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It sounds too simple to be true. You take a square piece of paper and fold it up. And then magic happens. Complicated shapes come into being, the shapes of animals and buildings and airplanes. You can build a world out of a sheet of paper, without using glue or cutting the paper in any way. This is origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding.

It’s not just the Japanese who make wonderful things by folding paper.

We have all done it ourselves, when we make paper airplanes and try to make them fly, or folded paper to make a small boat. But it was the Japanese who first discovered the artistic possibilities in paper folding.

The word itself comes from the Japanese words ori meaning ‘folding’ and kami meaning ‘paper.’ Today, origami is considered a modern art form throughout the world.

Ever since paper was first invented in China in the year 105, various cultures have been engaging in different forms of paper folding. But it was in the sixth century in the Imperial Court of Japan where the art of origami first developed. The wealthy people of Japan considered origami an amusing and elegant way of spending their time. Japanese monks also used origami for religious purposes. Intricate origami designs were used during formal ceremonies as well. For example, there was a practice of decorating a Japanese couple’s wedding reception with folded butterflies. As paper became more affordable, common people also began making origami figures to give as presents or use as decorations.

(SOURCE: ORIGAMI-INSTRUCTIONS.COM)

When it was first invented, origami consisted of simple symmetrical folding, making toys, tricks or decorations. For instance, simple animals such as the paper crane was (and still is) very popular as an origami design. But over the years, the art of origami has become more sophisticated. Today, origamists (artists who make origami) make highly complex models. They even use computers to design and locate the basic folds which they then use to make their origami models.

Over the years, the rules of origami have also become less rigid. Origami in its original form has strict rules: you can use only a square piece of paper and the use of glue or scissors is not allowed at all. But artists today have started bending the rules, sometimes using cutting or wet folding (making the paper wet before folding it) in order to make more exciting designs.

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Choose the paper you use for origami carefully. You need to make sure that the paper will fold and crease well.

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Check that your paper is exactly square. If it isn’t, you need to trim it.

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Make your creases on a firm, flat surface, like a tabletop.

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Precise folds and creases are the secret to great origami designs. Once you have made a fold, run your fingernail along the fold to make it crisp.

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When making folds, look ahead to the next step to see how the fold will look once you made it.

It is easy to think that in a world where computers are capable of making the most wonderful graphics and where science and technology are at their peak, origami would just be something to do in your free time, a fun activity. But in fact, origami is being used in a wide range of scientific fields.

In 2002, scientists wanted to build the solar system’s largest telescope, which would have a lens the size of a football field. But the problem was figuring out to how to send such a huge telescope into space.

You can only send things in space in rockets and rockets are small, so such a huge telescope wouldn’t fit. The only solution was to somehow fold the huge telescope into the rocket. And that’s where origami came in. The scientists got together with origamists and they came up with an origami folding design which could fold the telescope into a flat disc which could fit inside a small cylinder. The telescope, called the Eyeglass, came into being and works only because of origami.

You can cut along the dotted line and use the cut-out to make the origami house, the instructions of which are given on the previous page. Keep the paper with the red part on the bottom, as shown in the pictures given in the instructions.

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You use me from your head to your toes, the more I work the thinner I grow. What am I?

I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I’ll make it lighter. What am I?

What is so delicate that even mentioning it breaks it?

What kind of room has no doors or windows?

What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?

What starts with “P” and ends with “E” and has more than 1000 letters?

I am the only organ that named myself.

What am I?

What’s always coming, but never arrives?

I am an instrument that you can hear, but you can not touch or see me. What am I?

If you have three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what do you have?

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A bar of soap

6. A hole

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Silence

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The letter M

7. A mushroom 8. A post office

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The brain!

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Books and Movies Tingle your senses We all read about the five human senses in the science period at school — sight, sound, smell, taste and touch — but do we ever stop to explore our senses?

Take the sense of taste, for instance. Your tongue will feel something as bitter, sweet, salty or sour. But did you know that your nose can also tell you the taste of things? Things can ‘smell’ bitter, like that icky cough syrup you have to take sometimes. Before it goes in your mouth, your smart little nose would have smelt the bitterness of it. You would

also be able to sniff that queer raspberry flavour in the bottle, playing a sorry trick to outdo the nasty taste.

Or you can smell something as ‘cold’, like that wisp of chocolatescented ‘smoke’ from a freshlyopened ice cream tub. The icy air from the ice cream tingles your nose and unites the senses of smell and touch, making for an interesting sensory nsory adventure. Yup, our senses are very strange and theyy play these es funny games all the time!

Khushboo by the Bookgroup ookgroup will also tell you how smells can be warm, sour and sweet. weet. This book must surely be a part of your book shelf collection. ction.

Do you have a favourite book that was made into a movie?

Write to us at hifive@tribune.com.pk and tell us all about it.

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Your voice

10. Very large hands

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Get your weekly dose of the unusual and funny news from across the globe!

Candy floss bunny Meet the world’s cutest rabbit: Ida the Angora rabbit. Ida is different from regular rabbits as Angora rabbits have mounds and mounds of soft, candy floss-like fur. Ida is part of a collection of rabbits who belong to Betty Chu, a retired professor at San Jose State University.

Currently, Ida is touring around America as part of the Northern California Angora Guild with other extra fluffy Angora bunnies. These adorable rabbits grow up to 10 inches of fur, which is a lot more than the one inch of fur which grows on the standard rabbits you usually see. Angora rabbits originate from Turkey and they were popular pets for the French royalty in the 18th century. As the rabbits grow an inch of fur per month, Betty regularly sheers off some of the fur, using the excess wool to make scarves, hats and gloves, which she then sells on the internet. Before every show, Betty prepares Ida with a special pampering process that includes blow drying the fur for extra volume. METRO.CO.UK

Bee-ware!

