大脳の新しい皮質・古い皮質

neocortex, allocortex
allo: 1.Other; different: allopatric. 2.Isomeric: allocholesterol. [Greek, from allos, other.]

virtuosity vs profundity

virtuosity: （芸術上の）技巧,（特に音楽家の）妙技,名人芸
profundity: 深いこと,深さ;（おじぎの）低さ;（知的な）深さ;（意味などの）深遠,難解さ

disaffected

(特に政府に)不満を抱いている, 離反している.
Disaffected Soldiers

prosaic

1 平凡な,退屈な;想像力に欠ける.
2 散文（体）の.
Everyone knows there is a lot of money to be made in oil. But a fresh group of big businesses is discovering there may be even greater profit in a more prosaic liquid: water.

brouhaha

《古風》世論の沸騰,大騒ぎ;（特にささいなことから起こる）事件
I've always felt that if it hadn't come from Microsoft at the height of the antitrust brouhaha, Hailstorm would have been a huge success.

vindication

（非難・汚名・嫌疑・疑惑を晴らす）申し開き;（物事が正当であるとする）立証,証明,（名誉・要求の）擁護,支持;（権利の）主張.
That's a vindication of the large amount of hard work that O'Reilly design team put into redesigning pages so they were XHTML and CSS.

toilet papering

Toilet papering is, as its name suggests, the act of covering an object (usually a tree, house, or other structure of similar size) with toilet paper. This is typically done by throwing numerous toilet paper rolls in such a way that they unroll in mid-air and thus fall on the targeted object in multiple streams.
from a Wikipedia entry

attest

…を証明する,証言する;認証する
Figure out what "open services" mean. Both Yahoo! and Google are doing a lot of great work here, as the mashup phenomenon attests.

incense

〈人を〉ひどく怒らせる,いきり立たせる;《受身》（行為・言葉などに）激怒する
Jeremy had every right to be incensed by the title of Matt's piece, because both Yahoo! and Google have made enormous efforts to give back to the open source community that gave them such a good start in life and is so important a part of their foundation.

contemporaneous

〈事件などが〉（…と）同時（期）に発生した, 同時（代）の; 同年輩の
But contemporaneous with Richard Stallman's story, other people were taking the same path (releasing source code) for a very different reason: the architecture of Unix.

hagiography

聖人伝（研究）;理想化して描いた伝記
Our hagiography tells the tale of how it all started with the quest for software freedom.

blimp

（観測用）小型軟式飛行船;《略式》（一般に）飛行船
this report on the Make Blog about some physical world hackers (aka makers) building a personal blimp has got to send shivers up your spine.

truce

戦闘停止, 休戦, 停戦;休戦［停戦］協定
Little chance that truce will mark end of fighting

それでも地球は回っている

Quotations by Galileo Galileiに以下のように出ていた。

Epur si muove
And yet it does move.
[Apocryphal words to himself after making his abjuration of heliocentricity.]

つまり、本当にそう言ったというのは史実としては疑わしいとされている。

天動説・地動説

天動説：geocentrism, geocentric/Ptolemaic system/theory
地動説：heliocentrism, heliocentric/Copernican system/theory

2010-01-17

自然という本は数学という言語で書かれている

ガリレオ=ガリレイの言葉としてしばしば紹介される。「自然は数学の言語で書かれている」とされることもある。英語では以下が定番のようだ。
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

解剖

医学上の解剖: dissection
検死解剖: autopsy
司法解剖: legally-ordered autopsy
生体解剖: vivisection
解剖学: anatomy

興奮して鳥肌が立つ

sth makes the hair on the back of sb's neck stand up
直訳すると「sth(物か事)がsb(人)の首の後ろの毛を立たせた」で、「sthによりsbは興奮して鳥肌が立った」という感じ。A Way with Wordsでパーソナリティーが使っていたから正統な言い方に違いない。

plagiarism

剽窃, 盗作