Rumah Kecil

Where the baby came from

Video berikut diambil dari serial "Things you need to know" di BBC yang dibawakan oleh James May, dimana salah satu episodenya adalah mengenai proses terbentuknya bayi dalam kandungan. Pertanyaan populer bagi anak-anak, tapi tidak mudah dijawab para orang tua.

Video singkat ini informatif dan tidak vulgar, bisa membantu kita menyusun jawaban yang baik atau kalau anak kita sudah cukup besar, even better, bisa diajak menonton bersama.

Terbayang reaksi anak-anak ketika kita mengawali jawaban dengan,  "Actually, it's the most complicated piece of engineering known to us". Kalimat lain yang juga saya suka ada di bagian akhir program: " So, If you ever feel down, remember this: you're the product of an olympian sperm." 

Brilliant!

Dr Subchan and MoD Grand Challenge

Ratusan warga Indonesia menikmati suasana perayaan 17 Agustus di rumah dinas duta besar di London hari minggu lalu. Lontong, sate ayam, nasi uduk dan sajian musik, dari pop hingga dangdut menyemarakkan suasana. Di hari Minggu di musim panas, perayaan  kemerdekaan RI yang menghadirkan Eko Patrio, Ulfa Dwiyanti dan Titi Kamal itu  tersebut berlangsung hangat dan meriah.

Di Swindon, kota kecil yang berjarak sekitar dua jam berkendara dengan mobil dari London, terjadi juga perayaan dan juga persembahan  kado Istimewa untuk bangsa Indonesia.  Salah satu putera terbaiknya, Dr Subchan, peneliti di Cranfield University, Shrivenham campus di Oxfordshire, Inggris bersama timnya dinyatakan sebagai pemenang Minister of Defence  (MoD) Grand Challenge. Lomba bergengsi untuk mencari teknologi terapan di dunia militer yang diselenggarakan Kementerian Pertahanan Inggris.

Behind the mask, the face of King Tutankamun revealed

On 26 November 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter broke through the sealed wall of a miraculously undisturbed pharaonic tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings and was struck dumb for several minutes by the riches within.

"Can you see anything?" Carter's sponsor, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, eventually blurted, unable to bear the suspense. "Yes," Carter whispered. "Wonderful things."

In fact, the gilded couches and animal sculptures glinting in the antechamber represented a mere fraction of the riches buried with the boy king Tutankhamun, whose mummified body, complete with the dazzling gold and lapis-lazuli deathmask was finally revealed two years later. By then Lord Carnarvon, two of his relatives, and several others involved in the dig were dead, giving rise to rumours of a mummy's curse on the families of those who had opened the tomb.

Eighty-five years after the archaeologist Howard Carter first walked into Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, the rest of the world got its first glimpse of the most famous pharaoh in history.

Yesterday the boy king's delicate remains were transferred from a stone sarcophagus in his tomb to a climate-controlled glass box to preserve it for the future.