Tabla de contenidos para Issue 327 - November 2022 en MiniMag

The roaring dinosaur in the enchanted garden Once upon a time there was a brave knight named Stellar, who lived in the Kingdom of Bantexia. One morning Stellar was woken by the buzzing sound of bumblebees. “Shush, shush!” Stellar whispered to his friends Gretel and Pino, who were stomping between the swaying flowers in the garden. Then in the piercing silence, he heard the thumping of feet … what could that be? Frightened and with clattering teeth Stellar heard it again: thump, thump, thump! The bumblebees were flapping their wings wildly as if they wanted to warn Stellar of a great danger approaching. Stellar thought he heard the howling of wolves … could that be? Gretel started roaring with laughter. Pino was chuckling along with a funny look on his face.…

Join the Easy Science Team as we walk through a day to discover there is science in every second and hour! 05:00 Wakey-wakey You hit the snooze button without even thinking about it, but have you ever considered how all the clocks in the world are synchronised? The most accurate type of clock is the atomic clock. These clocks use atoms, usually caesium or rubidium, to tell time with extreme accuracy. These atoms can take up and give off energy at a very stable predictable rate, like a ticking clock. Scientists, using special equipment, can count these ‘energy ticks’ to keep the exact time. The Standard International (SI) unit for time, the second, is defined by the time it takes for a caesium atom to give off a specific number…

MUST WATCH! BRAND NEW SHOW MONKIE KID MK Hunts His Magic Monkie Kid is a fun, fast-paced, brand-new show inspired by Chinese mythology and the famed novel Journey to the West and its hero, Monkey King. The tale begins when an ordinary boy, Monkie Kid – known as ‘MK’ – discovers Monkey King’s magical staff, which was left on top of a hill to imprison the evil Demon Bull King. After the Demon Bull King is released, MK must go on a journey of self-discovery in order to become the hero this generation needs and stop the Demon Bull King and his army of Bull Clones from taking over the city! PREMIERE: Saturday, 5 November (Monkie Kid: A Hero is Born – Special Episode) Tune in: Saturdays & Sundays @09:15…

18:00 Relax with your favourite channel It is hard to believe that your parents grew up in a world without YouTube! How did they ever get to know anything?! Computer science, data science, technology and the internet revolutionised the way we do business, share information and enjoy entertainment. Did you know that the internet relies on at least 380 underwater optical fibre cables to connect different countries and continents? Together these sea-floor cables are over 1.2 million kilometres long. 20:00 Good night sleep tight! The average human will sleep for at least 20 years during their lifetime! Science has shown us that sleep is not an inactive waste of time. Sleep is important for your body and brain to complete specific tasks to keep you healthy. Research shows that not…

Scifest Africa’s favourite fun facts! Bananas are radioactive! The oceans produce the majority of the oxygen on Earth. Bar code scanners read the white space between the black lines rather than the black lines themselves. A teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh 4 billion tons! Newcomer Award: Resolute Education WORKSHOPS: 3rd Place: The World of Micro-organisms from Sci-Bono Discovery Centre and The Fundamentals of Coding from Cape Town Science Centre 2nd Place: Gardening - Being Climate Smart from KwaZulu-Natal Museum 1st Place: Life in Space from The National Space Academy NEWCOMER AWARD: J&J CanDo Robotics powered by Split Second Science Education Foundation Exhibitions: 3rd Place: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity 2nd Place: Rhodes University Department of Zoology and Entomology 1st Place: Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics at…

Hundreds of clean-up events took place around South Africa in an effort to keep our environment clean, with many more initiatives continuing to take place over the coming weeks. Clean-Up and Recycle Week 2022 was action-packed and it was wonderful to see the large number of volunteers signing up for clean-ups at beaches, rivers and streams and in communities around the country. This year’s Clean-Up & Recycle SA Week included River Clean-Up Day, which took place on Wednesday, 14 September, National Recycling Day which took place on Friday, 16 September, and the International Coastal Clean-Up and World Clean-up Day, both falling on Saturday, 17 September. Sincere gratitude goes out to the coordinators who worked tirelessly to ensure that everything ran smoothly on the day; the many sponsors who contributed either…

By 250 000 years ago, people were slowly adapting to living in the cold neaderthalensis – can be recognised. Although close cousins of modern humans, Neanderthals looked very different. They had short, stocky bodies and were very muscular – even the children. They had large heads, huge projecting noses, and deep-set eyes under a prominent brow ridge. Neanderthals show the first stirrings of humanity: they cared for the disabled, buried their dead carefully, and probably had some sort of religion. They were abruptly replaced about 35 000 years ago by fully modern people, Homo sapiens, who had been evolving in the meantime in the warmer climate of Africa. They colonised huge areas of the world at this time, including Europe in its final icy phase, and even Australia. Cave culture…