Femto-Essays
Tatsuo Tabata
 
"Femto" is a combining form used in the names of units of measure that are one quadrillionth (10 to minus 15) the size of the unit denoted by the base word" (Random House Webster's College Dictionary). For example, femto-meter (fm) is a unit suitable to express the size of atomic nuclei. Thus, "Femto-Essays" is used here for the name of a series of short essays on science and humanity from IDEA and ISAAC.

 
 

Contents

Note: Click the number to go to each essay.
Essays written later than those in the list can be found here.

114.  Speeding Up of Life at Higher Ages 04 May 05
113.  Hans Bethe Was, So to Say, One of My Teachers 28 Apr 05
112.  The Visiting Scientist from China 15 Apr 05
111.  "September Affair" 22 Feb 05
110.  Bush vs. Einstein 12 Feb 05
109.  Serenades Played by Erhu 02 Feb 05
108.  The Physicist Who Became Death 29 Dec 04
107.  Math Could Help Art History 28 Dec 04
106.  All Humans Share a Close Relation II 16 Dec 04
105.  All Humans Share a Close Relation I 06 Dec 04
104.  "Blog" Top Word of 2004 06 Dec 04
103.  Will Women Sprinters Win Men? 11 Oct 04
102.  Words about 2004 Physics Nobel Prize 08 Oct 04
101.  The Artist Ichiro's Perspiration 04 Oct 04
   
100.  The Rainbow 02 Oct 04
99.  "Rule of Law at Risk" 29 Sep 04
98.  Taming Typhoons 29 Sep 04
97.  One of Victims of Iraq War? 14 Sep 04
96.  Accidental Factors of Life 06 Sep 04
95.  My Small Contribution to Feynman Stamp 04 Sep 04
94.  Feynman Is About to Come on Postage Stamps 02 Sep 04
93.  Intellectually Pleasing Movie 25 Aug 04
92.  Munch's "The Scream" Stolen 24 Aug 04
91.  Museum of Art in Small City 22 Aug 04
90.  Smile Provoking Exhibitions 21 Aug 04
89.  Broadcasting in Japan on the Olympic Games 19 Aug 04
88.  Arts and Impressive Experience 18 Aug 04
87.  Scientists and Artists Are the Same ... 17 Aug 04
86.  Conscientiousness of American Journalism 02 Jun 04
85.  Like a Child Who Wants to Erase His Mischief 29 May 04
84.  E-Mail Messages to an American Friend (4): Have a Nice Flight to Mars! 10 May 04
83.  E-Mail Messages to an American Friend (3): Japanese Politics and Literature 03 May 04
82.  E-Mail Messages to an American Friend (2): Peace, etc. 26 Apr 04
81.  E-Mail Messages to an American Friend (1): Soseki and Torahiko 19 Apr 04
80.  Sleep and Insight 16 Feb 04
79.  Passage of Time 30 Dec 03
78.  Japanese People's Souls for Peace 21 Dec 03
77.  Steven Weinberg's Golden Lessons to Students 09 Dec 03
76.  I've Read Books Written by Two among Three of Them! 08 Oct 03
   
75.  Better Intelligibility among Non-native Speakers 06 Oct 03
74.  Repetition of the Same Error 05 Sep 03
73.  Rare Events 28 Aug 03
72.  Accurate Painting 15 Aug 03
71.  "Summertime" 14 Jul 03
70.  "I Could Die after Completing This Film." 23 Jun 03
69.  Uncertainty Principle in Life 14 Jun 03
68.  Missing Day Story 23 Feb 03
67.  Breaking Up of Columbia 02 Feb 03
66.  The Clever Crow 14 Jan 03
65.  Christmas 21 Dec 02
64.  Koichi Tanaka Says, "Failure Teaches Success" 07 Nov 02
63.  The Neutrino and Astrophysics 11 Oct 02
62.  A Step towards Antimatter 07 Oct 02
61.  The Mystery of a Stone Garden 01 Oct 02
60.  The Japanese Short Poem "Tanka" 09 Jul 02
59.  Geniuses and Mental Illness 11 Jun 02
58.  Scientific Scrutiny of Mondrian's Beliefs 05 May 02
57.  (A Special Story) Nobel Statement "The Next Hundred Years" 20 Feb 02
56.  Medicine and Art 19 Feb 02
55.  Science and Metaphors 15 Feb 02
54.  Functional Cosmology 25 Dec 01
53.  Science and Art: Their Difference and Similarity 18 Nov 01
52.  The importance of "Blue Skies" Research 03 Nov 01
51.  Chiral Molecules and Mirror Images 24 Oct 01
   
