PAUHnews: Mari Gantung Bra?

29/9/2011 PITTSBURGH, Amerika Syarikat (AS) - Sebanyak 4,000 helai coli digantung di sepanjang sebuah jambatan di sini dalam kempen meningkatkan kesedaran orang ramai mengenai bahaya penyakit barah payu dara, lapor sebuah akhbar kelmarin.

Coli berbagai saiz dan beraneka warna itu berkibar ditiup angin selepas digantung di atas wayar jambatan Hot Metal Bridge yang menghubungkan sungai Monongahela dengan pusat bandar raya ini, negeri Pennsylvania.

Semua coli tersebut akan digantung selama tiga minggu bermula kelmarin sebelum pakaian dalam itu dicuci dan didermakan ke beberapa rumah perlindungan wanita.

Coli-coli itu dibekalkan oleh pihak pengurusan syarikat pakaian tempatan, American Eagle Outfitters yang bertanggungjawab mencetuskan idea untuk mengadakan kempen tersebut.

Selepas coli-coli itu digantung kelmarin, ia berjaya menarik perhatian para pengguna jambatan berkenaan serta pihak media.

"Saya langsung tidak menyangka akan melihat sebegitu banyak coli. Kempen ini hebat. Saya berhenti untuk merakam pemandangan unik ini," kata seorang pengguna jambatan tersebut, Monica Minetola.

PAUHinfo: Basikal Fixie, Cantik Vs Selamat!

BERJIWA muda, lengkap berkaca mata hitam, berseluar ketat dan berselipar. Inilah antara kelengkapan yang lazim dipakai remaja masa kini yang menjadikan aktiviti berbasikal untuk beriadah.

Sejak kebelakangan ini dapat dilihat aktiviti berbasikal yang dinamakan 'fixie' atau 'prewel mati' menjadi kegilaan dan ikutan remaja.

Difahamkan basikal ini tidak mempunyai sistem asas sesebuah basikal iaitu sistem brek yang kebiasaannya ada pada setiap basikal.

Menunggang dengan peralatan keselamatan seperti helmet dan lampu juga tidak dititikberatkan malah lebih memeranjatkan apabila kebanyakan daripada penunggang 'fixie' ini terdiri daripada pelajar sekolah. 

Menurut seorang penunggang basikal ‘fixie’, basikal ini boleh didapati secara meluas di kedai basikal dengan harga yang sangat murah. Kepelbagaian warna adalah salah satu cara untuk menarik minat pembeli.

Ditanya mengapa tidak memasang sistem brek pada basikal, beliau menjawab ia adalah ‘trend’ baru, teknik memijak tayar belakang basikal ialah cara untuk memperlahan atau memberhentikan basikal ‘fixie.’

Apa-apapun tungganglah basikal dengan betul. Berhati-hati ketika menunggang dan ikutlah peraturan. Semua ini adalah untuk melindungi diri penunggang juga. Betul? Sendiri mahu ingatlah!

PAUHnews: Welcome to the V8 Hotel

Welcome to the V8 Hotel in Stuttgart, which boasts rooms guaranteed to rev the engine of any car lover. The four-star hotel has 34 rooms, many of which are decorated with a car theme. Some of them even contain real cars.

The hotel is based in the centre of Stuttgart's Meilenwerk - a German international hub for car dealers. Guests can sleep in everything from a Morris Minor to a Mercedes.

Visitors can canoodle under the stars at the drive-in.

Recharge their batteries in the workshop.

For those who like a high-octane holiday experience, visitors can cuddle up under the stars at the drive-in, tune their engines in the workshop or even keep enjoy a night's rest at the car wash.

Built inside the city's old Boblingen Airport the hotel also has a suite built on three levels within the building's former control tower. For around £312 a night visitors can stay in the 120sqm Zeppelin Suite featuring a sauna, terrace and landscape views over the old airport grounds.

Hotel employee Heike Petzold said: "Everybody wants to stay here when they come to the Meilenwerk. Even people who live in the area come here to stay for a night in the themed rooms."

"It attracts everyone of all ages, from children to old age pensioners and of course businessmen during the week and families too. All kinds of people come here, so it's not just for car enthusiasts, but of course there are those that are interested in car history and the automobile industry's connections to the region too."

"We've even had a few celebrity guests, but I can't say who they are as I'm not allowed." 

 The four-star hotel incorporates 34 rooms and the car theme continues from reception to the restaurant. 

 Apart from the trendy details and antique accessories used to decorate the rooms some of them also feature original parts from the automotive world. 

 The rest of the rooms are designed in the classic Bauhaus style, but of course the motor theme is present there too. 

 The car-containing rooms in the hotel include a 70's Cadillac drive-in cinema, a Mercedes Benz carwarsh, and a Morris Minor garage.

PAUHnews: World's smallest aquarium

The miniature wonder, which is made of glass and measures just 30 mm wide by 24 mm high and 14mm deep, can be held in the palm of your hand. And it is so small there is only room for these tiny zebra fish. 

 Despite the miniscule proportions, it does comes with miniature plants as well as stones. 

