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HotOlympians.com
New pics every day.

Thanks Eon.

Smallest Baby ever to survive is now 14, happy and healthy
A record-breaking baby weighing a minuscule 280 grams has grown up into a healthy young teenager.

Madeline was born at 27 weeks, weighing the equivalent of three bars of soap. She was about a third of the weight of babies of a similar age and only a fraction of the three kilograms that newborns normally weigh after a full 40-week pregnancy.

Fact: Only 40% of babies born at 23 weeks survive.

World’s lightest flying micro-robot unveiled
The world’s lightest flying micro-robot has been developed by Japan’s Seiko Epson Corporation.

The 12-gram robot resembles a small helicopter and is about 136 millimetres wide, 85 millimetres tall and weighs about 12 grams with a battery. It is remote-controlled and carries a tiny camera that can send images.
(Watch a video of the flying robot in action.)

Its so CUTE! I want one!!

Great News! Miko - formerly known round these parts as Yoshi - has joined the world of blogging at Caiterwauling.

Miko lives in Kobe City in the western part of Japan, located somewhere between Osaka and Hiroshima.
Check out the incredible view!

Quantum Teleportation across the Danube Demonstrated

ScientificAmerican.com: The Danube River is known for its beauty and has been immortalized in song. Now researchers have employed the water body as a testing ground for quantum teleportation. Scientists report today in the journal Nature that they have successfully teleported photons more than 600 meters across the famous waterway.

The results indicate that quantum teleportation is feasible over long distances and under real-world conditions, the scientists say. “Our result is a step towards the implementation of a quantum repeater, which will enable pure entanglement to be shared between distant parties in a public environment and eventually on worldwide scale.”

Life without numbers in a unique Amazon tribe
The Pirahã of the Amazon have almost legendary status in language research. They have no words at all for number. They use only only three words to count: one, two, many.

To make things confusing, the words for one and two, in Pirahã, are the same syllable, pronounced with a falling or rising inflection. And to make things really difficult, the word for one can sometimes mean “roughly one”, and the word for two can sometimes mean “not many”.

They provided a test for an old riddle: do words determine thought or does thought determine words?

NewScientist.com: Language may shape human thought
Peter Gordon, the psychologist at Columbia University in New York City who carried out the experiment says, “This is the first convincing evidence that a language lacking words for certain concepts could actually prevent speakers of the language from understanding those concepts.”

In order to test if their language prevented members of the tribe from perceiving higher numbers, Gordon set seven Pirahã a variety of tasks. In the simplest, he sat opposite an individual and laid out a random number of familiar objects, including batteries, sticks and nuts, in a row. The Pirahã were supposed to respond by laying out the same number of objects from their own pile. For one, two and three objects, members of the tribe consistently matched Gordon’s pile correctly. But for four and five and up to ten, they could only match it approximately, deviating more from the correct number as the row got longer.

The Pirahã also failed to remember whether a box they had been shown seconds ago had four or five fish drawn on the top. When Gordon’s colleagues tapped on the floor three times, the Pirahã were able to imitate this precisely, but failed to mimic strings of four of five taps.

John the Baptist’s home found?
An archaeologist claims to have found a large cave just west of Jerusalem which might have been occupied by Saint John the Baptist, the biblical figure who baptised Jesus Christ.

(Discovery Channel photos)

Great. Yet another site of religious significance is discovered in Jerusalem for people to fight over.

Lighthouse Accommodation in South Africa

“South Africa has 45 lighthouses, of which only 18 are still run by keepers, the rest given over to modern technology. In order for the port authorities to realise an income, eight of the staffed lighthouses have been refurbished and now offer self-catering accommodation. The old keepers’ cottages are peaceful and secure. Staying in a lighthouse for a night or a few days is an encounter you will never forget.

The various locations of the refurbished lighthouses are as exotic and varied as you can ask for. From Great Fish Point (Port Alfred) to Cape Columbine (Paternoster), you will not only have the sea and beach at your feet, but game reserves, hiking trails, rivers, wild flower reserves, golf courses and shopping at the nearest village or town.

For booking information, call the National Ports Authority on 021-449-2400 or e-mail salato@npa.co.za.”

~ GetawaytoAfrica.com

YAY! Modern Toss has come to UK TV!

See Modern Toss on Flipside TV (Channel 4) this week and next week (16th-27th August) on weekdays beginning some time between 12.30am and 1am.

Check your TV listings on onthebox.com. If its a school night, set the VCR. There’s no excuse!!

Ryk Neetling
Really… yummy………….. site…

Found by Eon (who is battling to concentrate on anything else today).

RGB to become RGBCMY
“The basic color elements of television have not changed much since 1954; a half-century after RCA introduced the first color set, the RGB (red, green and blue) system used then still prevails.

But Israeli company Genoa Color Technologies has broken the RGB barrier by adding one to three primary colors such as yellow, cyan and magenta, thus expanding - from 55 to 95 percent - the coverage of the visible color gamut. The promised result of this multi-primary color (MPC) technology is a television picture that, with its truer, more vibrant color and brighter image, looks more like cinema than video. Also covered in IEEE Spectrum.”

YAY! ‘We Are a Camera’ is back online after a year’s absence, and so is my old photo gallery.

What is a Green Gym?
The GreenGym is a unique health group that exercises its participants in the countryside or open spaces.

With the Green Gym you can become fitter and healthier by taking part in conservation activities. It offers a new way to get fit and healthy, providing an exciting alternative for people who do not like the idea of joining a sports centre or gym. Spending time outside with the Green Gym is known to reduce stress levels.

As well as improving your health, by taking part you will have the opportunity to meet new people and learn new skills. There is also the satisfaction of making a difference to your environment.

There are now many green gyms across the UK.
Find one in your area.
I think Im going to go along for a taster session soon!

Floating on cloud South Africa
“Tri-Nations glory, Olympic gold, and the simple joy of being South African — when was the last time we had a weekend quite like this one?” ~ Dan Nicholl

• Tri-Nations or bust for Boks
Following the thrilling 40-26 Vodacom Tri-Nations victory over the All Blacks at Ellis Park on Saturday, the Springboks have a very realistic chance of winning the Vodacom Tri-Nations trophy for only the second time. But they could also end last.

“It’s amazing that if we lose we will come last, but if we win we will come first. It’s just been an unbelievably tight tournament,” said a visibly happy Jake White shortly after the win.

• SA snatch relay gold, world record
South Africa’s golden boys led Olympic news in Greece and America after Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling broke the world 4×100m relay record for gold in the biggest upset of the Athens Olympics so far.