I have uploaded three videos with Junya if anyone is interested

They are taken at Mako-sensei’s place today when we visited her with Junya. Mako works as a nurse and is one of Takako’s former students from when she taught English. She now works at the hospital where Junya was born and that is where we met her. She also kindly wrote Junya’s name with a brush on Junya’s meimeisho after he was born!

Here are links to the videos:

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3

And finally a few images I also took at Mako’s place. The little girl is Mako’s nephew and her name is Yuzuna.

The biggest science project ever, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is well under way. For those who don’t know what LHC is, it is a particle collider built by CERN, it has been several decades under way, and has united tens of thousands of scientists from more than 85 countries. The aim: to try and discover some of the most elusive elementary particles. Particles that have been predicted by scientific theories, but never seen yet.

The LHC hasn’t been switched on yet; it is still being assembled. Initially they said they would be ready to do the preliminary test runs this summer, and we are now getting closer to autumn. So, while we are waiting for the first beams to travel around inside the superfluid helium cooled superconducting magnets, and the first collision data to appear on the LHC website, why not watch this video by Brian Cox. He gives us a rundown of what the LHC will do, and tells us The most beautiful creation storyi!

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/brian_cox_on_cern_s_supercollider.html

Jeg fandt et interessant essay der handler om forskellen paa nyliberalisme og objektivisme. Hvis nogen ellers skulle vaere interesseret er linket her.

Inden han beslutter sig for at boykotte aabningsceremonien i OL i Beijing.

Efter min mening altsaa. Jeg er traet af gang paa gang at se selvretfaerdige politikere der paa den saedvanlige nationalhykleriske maade forherliger de danske principper og pege fingre af alle andre lande der ikke er noejagtigt som os.

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Jeg sad lige og hoerte Videnskabens Verden i min frokostpause i dag. Det er et populaervidenskabeligt nyhedsmagasin som DR sender paa deres P1, men som ogsaa kan lyttes til over internettet. Det er et virkeligt interessant og velproduceret program, og vaerten, Henrik Praetorius, er baade sjov og medrivende og forstaar at praesentere stoffet saa alle kan vaere med. Og selvom han nogle gange stiller nogle lidt “dumme” spoergsmaal, kan man godt maerke at det er for at soerge for at alle er med, og at han faktisk godt forstaar hvad det er der bliver snakket om.

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I just realised that over the last more than 15 years I have been consuming large quantitites of highly addictive psychoactive substances!

Or in other words, I have been drinking

Coffee

Congratulations to Erowid on the new look!

Awesome… Someone has started a Wiki to host leaked government documents! Some users claim this could be the next big thing development in journalism.

The site is called WikiLeaks and is hosted in Sweden (where else?)
One article which I found rather alarming was this, about the US euipment used in Iraq.

http://wikileaks.be/wiki/US_Military_Equipment_in_Iraq_%282007%29

CS gas? Killer robots?? Well somehow I am not surprised.