感谢伟大的共青团组织，我们交了5元钱团费后，组织带领我们西塘一日游。让我这个资深的团员第一次感到团组织的温暖：）

周末这天，出去走走，无论哪里，你都会为13亿这个数字震撼或者烦恼。People mountain people sea！几次步行去徐家汇，天钥桥路上总是摩肩接踵。所以，周末睡个懒觉洗个澡坐在阳台上望着马路上密密麻麻的人群发呆也成了我的一大癖好。西塘，周日的西塘，游人意料之中的多。这时侯我才意识到上次选择周一玩乌镇是个多么明智的选择。

“西塘，古称胥塘、斜塘，又名平川，有着丰富的历史文化的积淀，春秋战国时代，西塘就是吴越两国相争的交界地，故也有吴根越角之称。西塘地势平坦，河流纵横，自然环境十分幽静，处处绿波荡漾，家家临水映人。小镇上保存着完好的明清建筑群落，廊棚和古弄堪称“双绝”。西塘古镇中最著名的风景线是一道1000多米造型古朴的廊棚，一色的黑瓦盖顶，沿河而建，连为一体，绵延不断，催人发思古之悠情。古河道旁边还有不少古色古香的古居民，廊棚长长，古建筑重重叠叠，小船儿悠悠，俨然是一派古风犹存的情调。思古之幽情油然而生。”这是在西塘的主页上介绍的。

我们8：30准时出发，9：50进入西塘西大门。看到了这样一句话“西塘——生活着的千年古镇”。至今我还没有明白这句话的意思。西大门是刚刚建好的，单独来看，是很漂亮，但是综合整个古镇人最喜欢炫耀的“古”来看，是不是古镇的一大败笔？

进入西大门，穿过检票入口，是五姑娘公园，是为了纪念为了自由恋爱殉情的烈女，又一个传统的老掉牙的爱情故事。同样是刚刚建成的。

醉园，也就是王宅，典型的江南书香门第。主人王亨先生以版画闻名。我感兴趣的到时宅子的建筑，曲径通幽，精巧别致，小桥奇石都浓缩在这个小小的院落里，江南民居的一大特点就是布局小巧，北方更讲究宽敞气派。

王亨先生用羽毛写的书法。

王宅一角

石皮弄——胖子拒绝通行。

西塘的特色——廊棚

几乎所有的江南水乡都是这种枕水而建的青瓦灰墙住宅。流水依然，桨声不闻，现代路上交通的发达，使水乡也抛弃了自己昔日繁华的水上往来。

河边洗涤的村民，他们早晨在这河里刷牙洗衣，中午洗菜，晚上还洗某种壶——导游如是说！

我想他们每天写的都是同一件衣服，仅仅是为了表演给游人看——作秀无处不在！

难得一见的一叶小舟。

河边的垂柳

这种由长条石建成的桥，在乌镇更多，而且更有特色

月拱桥，好像叫五福桥？记得不太清了，男的左脚先上桥，女的右脚，不能回头，变可享五福。于是大家都执着的走着！

河边的饭馆

廊棚

《取义》

你坐在桥上画风景，
看风景人在楼上拍你
水墨装饰了你的画板
你点缀了别人的图片

---猥亵一下卞之琳的《断章》 

画的比我拍的有感觉多了。去旅游吧，扔了你的傻瓜或者单反，带上你的画板！

花絮

还有很多，没时间了，最后，咱也指点一下江山！

总之，西塘比乌镇更淳朴和破旧一些，更加凌乱一些。然而，正是这种沧桑，更能引起人们的回忆和思索。试想，一个逢斜风细雨的午后，昏暗的廊棚下，拥挤着贪婪的游人，漠然低头，那扇半掩着的门里，幽暗的角落里独自坐着一位满面沧桑的老人，悠闲的喝着一壶清茶，悠然自得。这种反差，你不由的会想起你的晚年。能否如此安逸？

西塘，生活着的千年古镇。他的美就源自于他的朴素。

Chemists should speak out against the pseudoscience of marketing, says Neil Young

It isn't hard to find ideas about chemistry and chemists which are far from the truth. In the aisles of your local supermarket, walking down the high street or sat in front of the TV, we are constantly being told about products which are better by virtue of being 'chemical free'. We are led to believe that chemicals in our food are to be avoided, even while high-tech science will make us healthier and more youthful. 

As chemists, it is easy to see through these claims and dismiss them as just another example of the advertising industry trying to encourage us to part with our cash. The problems is, this constant bombardment of misinformation, inaccuracy, pseudoscience and hyperbole can only result in the general public being left confused about the positive role chemistry and chemists play in everyday life.  

