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First Demonstration of Time Cloaking

Invisibility cloaks are the result of physicists' newfound ability to distort electromagnetic fields in extreme ways. The idea is steer light around a volume of space so that anything inside this region is essentially invisible.

The effect has generated huge interest. The first invisibility cloaks worked only at microwave frequencies but in only a few years, physicists have found ways to create cloaks that work for visible light, for sound and for ocean waves. They've even designed illusion cloaks that can make one object look like another.

Today, Moti Fridman and buddies, at Cornell University in Ithaca, go a step further. These guys have designed and built a cloak that hides events in time.

Time cloaking is possible because of a kind of duality between space and time in electromagnetic theory. In particular, the diffraction of a beam of light in space is mathematically equivalent to the temporal propagation of light through a dispersive medium. In other words, diffraction and dispersion are symmetric in spacetime.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26992/

Mystery Man Gives Mind-Reading Tech More Early Cash Than Facebook, Google Combined

Imagine the money that could be made by a drug company that accurately predicted and treated the onset of Alzheimer's before any symptoms surfaced. That may give us an idea why NeuroVigil, a company specializing in non-invasive, wireless brain-recording tech, just got a cash injection that puts it at a valuation "twice the combined seed valuations of Google's and Facebook's first rounds," according to a company announcement.

Facebook's Series A funding in May 2005 was at $12.7 million, valuing the firm at $98 million. Some figure put the series Series A funding of Google, on a $25 million co-investment from Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, at $75 million in late 1999. Add those valuations. Double 'em, and it would seem NeuroVigil got tens of millions in early cash, enough for a valuation of roughly $250 million.

Most of it came from one moneybags, an "anonymous American industrialist and technology visionary," NeuroVigil says. There were other participants dotted across the U.S. Bill Gates, who's loaded and philanthropic, and Steve Jobs, who's loaded and focused on health (his own, especially), may have an interest in investing in clever medical technology.

http://www.fastcompany.com/1751276/neurovigil-gets-incredibly-huge-cash-injection-to-read-your-mind

Growing up with a black and white TV 'makes you less likely to dream in colour'

Black and white TV has long been associated with the older generations.

Now, a study has found pensioners have mostly colourless dreams as well.

Just one in five people in their 60s recalled having bright, vivid dreams, according to the survey published by the American Psychological Association.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2014374/Growing-black-white-TV-makes-likely-dream-colour.html#ixzz1SGM2vi6N

Lost rainbow toad is rediscovered

Scientists from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) found three of the missing long-legged Borneo rainbow toads up a tree during a night time search.

The team had spent months scouring remote mountain forests for the species.

Prior to these images, only illustrations of the toad had existed.

These were drawn from specimens that were collected by European explorers in the 1920s.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/14151541

Polish lawmakers move closer to blanket abortion ban

AFP - Polish lawmakers decided Friday to press ahead with work on draft legislation banning abortions altogether, even for women who were raped, are carrying deformed babies or face health risks.

The parliament of Poland, which already has one of Europe's strictest anti-abortion laws, dismissed a bid by a left-wing party to drop the law project, instead sending it to a committee for further work.

The draft had been submitted to parliament by anti-abortion activists, drawing support from about 450,000 petitioners from the conservative opposition as well as a rightist, liberal party in the ruling coalition.

http://www.france24.com/en/20110701-polish-lawmakers-move-closer-blanket-abortion-banhttp://www.france24.com/en/20110701-polish-lawmakers-move-closer-blanket-abortion-ban

PSYOPS soldiers at local TV stations

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The Milky Way so close you can almost taste it:

Ocean Sky from Alex Cherney on Vimeo.

A star-gazer has come a little bit closer to the final frontier - after spending 18 months photographing the night sky.

With just an ordinary digital camera, Alex Cherney turned thousands of snaps into an incredible time-lapse video of the cosmos.

Using long exposures to allow more light in, these breath-taking pictures from the southern tip of Australia demonstrate how he captured the dramatic way the sky changes at night.

Click for pictures:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2014312/The-Milky-Way-close-taste-Alex-Cherneys-breath-taking-snaps-galaxy-seen-naked-eye.html?ITO=1490

3D Printer

Massive dust storm envelops Phoenix

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/05/national/main20077061.shtml?tag=cbsContent;cbsCarousel

Awake (TV Series 2011)

After a car accident takes the life of a family member, a police detective lives two alternating parallel lives, one with his wife and one with his son. Is one of his "realities" merely a dream?