 When it came to filling up the tank, the 10ml of water had to be applied with a syringe to ensure the arrangement was not disturbed. 

 And the fish had to be added with a specially made miniature fish net. The extraordinary creation is the latest by Anatoly Konenko, from Omsk, in Russia. 

 The 57-year-old was the first in Siberia to make what he calls 'microminiature' art. During the past three decades he has perfected the painstaking skill of writing on tiny grains of rice, poppy seeds and even human hair. 

 In 1996 he was even recognised by the Guinness World Records for the smallest ever book. Measuring just 0.9 mm by 0.9 mm the 29 page novel, an edition of 'Chameleon' by Russian author Anton Chekhov is dwarfed by a five pence piece. 

 Working with a microscope, he has built up quite a collection of miniature art over the years. 

 Other creations include a caravan of 12 miniature camels inside the eye of a needle, which measures an incredible 0.25 mm. 

 Mr Konenko has also made an incredibly detailed ship in a bottle, which stands at just 0.25 mm high, and a pair of shoes smaller than a matchstick. Some of his creations are worth as much as 50,000 euros, 44,000 pounds. 

 He said: "The tank was made out of curiosity. "It is the world's smallest and holds only 10 ml of water. "For reference, 5 ml is one teaspoon, so the aquarium can only hold two teaspoons worth of water."

PAUHnews: Pertandingan Dunia Seni Nikon

Baru-baru ini Syarikat Gergasi Nikon telah mengadakan pertandingan fotografi bertajuk "Nikon Small World 2011 competition: photographs through the microscope" atau Pertandingan Dunia Seni (Halus) 2011: Fotografi melalui mikroskop.

Nikon telah mengadakan pertandingan fotografi ini sejak 36 tahun yang lalu. Seni yang ditonjolkan di sini adalah dari perkara yang tidak dapat dilihat dengan mata kasar dan hanya dapat dilihat melalui alat bantuan seperti mikroskop.

Berikut adalah sebahagian foto dari peserta yang mengambil bahagian di dalam pertandingan tahun ini.

Dr John H Brackenbury, University of Cambridge, UK

Titisan air yang mengandungi sepasang larva nyamuk

Teknik: Laser-triggered high-speed macrophotography

Dr David Maitland, Feltwell, UK

Sepasang mata majmuk lalat Bibio Marci jantan

Teknik: Larger - Reflected (Episcopic), Diffuse Illumination

David Millard, Austin, Texas

Telur rama-rama Askar Merah (Vanessa atalanta) dalam daun jelatang berbisa (Urtica dioica)

Teknik: Trichomesal

Yanping Wang, Beijing Planetarium

Pasir

Dr Donna Stolz, University of Pittsburgh

Kotoran dari sel koligen mamalia terdiri dari protin dan organ bergumpal menjadi lingkaran.

Poulomi Ray, Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA

Usus embrio telur ayam

Teknik: Pembesaran 20x, Confocal

Alfred Pasieka, Germany

Permukaan mikrocip

Teknik: 3D reconstruction (500X) Incident light, Normarski Interference Contrast

Stephen S Nagy, MD, Montana Diatoms, Helena, Montana

Hujung lidah rama-rama

Teknik: Polarised light, brightfield

Marc van Hove, Centexbel, Merelbeke, Belgium

Lubang jarum berserta benang

Teknik: Epi-brightfield

Dr Havi Sarfaty, Israeli Veterinary Association, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Mulut lalat rumah

Teknik: Fiber optic illumination

Dr Jana Boerner, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida

Pembentukan semula sistem saraf lalat buah (Drosophila)

Teknik: Confocal

Arik Shapira, Hod HaSharon, Israel

Bahagian dalam bunga liar

Joan Röhl, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, Potsdam, Germany

Kutu air tawar (Daphnia magna)

Teknik: 100X Differential Interference Contrast

Pekka Honkakoski, Iisalmi, Finland

Titisan salji halus berbentuk pisau yang pelik

Dr Witold Kilarski, EPFL-Laboratory of Lymphatic and Cancer Bioengineering, Lausanne, Switzerland

Cacing filaria (Litomosoides sigmodontis) di dalam saluran cecair tidak bewarna pada telinga tikus

Teknik: (150X Fluorescent confocal microscopy

Jose R Almodovar, Microscopy Centre, Biology Department, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez Campus

Pundi tiub tumbuhan air Utricularia gibba

Dr Jorge Bernardino de la Serna, MEMPHYS - Centre for Biomembrane Physics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Odense, Denmark

Tompokan lemak pada permukaan paru-paru

Teknik: 40X - Confocal

Dr Jônatas Bussador do Amaral and Dr Gláucia Maria, Machado Santelli, São Paulo, Brazil

Gambaran 3D pembiakan sel pada sel barah payu dara (MCF-7 cell line)

Debora Leite, University of Sao Paulo

Bahagian akar bersilang batang tebu

Yanping Wang, Beijing Planetarium

Enpingan salji

Untuk melihat foto-foto yang lain, sila buat carian ""Nikon Small World 2011 competition" di internet.