This is the combined listing for buying both the deep sea diver and the squid crochet patterns — via Etsy
Pentagon-supported physicists say they have devised a time cloak
that briefly makes an event undetectable.
The laboratory device manipulates the flow of light in such a way that for the merest fraction of a second an event cannot be seen, according to a paper published in the science journal Nature.
It adds to experimental work in creating next-generation camouflage — a so-called invisibility cloak in which specific colours cannot be perceived by the human eye — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A prominent veteran of the Navajo code talkers
who confounded enemy combatants in World War II by using the Navajo language as a battlefield cipher in the South Pacific has died, a veteran’s association said.
Keith Little, 87, served in the US Marine Corps 4th Marine Division in the Pacific and was president of the Navajo Code Talkers Association.
He died on Tuesday evening at a medical centre in Fort Defiance, Arizona — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The IWC Top Gun Miramar watch is a tribute to the place in California where the myth of the elite pilot was born. This watch features a sleek looking dark grey 48mm ceramic case and a somewhat vintage-military colour set, including the green textile strap — via Perpetuelle
The Japanese government is testing a self-defence virus that has the objective of tracking down the source of cyber attacks and removing the threat.
The virus is the result of a quiet, $2.28 million project that Fujitsu had undertaken on behalf of the Japanese Defence Ministry’s Technical Research and Development Institute in 2008, according to reports from The Yomiuri Shimbun.
While the virus has the ability to track immediate sources of attack, it can also allegedly determine whether computers are being used as a proxy between the original source of the attack. Beyond this, it also stops its attackers and sends the information it finds back to its owners — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An early clinical trial of a hepatitis C vaccine has shown promising
results, according to researchers at Oxford University.
Designing a vaccine has been difficult as the virus changes its appearance, making it hard to find something to target.
Writing in Science Translational Medicine, researchers say their trial on 41 patients shows it is possible.
The Hepatitis C Trust said the findings were very promising — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police in India say they have arrested six foreign nationals suspected of defrauding hundreds of people using text message and email scams.
Scam victims were duped after being told they had won a lottery.
Authorities seized 14 laptops, seven memory sticks and 23 mobile phones, as well as fake documents and cash.
The arrests come after security firm Kaspersky reported that India now sent more spam than any other country in the world.
Police said the six men, all Nigerian, would be remanded in custody until 12 January — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Blue Ringed Octopus near Bunaken, Indonesia, originally uploaded by Theresa Legler.
I sold an old French violin to a buyer in Canada, and the buyer disputed the label.
This is not uncommon. In the violin market, labels often mean little and there is often disagreement over them. Some of the most expensive violins in the world have disputed labels, but they are works of art nonetheless.
Rather than have the violin returned to me, PayPal made the buyer DESTROY the violin in order to get his money back. They somehow deemed the violin as counterfeit
even though there is no such thing in the violin world.
The buyer was proud of himself, so he sent me a photo of the destroyed violin.
I am now out a violin that made it through WWII as well as $2500. This is of course, upsetting. But my main goal in writing to you is to prevent PayPal from ordering the destruction of violins and other antiquities that they know nothing about. It is beyond me why PayPal simply didn’t have the violin returned to me.
I spoke on the phone to numerous reps from PayPal who 100% defended their action and gave me the party line — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Parasitic flies that turn honeybees into night-flying zombies could provide another clue to cracking the mystery of colony collapse disorder.
Since 2007, thousands of hives in the US have been decimated as bees inexplicably go missing overnight. The best explanation so far is that multiple stresses, perhaps parasitic mites, viruses or pesticides, combine to tip the bees over the edge.
John Hafernik of San Francisco State University in California and colleagues discovered that hosting Apocephalus borealis, a parasitic fly found throughout North America, makes bees fly around in a disoriented way at night, when they normally roost in the hive, before killing them — via redwolf.newsvine.com
British cartoonist Ronald Searle, best known for his spiky drawings of the tearaway pupils of the fictional girls school St Trinian‘s, has died in southern France aged 91.
Searle, whose anarchic St Trinian’s characters spawned a series of movie adaptations, died on 30 December at a hospital near his home in Draguignan, in France’s south-eastern Var region — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Fancy a go at the hotel trade? This 11 bedroom art deco-style hotel in Barmouth, Gwynedd, North Wales might be for you.
It actually dates back to 1892, when it was built as a home for a wealthy businessman (a famous gunmaker), but the look
now dates back to the ’40s, which is where the deco-style exterior perhaps comes from.
More details on the listing. If you fancy it, the asking price is £770,000 — via WowHaus
Cut to a pleasantly warm evening in Bahrain. My companion, a senior UK investment banker and I, are discussing the most successful banking types we know and what makes them tick. I argue that they often conform to the characteristics displayed by social psychopaths. To my surprise, my friend agrees.
He then makes an astonishing confession: At one major investment bank for which I worked, we used psychometric testing to recruit social psychopaths because their characteristics exactly suited them to senior corporate finance roles
.
Here was one of the biggest investment banks in the world seeking psychopaths as recruits.
Mr Ronson spoke to scores of psychologists about their understanding of the damage that psychopaths could do to society. None of those psychologists could have imagined, I’m sure, the existence of a bank that used the science of spotting them as a recruiting mechanism — via redwolf.newsvine.com
As citizens of the United States worry over the implications of the pending SOPA legislation, a small land-locked country on the fringes of Europe is showing how bad things can really get. Labelled by the United States as an outpost of tyranny
, Belarus is certainly living up to its reputation. This Friday, browsing foreign websites will become an offence punishable by fines, with service providers taking responsibility for the actions of their user — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A comprehensive project worklog of Aerodyne with over 150 photographs can be accessed at bit-tech.net, HardOCP or Overclockers Australia — via Slippery Skip
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For the last six months, three orangutans at the Milwaukee County Zoo have had the pleasure of playing with a donated iPad a couple times a week, and guess what? They love it.
We show them the iPad, and read them stories or let them have different apps,
” said Jan Rafert, curator of primates and small mammals at the zoo. “We don’t let them hold them, but they can do some of the paint apps by sticking their fingers through the mesh.”
The orangutan iPad program, known as Apps for Apes, was started after the gorilla keeper at the zoo mentioned on her Facebook page that she’d like to get some iPads for her gorillas to play with, Rafert explained. It was kind of a joke, but a zoo volunteer took it seriously and donated a used iPad to the zoo. It turned out that the gorillas didn’t really enjoy the iPad – “they are more stoic,” said Rafert – but the orangutans went wild — via redwolf.newsvine.com
What does it mean when a parking spot is marked with a wheelchair symbol? If you answered, It means I can park there as long as I’m going to be quick,
you’re wrong — yet you’re also far from alone. Every day in parking lots all over the world, non-disabled drivers regularly use spaces clearly reserved for the handicapped. They often get away with it, too, unless an attendant happens to check while their vehicle is parked there. Thanks to technology recently developed by New Zealand’s Car Parking Technologies (CPT), however, those attendants could soon be notified the instant that a handicapped spot is improperly occupied — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scottish teachers are being warned that their use of social networking sites could put their careers at risk.
The Scottish Secondary Teachers Association believes teachers can reveal too much personal information on sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
The union also fears they could become overly familiar with pupils.
The General Teaching Council of Scotland is preparing new guidelines on social networking sites.
This follows a number of recent cases brought before the GTC’s regulatory body — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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