The day started off with a trip to the Fowler Museum where I was able to look at aboriginal paintings from Papunya, and indigenous group in central 
Australia. Looking at the paintings reminded me of pointillism because the majority of every painting was composed of tiny dots. But the paintings also gave me an idea of what their culture was like. Being that the Papunya people lived in the desert, paintings of waterholes were present in almost all of the artwork.
Next I went to the Basic Plasma Research Center. The very first machinery I saw there was the LAPD (large plasma device). The LAPD is used to create 
plasma through the help of large magnets (the purple and yellow objects in the picture to the right) and intense heat (which can go well beyond 1 million degrees Celsius) in order for scientists to research the space plasma processes.
The last place I was taken today was the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library to listen to a curated talk on the specialized book section which 
includes a whole room of rare books. Besides enjoying the fantastic air conditioning, l also had a great time learning about how much content and information can be found in books dating back to the sixteenth and seventeenth century.
So today I managed to analyze aboriginal art, learn about the space plasma process, and enjoy a detailed lecture on specialized books. What more can I ask for?
Links:
http://www.iki.rssi.ru/galeev60.html
http://www.t4.lanl.gov/tdiv-features99/abdallah.99.pdf
http://plasmascience.net/tpu/plasma_space.html
http://www.aboriginal-art.com/desert_pages/papunya_intro.html
http://blogs.nyu.edu/projects/materialworld/2009/02/icons_of_the_desert_early_abor_1.html