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February 2012/Issue 40

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Last year, we challenged you to ask us the questions you’ve always wanted answered, and this is the winning question. Congratulations, Samet Citlak from Glenwood High School in Durban – your curiosity has won you an awesome skater hamper!

IF THE EARTH SPINS AT 1 000 MPH (ABOUT 1 600 KM/H) AND TRAVELS THROUGH SPACE AT AN INCREDIBLE 67 000 MPH (ABOUT 108 000 KM/H), HOW COME WE DON'T FEEL IT OR WOBBLE AROUND?

We don’t feel it because we’re moving with it at a roughly constant speed. See, we don’t feel movement so much as acceleration, or a change in speed. That’s why it's sometimes hard to tell if the car you're in is moving as long as it’s going smoothly. But in a way, we do feel the Earth spinning – it acts against gravity, throwing us outwards like a spinning funfair ride. So we actually weigh a bit less than we would if the Earth wasn’t spinning. In fact, since the Earth isn’t really spinning at the poles, you’re about 0,3% heavier there than you are at the equator, where everything spins the fastest. So if you can feel that difference, you can indirectly feel the Earth’s movement! Oh, and if Earth suddenly stopped moving (don’t worry, it can’t) we’d be thrown off in all directions like water droplets on a shaking dog. But seriously, don’t worry about that, okay?

FACTS The shortest war of all time was fought by Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after just 38 minutes.

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I already know it’s going to be a busy year here at HIP HQ. We’re working on some awesome new ideas to empower all of you to build the foundations for your dreams. And as time is one thing that always seems to fly by, we have to make the most of every second, every minute, as we won’t get them back again. Older people often say that ‘time is precious’ and if I look at what my team plans to do this year, I know it’s true. Rock on 2012 – make it a sizzling one!

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My favourite story in the humour issue had to be t '8 funny ideas that made it big'. How a grea l smal and le simp a invention could come from think me made It me. to ing idea was just amaz , about Sir Isaac Newton and the famous apple . Laws nal when he came up with his Gravitatio When an apple falls, a typical human being would just pick it up and eat it, so what made ed Newton ask why and how it fell? What start that laws out as a simple idea developed into explain many things around us. This inspired me to keep learning and to be curious about everything that goes on around me, no matter how small it may be. That's what makes Maths and Science fun: being curious and trying to find solutions. – Esther Ntshabeleng, Grade 11,

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You know how some people always seem to be scribbling during class? Think you don’t need to take notes in class? Well, according to Professor Walter Well, that doesn’t mean they aren’t Pouk at America’s Cornell University, you shouldn’t put your pen down just listening … different people learn in yet. Why? Because this prof has been studying students’ ability to remember different ways. Some learn by seeing things, others learn by hearing information during his lectures, and you won’t believe how much they forgot … things and some people even learn % YS: 75 AFTER 20 MINUTES: 47% AFTER ONE DAY: 62% AFTER TWO DAYS: 69% AFTER 75 DA by feeling or experiencing things. And if you’re the kind of person who Eish! So that really important thing your teacher said at the beginning of the year? learns best when you see something, You’ll probably forget it by exam time. Unless you write it down, that is: note-taking doodling might help you ‘see’ what fights off forgetfulness by helping your brain to file things properly. As you write, you’re hearing and take your brain filters and organises information so it’s easier to remember. And, of it in better. Tell that to your teacher next time course, that scribbled note will also help you remember the things you learnt she catches you today when exam time rolls around. doodling …

In 2009, an athlete broke her ankles just trying to walk. A year later, she’s breaking all the world records, running faster than every competitor. Sounds like an awesome story, right? Especially when you realise that this athlete is a robot! At the USA’s University of Michigan, a robot called MABEL can sprint at up to 10,9 km/h, which is about twice as fast as the average human walks. MABEL also runs a lot like we do: she’s got a system of springs that act like tendons, her torso is heavier than her legs and she can run with both feet off the ground. Sure, 10,9 km/h isn’t all that fast compared to a human being (Usain Bolt can reach top speeds of about 40 km/h). But MABEL can keep it up for way longer than any human can – so if she was chasing you, she would eventually catch you. Visit www.hip2b2.com/ mabel to see the robot runner in action.

You probably know some cats and dogs that get along really well. But have you ever seen piglets raised by a tiger, or a snake living with a hamster? Visit www.hip2b2.com/ beastfriends to check it out.

