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Chief Wizard: Zarrar Khuhro Master Storyteller: Ameer Hamza Knowledge Navigator: Dilaira Mondegarian Creativity Analysts: Maha Haider, Jamal Khurshid, Samra Aamir, Amna Iqbal, Essa Malik, M.Suhaib, Kiran Shahid, Faizan Dawood, Anushay Furqan, Umar Waqas

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Have you ever wanted to travel to the future or maybe to the past?

Well, Stephen Hawking says it just might be possible. First, you need a spaceship that can go really really fast. Now the fastest manned spaceship ever was the Apollo 10, it travelled at 39,896kms per hour. Now to travel in time, you need to go 2000 time faster than Apollo 10, that’s about 80,000,000kms per hour!

A ship that fast will need to use a lot of fuel, which means it’ll have to be a huge spaceship so it can store all that fuel.

But you’re probably wondering, how does a ship that big travel through time? Well, you’ve probably heard of Albert Einstein, well he said that the universe has a speed limit; it’s called the speed of light. Nothing can go faster than that but travelling close to that limit is the key to time travel.

Why? Well if you got on a spaceship that was travelling at the speed of light, for every year that will pass on earth, only one hour will pass on your ship. So if you travel in space for a few days and come back to earth, a hundred years will have passed on earth. That’s how you could travel through time but keep in mind you can only go to the future; you cannot go into the past.

One of the reasons might be because of a well-known problem with time travel to the past, the problem of what we call paradoxes. Imagine that you build a time machine. It is possible for you to travel back in time and shoot yourself. But if you do that then, who fired the shot and who built the time machine? Think about it, that’s called a paradox.

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Lots of books and movies have talked about time travel. The first ever time travel story was a Japanese tale. The tale was about a young fisherman, named Urashima Taro, who visits an undersea palace and stays there for three days. After returning home to his village, he finds himself three hundred years in the future! Have you read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens? In the book Ebeneezer Scrooge travels back and forth in time to discover the meaning of Christmas.

Set your watches, it’s time to look at four of the craziest time machines from movies!

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The British Phone Booth – Dr Who If you’re a fan of Dr Who, you probably know about the TARDIS. For those who don’t know, Dr Who is one of the longest running shows in TV history. It’s about a clever Time Lord, called the Doctor, who can travel through space and time in his phone booth TARDIS.

The DeLorean – Back to the Future Did you know that the original time machine in the script for Back to the Future was meant to be a refrigerator? The producers were worried that kids were going to start locking themselves into the airtight home appliances, so they changed it to a car.

tIME tURNER – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Remember Time Turner in Prisoner of Azkaban? It was necklace that allows the wearer to travel forward or backward in time a few hours.

The Time Sled The Time Machine H G Wells described the Time Sled in his 1895 novel The Time Machine as “a thing of brass, ebony, ivory, and translucent glimmering quartz,” but it wasn’t until the 1960 film version that we really got to see it. What a beauty!

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4 : d e d e e n s ie l p p u S • Plastic bottles • Coloured paper • Markers • Fabric • Cardboard • Wool • Ribbon

Bowling pins Instructions: 1. Try and use plastic bottles the same size, making sure they are empty and dry.

• Tape • Scissors • Sand • Tennis ball

2. Tape a piece of paper around each of them.

3. Draw faces and decorate them with markers, fabric for clothes, wool for hair or whiskers, buttons for eyes…pretty much anything you can find around the house can be used to embellish these guys.

4. Once finished decorating them, fill them 1/3 of the way with sand to weigh them down.

5. Now your skittles are ready to be bowled over ... weighting the pins makes them harder to knock down… get your tennis ball out and give it a go!!

Recipe

by Laila Dharamsey

Don’t forget your greens!

Winter is the best time for salad.

Here is an easy recipe you all will love!

Break the iceberg lettuce with your hands into a bowl, add the diced carrots, cucumber and tomatoes. Crumble your feta cheese on top. Lastly mix some lemon into 3 tablespoons of Olive oil and add some pepper, pour the dressing over your salad!

What you will need For Salad 1 Whole iceberg lettuce 2 Tomatoes diced 1 Carrot diced 1 Cucumber diced Feta cheese

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For the dressing Olive Oil Lemon Pepper

For an extra crunch, you can cut 3 slices of white bread into squares and tell your mom to fry them until they’re crispy golden. You can also sprinkle some parsley on top or add croutons into your salad.

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World wide weird Get your weekly dose of the unusual and funny from across the globe!

Dolphin demands human intervention This video proves that dolphins may just be one of the planet’s smartest creatures. It shows a dolphin apparently seeking help from a diver to free itself from a fishing hook. Scuba instructor Keller Laos tends to the stricken mammal’s injured dorsal fin in an eight-minute rescue captured off the Hawaiian coast.

Laros was leading a group of snorkelers to observe manta rays when the incident took place. A dolphin swam towards them after it had earlier let out a cry that had been audible to Laros and the company. As Laros helped to untangle the mammal from the fishing line, the dolphin waited patiently as the diver did his work. “I was trying to unwrap it, I got the line fishing hook out of the pectoral fin. There was a line coming out of his mouth,” said Laros.

“I was worried if I tugged on it, it might hurt him more. I was able to cut the fishing line and unwrap it.”

The video has notched up more than a million views on YouTube! SOURCE: WEB.ORANGE.CO.UK

Fresh air for sale Tired of drinking the usual soda from a can? Try fresh air for a change!

