Innehållsförteckning för October 2022 / Issue 37 från News Bites

Canine Cool The recent heatwaves have been rough on dogs the world over, but trust the Japanese to come up with a wacky, weird and wonderful solution. Rei Uzawa has teamed up with vets to invent a wearable fan for pets. This small, light, battery-operated fan is attached to a mesh outfit that blows air around an animal’s body. Rei is the president of a maternity clothing maker called Sweet Mommy, and she came up with this idea when her chihuahua couldn’t endure going for walks in the extreme heat. Tokyo suffered the longest heatwave ever in June, with temperatures up to 35°C for nine days. The outfit comes in five different sizes and in different styles – for example, a sporty vest-like one or a flouncy fancy one. Of…

This month in history 60 years ago! OCT 1 1962 On this day, 29-year-old James Meredith became the first African American to be accepted at the University of Mississippi. He had been rejected because he was black but then took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in his favour. He arrived to register on September 20 but was blocked from entering by the Mississippi Governor. When he returned, angry mobs formed and there were riots where two people were killed and many injured. President John F. Kennedy then sent Federal Marshals to accompany him and he was enrolled. He later became a lawyer and civil rights activist. 100 years ago! OCT 24 1922 On this day, George Cadbury died. He and his brother had transformed their father’s…

Bear Island Sometimes things are not quite as bad as we are led to believe. We are all familiar with heartbreaking pictures of polar bears standing on melting icefloes in these times of climate change. But I bet you didn’t know that there is a place where 500 polar-bear mothers give birth every year – a place biologists call the ‘Polar Bear Maternity Ward’! Located in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia, eastern Russia, its name is Medvezhyi Ostrov, meaning Bear Island. However, on maps it’s called ‘Wrangel Island’, named after a German explorer who heard about it, searched for it and failed to find it! You’ll agree the Russian name makes much more sense! On Bear Island, nature is allowed to take care of itself. It is one of…

Elizabeth Grandmother of a Nation A queen by chance Lilibet never expected to be a queen. Her Uncle Edward was king and she only became queen because he fell in love. The woman he loved and wanted to marry was divorced so he was told it was impossible for him to be king. As king, he was also Head of the Church of England, which didn’t allow remarriage after divorce. Edward chose love over duty and abdicated (gave up the throne). He had no children – and that meant that his brother, Lilibet’s father, became king. Then her father, King George VI, died at the early age of 57. Lilibet had no brothers, who would have been in line before her, so she became queen. She was only 25 years…

Ferrari F8 Tributo Maker: Ferrari Model: F8 Tributo Years: 2020-2023 Fuel: Petrol Transmission: Automatic Top Speed: 340km/h Horsepower: 710hp Materials: The F8 Tributo is made almost entirely from carbon fibre right down to the wheels. Ferrari’s famous carbon-fibre racing rims were made available for buyers of the F8 Tributo in 2020. Behind the BADGE The first Ferrari ever made wasn’t even a Ferrari! Founder Enzo Ferrari worked with Alfa Romeo and ran Scuderia Ferrari as their racing division until 1939. A legal agreement stopped him from using the Ferrari name for four years afterwards. So, in 1940, Enzo launched his first car – the 815 Auto Avio Costruzioni. 1. The F8 Tributo was built to celebrate Ferrari’s V8 engine, which won the ‘International Engine of the Year’ for four straight…

White Bird: A Wonder Story Available: In cinemas from October 14 Rated: PG Starring: Gillian Anderson, Helen Mirren, Olivia Ross, and Bryce Gheisar Directed by: Marc Forster If you were a fan of Wonder (the 2017 movie based on the R.J. Palacio novel of the same name), then you’ll be happy to know that this October, one of the characters from it – Julian – gets to tell a chapter from his life. Since being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of Auggie Pullman, Julian finds himself struggling. His grandmère (grandmother) Sara comes to visit from Paris and shares with Julian her own story of how kindness can change someone’s life. You’d better get comfortable, as this movie is just over two hours long, but it promises to be…

The Space Needle The Space Needle is an observation tower in the centre of the city of Seattle, in Washington State, in northwest USA. Edward E. Carlson was chairman of the World’s Fair, which was to be held in Seattle in 1962. The theme for the fair was ‘The Age of Space’. Carlson travelled a lot, and he was impressed with the TV Tower in Stuttgart when he visited the German city. He thought a similar tower would look great in Seattle and impress the visitors to the World’s Fair. Although Carlson was a very successful businessman, he had no experience of designing any sort of building. So he doodled a simple design of a tower looking like a giant balloon that was tethered to the ground. Seattle architect John…

Space Animals (Part 2) First Human Then something game-changing happened on April 12, 1961: Russian Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space and orbit the Earth. That inspired the Americans to redouble their efforts, and in 1969 American Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Moon. Enos In November 1961, the Americans launched a chimp called Enos into orbit. Three orbits were planned, but the mission was aborted after just one because the capsule was overheating. Also, like Ham, Enos was trained to solve puzzles and pull a lever to get a reward or a light electric shock. But the lever malfunctioned and began shocking him whether he was right or wrong, giving him 78 shocks in all! Poor animal! He returned…

