Science this time, not politics!

Wen Jiabao, our sincere Premier has had an short editorial article published on Science Magazine. See http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/322/5902/649

Premier Wen announced his ideas and encouraging remarks to all Chinese fellows working in the science and technology fields, and to all their peers world wide, through Science Magazine. I think Wen holds in his mind that science and technology advancements, not any social and state formalisms, will save human from trouble. I believe he is right, at least under condition of current state of human race. Sci & Tech helps solve problems, though in the process new problems might emerge, Sci & Tech must be the only hope of solution.

Mysterious tomb in the valley

This mysterious tomb resides in the valley of Baiwang hill. It has been known to me for some years. During a tour to the hill on Oct 12, we visited the tomb again. First image showed this tomb has a curious "front gate", built with piled stones, stands firm. A white object can be seen on the left, which is the gravestone been pushed down from its original place. Second image is about it. First part of it is in a language I didn't recognize, but I guess it said the person buried there was born on September 1877, and died 1947. Second part is in Chinese, but most contents had been removed with great strength, obviously intentionally, as though someone didn't wish to let the contents been read by others.

A lot of local residents were strolling there all the time, but seemed no one cared about it.

My "portrait"

Some guy did a portrait for me, just because I didn't share an apple.
某人记恨我吃苹果时没给他分点儿，就在白板上给我画像。针对这种不道德行为，我在旁边进行了批示...

Dummy bug in my Python programming

My buggy program:

for line in fin.open('onefile'):
list = line.strip().split('\t')
... (other goodies)

def revComplimentary(seq):
li = list(seq)
... (other goodies)

When the self-defined function is called, a TypeError is thrown saying "list object is not callable". What hell is this problem? It turns out that I have redefined "list" to be an object in file processing.

UFO observed 晚间观察到不明飞行物体

刚刚在来实验室的路上观察到一个不明发光飞行物体
I just observed a bright object flying in the sky, on the way to lab.

时间：10月8日晚18：40～18：50
Time: Oct 8, 18:40~50, pm

地点：中国农大西校区校园内
Place: Campus of China agricultural univ.

描述：今天空气能见度非常高，一轮新月悬在仰角不高的天空上，光线也非常强。月亮的旁边（右边？）有一颗很亮的星体，肯定是行星，但不知道是哪个。当时我上方的天空有一架民航飞机在兜圈子，飞得很低。这时我看到头顶正上方有另一个更亮的发光物体，它肯定是突然出现在那里的。我把它与月亮边上那个行星比较了一下，该物体光线比行星的光线白很多，几乎不显黄色，并且它在以比较慢的视觉速度移动，因此我想它不会是流星。如果只瞟一眼的话，几乎会把它当成一颗行星。因为只能看到一个光点儿的缘故无法估计该物体所处的高度。我观察到这个东西在直线朝南偏东方向飞行。大概有1分钟多一点之后，这个东西已经飞到仰角很小的远方，这过程中，它的发光强度一直在减弱，最后就不见了。这过程中它没有发出任何闪烁。在观测过程中，那架民航又从我与那个物体之间的天空飞过一次，对比之强烈使我认为那个物体肯定不会是普通飞机。不知道民航的驾驶员有没有看到这个东西。

Description: The air quality of that night was very good. I shining star could be seen to the right of the moon, which I guess could be a planet. There was a plane flying in circle to land in a nearby airport. I was staring at sky at that time, as I'm always doing in clear nights. Suddenly I noticed a bright "star" straight above my head. It looked very much like a "planet", but it was moving slowly, like a man-made satellite. Its light was white and stronger than the planet in the other side of the sky. It was moving in a straight line towards south-east. Neither the shape nor the flying height of the object could be estimated. I stopped and watched it for 1-2 minutes, meanwhile the object's light faded gradually, then disappeared completely. That looks like the light was turned off, or it was blocked from me by the structure of that object itself.