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Every day, you generate a lot of kinetic – or movement-related – energy just by walking around (and if you don’t, you should probably get off the couch, lazybones). You also use a lot of energy every day, thanks to all of your cellphones and other gadgets. So it was only a matter of time before someone put two and two together … TIME & SPACE That someone is Professor Tom Krupenki n, an engineer Our very own Karoo could soon at the University of Wisconsin, USA. Tom host the world’s largest and most and his fellow researchers are working on an energy sensitive radio telescope, called the harvester that can be installed in the sole of a person’s shoe Square Kilometre Array. Because it . There, the device will store the picks up radio waves, which are energy the wearer creates by walking or running, saving it up to fuel much more powerful than light other gadgets. Just walk around, plug your cellphone into your shoes and waves, this telescope will help us you’ll never have to worry about being to understand the universe’s powerless again. past better than ever before.

WANNA CHAT? Over the years, dolphins have been able to learn over 100 human-created hand signals and sounds. We, on the other hand, have no idea what they’re talking about. But two US scientists aim to fix that with their Cetacean Hearing And Telemetry – or CHAT – project. Thad Sterner is an artificial intelligence researcher, which means he studies the ability of machines to make human-like decisions, and Denise Herzig is a dolphin biologist. Together, they’re hoping to decode dolphin speech by fitting human divers with waterproof computers and microphones. These smart gadgets will record dolphin sounds underwater, and then run the noises through a pattern-detection programme. The computer’s controls will also allow a diver to send out dolphin-type noises. So maybe one day, humans and dolphins will be able to have a real conversation. What we’ll talk about is another matter entirely …

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ALARM SPRING Unwinds when released, driving the alarm lever (10).

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speeds, driving the hour and minute hands and turning the escapement wheel (4).

ESCAPEMENT WHEEL Links to the pallet (5) and pushes it from side to side.

PALLET Ticks from side to side, spinning the balance wheel (6).

4AM OR ELSE … In 1787, US clockmaker Levi Hutchins invented America’s first mechanical alarm clock. It only went off at 4 am, because that was the time he needed to wake up.

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MAINSPRING Powers the clock by spinning the gear train (3). No electricity is required to run this system.

GOING DIGITAL Today, we often use digital clocks instead of the mechanical kind shown here. But did you know that the clock on your cellphone works almost the same way as this one, except that all the functions are carried out by a microchip instead of by wheels and springs.

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The tale of time

Way back in 3 500 BC, the ancient Egyp tians didn’t have watches or cellphone clocks. Inste ad, they used that big, burning clock called the sun to keep track of the day. They built huge stone pillars and used the shadows they cast to divide each day into parts. For the next few thousand years, sundials were all the rage. It became the norm to split the time between sunrise and sunset into 12 hour s. That’s because 12 is divisible by two, three and four, making it easy to split the day into fract ions. But how did they tell the time at night? Well, ancient engineers created water clocks, which dripped water out of a tank at a constant rate, as well as hourglasses, which leaked sand through a hole.

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Got a minute? Sun, sand and water may make a great beach, but they couldn’t solve the ancient world’s time-keeping troubles. Firstly, water and sand can’t keep perfect time. And secondly, a day isn’t always the same length, so an hour only really meant ‘one twelfth of a day’ until the first mechanical clocks arrived in the 1300s. The earliest clocks only measured hours because the tech wasn’t accurate enough for shorter periods. But as the gadgets became more precise, the hours could be divided into sections called minutes, from pars minuta prima – Latin for ‘first very small part’ – and then minutes were split into seconds, from pars minute secunda,, or ‘second small part’. Like 12, the number 60 was used because it’s easy to split into fractions. So next time you check your watch, take a moment – or better yet, a second – to thank the many smart people who made it happen.

Body time Your body is way smart – it doesn’t even need a watch to keep time. Why? Because it has a built-in clock that keeps you running 24/7. Every morning, you wake up thanks to a small patch of cells in your brain called the SCN or suprachiasmatic nucleus. These cells keep track of light levels outside, and when they detect daylight, they tell a nearby gland to stop squirting out your sleep hormone, melatonin. Okay, so now you’re awake. But your body clock doesn’t stop there – it also helps you get out of bed by

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WHY SCHOOL SHOULD START LATER

A teenager’s body clock lags an hour or two behind an adult’s, which is why the headmaster of Monkseaton School in England decided to start school an hour later. The result? Exam results shot up by 20 to 30%!