Sport Not to Be Missed this Month Man City v Man United October 2 Manchester United have recovered from their terrible start to the season but they face a big test against their city rivals. Erling Haaland has made an incredible start to his Manchester City career. Can United keep him quiet and claim a shock away win? Rugby League World Cup Oct 15 – Nov 19 Get ready for a feast of rugby league! England will host 61 matches across three tournaments for men, women and – for the first time – wheelchair players. Australia have dominated the men’s and women’s game, winning a combined 13 World Cups, but England and New Zealand will test their mettle. T20 Cricket World Cup Oct 17 – Nov 14 Australia will try…

Lindsey Vonn Born: October 18, 1984 Sport: Skiing Titles: Olympic gold medallist, two-time World Champion, four World Cup overall championships Lindsey Vonn is a former alpine ski racer who holds the record for most World Cup wins by a woman. She won her first World Cup overall championship aged 14 and represented the United States at four Winter Olympics, winning a gold medal in the downhill in 2010. Vonn is one of only six women to have won World Cup races in all five disciplines of alpine skiing. She won 82 races in total during her record-breaking career. Vonn was born Lindsey Caroline Kildow [Vonn was her married name] in St Paul, Minnesota, and was just a toddler when she first put on skis. By the age of seven she…

Special Passengers for Artemis I First planned to launch in August, the Artemis I unmanned test flight to the Moon is now set for sometime in October. This Space Launch System (SLS) will carry the Orion test capsule around the Moon and back to earth in a six-week journey. The success of this mission will lead the way to future astronaut visits to the Moon on Artemis II, beginning in 2024. Although Artemis I is unmanned, several special ‘passengers’ will be traveling aboard. Four LEGO figures are set to travel into space, as a part of ‘Build to Launch: a STEAM Exploration Series’. To go along with this, LEGO offers a free course on its website. It’s all about space and related STEAM topics: science, technology, engineering, arts and maths.…

AI Art! New Artificial Intelligence (commonly known as AI) is creating forms of art based on what you ask for or describe. The AI takes all of the images on the internet and blends them together to create something completely new. For example, you could type into the AI system ‘Primary Planet’ and you would end up with something like this! With faster internet speeds, scientists are developing AI that will be able to take all of the information on the internet and combine it together. This could be really useful for your homework! There are lots of different AI art creators online, so make sure you play around with some of the free ones! Octopus Gloves! Engineers from Virginia Tech (a university in America) have developed an octopus-inspired glove…

PERU OFFICIAL NAME: Republic Of Peru CAPITAL: Lima POPULATION: 32.97 million OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, Quechua and Aymara MONEY: Nuevo Sol AREA: 1,285,216 km2 MAJOR MOUNTAIN RANGES: Andes MAJOR RIVERS: Amazon, Ucayali and Madre de Dios Peru is a large country in South America. It borders Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil and Chile. Its Pacific Ocean coastline, in the west of the country, is almost 2,500 km long. Most of its cities, including the capital Lima, are built close to the coast. The Andes is the second biggest mountain range in the world and it runs through the centre of Peru. Many of the peaks in the Andes are active volcanoes. Well over half of the country is covered by part of the Amazon rainforest. The rainforest is home to most of…

Crossword Time Across 4 The Renault ___________: the only car to win the European Car of the Year award twice. (4) 5 The capital city of Peru (4) 6 Last month, a crew of firefighters in the UK spent three hours trying to remove a cow’s head from a ___________(4) 7 This English Premier League team welcomes Man City to Anfield on October 16 (9) 9 Thermoception is a human sense that detects ___________(4) 10 The name of the stray cat from Paris who became the only cat to make a successful trip into space (9) 11 Complete this movie title: White Bird: A ___________ Story (6) 12 This word comes from the joining of ‘cybernetic’ and ‘organism’ (6) 13 A grand total of 20,000 bulbs light this iconic Parisian…

4 Good Reasons to … Play 1. It helps you learn Playing is one of the best ways to learn new things. Think about all the toys you have and the games you play or take part in. Every single one of them helps us to learn new skills. When we were younger some of us played with dolls feeding them, dressing them and cuddling them. This is one of the ways we learn how to take care of others. Games like Jenga teach us about building things (and being patient!). The game of Battleship teaches us about strategy. Playing sports helps us to learn how to be part of a team and to try hard. Playing should always feel like fun, but if we also learn things while we…

Potter Replaces Tuchel Graham Potter is the new head coach of Chelsea after the club’s new owners fired Thomas Tuchel. Chelsea sacked Tuchel the morning after their defeat to Dinamo Zagreb in the UEFA Champions League, a competition the German coach won with the Blues last year. Tuchel had won three out of six Premier League games this season, losing once with two draws. The club moved fast to appoint a replacement, approaching then- Brighton boss Potter on the same day that Tuchel departed. Potter led Brighton to a ninth-place finish in last season’s Premier League and is regarded as one of the best young coaches in English soccer. Chelsea and Potter are preparing for a busy October. They will play nine matches this month, including home and away games…