At least the folks at Galactic Mu think we are, because we print a summation, New Take On Invisibility - 'Shrinking' Nanoparticles Visible Size Without Reducing Physical Dimensions, rather than just violating the copyright of the Advanced Materials folks and reprinting their whole article. Well, we do what we can. The topic is interesting because current metamaterials can't be made (yet) in the optical range due to the limits of nanotechnology, so this is an interesting waypoint. I think it is a waypoint, in much the same way that disk compression was a waypoint on the road to ginormous hard drives.

There's a class war brewing and it involves DNA.

Only the wealthy can afford what is, now, around $350,000 for the kind of sequencing that can tell you if you have a disease-risk gene that can be passed on to kids. That's a Bentley.

Dan Stoicescu, a millionaire living in Switzerland - "I’d rather spend my money on my genome than a Bentley or an airplane."

I like to keep tracking of interesting ways people find us and I saw a Google link for us with the keywords The world's greatest scientist. And what does it link to? Yep, yours truly. That Google is worth every penny of its gazillion dollar capitalization with results like that.

Shelley Batts of Retrospectacle fame is calling it a day - sort of - by ending her own column and starting a new one with another person. Good writer, good scientist, good community advocate. So go by and take a read at the new one once they're up and running.

I just noticed there is a new Gene Genie out, hosted by Sciencebase and I am linking to it because Sciencebase does good stuff and this is not the sort of 'same old people' self-promotion we tend to see in these carnivals.  

It's also coincidental because this just came up in an email with Berci yesterday.   If anyone thinks this is something we should host (and I wrote that to Berci also) go ahead and get it going.

It needs one person to collate all the articles but we like that kind of community thing and we can provide a substantial audience outside the blogging community.