遊ぶ子ら ２ (Playing Children 2)

　写真は堺市中区で、2010年12月1日撮影。

The photo was taken at Naka-ku, Sakai, on December 1, 2010.

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

Arts

Virtual Museum of Optical Illusions: Current exhibition "Metamorphic Postcards" November 2010 – October 2011 (via Internet Scout).

Astrophysics

"Cosmos Incognita: Voyager 1 spacecraft arrives at the cusp of interstellar space." Thirty-three years into its voyage, the solar wind speed around Voyager 1 has dropped to zero as the space-hardened craft nears a milestone in its journey out of the solar system Scientific American (December 16, 2010).

Atomic Physics

""Movies of electrons in atoms."" Physical Review Focus (December 17, 2010). —New simulations indicate the possibility.

Biological Physics

"The puzzling role of biophotons in the brain." Various work suggests that neurons emit and even conduct photons. Could it be that biophotons help to synchronise the brain? Technology Review Physics arXiv Blogs (December 17, 2010). [Mentioned by Neil Gunther @DrQz]

Books

"Book Review: Autobiography of Mark Twain Volume 1." The book turns out to be a wonderful fraud on the order of the Duke and the Dauphin in their Shakespearean romp, and . . . still able to catch the public’s attention a century after he expired. New York Times (Decemer 16, 2010).

Fundamental Physics

"Size of a proton? Really small." But physicists can't agree on one number. Science News (December 17, 2010).

Internet

Tried to use "Google labs: Books Ngram Viewer" for the words related to my past activities:
•Dosimetry vs irradiation —I made researches related to these words just in the years when these showed peaks.
•Betatron vs linac —I worked with an electron linac around the years of the first peak of the linac.
•Electron backscatter vs ion reflection —I studied the former in the years around its first peak; the latter, just during the years of its peak.
Quite interesting!

Peace and Politics

この「主張」に全く同感である："新「防衛大綱」—また海外でたたかうつもりか—" しんぶん赤旗 (December 18, 2010).

Technology

"New tool tracks culture through the centuries via Google Books." The field of "culturomics" promises humanities researchers a robust quantitative tool to analyze cultural trends back to the 1500s. Scientific American (December 17, 2010). [Retweeted by J.M.Peterson]