Romulan Cloaking Device Becoming a Reality

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Here you CANNOT see the Romulan War Bird in front of some open star clusters

Fun post for Friday.

Researchers at Nanyang University demonstrate the refractive qualities of Calcite to make a post it note ‘disappear.’

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5APMyTGrFg]Researchers at Nanyang University demonstrate the refractive qualities of Calcite to make a post it note ‘disappear.’
Erasmus Bartholin was the first to note the double refraction of iceland spar (Calcite) in 1669. You can get his Experimenta crystalli Islandici disdiaclastici quibus mira & insolita
refractio detegitur as a free ebook.

Isaac Newton also experimented and reported on the phenomenon.

But the folks at Nanyang University got it posted to Youtube

Obvious applications include defense, organized crime, smuggling, and advertising.
Open clusters

Fun Friday: Dyslexic Font For Free!

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One in every ten people have dyslexia.

Aside from having it rough trying to read traditional print material like books and newspapers, dyslexics also often have a hard time processing web pages because most of the content are usually text-based.

(One symptom of Dyslexia is the rotation of the images being looked at.)

Open Dyslexic offers their open source Open Dyslexic Font for free download here.

And they have their Dyslexia friendly web browser, OpenWeb available in the IOS app store for iPad, iPhone, and Ipod touch.

Hope this helps, say, one in ten of you…