Vying to be the Olympic host : The Japan Times June 16 issue
Summary:
Beijing Olympic is coming in this August. However, choosing city for 2016 Olympic Games has already been in progress. Tokyo, Chicago, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro have been chosen final candidates for the 2016 Olympic Games. Tokyo ranked first ahead of Madrid in the primary evaluation of IOC because of better factors than other candidates such as infrastructure, sports venues, safety and security, and environmental conditions. Tokyo has been appealed "the world's most compact Olympics" with most of sports sites are gathered within an 8-km radius and lots of hotel rooms within a 10-km radius. Finalists must submit detailed plans to the IOC by Feb. IOC experts will visit the cities and sites and meet with local officials. Tokyo needs to get interests both IOC members and citizen of its, only 59 percent of those support the Tokyo Olympic in 2016.
Opinion:
I got so much interest in holding Olympic Games in Tokyo. I really would like to see Olympic Games in my home city, Tokyo. However, since the purpose of Olympic is “World Peace”, I think it might be better for world peace to hold Olympic Games in countries which have a lot of difficulties. They probably don’t have good conditions for Olympic but we can make them there, developed country should help them and it will help people there and even make opportunities for people around the world to know about such countries. We need to consider how Olympic contribute to world peace truly even choosing the city where it will be held.
Summary:
Japan has chosen a female astronaut to board the space shuttle Atlantis in 2010. She is going to be a country's first mother to go on a space mission. Her name is Naoko Yamazaki, 37 years old and mother of 6-year old daughter. Yamazaki is the second Japanese woman to go into space after Chiaki Mukai in1994 and 1998. She will be Japan’s eighth astronaut in space. Yamazaki is set to lift off for a two-week flight as a Japanese crew member of the Atlantis sometime after mid-February 2010. During the mission, the Atlantis is to carry equipment and materials for the International Space Station, and Yamazaki will be responsible for operating a robotic arm. Yamazaki joined the country's space agency in 1996 after studying aerospace engineering at the University of Tokyo. She told a news conference that she was a big fan of space adventure animation on TV as a child and space flight has been her lifetime dream. Yamazaki said that there have been times when she struggled to balance child-rearing and work, but her commitment to the space mission was unshaken. And she has got a helping hand. She said, "During the two-week flight, my husband is going to take care of all housework”.
Opinion:I am so proud of her as a woman. Since I am so bad at science and mathematics, I have never dreamed of becoming an astronaut. What make working mothers who has professional jobs such as astronaut hard is lacking enough supports from their partners. I believe women has great abilities same as men. Men should help households more so working mothers can use their abilities enough at works.
Summary:
In a world first, a research group in Kyoto Prefecture has succeeded in processing and displaying optically received images directly from the human brain.
The group of researchers at Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, said about 100 million images can be read.
Optically received images are converted to electrical signals in the retina and treated in the brain's visual cortex.
In the recent experiment, the research group asked two people to look at 440 different still images one by one on a 100-pixel screen. Each of the images comprised random gray sections and flashing sections.
The research group measured subtle differences in brain activity patterns in the visual cortexes of the two people with a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner. They then subdivided the images and recorded the subjects' recognition patterns.
They also said that dreams as well as mental images are likely to visualize in the future in the same manner.
Opinion:
I am excited to see my mental images in the future. I think this technology can also be used in medical situation for people who are suffering mental illness.
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