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pushing blood Your heart also keeps a regular beat, minute. But per s time 70 t abou body through your er time, and this some people’s hearts don’t keep prop ! them could mean time’s up for on Thankfully, US electrical engineer Wils tion solu t smar a with up came h tbac Grea EXAM WARP nt in 1956. He was trying to build equipme So you’re writing an exam and he when ds soun t hear you hear the dreaded words: that could monitor ‘Time’s up!’ Huh?!? But it feels used the wrong part and stumbled upon rical like you’ve just started … The a machine that sent out regular elect busier your brain gets with a he s year signals. Over the next few demanding task like a test, the cted the pacemaker, a small device perfe less attention it can pay t that can be placed inside a human ches to keeping time. . time in ping pum t hear the to keep

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TIME KEEPERS VS TIME BUSTERS

t’s Monday morning in a world without time. You wake up when the sun hits your face – which is lucky because your teacher said she’ll be cross if you’re late for school. Thankfully, the bus doesn’t take too long today and the robots turn green pretty fast, so you get to school feeling grea t – only to discover they rang the bell early and you’re late for class. Oh well, it’s hard to be on time when no one knows what ‘on time’ means … Life would be tough if we couldn’t mea sure time. Which is why human beings have spent thousands of years creating a system that works. But who came up with the hours, minu tes and seconds we use today? Well, let’s just say it took a lot of, er, time and effort …

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Race against time OK, so we have cars that can go faste r than sound … but you’d need to go faster than light if you wanted to travel backwards or forwards in time. The prob lem is, Einstein was pretty sure that nothing can beat the speed of light. But don’t despair; if you really wanted to, you could travel back TIME TRICK in time right now … seriously. You Act ually, you’d only have could even celebrate your birthday been able to pull this off and then go back in time and until December 2OOO, celebrate it again! when Samoa decided to How? Just take a trip to skip December 3O and the Fiji islands in the Pacific celebrate New Year’s Ocean. Fiji lies just west of Eve a day early. Why? an imaginary north-to-south To stay in synch with their nearby trading line called the International partners, Australia and Date Line, where officials New Zealand. decided that every calendar day begins on Earth. If you celebrate your birthday on Fiji, then fly eastward s for two hours at about 11 pm, you’d land in nearby Samoa shortly after midnight on the same day, just in time to start celebrating for another 24 hours!

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MEET THE MAN WHO DRIVES FASTER THAN SOUND (AND DOESN’T GET A SPEEDING FINE) UK fighter pilot Andy Green plans to break the land speed record in a superfast car called the Bloodhound SSC in 2013 … and he’s going to do it right here on the Northern Cape’s Hakskeen Pan! He’s already beaten the speed of sound (1 080 km/h), and he plans to hit 1600 km/h – faster than a fighter jet! We caught up with him in SA …

WHY DID YOU CHOOSE HAKSKEEN PAN?

We spent over two years searching the globe for a surface that was consistently flat and hard, with no vegetation, lots of space, easy access, accommodation, on-site power, good communications and the ideal weather. Hakskeen Pan is honestly the best surface in the world.

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO DRIVE FASTER THAN SOUND?

The speed doesn’t affect you … it’s the acceleration you feel. As I speed up, my body experiences a force of +2 g – twice the force of gravity – which pushes blood to my head because I sit feet-first. It takes 30 seconds plus to hit top speed – long enough for my body to open my veins and lower my blood pressure and pulse to pull blood to my feet. Then it’s time to cut the engine, changing the force on my body from +2 g to -3 g as I slow down 100 km/h in the first second alone. That’s like driving a car at 100 km/h and stopping it in one second. Suddenly, my blood’s getting pulled to my feet, and I have to tense my thighs, calves and stomach muscles to push the blood back upwards. If I don’t, I’ll black out. Visit www.hip2b2.com/andygreen for more of this interview.

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Careers at the CSIR The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is a leading scientific and technology research organisation, implementing projects throughout Africa and making a difference in people’s lives. But to achieve these goals, highly skilled people are required - which is why we are always looking for bright, passionate people to embark on this journey with us. The organisation employs scientists, researchers and engineers, as well as staff to support the science base in disciplines such as human resources, communication and training. So, if you are passionate about science, about braving new frontiers; if you are committed to the relentless pursuit of innovation and excellence, the CSIR may be the employer for you. For more information on our bursary, studentship or internship programmes, go to: www.csir.co.za/recruitment/graduates.php

The world record speed for a human skydiver is 988 km/h. That’s almost the speed of sound!