50.  Dimensions: Does Its Number Increase or Decrease? 21 Aug 01
49.  Science and Art 13 Aug 01
48.  A Film Made by Unifying Two Types 07 Jul 01
47.  The Basic Problem at the Background of a Tragic Incident 14 Jun 01
46.  A Message to a Novice Teacher of Physics 08 Jun 01
45.  Another Theater Show about a Nobel-Prize Physicist 17 May 01
44.  Which of These Papers Were Published in Nature? 04 May 01
43.  A Play Depicting Feynman as Clown 27 Apr 01
42.  Distorting History 11 Apr 01
41.  Reunification of Art and Technology 31 Jan 01
40.  The Beauty in Physical and Cosmological Theories 08 Jan 01
39.  An Expression of the Freedom of Expression 27 Oct 00
38.  A Human Side of Einstein 24 Oct 00
37.  Serendipity and a Prepared Mind 13 Oct 00
36.  The Value of Searching for Dark Matter 09 Oct 00
35.  Understanding the Physical Universe 23 Sep 00
34.  Needs to Stop Isolation of Scientists 22 Sep 00
33.  Challenging Mysteries of the Universe 02 Sep 00
32.  Gell-Mann and Feynman 10 Aug 00
31.  Young Einstein and a Compass Needle 29 Jul 00
30.  Mathematics and Nature 26 Jul 00
29.  Readers Don't Be Fooled! Again on Mirror Images 12 Jul 00
28.  The Fortunes of the Woman in a Pi Mnemonic 18 Jun 00
27.  The Crisis of Basic Sciences 12 Jun 00
26.  An Example of the Effect of Bad Education 20 May 00
   
25.  Dreadful Crimes by Boys in the Technological Age 11 May 00
24.  The Japanese Concept of Education 04 May 00
23.  A Hard Nut to Crack Even for Tomonaga and Feynman 14 Mar 00
22.  The Reform of Education 30 Jan 00
21.  What Happened to the Garden of Eden? 15 Jan 00
20.  The Principle of NOMA 30 Dec 99
19.  Einstein, the Person of the Millennium 23 Dec 99
18.  Biographies 07 Dec 99
17.  The Top Ten Physicists 05 Dec 99
16.  Effects of Tokai Accident 17 Nov 99
15.  Assessment of Producing Mini Black Holes 07 Nov 99
14.  Energy and the Environment 30 Oct 99
13.  Femtosecond Spectroscopy and the Top Quark 14 Oct 99
12.  The Old Man and the Superstrings 11 Oct 99
11.  The Real Cause of a Nuclear Accident 02 Oct 99
10.  Science and Religion 13 Sep 99
9.  Atomic Bombing and Japan's Surrender 07 Sep 99
8.  Stage Performance 28 Aug 99
7.  Freedom to Doubt 01 Aug 99
6.  Science and Ethical Values 24 Jul 99
5.  Scientists' Responsibility for Society 19 Jul 99
4.  Dyson's Prediction of the Future 14 Jul 99
3.  Is Science Old or New for Humans? 27 Jun 99
2.  Another Source of Physics News 26 Jun 99
1.  More Interesting than Sci Fi 12 Jun 99
 

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