Earthquake Invisibility Cloak

BuzzSkyline writes "The same folks who brought us the tsunami invisibility cloak last year have now come up with an earthquake invisibility cloak. They show that a platform made of just the right configuration of elastic rings could make a structure invisible to earthquakes by effectively steering a quake around the structure. It doesn't work well for compression waves, but the researchers claim it could hide buildings from the slower-moving, more destructive shear earthquake waves. The research is due to be published soon in the journal Physical Review Letters."

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Re:Myth of doctors as "high paid"

[vux984]

The illusion that medicine is well-compensated for the effort is just that -- an illusion.

Relative to what, exactly?

http://www.cejkasearch.com/compensation/amga_physician_compensation_survey.htm

There isn't an entry on that list below six figures. And I'd say the average is easily 250k plus.

An electrical engineer "1" in the 90th percentile (ie making more than 90% of his peers), according to salary.com makes 67k. Unless he gets promoted to management, (and does less engineering and more managing) he's going to have a very tough time cracking 6 figs.

A nuclear physicist, cracks six figures. But even his 90th percentile at 126k doesn't quite reach the expected STARTING wage of "Pediatrics - Adolescents" - 130k, probably the lowest number on that list.