Loafing on a massage chair

Well, it is quite hard trying to do nothing...there is so much to do and so little time, isn't it.  So, I am trying out loafing on my Japanese Shiatsu massage chair equipped with 30+ options of massages and can take it with or without heat!  Each selected course lasts exactly 16 minutes.  So, for the next 16 minutes, I am loafing around....but I can't because I need to flip all available channels on my 60" HD 4K TV too.  Don't know if this counts as loafing.

My kitchen has every color under the sun since my wife used to teach cooking: white for tofu, onions, eggs, and cream cheese; red for chili, apple, and beef; orange for carrot, orange and cantaloupe; purple for cabbages and yam; green for coconuts and Chinese broccoli; beige for soba and  natto; pink for salmon and rock fish; golden brown for fry chicken and stew beacon; black for coffee and soy source etc.  Indeed my kitchen is a colorfully one.

Fusing the future—a power struggle

I came across this Economist podcast:  Babbage: Fusing the future.....quite interest.  According to the report From "Iter, the world's largest collaborative fusion experiment, to private start-ups, he talks to the organisations racing to be first to create fusion power. Could the long-promised dream of nuclear fusion—to provide clean, limitless, carbon-free energy—finally be about to come true? " 

" ITER ("The Way" in Latin) is one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world today.  In southern France, 35 nations are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy based on the same principle that powers our Sun and stars.....Thousands of engineers and scientists have contributed to the design of ITER since the idea for an international joint experiment in fusion was first launched in 1985....ITER's First Plasma is scheduled for December 2025.  That will be the first time the machine is powered on, and the first act of ITER's multi-decade operational program."

Wait a minute, it started in 1985, currently it is still being working on and is scheduled to have the first "turn on" in 2025, another six years.  I don't believe that it will work because there are just too many people and too many nations are involved.  If it works, then someone or something will try to destroy it.  This is just the way we as human are wired. Just look at history, there are just too many examples. Then again, let's hope that I am wrong.

Chemistry Week 4: Five elements coorate to colors of the fluorecent minerals?

Luminescence and Fluorescence.  I did not know that minerals have this kind of property and usages from industrial, cosmetic to medicinal.  Would the colors of these minerals be able to correlate to properties of the five elements: green, red, gold, yellow, and blue or wood, fire, earth, metal, water, and wood respectively.  It would be a fascinating project to investigate.