Fire Ant's Baby

Yesterday, when I went to change my tortoise's newspaper sheet in her cage, I found fire ants at the top of a big box next to the cage. They were bringing the babies and were finding for a place to save them. My mother caught one of the ants bringing the baby, and we examined them under our digital microscope. The picture at the left shows it. At first we thought it was an egg, but when we saw it under the microscope, it was clear that it's a baby.












We did a research about fire ants and we found this:

https://6legs2many.wordpress.com/tag/pupae/

I think we caught the queen wannabe. Maybe. What do you 
think?

We also found out that some people made moulds of ant's nests. Such as this one. They ended into these:

http://www.ufunk.net/en/insolite/metal-anthill/

Ants are really great architechts.

My First Rank Trophy for 4th Grade

On Sunday I had a concert for the ones who ranked in the piano exam. My grade is the 1st rank, and here's my trophy:

Here is me with the trophy and certificate.


Before the concert, it was raining hard that caused traffics around the roads near the concert place.

Audition in Erwin Gutawa's Studio

My sister's drum teacher told me that there's an audition in Erwin Gutawa Studio for 8-13 years old kids. They scheduled me today, and this is my first experience. I played Mozart and Beethoven. At first, I didn't feel nervous, but in the middle of the audition, I felt a little nervous. I made several mistakes, but I hope that's okay. After the audition, everything went back to normal. Here's some posters that I saw in the studio.

Parthenon Part 4: The Later History of the Parthenon (Last Part)

After the middle or third century AD, a fire broke out in the Parthenon, destroying the roof and much of the interior. Some pirates also sacked Athens, destroying the buildings, including the Parthenon. Repairs were made in the fourth century AD, but they did it incorrectly.

One day in 435 AD a king named Theodosius II decreed that all pagan temples from the Byzantine Period be closed and that includes the Parthenon. Somewhere between the 5th century, the Athena statue (read Parthenon Part 1) was stolen and brought somewhere, where it was destroyed.

It was then changed into a Christian Church. The shape of the church was changed to face the east, the main door facing the West.

Next, it was changed into a mosque when the Ottoman Turks arrived. Although the Parthenon had been changed into a church and then a mosque, the basic shape and structure is still intact. Here's a picture of the Parthenon as a mosque:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon

 The Parthenon was then destructed enourmously when the Venetians led by Francescoe Morosini, attacked Athens and captured the Acropolis. A Venetian mortar round fired and blew up part of the Parthenon. It caused large fires that burned an amount of buildings.

But now the Parthenon is being restored really carefully. The scientists are pretty confused of how to make it exactly like how the Ancient Greeks did. Now it is still in the process.

My Trip To Madiun

On September 25th, 2015, I went on a trip to Madiun for my distant cousin's wedding and family gathering from my mom's side. I rode by train there. It's been a long time I rode a train  and that was a few years ago. We reached there over midnight. I bought a new dress for the wedding, and I met my relatives that I never knew before. I found out that I liked a new traditional food called Pecel and Lempeng khas Madiun.

In the train station.

This is me in my party dress.

This is my family and I in the party.

The Parthenon Part 3: The Collumns of the Parthenon

Here I'm going to tell you about the collumns of the Parthenon. The collumns are in the Doric Order. Below is a doric order collumn:

First let me tell you about the orders. They're quite complicated to explain. In total, there are 5 types of column orders: Doric Order, Ionic Order, Corinthian Order, Tuscan Order and Composite Order. The Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, are from the Greeks, while the Tuscan and Composite are from the Romans. They're all classical orders.The doric order is the oldest order, and the simplest one.

We'll talk starting from the top fo the collumn. The triglyph comes from the word tri, which means "three", and glyph, which means mark, so triglyph means three marks. You can see three lines there up in the picture.

The space between the triglyphs are called metopes, which are often filled with sculptures.

The abacus, or the slab at the top of the collumn is just simple.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/145381894195548785/

Now we go to the tricky part. Most people think that the collumns are straight, but actually they're not. From the top towards the middle, the width grows bigger, then towards the bottom, it tapers, which means the width becomes smaller.  So the widest point is at the middle, and the thinnest point is at the top. The collumn is not carved out of one stone, they're carved from different stones. They put them together by making a hole at the centre of the already-carved stones, so that a piece of wood will string them together. 

It's quite fascinating because the Ancient Greeks made the shaft have a sense of elasticity, making it able to bear the weight above it, and design it not only using math and geometry, but also with human perception, because the further we go, the smaller something is. 

This is the end of Parthenon Part 3

The 35th Coursera Meetup

As you know, I joined MOOC ( Massive Open Online Course) courses. Some Indonesian Courserian made this coumunity: id.Courserian. I joined this community last year when I was 10 years old. I'm still the youngest member until now. All the members come from various backgrounds. The ones who joined here in this meetup were proffessionals and some were university students.

The meetup was held every once a month, but I could not always join it. This time it's held on September 18th, 2015, and I shared them all about what I learned about dinosaurs from Dino 101, as the topic says it's Dino 101, one of the courses in Coursera. Underneath was me sharing:

With my notebook.

The whole view fom above.

Our discussion