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Giant Casimir Effect Predicted Inside Metamaterials – Technology Review

Via Scoop.it – Creating the Future Exotic materials should lead to new ways of observing and playing with one of the strangest effects in physics, say Chinese physicists…   They say that in a particular kind of electromagnetic space called a Rindler space, the Casimir effect is huge. The essential idea here is that the space can be designed to…

Flying robots build structure

Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureFour autonomous quadcopter robots retrieve foam bricks and then a networked computer vision system directs their placement. The installation consists of more than 1,500 bricks and is a 1:100 model of what the architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler call a “vertical village.”Via boingboing.net

Did fracking kill Dunkard Creek?

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation After oil and gas extraction arrived in southwest Pennsylvania, a massive fill kill occurred.   We need to have a “Mission to Renewable Energy” for the US. Via www.salon.com

“Mic check, Mr. President.” Obama Heckled For silence on Police Brutality and Crony Connections to Banks

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation“Mic check, Mr. President.”   “Over 4,000 peaceful protesters have been arrested while bankers continue to destroy the American economy. You must stop the assault on our 1st Amendment rights. Your silence sends a message that police brutality is acceptable. Banks got bailed out. We got sold out.”   And Obama and the mainstream Democrats –…

Progress against SOPA. Still more to do to stop the Destruction of the ‘Net

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationI also wanted to take a minute and thank everyone who called or wrote their Congressperson to speak out against SOPA and PROTECT IP. As a result of people speaking up in the last few days, a lot has happened:   – Republican Representative Darrell Issa and Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi came out against the bill.…