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BRIGHT IDEAS

STARTING A SOCIAL NETWORK

TIME TAKEN:15 MINUTES

In March 2006, a company called Odeo held a brainstorming session to come up with new ways to make money on the Internet. One of the groups met in a park in San Francisco, and that’s where Jack Dorsey (@Jack) said it would be nice if they could just SMS their ideas to FOLLOW US a whole bunch of people. And that's how, in less time than it takes you to get ready for school, Twitter began. Want a daily dose of CREATING WHAT'S NEXT? Smelly Tweets. British company Mint fun facts and smart A SUPERHERO Digital have recently developed a device called Olly info? Just search ‘HIP2B2_SA’ (www.ollyfactory.com) that monitors your computer TIME TAKEN: ABOUT A MINUTE for Twitter and Facebook updates, and releases smells on Twitter. In 1962, comic book creator Stan Lee was based on those – for example, you could make your trying to create a new superhero. He wanted girlfriend's status updates smell like roses. something that appealed to teens, but he

LEAVING PLANET EARTH

TIME TAKEN: 8 MINUTES, 30 SECONDS

3 … 2 … 1 … Lift off! When a space shuttle rockets up, up and away, it's got a long way to ggo o before it reaches Earth's orbit – about 350 km, or just over three times the length of the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour. Must take a while, right? Nope! It covers this distance in just 8,5 minutes, leaving Earth in less time than it takes you to get to school! WHAT'S NEXT? Seaweed-powered space planes. No kidding. By 2050, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company plans to launch a plane that'll be able to fly from London to Tokyo in two-and-a-half hours, compared to the current 11,5 hours. It'll also be eco-friendly, emitting only water.

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At 223 m tall and with 50 floors, the Carlton Centre in Jo'burg is the tallest building in Africa. Reckon you could run to the top in under half an hour? In 2003, Australian athlete Paul Crake did almost double that, running all the way up the 1 576 stairs of New York City’s Empire State Building (measuring 381 m, or the height of 76 giraffes) in less time than it takes you to eat a sarmie: nine minutes, 33 seconds. WHAT'S NEXT? Instead of running up stairs, how about building a super-fast elevator? The 117-floor, 442 m tall World One skyscraper currently under construction in Mumbai, India, will have elevators that travel at speeds of eight metres per second! That means it’ll take just 55,25 seconds to reach the top floor!

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Every human on Earth spent about half an hour as a single cell.

CHANGING THE WORLD OF BANKING FOREVER

TIME TAKEN: ABOUT 20 MINUTES

Wanna turn a bright idea into a booming business? Visit www. hip2b2.com/research for everything you need to know.

Need to withdraw cash? Easy – just find an ATM, right? But who do we have to thank for these smart money-machines? The credit goes to Scottish inventor John Shepherd-Barron, who needed to withdraw money one morning in 1965. But when he got to the bank, it was closed. A while later, he was lying in the bath when a thought hit him: wouldn’t it be great if we could get cash from a vending machine, like we get sweets and chocolates? And just like that, the ATM was born. WHAT'S NEXT? Imagine a world without notes or coins. It might not be too far off … there are already apps that allow people to pay for stuff with just their cellphones! But what could all those ATMs become?

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didn’t know what superpower to use. As he sat in his office thinking, his mind wandered and he found himself staring blankly at the wall. And then – KERPOW! – the idea hit him like a spider-bite out of the blue. Why not create a superhero who could stick to ceilings and walls? Stan hurried off to tell his publisher, saying he got the idea from watching a fly on the wall while he was typing. And in that moment, SpiderMan was born – and he keeps getting better. When the movie was released in 2002, it earned $821,71 million (about R6,6 billion)! WHAT'S NEXT? Scientists at the University of UC Berkeley in California have been working on special gloves that will allow non-superheroes to climb up the sides of a building – just like Spidey!

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In 2008, live on American TV, 13-year-old Andrew Dahl set a Guinness world record by inflating 308 balloons in one hour … with his nose! Visit www.hip2b2.com/balloonboy to see him in action. WHAT'S NEXT? When you pop a balloon, it's all over pretty fast. But what actually happens when a balloon pops? Scientists can now use advanced cameras to slow super-fast events down up to 1 000 times to understand exactly how things work. Visit www.hip2b2.com/balloonpop for a mindblowing slow-motion video of someone piercing a water balloon.

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SETTING A TOTALLY CRAZY WORLD RECORD!

