Buried Interfaces

Some special experiences about X-ray monochromator.

For nearly 40 years, I have been involved in the experiments at synchrotron and neutron facilities. As is quite often, the work can be overnight work. Actually, I have just come back from such work. I'm now over 60 years old, but it is OK. I will tell you some of secrets.

Physical principle of X-ray generation is explained.

Some impression about the Alamo, which is a historical place in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Personal past memory about Africa - exciting place and wonderful people.

A short talk on Zhuge Liang, who lived in the three kingdoms era (early 3rd century) in China as a genius military advisor and strategist.

Introduction of "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" authored by Yuval Noah Harari in 2015.

My personal opinion about the significance of learning original books. When you are a beginner, this would be apparent. But it is more important to continue this even after you become an expert.

Short explanation about random walk, which was first introduced by Karl Pearson in 1905, and is now widely used to understand and predict the complex system in a quantitative way.

Short explanation on Chapters 19 and 20 in "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" authored by Yuval Noah Harari.

Brief explanation about the 1965 British TV program, "Thunderbirds", which described how the international rescue (IR) led by Jeff Tracy contributed to the world by the full use of cutting edge sciences.

Short explanation on Chapters 17 and 18 in "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" authored by Yuval Noah Harari.

Recent experience of monthly internet-based meetings for highly reliable X-ray analysis for modern industries.

Personal impression on Kazuo Ishiguro's 2000 novel, "When We Were Orphans".

Brief explanation on the mystery of K-Pg boundary - 66M years ago, why and how most dinosaurs became extinct.

Very short guide to start simple supercritical CO2 experiments.

Short explanation about possible misunderstanding on the probability, known as Gambler's fallacy.

Short explanation about the rules on the structures of solid solution, that is famous as Hume-Rothery rules.

Short explanation on the useful order estimation, which is often called after Professor Fermi.

Short explanation about the fall of meteorites flying from the universe to the earth, causing explosion in air during falling and sometimes heavy collision at the ground.

Short explanation about the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan's famous episode, taxi number 1729.

Short history explaining how neutrons were discovered.

Brief explanation about the discovery of Au-Si non-crystalline phase in 1960 and later progresses of rapidly quenched materials.

Short explanation about historically famous lightning disaster happened in the emperor's habitual residence in Kyoto, Japan, in 930.

Short explanation of the history of Dr. Rontgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895.

Short explanation on environmental problems caused by microplastics.

Short history of Chicago Pile-1, the world first nuclear reactor built by Professor Enrico Fermi and his team.

Short talk on the giant earthquake and tsunami.

Short explanation on the coastline paradox, how the whole length of the coast line of Japan depends on the scale used for the measurement.

Short explanation on the Jules Gabriel Verne's 1864 novel, "Voyage au centre de la Terre".

Short introduction of the Apollo 13 accidents in space and the safe return to the earth.

Short explanation on the history of Wavelet transform analysis.

Short talk on the history of Friday 13th, and my plan on the next Friday 13th (November 13, 2020).

Brief explanation on latest progresses of cryo-electron microscope and cryo-X-ray microscope.

Short talk on the new character, the fastest train, Kenji from Japan, appearing in the latest season 24 in "Thomas and Friends".

Short and comprehensive introduction about ozone hole.

Short introduction on the X-ray experiments done by NASA's Mars rover.

A brief explanation about scintillating crystals, which can be used for visualizing invisible radiation.

Some short stories about British accent.

Some stories on arsenic poisoning and contribution of modern analytical methods.

Brief explanation about the significance of rare earth elements (15 lanthanides elements plus yttrium and scandium).

Memory of 40 years' experience about computer programming for scientific research.

Explaining the reason why I recommend to take enough rest and good sleep for tomorrow.

Personal impression on Kazuo Ishiguro's 2015 novel, "The Buried Giant".

Personal impression on Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel, "Never Let Me Go".

Personal impression on Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 novel, "The Remains of the Day".

Personal impression on Kazuo Ishiguro's 1982 novel, "A Pale View of Hills".

Brief explanation on one of confusing logical paradoxes, Liar's Paradox.

Brief explanation on the significance of trace element analysis.

Brief explanation about modern accelerators used as light sources rather than for particle physics.

Explaining basic properties of zirconia ceramics.