliff Pickover).
Music
[Retweet of garboviola's words]【ガルボ演奏】映画『８０日間世界一周』より —Garbo's viola performance, From "Around the World in 80 Days."
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