ROCKING THE FASHION INDUSTRY

TIME TAKEN: A 20‐MINUTE NAP

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One fine afternoon in 1948, Swiss engineer George de Mestral took his dog on a hunting trip in the mountains. He returned to find his dog and his pants covered with spiky little seeds. While he was picking them off, he thought, 'Hey, these stick to clothes better than anything!' And that's where he got the idea for Velcro. When George put the seeds under a microscope, he discovered that they had hundreds of tiny hooks that grabbed onto fur and fabric. In nature, this helps the seeds spread to new areas. In our world, Velcro has spread even further – it's on takkies, under car mats and even in space! WHAT'S NEXT? Velcro is ideal for military gear, but its krrrzzzzkk! sound could give a soldier’s position away. That's why no-noise Velcro was created, reducing that ripping sound by 95%. It’s bound to hit the non-military world soon, so watch this space!

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EARNING A WHOPPING R25 MILLION! TIME TAKEN: 1 HOUR

On 8 November, 2011, part one of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn was released. By the next day, the film had raked in a vampirific $72 million (over R600 million) in Canada and America alone. That's R25 million an hour! WHAT'S NEXT? Imagine being able to feel the air rushing by when Jacob runs to Bella's rescue, or to smell the forest around Edward Cullen's house … 4D movies might one day be possible, turning films into experiences, so get your senses ready!

The sewing machine was dreamed up – literally – by US inventor Elias Howe in 1945. He had a nightmare that he was being attacked by arrow-shooting enemies, when he noticed that the arrows were flying through his tent and pulling canvas threads along with them. He woke up and created the sewing machine, which feeds cotton through fabric using an arrow-like needle. WHAT'S NEXT? Clothes made out of milk. Yes, you heard right: German fashion designer Anke Domaske recently unveiled a line of clothing made out of a silky fabric called QMilch. This fabric is made from a milk protein called WIN OR LOSE casein, and it's not just You could, of course, also lose smooth and eco-friendly – mllions. On 8 August 2011, in the it's also good for your skin, middle of the global economic especially if you suffer crisis, investors around the world lost a collective $1 trillion (that's from skin allergies! a dollar sign, a one, and twelve zeros) in a single day of stock GETTING A HOT TIP market trading.

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SENDING AN SMS IN WORLDRECORD TIME

TIME TAKEN: ABOUT HALF A MINUTE The world's fastest text message was typed by a UK woman named Mellissa Thompson in August 2010. She took 25,94 seconds to type: ‘The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.’ How fast can you type that on your phone? WHAT'S NEXT? The mobile instant messaging industry – BBM, WhatsApp and so on – made $6,8-billion (R57 billion) in 2010. That means it’s starting to catch up with SMS, which made $114,6 billion (R959 billion).

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FACTS Until people discovered the erasing power of rubber, writers used bread crumbs to remove mistakes.

FAST FACT

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Your core body temperature is lowest at 4:30am and peaks at 7pm. If you want to win a soccer match, it’s best to play in the afternoon when your body temperature and adrenalin levels are high. Visit www.hip2b2.com/bodyclock for more info.

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You’re organised, focused, and excellent at planning ahead. You’re always on the go and you can fit a lot into every day. YOUR CAREER MATCH: With all that organisational awesomeness, you could make a top geneticist. Geneticists decode DNA, unlocking the secrets inside the cells of living things. For example, if someone says a celeb is the father of their child, it’s a geneticist’s job to compare the star’s DNA with the baby’s to find out the truth. Because geneticists work with tiny molecules, they need to be super-precise and focused – if you’re one millilitre or a . millisecond off, the experiment won’t work in BSc a do to need TO GET THERE: You’ll Genetics at university. To get in, you’ll need high marks in Maths and Science, and Life Sciences are highly recommended. ry YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY: Microbiology, Surge

B.�TIME�DELAYER� You’re patient, thorough and happy to spend a whole day on a task you enjoy … but you tend to put off important tasks that don’t really interest you. (You know that urge you get to clean your room when you should be studying?) YOUR CAREER MATCH: Ever considered becoming a paleontologist? A paleo-what?! A paleontologist studies the fossils of plants and animals that lived looooooooong ago, like the mighty dinosaurs. You won’t have to worry too much about deadlines, but you’ll need to be extremely accurate when you sort through all your data. That patience will come in handy when you’re extracting a fragile fossil – imagine holding a 200-million-year-old fossil in your hands! TO GET THERE: You’ll need to complete a BA or BSc in Archaeology at university, then specialise in Paleontology. At school, you’ll need top marks in Maths and Science, and Geography will also help. YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY: Psychology, Archaeology

Finance and Accounting sector?

