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• Invisibility Visualized: New Software For Rendering Cloaked Objects

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 492
  Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have created a physically accurate rendering system capable of visualizing the effects of metamaterials designed to create “invisibility cloaks”.  Previously theorized “ostrich effect” is plainly visible in the never-before-seen renderings. The ...
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• What invisible objects will actually look like

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 710
  Over the last few years we’ve covered the development of “invisibility cloaks” using metamaterials – man-made structured composite materials exhibiting optical properties not found in nature that can guide light to achieve cloaking and other optical effects. In 2006, scientists at Duke University demonstrated ...
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• The morning coffee and the poor night’s sleep

  
  Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog — Authority: 129
  It was bound to happen eventually — a poor night’s sleep, followed by a late start to the morning means that there is no time to enjoy a coffee properly today. So find out why buying a Kindle is still a bad idea for book lovers, and check out some hummingbirds . We will be back tomorrow.
  6 days ago

• Passing and pretending

  
  Ashy's Blog — Authority: 99
  I read a post by my friend today where she says she wants to pretend to be normal for a few hours, and it got me thinking. She says: “But also I’ve been feeling this week like I just want one day, or even half a day, where I just get to be normal. Or pretend to be normal.” Hell yes! I know what you mean. ...
  1 week ago

• More Low-Tech Invisibility Cloaks, This Time in NYC [Invisibility]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 895
  Yesterday, I showed you Liu Bolins analog take on invisibility . Today, Ive got more for you: say hello to Fred Lebain ...if you can see him. Freds technique is similar to Lius, but instead of painting himself, he uses large photographs. He goes to various spots in NYC, take a photo, then returns a few days later ...
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• Liu Bolin Creates Slowest, Least Practical Invisibility Cloak Ever [Art]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 895
  Liu Bolin is a Chinese artist who makes himself invisible. See him hiding there in the picture above? But wait, how does he do it? With paint! Yes, Bolin paints his whole body to blend into the background, which is incredibly impressive yet also pretty impractical when you need to get invisible quickly, without the ...
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• Yet Another Visual Effect Test

  
  I Am Not A Hamster — Authority: 129
   Powered by Max Banner Ads Well, Ive been at it again. No, the dirty minded among you are wrong, what Ive been up to is working with visual effects again. This time instead of just doing a standard cloning scene where I am literally "beside myself", I actually put myself into this scene four [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Quick hit: World gender gap survey out - Aotearoa fifth best

  
  The Hand Mirror — Authority: 519
  Heres some bits of the article in the Herald:New Zealand has maintained its fifth placing on the Global Gender Gap Index, an annual list compiled by the World Economic Forum to assesses countries on how well they divide their resources and opportunities between their male and female populations.Women remain far behind ...
  2 weeks ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  Bildungblog — Authority: 155
  Condi Rice Cloaking Device Almost Perfected; Former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Now Virtually Invisible
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• The morning coffee and baby Einstein

  
  Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog — Authority: 129
  In 1997, a new product burst onto the scene: Baby Einstein . A video range that promised to turn your child into a genius, it was eventually bought by Disney, and expanded into a whole host of Baby [insert-genius-here] videos. Surprise, surprise. Watching TV turns out not to create genius children, no matter how ...
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• Disability Is …?

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 661
  (Originally posted July 2009 at Feministe , three rivers fog .) We had a really good discussion about non disability. It got derailed, a bit, because it depended on our ability to reasonably define disability . And it’s a subject that has come up in every discussion we’ve had these couple weeks. What is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dilemmas of innovation and invisibility

  
  Build it Kenny, and they will come... — Authority: 458
  Northern Zambia, August 1993 . We set off from Chilubula – where we were helping build a school – for another village a couple of hours away. They didn’t have a school. They didn’t seem to have much, in fact. As our pick-up approached, children ran out to greet us, throwing themselves onto their knees. Many ...
  3 weeks ago

• Yes, it DOES make a difference

  
  three rivers fog — Authority: 477
  ( Cross-posted at FWD .) I wrote this yesterday in an extreme fog and do not have the spoons to rework and polish it. Apologies for the brainspill, but these days it’s the only option I have. *** For background, see Ouyang Dan’s post on the problematic aspects of the TV show House . Don’t tell me that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Yes, it DOES make a difference

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 661
  ( Cross-posted at three rivers fog .) I wrote this yesterday in an extreme fog and do not have the spoons to rework and polish it. Apologies for the brainspill, but these days it’s the only option I have. *** For background, see Ouyang Dan’s post on the problematic aspects of the TV show House . Don’t tell ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Promising Future For an Invisible Man by James W Smith

  
  e-Guru.org — Authority: 147
  The concept of a man becoming invisible was introduced by H.G. Wells over one hundred years ago. Through the years, science fiction has often used the idea of a fantasy cloaking device to provide object invisibility. In fact, it is a term that has become so common that it is found in the Star Trek Encyclopedia. The ...
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• Montenegro Gays Have to Stay Hidden

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 156
  The invisibility of homosexuals and lesbians in public and social spheres is further slowing efforts to overcome homophobia in this conservative society. Mirko and Nenad would like to forget the night when the Podgorica police caught them being intimate in a park and decided to teach them a lesson by ...
  3 weeks ago

• A New Job!

  
  Musings of a Quirkyloon — Authority: 128
  I sat my husband down the other day and had a serious conversation with him regarding finances. Im sorry to say, I need a job. And fast. So as I sat and pondered what type of job I should apply for, yet another light-bulb went off in my head. Strange how thats been happening so often of late. Well its strange for ...
  3 weeks ago

• First electromagnetic black hole built on earth, nobody raps a...

  
  Hobbies Fun & entertainment - fun-entertainment.marc8.com — Authority: 164
  An electromagnetic black hole -- which sucks in the light surrounding it -- has been built at Southeast University in Nanjing, China for the first time. read more
  4 weeks ago

• The Seven Deadly Sins of Blogging: Sin #4, Being Unreadable

  
  I'd Rather Be Writing - Tom Johnson — Authority: 492
  The fourth sin in my ongoing Seven Deadly Sins of Blogging series ( being fake ,  irrelevant ,  boring , unreadable, irresponsible, unfindable, and inattentive) is being unreadable. Readability is probably the easiest sin to correct, especially if you’re familiar with your stylesheet. Reading Instincts A while ...
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• BEANERY WRITERS NEWSLETTER Vol. 2 Issue 8 October 1, 2009

  
  Beanerywriters's Weblog — Authority: 412
  BEANERY WRITERS NEWSLETTER (BWN) VOL. 2 ISSUE 8 OCTOBER 1, 2009 Edited by Carolyn C. Holland and BWG members. (Forward this newsletter to the writers you know!) ABOUT THE BEANERY WRITERS NEWSLETTER The BWN shares information on our members—their writing, their activities/interests/accomplishments, ...
  4 weeks ago

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