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"Can you teach me how to be invisible", a young man asked his Master.
"I have a special incantation for you that will do that", his Master answered "but you must practice this teaching day after day."
"I am ready", said the young man.
"When you wake up in the morning simply start saying - I refuse to compete in this capitalistic society"

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Control Systems

Control Systems:
The Guilt System – Your hidden, unresolved guilt makes you vulnerable. How to undo it.
The Distraction System – How society turns focused people into distracted automatons.
The Consumer-anxiety System – How our economy depends on consumer anxiety.
The Disapproval System – How advertisers and propagandists exploit our fear of disapproval.
The Inner Dictator – How to think bad things, and be unreasonably happy.
The Metaphysical System – How unsuspected metaphysical assumptions control us, and how to subvert this control.
The Propaganda System – How semantic propaganda works – and how to defend yourself against it.
Empire of Emotion – How our emotions control us. Do advertisers exploit this control? Time to stop playing the emotions game?

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Weird Animal of the Day

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The Pipa Pipa Frog!
* These amphibians are shaped like squarish pancakes with the head flat on top. The nose is pointed with small black lidless eyes that look like tiny beads.

Diet
* Wild: any small aquatic animal, dead or alive

Behavior
* Highly aquatic, adults rarely venture onto land
* Obtain food by sweeping through mud with star-shaped fingertips;
must sweep food into the mouth with feet because they have
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The Joy of Concrete

Concrete casts new light in dull rooms
11 March 2004

Light transmitting concrete is set to go on sale later this year.

The days of dull, grey concrete could be about to end. A Hungarian architect has combined the world’s most popular building material with optical fiber from Schott to create a new type of concrete that transmits light.

Letting the light in

A wall made of “LitraCon” allegedly has the strength of traditional concrete but thanks to an embedded array of glass fibers can display a view of the outside world, such as the silhouette of a tree, for example.

“Thousands of optical glass fibers form a matrix and run parallel to each other between the two main surfaces of every block,” explained its inventor Áron Losonczi. “Shadows on the lighter side will appear with sharp outlines on the darker one. Even the colours remain the same. This special effect creates the general impression that the thickness and weight of a concrete wall will disappear.”

Light-transmitting concrete

The hope is that the new material will transform the interior appearance of concrete buildings by making them feel light and airy rather than dark and heavy.

Losonczi, a 27 year old architect from Csongrád recently came up with the idea while he was studying at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm, Sweden. After demonstrating the material at design exhibitions all over Europe he has now formed a company to commercialize the concept.

His new company, also called LitraCon, is now optimizing its manufacturing methods and hopes to start selling prefabricated blocks of the material later this year.

Commerical possibilities

“In theory, a wall structure built out of the light-transmitting concrete can be a couple of meters thick as the fibers work without any loss in light up to 20 m,” explained Losonczi. “Load-bearing structures can also be built from the blocks as glass fibers do not have a negative effect on the well-known high compressive strength of concrete. The blocks can be produced in various sizes with embedded heat isolation too.”

Author
Oliver Graydon is editor of Optics.org and Opto & Laser Europe magazine.

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Bicycle Riding on Square Wheels

Bicycle Riding on Square Wheels

Before starting our long working week, let's relax with this story of a bicycle with square wheels. No, it's not a joke. And it even rides smoothly. But there is a trick: the road must have a specific shape. The Math Trek section of Science News Online tells us more about this strange bicycle -- actually a tricycle with one front wheel and two back wheels.

Stan Wagon, a mathematician at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., has a bicycle with square wheels. It's a weird contraption, but he can ride it perfectly smoothly. His secret is the shape of the road over which the wheels roll.

Here is Stan Wagon riding his tricycle (Credit: Stan Wagon).

A square wheel can roll smoothly, keeping the axle moving in a straight line and at a constant velocity, if it travels over evenly spaced bumps of just the right shape. This special shape is called an inverted catenary.

A catenary is the curve describing a rope or chain hanging loosely between two supports. At first glance, it looks like a parabola. In fact, it corresponds to the graph of a function called the hyperbolic cosine. Turning the curve upside down gives you an inverted catenary -- just like each bump of Wagon's road.

In fact, the idea is not new, and Wagon picked it after seeing an exhibit about square wheels at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. But Wagon went further by exploring the relationship between all kinds of wheels and road shapes.

Just as a square rides smoothly across a roadbed of linked inverted catenaries, other regular polygons, including pentagons and hexagons, also ride smoothly over curves made up of appropriately selected pieces of inverted catenaries. As the number of a polygon's sides increases, these catenary segments get shorter and flatter. Ultimately, for an infinite number of sides (in effect, a circle), the curve becomes a straight, horizontal line.

Here is the conclusion of the article.

So far, no one has found a road-and wheel combination in which the road has the same shape as the wheel. That's an intriguing challenge for mathematicians.

So why don't you try to solve this math puzzle?

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