D.�TIME�KEEPER

You’re the perfect person to have around in an You’re a quick-thinking fast learner who emergency. You’re great at multi-tasking, you thrive loves coming up with new solutions. You under pressure and you make decisions faster than love figuring out how things work. someone can say, ‘Eish! What just happened!?!’ YOUR CAREER MATCH: With your YOUR CAREER MATCH: With your super-fast reaction times, you could be the ideal air-traffic ability to analyse things and make controller. When dozens of planes are flying in quick decisions, you could become and out of an airport, there’s an air-traffic a great economist. Economists controller somewhere nearby making sure watch what’s going on in they don’t crash into each other. With the world – unemployment thousands of lives at stake, this is one For more about these careers, rates, natural disasters and of the most stressful jobs in the hit www.sacareerfocus.co.za. so on – and predict how world, but if you can stay calm under You can also visit www. they’ll affect the economy. pressure, you might just love it. hip2b2.com or catch our They then use this info to 2 careers show on HIP2B Radio TO GET THERE: You’ll need strong Maths advise businesses. and Physical Science skills to work out (www.hip2b2radio.com). the co-ordinates and flight plans. After TO GET THERE: You’ll need school, you’ll study for four to six years top marks in Maths, so you can through the Air Traffic and Navigation Services study a BCom in Economics, a BTech in (ATNS) in Johannesburg’s Aviation Training Academy. Economic Management or Bachelor of Social YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY: Being a Pilot Sciences in Economics at university. or a Paramedic.

WANT MORE?

YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY: Stockbroking, Actuarial Science, Engineering

E.�TIME�STALLER You can’t help being forgetful and you’re often running late. Some people think you’re lazy, but you just need something to grab your attention. You like being your own boss, and you don’t mind working long hours on something that excites you. YOUR CAREER MATCH: Believe it or not, you might have the makings of an entrepreneur. Like Mark Shuttleworth and Apple’s Steve Jobs, entrepreneurs create and manage their own businesses – and with hard work, they can make it big! TO GET THERE: You don’t need to study anything specific, but a college or university course in Small Business Management or Entrepreneurship will help. At school, Maths and Science will give you vital problem-solving and analytical skills. Visit www.hip2b2.com/research for some great tips on turning an idea into a smart business. YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY: Sales and Marketing, Accounting

TIME MANAGEMENT TIPS

1. Set a schedule – Stick a planner on your wall to keep track of important projects and exams. 2. Be realistic – Give yourself MORE time than you think you’ll need. If your homework should take two hours, schedule three. 3. Be flexible – Don’t make your programme so full that you don’t have time for unexpected stuff. 4. Break big projects into smaller chunks – Do one small thing each day instead of one big thing at the last minute. 5. Do the hardest homework first – When your concentration is at its peak, you’ll work things out a whole lot faster.

From the exciting, edge-of-your-seat world of stockbroking to the highly valued practice of financial planning, the Finance, Accounting, Management Consulting and other Financial Services (Fasset) Sector has a career for every aspiring number cruncher. Just some of the many careers in the finance and accounting sector include accountancy, bookkeeping, debt collecting, tax practitioning and accounting technicians. There

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...a black mamba bite

How long can you survive...?

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There are snakes and then there are SNAKES!!! ... and this SNAKE!!! is the longest, fastest and deadliest of its kind in Africa. It’s called a black mamba but it’s actually grey or brown. If you get to see the black part of a mamba – inside its mouth – you’re in big trouble. Its bite injects 100 to 120 mg of venom, which is a bit of a waste when 10 to 15 mg is enough to kill an adult. The poison can shut down the heart and lungs in 20 minutes. The only treatment: black mamba anti-venom. Like, yesterday. Anti-venom is fast-acting stuff, but takes a while to make. First, someone well-trained (and a little crazy) has to ‘milk’ the snake, which means getting it to bite into a cloth stretched over a glass container so the poison drips from its fangs. *shudder* Then they must dry the venom and inject tiny amounts over time into a big animal, like a horse. The horse isn’t harmed, but its body produces molecules called antibodies, which recognise the poison and make sure it gets destroyed. After about a year, the liquid part of the horse’s blood, called plasma, can be taken out and injected into a human victim, where the antibodies will fight the poison.

