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4-page promotional preview of 怪談囃子, a short manga appearing in the October issue of Bunch Magazine! COMING SOON TO ONLINE ORDERS NEAR YOU.
I lol’d when I saw this on twitter, so I lunchbreak translated it here. Usual shit wording apologies and caveat emptors apply.
(The source is here. This is only a sample and it’s for promotional purposes, so it should be fine to do this…?)
If IT is my favorite book and hack/slash is my favorite graphic novel then my #1 favorite manga is definitely Claymore by Norihiro Yagi
This story is full of badass women, I think there are maybe 7 men who are important. And even better they are not sexualized at all! Look at their armour
It actually functions as protection instead of a metal bikini. Even when nudity is shown its not something sexual. These women are able to fight monsters who literally eat human guts because they become half monster and humanity shuns them for this. The story really picks up when more characters are introduced and you learn that each warrior has her own developed skill. You character development is well done and you really start to care for these characters. On to the horror elements
It has PLENTY of gore! Humans and monsters both get cut to pieces or ripped to shreds on an almost constant basis
My absolute favorite thing about this manga though are the monsters
Look at these beautiful things! Yagi’s artwork makes me thing of H R Giger while remaining distinctly his. This isn’t a one or two monster story either. There are more than I can name and they are all unique and beautiful in a grotesque way
This story doesn’t have very many anime tropes people new to the medium might not be familiar with so it’s a good starting point. The story is complete and honestly it made me cry so many times while reading it. It’s definitely my first recommendation
My horror/monster friends: @pennywisethot @penny-trash @float-me-to-the-moon @backtotheweeds @soullessgothic
I took this picture, which is a photograph of the photomultiplier tubes in the Super Kamiokande neutrino observatory in Japan. This photograph was part of “The Universe and Art” exhibition in Singapore’s ArtScience Museum in April’17.
The Kamiokande was the first neutrino detector which could measure the direction of neutrinos and proved that they were indeed coming from the Sun. It started running in 1987 as a 2140 ton water-Cherenkov detector, situated in Kamioka mine, at a depth of 1000m.
Its’ measured flux of solar neutrinos confirmed the “Solar Neutrino Problem” which was first established by the Homestake Chlorine Solar Neutrino Experiment in 1968 by R. Davis et al. This problem was that the measured flux of neutrinos from the sun were half of the flux predicted by the Standard Solar Model. Later, in 1999, the SNO Solar Neutrino Experiment was the first to confirm the existence of neutrino oscillations, which was a solution to the solar neutrino problem.
In 1996, the Kamiokande upgraded to Super-Kamiokande, which was a 50 kiloton water-Cherenkov detector. A cherenkov detector detects cherekov radiation, which is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle with sufficiently large energy travels through the a medium (in this case, water) with a speed greater than the speed of light in that medium. It is somewhat like an “optical shock wave”. Cherenkov radiation is emitted in a cone, which when reaches the wall of the photomultiplier detectors, form a ringed pattern shape:
credit: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C040802/lec_notes/Casper/Casper.pdf
How a photomultiplier works: A photon enters it through the glass surface. It hits the photocathode which is placed on the inner surface of the glass. The photocathode, when hit by the photon, emits an electron. The electron is attracted and accelerated to the first dynode, which is charged positively by a high voltage. This causes the dynode to emit several electrons. These electrons are attracted to a second dynode, which has an even higher positive electric potential. This process repeats many times till the last dynode has a huge number of electrons. This is how the signal of a single electron is enormously amplified.
Neutrino research have spanned across particle physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics and cosmology. With the first discovery stage (of neutrino masses and mixing) over, the second discovery stage aims to solve the remaining issues:
This is all so exciting as the existence of neutrino oscillation implies the need for an extension or a revamp of the Standard Model.
Truly uplifting to know there are capybaras in a little hot spring in Japan listening to Patsy Cline.
