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WE may not yet be able to become invisible, but scientists have succeeded in "cloaking" an object perfectly for the first time, making it invisible to microwaves. Many "invisibility cloak" efforts have been made, but they’ve all reflected some light, making the illusion incomplete.

Microwaves (which are longer wavelengths than we can see, which is why you don’t notice them when you cook something in your microwave oven). The next step is to move the work to different wavelengths–ones which we can see.
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The internet is the worldwide voice of freedom and this makes some governments and institutions nervous. But other people are still fighting to keep it free: An international meeting has been scheduled to redraft the 1988 treaty that governs the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU). These delegates are trying to EXPAND the regulations that were developed for an earlier internet age, 24 years ago.

In the November 29th edition of the Financial Times, Richard Waters, Daniel Thomas and James Fontanella-Khan quote EU digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes as saying, "There is a real battle about how to govern the internet."
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Is this a return to Aflockalypse? It’s happened before, and this time it happened along a highway in California: Over 100 dead birds were found there. Dead birds have also recently been reported in Missouri.

In the Huffington Post, Travis Walter Donovan writes that the California birds "were intact and had not been shot."
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We told you it was coming and here it is: NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry there, including water, sulfur and chlorine-containing substances, some of which could indicate there may be primitive life there (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). The composition is about half common volcanic minerals and half non-crystalline materials such as glass.
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