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How long would we survive if the sun went out like a giant lightbulb? The logical answer is this: plants need sunlight to make food for themselves. Without it they’d die, leaving us with no oxygen or plants to feed ourselves and the animals we eat. It would also get pretty cold. According to David Stevenson of the California Institute of Technology, If you’re lost at sea, your survival time depends on a bunch of factors: the average global surface temperature would 1.How cold is the water? If you’re in water that’s above 21˚C, you’ll survive at least drop below –18˚C within a week. In a year, three hours. If it’s as cold as Clifton Beach in Cape Town (around 10˚C), you’ll it would be –74˚C. Humans could survive in have about two hours to find help before you black out. If it’s heated areas, but we’d soon run out of supplies down to 3˚C, you’ve only got about 45 minutes. and fuel. All in all, we’d probably last a few 2.Do you have a life jacket? If so, you can survive a lot longer weeks at best. if you get into the H.E.L.P. (Heat Escape Lessening Posture) position. Luckily, the sun isn’t going anywhere Hold your arms tightly across your chest and pull your legs together for about five billion years, so we may as If the sun disappeared, we’d and up toward your body. This will help you store heat and save well make the most of it. In South Africa, also lose out on a whole bunch energy for about twice as long as you otherwise would. the Department of Energy has plans to of incredible solar-powered 3.Are you surrounded by sharks? If you’re bobbing around in a build the largest solar park in the world, gadgets. Hit www.hip2b2.com/ predator’s path, you just might look like lunch. But if you have a Shark which would generate 10% of our annual solarstuff to check out a few Shield, you should be okay. Developed by SA’s KwaZulu-Natal Sharks of our favourites ... electricity! It’s set to be built in the Board, this device sends out an electric impulse that causes muscle Northern Cape, because there’s very little spasms in a shark’s nose. It doesn’t hurt, but they won’t stick around. rain or cloud and loads of sunlight. Visit www.hip2b2.com/sharkshield to see the Shark Shield in action.

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Well, US illusionist Who needs to survive in a box, you may ask? challenged himself He . David Blaine had to do exactly that in 2003 River Thames on’s Lond e abov to live in a perspex box dangling to be rushed to had but ived, surv He ! without food ... for 44 days weight. body of his hospital afterwards, having lost about 25% stunts – he’s y craz his for Why did he do it? Well, Blaine is famous than 63 more for ice in sed enca and been buried alive for seven days show to goes just it But on. reas a need y hours – so he doesn’t reall ... it mind to what you can achieve if you really put your seal yourself off in a to on reas good y reall a ’s there es, Sometim ted to prove how wan art Stew box. A Scottish geologist named Iain elf in an airtight hims d locke he So ival. surv important plants are to our for – and oxygen! box for two days with only plants for company levels on top of Mount the He started with 12,5% oxygen – similar to Everest – to see if the plants could raise the levels to a more normal 21%. On his first day he got a killer headache. On the second en day he chilled on his hammock as the oxyg and ide outs go So . ased incre ually grad s level hug a tree – it’s making the air you breathe.

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Can you go without your cellphone for 24 hours? Try it and email what it was like to thinkoutloud@ hip2b2.com, along with your name, school, grade and contact number and you could win a funky Clap-On digital alarm clock, which looks like a plain block of wood until you clap your hands to make it show the time. Competition closes on 31 March 2012.

VER? WHY CAN’T WE LIVE FORE At the end of every package of DNA is a little tail called a telomere. Think of it like the plastic bit on the end of a shoelace, keeping it from unravelling. Every time your cells divide, the telomeres get shorter, and when a telomere gets too short, the cell it’s in will die. As cells age, so do we, but scientists are working on ways to fix the telomere and slow down the ageing process.

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DEAR DIARY

BUMPING BEATS

Got a never-ending list of things to do, places to go and people to see? Of course you do – it’s called high school life. To stay on time and on top of everything all the way through to December, jot your plans down in this funky 2012 diary.

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FASHION, ACCESSORIES & GADGETS

Nothing gets you moving quite like a pumping playlist. Mixed by DJ Costa and packed with 57 killer tracks, this Bump 29 CD is sure to keep you awake and ahead of time all day.

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RISE AND SPARKLE! This blinged-up baby alarm clocks only use a single cell battery to keep time. It comes in five glamolicioius colours, so you can choose the one you’d most like to see when you wake up – on time – every morning. www.bigblue.co.za

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RUNNING IN RED

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CAN A HERO REALLY DODGE A BULLET?