China has the most polluted air in the world and to spread awareness, a multimillionaire has started a tongue-in-cheek campaign by selling canned fresh air. Chen Guangbiao, who made his fortune in the recycling business and is a high-profile philanthropist, handed out soda pop-sized cans of air, purportedly from far-flung, pristine regions of China such as Xinjiang in the northwest to Taiwan, the southeast coast. He handed out green and orange cans of “Fresh Air”, with a caricature of himself on them saying, “Chen Guangbiao is a good man.” “Beijing’s air really needs to improve, so we need a good man like him to appear,” said a 21-year-old resident surnamed Hu. “It reminds people to use less fuel and do what they can for Beijing’s air”.

The cans of air sell for 5 yuan (Rs78.12) with proceeds going to poor regions of China, and places of historic revolutionary importance. SOURCE: REUTERS

Stars lead the way Not only are they famous for making balls of other animal droppings, but it turns out that these creatures are avid stargazers as well.

A species of South African dung beetle has been shown to use the Milky Way to navigate, making it the only known animal that turns to the stars across the night sky for direction. Researchers have known for several years that the inch-long insects use the sun or moon as fixed points to ensure they keep rolling dung balls in a straight line - the quickest way of getting away from other beetles at the dung heap. But scientists have puzzled over how the beetles achieve a straight line on moonless nights.

To prove the Milky Way theory, scientists took beetles into the university planetarium to see how they fared with a normal night sky, and then one devoid of the Milky Way. “The dung beetles don’t care which direction they’re going in. They just need to get away from the bun fight at the poo pile,” Wits professor Marcus Byrne said.

“But when we turned off the Milky Way, the beetles got lost,” he added.

SOURCE: REUTERS

BOOK REVIEW Tik- Tik The Master of Time

By Aysha Raja Tik- Tik - The Master of Time is a science fiction adventure for young readers. It follows Tik-Tik, a boy y from the Planet Nopter, in his efforts to speed up the growth of children on his planet. He enlists the help of Nib-Nib an intelligent and opinionated young g girl from Nopter and her cat Dum-Dum. A rivalry soon emerges in their scientific quest to find a cure for slow growth, and Tik-Tik will stop at nothing to get ahead of the race.

After securing a seat on grandpa Kip-Kip’s space-egg, Tik-Tik gains the opportunity nity to take his research to another level when they crash land on a very young planet et by the name of Earth. Tik-Tik is convinced this new planet holds the key to fast growth, owth, and an extensive study of the new world gets underway. While Nib-Nib embarkss on her research, Tik-Tik succumbs to jealousy and pride. He falls into petty squabbles les with Dum-Dum and devotes himself to hatching schemes to sabotage Nib-Nib’ss work.

One day Tik-Tik’s scheming and meddling goes too far, leading to disastrous consequences nsequences for them and their new planet.

Tik-Tik The Master of Time is a well-crafted, funny tale about how arrogance and nd envy can get the better of us despite our good intentions. It introduces some basic concepts epts of science and engineering, and gives it a fantastical spin (literally) to bring it to life for young ng readers.

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Feathery attacker A European eagle owl has been causing a major flap in a Scottish city centre by terrorising passing pedestrians.

Police have warned the public to keep clear of the massive bird of prey, which is being blamed for two attacks in Inverness, a city in Scotland, at the mouth of the Ness River.

The owl, which has a 6ft wingspan, is believed to have escaped from an aviary or has been released into the wild.

Crowds of birdwatchers have been drawn to Castle Street in the Highland capital, where the bird has regularly been seen. Two men say they have been attacked by the owl in recent days. One of them was knocked out and left in a pool of blood.

Local expert Tommy Horne, who runs an owl sanctuary, has been trying to catch the creature.

He has been attempting to grab the bird with a large net and bait. Horne said: “I will keep trying. I’ve never failed yet, but he seems to be well-fed at the moment.”

But he added: “I’ve been working with birds for 25 years and I’ve never heard of an eagle owl attacking anyone.” SOURCE: WEB.ORANGE.CO.UK

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Did you know?

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s n i g i r O d r o W Hubbub The word hubbub means a loud noise; the roar of a crowd is a hubbub; so too is the sound of traffic.

The word actually has its origins in the thousandyear-old Arabic name for ‘howling sandstorm,’ haboob. A haboob is a powerful sandstorm, from the Arabic word habub which means ‘blowing violently or blowing as a high wind.’ Sudan’s capital city of Khartoum has dozens of haboobs every year. Kuwait, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula, Central Australia, New Mexico and Texas all regularly suffer haboobs. The sandstorms are so powerful that they can take off the paint off your car! Did you see the new Mission Impossible movie set in Dubai, remember the sandstorm? That was a haboob!

How to say 'I don’t understand' in different languages!

Afrikaans Albanian Alsatian Arabic Aragonese Assamese Bosnian Chamorro Chechen Czech Esperanto Estonian French Galician German Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Latin Malay Scots Spanish

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Ek verstaan nie Nuk kuptoj Ich versteh nitt Ana mis faahim No repleco Moi buji napow Ne razumijem Ti hu komprende So ca qiet Nerozumím Mi ne komprenas Ma ei saa aru Je ne comprends pas Non entendo Ich verstehe nicht Saya tidak mengerti Non ho capito Wakaranai Moreugesseumnida Nullo intellego Saya tidak faham A dinna unnerstaund No comprendo

Cool facts A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.

Marco Hort has the world record for fitting 264 straws in his mouth at once!

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

Worms eat their own poo.

Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.

Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

Ronald McDonald is “Donald McDonald” in Japan because it makes pronunciation easier for the Japanese. In Singapore he’s known as “Uncle McDonald”.

A person who can speak French fluently is known as a Francophone.

Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Little Red Riding Hood, were all written by a Frenchman named Charles Perrault.

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Colour me silly Did you read Aysha’s review of Tik-Tik, The Master of Time on page 5? Well here is a colouring page from the book.

From Our Readers

Ramiz Momina Omer Bhatti

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