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An interesting (free) journal on philosophy, with even some article with mathematics and physics !

Reading the titles somehow reminds me of the most important webpage of the ACT: the Advanced Concepts Generator :-)

have you seen the 2 articles on canonical GR ...!

and all this without magic metamaterials ...

It's funny to see how people get more and more humble in the desperate attempt to save their stupid ideas... At the beginning was the brave and bold aim to cloak something in free space (in a sphere or a cylinder). This requires inhomogeneous, anisotropic, magnetic materials; hopeless!! So one reduces to one polarization, now we have inhomogenous, anisotropic materials; still hopeless! At this point one downgraded the pretension: instead of cloaking in free space, we make a "carpet cloak" and hide an object behind an invisible dent in a mirror. But if that shall be continuous, we still need inhomogeneity and this is very hard. So now instead of a dent we take a cone and then it is claimed to work ... for ONE polarization. But of course the cloak can't work at all incident angles... irony of fate: everything is now made from birefringent media, the antithesis of what the metamaterials dogma was at the beginning!

Hi Luzi, can you please send me the paper. We are writing a project based on sulfates and carbonates, and all this BS sounds great for the introduction (The authors used Calcite as birefringent material)

Duncan and Xurxo have a look at this - just discussed today :-)

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Free will in (stupid) fruit flies - that will make swarm behaviour even more difficult...

Behavioral variations in fruit fly are not due to randomness but rather to decisions taken by the animal. Seems like free will.... also: http://brembs.net/spontaneous/

in case you have free time and interest ...

Would this help anyone in some virtual meetings?

read most of magazines for free online

A free book to download or browse online

maybe useful ...

luca please check it out ... anything new we did not know? // TSe: it is about the old problem of the free will - when I talked about that you all killed me.

Creating a viable free open source alternative to

like this particularly and would even go one step further: take one day or one half day during the week internet free - just unplug the cable. We did this during my PhD in our lab and it really helped! LS

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Fantastic! You would love my proposal to host an artist in residence in the team :-)

Extremely charged Xe ions by stripping off more electrons than previously thought possible ...

reads way too pessimistic to me - or too optimistic if you are an AI guy .... Luis? Dario?