TALK THAT TALK, BY RIHANNA

Last time she was Loud. This time, she’s Talking That Talk. Here’s what to expect from RiRi’s sixth album:

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latest singing sensation, whose debut album went platinum in just 13 days. My real name is Bulelwa Mkutukana, but I ) to slow ballads needed a stage name to represent who I am. We found Zahara – which means blooming RAISED flower in Arabic – on Google. It’s perfect, BY WOLVES, because I love nature. by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Loliwe, my debut album, is based on ‘HIP Reviewer: Jenna Portnoi, Grade D? SMS ’s new C e and school to. my experiences growing up in Phumlani, a 10, Kimberley Girls’ High School n n a ih y of R r name, grad s 31 March 2012 East London, where I lived until I moved to With so many werewolf in a cop u se Wanna w’ followed by yoapply. Competition clo a s and vampire books out n Jo’burg last year to record the album. I think te n ra a S M S Rih rd a Stand right now, some of them are it has been so successful because people 31445. starting to blend together. can relate to my lyrics – I write to inspire, Barnes brings a refreshing not to make hits. Also, I think the public take on the life of a werewolf was ready for a new sound. pack and what it means to NANCY I taught myself to play a guitar that my father be a part of one. DREW had given my sister when I was in Matric. FREE CAREER EDUCATION FOR YOU The fact that Bryn (the Reviewer: Gemma-May My parents couldn’t afford to pay for my 2 hour broadcasts in cinemas, covering life in the workmain character) survived a Grotepass, Grade 10, tertiary eductation, so I decided to learn to place, academic requirements, bursary info and more. Pretoria High School for Girls werewolf attack and was play the guitar. Then one night, when I was Catch a virtual thief with your taken in and raised by Here’s the line-up: performing at a club in East London, TK computer mouse in the Nancy Drew werewolves makes this Nciza – co-owner of TS Records – watched Date Session 1 Session 2 computer games, based on 56 mystery story so enticing – I could me and offered me a contract. 26/02 Entrepreneurship Tourism & Hospitality stories published in 1930. As teen not put this book down! detective Nancy Drew, it’s your task to Last year somebody told me I sound like 04/03 Computers and IT Communications If Chase Crawford had crack clues and explore new places as 11/03 Mining & Engineering Construction Tracy Chapman. I’d never heard her music, walked into the room, I you solve your way through the game. 18/03 Banking & Finance Accounting but now I’m a big fan. would have told him to Be warned: these games are extremely 15/04 Criminal Justice Law My favourite subject at school was come back when I was difficult and require lots of lateral 22/04 Health Services Education business economics. It opened my mind done. RATING: 3/5 thought. And don’t be surprised when 29/04 Arts & Culture Transport, Logistics to world affairs. you’re stumped every now and again! & Distribution Oh, and if you don’t think Nancy’s your Open to Grade 9 to 12 learners in Gauteng, Cape Town, type of hip gal, consider this: Hillary PE, East London, Durban, Kimberley, Bloemfontein, Clinton and former First Lady Laura Bush Polokwane and Rustenburg. considered Nancy as their inspiration Reviewer: Michaela Stead, Grade 11, Danville Park Girls’ High, Durban when they were growing up. RATING: 4/5 School pre-registration essential, call Shine Solutions Johnny English Reborn is a wonderful, comical and enjoyable on 011 566 0660 now to book. Quote ref #: S2M movie. It will keep you laughing on the edge of your seat from the beginning to the very end. Seats limited, first come – first served. PUZZLE ANSWERS Johnny English, played by Rowan Atkinson, is a secret agent who ANIMAL INSTINCTS The missing Free learning – Free coke – Free popcorn returns from Mozambique and gets recruited to stop an evil plot to kill the letter is O: buffalo, leopard, ostrich, gorilla, gemsbok and Chinese Premier, with the help of his new partner, Agent Tucker (Daniel *Terms and conditions apply dolphin; JIGSAW JUMBLE: The word is ant; BEE REASONABLE: Kaluuya). The rest of the story follows their hilarious attempts to stop the Visit www.hip2b2.com/ assassins – attempts that usually end in disaster! Awesome stuff! RATING: 4/5 beereasonable for the solution.

My Future, My Career

JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN

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Music review and Zahara interview by Nikki Benatar; IMAGES: Nu Metro Home Entertainment: Paramount Studio; kalahari.net; HarpercollinsUK/Louise Rennison; supplied; maxchang(flickr), fanthefiremagazine(flickr)

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