Mid-Autumn Festival - 22Sep2010

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival (traditional Chinese: 中秋節; simplified Chinese: 中秋节; pinyin: Zhōngqiūjié; Vietnamese: Tết Trung Thu), is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese people, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty.[1] In Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival. It is also related to the important Korean holiday of Chuseok.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is usually around late September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is supposedly at its fullest and roundest. The traditional food of this festival is the mooncake, of which there are many different varieties.

中秋節起源於中國，是東亞民間的一個傳統節日，為每年農曆的八月十五。中秋節不單單是華人的節慶，受中華文化的影響，中秋節也是日本、越南、朝鮮半島等地的傳統節日。

按照中國的農曆，八月為秋季的第二個月，古時稱為仲秋，因此民間稱為中秋，又稱秋夕、八月節、八月半、月夕、月節，又因為這一天月亮滿圓，象徵團圓，又稱為團圓節。

wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival
中文 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival

buckyball - 04Sep2010

A fullerene is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube. Spherical fullerenes are also called buckyballs, and cylindrical ones are called carbon nanotubes or buckytubes. Fullerenes are similar in structure to graphite, which is composed of stacked graphene sheets of linked hexagonal rings; but they may also contain pentagonal (or sometimes heptagonal) rings.

The first fullerene to be discovered, and the family's namesake, buckminsterfullerene (C60), was prepared in 1985 by Richard Smalley, Robert Curl, James Heath, Sean O'Brien, and Harold Kroto at Rice University. The name was an homage to Buckminster Fuller, whose geodesic domes it resembles. The structure was also identified some five years earlier by Sumio Iijima, from an electron microscope image, where it formed the core of a "bucky onion." Fullerenes have since been found to occur (if rarely) in nature.

富勒烯是完全由碳組成的中空的球型、橢圓型、柱型或管狀分子的總稱。富勒烯（Fullerene，又譯作福樂烯），又名巴基球或巴克球（Buckyball），其他名稱還有球碳與芙，是於1985年發現的繼金剛石和石墨之後碳元素的第三種晶體形態。其中柱狀或管狀的分子又叫做碳納米管或巴基管。碳60(C60)和碳70(C70)是最常見的，也是能夠量產的富勒烯

wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene
中文 : http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hk/%E5%AF%8C%E5%8B%92%E7%83%AF