I grew so annoyed with this that, along with a few other PhDs and post docs, I decided to do something about it. Working with Sense About Science, a charitable trust that promotes good science and evidence in public debate, we contacted manufacturers, retailers and others
in pursuit of the evidence behind their claims.  

Science or marketing?

Earlier this year, supermarket giant Sainsbury's proudly announced that it was removing the preservative sodium benzoate from almost all their own-label soft drinks and canned fruit.  

However, sodium benzoate is also present in apples, plums, cinnamon, cloves, prunes and cranberries - the latter is often touted as a 'superfood'. So why did Sainsbury's remove a preservative from some of its foods, whilst seemingly ignoring its presence in others?  

There is a known risk that benzoate can react with vitamin C to give benzene - perhaps that was the reason? I asked the company if benzene had ever been detected in a Sainsbury's soft drink, or if there had been a product recall, or indeed if there was any scientific reason to remove this antifungal agent from its food. 

Sainsbury's told me that the action was a response to consumer demand, rather than thorough analysis of the benefits and risks of using sodium benzoate as a preservative.  

Yet I believe that this demand is itself driven by marketing campaigns that increase consumer worries about food safety and foster a growing mistrust of science. 

Sandwich chain Pret a Manger has run adverts containing the line 'No Obscure Chemicals'. The Co-op has removed monosodium glutamate (MSG) from their products based on 'consumer concern'. One has to ask, who is generating this concern? 

I'm sure you can think of many other examples. It is the responsibility of everyone interested, or working, in science to take this up and to challenge the claims we hear. You don't need to have 50 years experience at the very top of consumer products chemistry to spot places where everyday companies are using poor science as a marketing tool. The confusion it creates does not do chemistry - as a science or a profession - any favours.  

If you question a company's science by picking up the phone, firing off an email and asking the company to explain its logic, we might just be able to create our own consumer demand. 

Neil Young is a PhD student at Cardiff University, UK

好久没来了，这块乐园快要荒废了。忙碌的确可以扼杀人的很多爱好，譬如阅读，譬如写作。国庆做了三天实验，老板一天给了200元慰问金。虽然可以看出我们的工作多么廉价，但我也是很满足了，至少可以加条内存了！过去的几个周，平均一个周工作时间都是80+小时，最强的一个周，每天平均工作了16个小时，整整七天，以一场感冒终止了这种疯狂。的确我是个心急的人，想一口气把这个课题做完，想在过年前能把文章投出去。欲速则不达，最近这几天的实验全都重复不出来了。终于，慢了下来，可以冷静的思考几天了！

人常说“吃不穷，喝不穷，没有计划就是穷！”，计划要做的事，总是比我每天能做的要多，所以我每天都没有完成自己的计划，就成了不断加班到凌晨的恶性循环。心理学上认为一件事重复三个周，就成了一种习惯。一旦忙碌成了一种习惯，那么累也就不能称之为累了。难怪有人抱怨每天都加班，突然一天没有班加了感觉好落寞。

第十期的《中国国家地理》，断断续续的看了一个月，还未告罄。总编单之蔷先生的大作《江南 曾经是塞北？》一文中，在评价“铁马、秋风、塞北，杏花、春雨、江南。”时，认为“人类最大的不平等，是出生地的不平等”。来表现生活在江南人的富足和优越，生活在西北边疆人们的贫瘠和辛苦。

爱屋及乌的原因，喜欢路遥，贾平凹，陈忠实的作品。《南方周末》上介绍了贾平凹先生在新作《高兴》的片段，黄八说，“为什么这个世界上有穷和富，国家有了南有了北为什么还有城和乡，城里这么多高楼大厦都叫猪住了，这么多漂亮的女人都叫狗睡了，为什么不地震、为什么不打仗呢，为什么毛主席没有万寿无疆，再没有了文化大革命呢？”贾平凹的中学同学刘书祯问贾：“我和你一样是瓷砖，命运把你贴到了灶台上，把我贴在厕所的便池里。”，“我们都是一样的人，一样的工作，怎么就有了城里人和乡下人，怎么过的日子差别那么大？”

托马斯-杰斐逊写的《独立宣言》中提到“我们认为，以下真理不证自明：人生而平等...”这一理念至今被奉为经典和现代法制的基石。

也许，大多数人都是一块贴错了地方的瓷砖，唯一的平等就是都是瓷砖！