キンモクセイ (Sweet Osmanthus)

　キンモクセイ（金木犀、モクセイ科）。2010年10月8日、わが家の庭で撮影。

Sweet osmanthus; also known as sweet olive, tea olive and fragrant olive; botanical name, Osmanthus fragrans var. aurantiacus; family, Oleaceae. The photo was taken at our yard on October 8, 2010.

From tweets of yesterday (edited by rephrasing, adding words, etc.)

About Arts

"Vargas Llosa, a storyteller enthralled by the power of art," New York Times (October 7, 2010). —"A fascination with the human craving for freedom (be it political, social or creative) and the liberation conferred by art and imagination."

About Astrophysics

"Something slammed into the rings of Saturn and Jupiter," Scientific American (October 7, 2010). (Retweeted by Glaucio Souza)

About Chemists

David Kroll, "Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010: Remembering Mizoroki," Terra Sigillata (October 6, 2010). —A senior friend of mine wrote me that Mizorogi of Mizorogi-Heck reaction was a classmate of his at the University of Tokyo. Then, I searched "Mizorogi" on Google and found the above article. It is a great pity that Tsutomu Mizorogi died of pancreas cancer at an age a little over 40. It was nine years after publishing the paper about his finding, earlier than Richard Heck, of the Mizorogi-Heck reaction.

About Peace and Politics

[Retweet of Nobelprize_org's words] 2010 Nobel Peace Prize: Liu Xiaobo "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China." See Official press release 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

About Physics

"Does dark matter trigger strange stars?" physicsworld (October , 2010). —Balls of free quarks in space may be initiated by dark matter. (Retweeted by Glaucio Souza)

"Andre Geim explores the flatland," physicsworld, Blog (October 6, 2010). —"Watch a lecture about graphene by the Nobel winner." (Retweeted by S. C. Kavassalis; in a modified form with the link to the video of 2008 by Rieko Kawabata)

"Free papers by 2010 Nobel prize winners," physicsworld Blog (Octover 5, 2010). —IOP Publishing opens up its archive.

"Nobel Prize thrusts graphene into the spotlight—But can it deliver?" Scientific American (October 7, 2010). —"Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have described a way of making graphene that preserves the material's conductive properties, an early step toward graphene silicon electronics."

About Technology

Features, opinions and reviews about nuclear power: October-1st entries of physicsworld's "In depth" channel.