カンナ (Canna)

　カンナ（カンナ科）。2010年7月28日、わが家の庭で撮影。

Canna or canna lily; botanical name, Canna (a genus); family, Cannaceae. The photo was taken at our yard on July 28, 2010.

From tweets of yesterday (rephrased)

About Peace and Politics

[Retweet of grahamfarmelo's words with a comment] Press Censorship: How the Truth Was Hidden About Nagasaki 65 Years Ago (http://bit.ly/d3CyuD) - Read this on the A-bomb day of Nagasaki.

About Physics

[Retweet of PhysicsNews's words with an addition] "Rethinking Einstein: The end of space-time," New Scientist (http://bit.ly/bTGwhl) - Petr Horava, "We have found some new land. But we are very far from getting all the details right."

"Particle accelerators could work as power generators," Tech Rev arXiv blog (http://bit.ly/c0GpVG) - Robert Wilson's 1976 paper has now found its way onto the arXiv.

ワンコイン コンサート (One-Coin Concert)

From tweets of yesterday (rephrased)

About Arts

Went to a one-coin* concert held in memory of the 200th anniversary of Frederic Chopin's birth at Westy Hall, Sakai, together with my wife this afternoon.** Performers were Osamu Chopinsuki*** Ogata and his family who live near here.

* This means 500 yen.
** The image at the top shows the leaflet of this concert.
*** This means "I like Chopin."

　［午後、近くの西区役所にあるウエスティ・ホールで「ワンコイン（入場料500円という意味）コンサート：ショパン生誕200年を記念して」があり、妻と聞きに行った。昨年も同じ日に同様なコンサートを行なったオサム・ショパンスキ・オガタ氏一家の出演で、子ども連れの来聴者が多く、満員だった。］

About Peace and Politics

[In reply to fermin771009's words of the previous day] It's my pleasure that you liked Kenzaburo Oe's article (http://nyti.ms/dwoHts). (07:44:48)

About Physics

A funny typo: "Theoretical critical angels of ion channeling in carbon nanotubes", Nucl Instr Meth B (http://bit.ly/btSlc7).

チョウセンアサガオ (Angel's Trumpet)

　チョウセンアサガオ（朝鮮朝顔、ナス科）。2010年7月25日、ウォーキング途中で撮影。

Angel's trumpet, devil's trumpet, or metel; botanical name, Datura metel; family, Solanaceae. The photo was taken in the course of walking exercise on July 25, 2010.

From tweets of yesterday (rephrased)

About Arts

"Matisse: Radical Invention 1913-17", The Art Institute of Chicago (http://bit.ly/dozIee, via Internet Scout) - The site shows processes of making his works with images and film. (via Internet Scout)

About Neuroscience

[Retweet of PLos's words with an addition] The left hand of Obama (http://tinyurl.com/obamalefthand) - Is there a correlation between handedness and good-gesture-lateralization?

About Peace and Politics

Kenzaburo Oe, "Hiroshima & the Art of Outrage", http://nyti.ms/dwoHts -Yesterday, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan just said what Oe was anxious about, i.e., about the former's wish to keep a nuclear umbrella. (Retweeted by fermin771009)

[From fermin771009 in reply to my tweet above] Great article by Kenzaburo Oe! Thanks for the link.

About Physics

[Retweet of sc_k's words with a comment] What a ridiculous story! Poor Sean … @seanmcarroll "My diva moment: a cautionary tale" (http://is.gd/e6C7B) - A bad TV producer!

"Metamaterials [might] probe changes in spacetime structure," Phys Rev Focus (http://bit.ly/blvJDf).

モミジアオイ (Brilliant Hibiscus)

　モミジアオイ（紅葉葵、アオイ科）、別名は紅蜀葵（こうしょっき）。2010年7月25日、わが家の庭で撮影。

Brilliant hibiscus, scarlet hibiscus or scarlet rose mallow; botanical name, Hibiscus coccineus; family, Malvaceae. The photo was taken at our yard on July 25, 2010.

From tweets of yesterday (rephrased)

About Books

"Between the lines: Da Vinci, quantum mechanics and theories in half a minute – the rest of the best of this month's books," physicsworld (http://bit.ly/bZ8pBI)

About Peace and Politics

"Odd Couple: Frank & Paul target military spending," NPR (http://n.pr/dhrgkM) - Frank, "We don't need 15,000 marines in Okinawa." (via ANPO on Facebook).

To kannaotobot: 『「核抑止力は引き続き必要」菅首相、平和祈念式後に』 asahi.com (http://bit.ly/bglEyv) - 菅さん、あなたはそれでも核被爆国の首相ですか。

About Physics

"Damage limitation: John Gordon explains why this 'particle therapy' deserves to be a mainstream healthcare option." physicsworld (http://bit.ly/aafjrT).

"Physicists use offshoot of string theory to describe puzzling behavior of superconductors" (http://bit.ly/dl5ire, retweet of physorg_com's words).

"Pushing the boundaries of the isotope frontier: Discovery of 45 rare neutron-rich isotopes provides clues to the stellar formation of heavy elements." Riken Research (http://bit.ly/aFyXoJ).

網戸のセミ (The Cicada on the Window Screen)

　二階にある寝室の網戸にクマゼミがとまっていたのを、内側から撮影した（2010年7月19日)。

I found a cicada (Cryptotympana facialis) on one of window screens of our bedroom on the second floor and took a shot of it from inside the room (July 16, 2010).

From tweets of yesterday (rephrased)

About Arts

Went to see the Japanese anime film "Karigurashi no Arietti (The Borrower Arrietty)" (http://bit.ly/duSPPh): Its story as well as its pictures was heartwarming.

About Arts-Science Interaction

"Behind the Mona Lisa's smile," Nature, books and arts page: "X-ray scans reveal Leonardo's remarkable control of glaze thickness, explains Philip Ball" (http://bit.ly/9S6eoO).

About Physics

"The long story of how the boson got only Higgs's name," Nature, correspondence page: Higgs himself suggested "ABEGHHK'tH mechanism" (http://bit.ly/czNzVb).

"Physicists get political over Higgs," Nature News: "A storm is brewing round the scientists in line to win the Nobel prize for predicting the elusive particle" (http://ff.im/-oHE4P, retweet of NatureNews's words).