天空の魚 (The Fish in the Sky)

　上側の一団の雲は、細身の魚のエックス線写真のように見える。2010年12月1日撮影。

The upper group of clouds looks like an X-ray photograph of a slender fish. The photo was taken on December 1, 2010.

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

Astrophysics

[Retweet of io9's words] "Cosmic rays could have caused one of the worst mass extinctions on Earth." io9 Blog (december 23, 2010).

Internet

[Retweet of 浅井隆's words] 英語の140文字は全然表現できないんですけど、日本語は漢字があるので、AがあってBがってCがあってまで表現できるんですね。—リンダ監督 ("iwakamiyasumi 12/23/10 04:24AM": 岩上安身によるインタビューのビデオ)。

Peace and Politics

憲法九条を忘れ、「死の商人」の肩を持つ妄言。嘆かわしい："武器輸出三原則の見直し「先送り」は日本の安全保障に禍根を残す" 日経ビジネスオンライン (December 24, 2010). [Retweeted by J. Tanaka]

Science

"The top 10 science stories of 2010." A microbe with an artificial genome, a volcano with an almost unpronounceable name, a disaster that blackened Gulf waters—these and other events defined this year in science and technology Scientific American Slideshows (December 23, 2010). [Retweeted by P. F. Anderson @pfanderson]

Science and Moral

"The science of right and wrong: Can data determine moral values?" Scientific American (December 23, 2010). —Michael Shermer, the author of The Science of Good and Evil, writes about Sam Harris's The Moral Landscape.