Marissa Mayer enters the Yahoo pressure cooker

I truly hope she (Marissa Mayer) does something miraculous. I've been disappointed with Yahoo since the infamous GeoCities holocaust (where thousands of websites were obliterated from existence). GeoCities should have, at least, been saved and designated an Internet landmark.  What a loss of history (save for the remnants contained within the Internet Archive).  That was the beginning of the end as far as I was concerned. You can't even add WebRing code to Yahoo groups. It's those (little?) things that push people away....

Click here to read article on CNET....

Seen for the First Time: Starless Galaxies

Now that we've, apparently, discovered dark galaxies, does this upend the theory of (invisible) dark matter?  (Probably not -- but, one can hope!) 

Seen for the First Time: Starless Galaxies
POPULAR SCIENCE - NEW TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE NEWS, THE FUTURE NOW | JULY 12, 2012
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B612 Sentinel: The First Privately-Funded Deep Space Mission

The privately funded B612 Foundation may not be engaged in asteroid
tagging for financial gain; but, I'm sure they're thinking that any
extraterrestrial causing extinction event can not be good for
business....

B612 Sentinel: The First Privately-Funded Deep Space Mission
POPULAR SCIENCE - NEW TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE NEWS, THE FUTURE NOW | JUNE 28, 2012
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-06/first-privately-funded-deep-space-mission-will-chart-all-asteroids-inner-solar-system

How to Make Anything Disappear

Invisibility cloaks and devices are only a time slip away with advances in the proper bending of light so that the physical appearance of matter may elude our eyes and senses....

 

How to Make Anything Disappear
DISCOVER MAGAZINE | JUNE 29, 2012
http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-aug/06-how-to-make-anything-disappear