A swarm of bees surged on to the control panel of a pedestrian crossing on a street in Liverpool.

Horrified civil servant Katerina Pavey spotted this hazard on a street in Liverpool. She told the Liverpool Echo, “I was flabbergasted. I looked twice and thought ‘this can’t be’ — there were thousands of them.” She continued, “There were cars going past slowly and when I pointed at the crossing one of the drivers’ mouths just dropped.” The bees converged onto the control panel and appeared to be making a hive there. The area was taped off to avoid pedestrians getting stranded — the sight in Childwall on the Bee 1578 road also created a buzz on social media. MIRROR.CO.UK

World wide weird

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Sibling rivalry

A little girl made a list of all the sinister things she would do if her brother was ever ‘gone.’ The list includes things like “dye his carpet pink,” “take all his money” and “hammer everything he loves.” The eight-year-old girl’s mother Reddit user lala989 uploaded the photo of the list she made, which she has titled ‘Ethan gone list.’ But the mother assured readers that the girl was joking and is not pure evil.

She suspects that her daughter will grow up to be a horror story writer, due to her overactive imagination regarding all things sinister. “My kids write a lot of dramatic comics and such for fun, she likes shock value,” the mother said. She also told readers that she has suggested to her son Ethan that he should take his sister’s pink pig as hostage just in case she was serious about following through with her plans. METRO.CO.UK

Snake island About 90 miles from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, lies Ilha de Queimada Grande, or ‘Snake Island’ — a place so filled with venomous serpents that it’s been called one of the “world’s deadliest islands.” For people who suffer from ophidiophobia, a fear of snakes, it might be the most terrifying place on earth.

Scientists have recently estimated that the island is home to up to 4,000 snakes.

And these aren’t just any snakes. The island is the only known home of the golden lancehead, one of the most venomous vipers in the world. This snake’s venom is said to be three to five times stronger than the venom of any other mainland snake, according to the Smithsonian. The venom is also capable of melting human flesh. According to a report, the golden lancehead is responsible for 90% of all snake bite-related deaths in Brazil. So if you are planning a trip to Brazil, make sure to stay away from the snake island. HUFFINGTONPOST.COM

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Slouching makes you dumber If there is something all mothers do, it’s constantly nag you not to slouch. “Sit up straight,” they repeat again and again. “Don’t slump.” Easy as it is to ignore our mothers’ advice, it turns out we might be better off listening to her in this case. Slouching, science shows, is bad for a number of reasons. Bad posture leads to back and neck pain, especially in children and teenagers who spend a lot of time hunched over iPads, cell phones and videogame players. And it’s not just your physical health which is affected.

Studies show that bad posture can lead to grumpiness and an overall bad mood, and can decrease your energy level as well. On the other hand, sitting up straight and walking tall lead to more confidence. But most importantly, new research suggests that slouching might actually be making you less smart. Slumping leads to a decrease in a hormone found in the human body which is called testosterone. A decrease in testosterone leads to your brain functioning less well than it usually does, especially in coming up with creative solutions to the problems you face. The bottom line being that you should always listen to your mother. Pratice having a good posture: while standing you should have a straight back, squared shoulders, chin up, chest out, stomach in. If you can draw a straight line from your earlobe through your shoulder, hip, knee, to the middle of your ankle, it means you have good posture. Keep it up!

How to say ‘I am sorry’ in different languages Akfrikaans Bosnian Catalan Czech Dutch Filipino Finnish French German Hungarian Italian Latin Spanish

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Cool facts Giving a ‘thumbs up’ also represents the American Sign Language symbol for the number ten.

Bubble gum is pink because when it was invented, pink was the only food dye on hand.

Yawning is so contagious that it can spread to dogs and monkeys.

Giraffes have the highest blood pressure of any mammal.

Fish can taste with their fins and tail as well as their mouth.

In a 2010 survey, Liberia and Sierra Leone were top two countries where people are most likely to help a stranger.

Koalas are not bears; they are marsupials, a class of mammals that carry their young in a pouch (like a kangroo).

The flashlight fish projects light that’s created by luminescent bacteria that live in the pockets below its eyes.

Human arms have 32 bones each, while human legs only have 30.

Contrary to popular belief, there are no wild tigers in Africa.

The duffel bag is named for Duffel, Belgium, where the cloth used in the bags was originally sold.

Goldfish don’t blink. They have no eyelids!

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Fun & games

Notable Entries for the Liberty Books Card Competition

Ayesha Zahid Winner Hafsa Fawad

Hamna Fawad

Mustafa Ashfaq Winner

Tehreem Zubair Mahad Fawad

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What to do:

You will need:

1. Squeeze some lemon juice into the bowl and add a few drops of water.

Half a lemon

2. Mix the water and lemon juice with the spoon.

Water Spoon

3. Dip the cotton bud into the mixture and write a message onto the white paper.

Bowl

4. Wait for the juice to dry so it becomes completely invisible.

Cotton bud

5. When you are ready to read your secret message or show it to someone else, heat the paper by holding it close to a light bulb.

White paper

What’s happening here:

Lamp or other light bulb

Oxidation — This is a process in which oxygen interacts with another element and a reaction is produced. In this case, the oxygen which is present in air reacts with the compounds which are present in lemon juice. Heating up the lemon juice speeds up the oxidation process.

The result of lemon juice oxidizing is a substance which is darker in colour than the original, so when the message on the paper is heated, the lemon juice oxidizes and the message becomes darker and can therefore be read.

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SOURCE: SCIENCEKIDS.CO.NZ

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