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Book review of Post Human Series Books 1-4 by David Simpson
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2015 is the International Year of Light (but the universal year of light is in 2533). I think we can all agree that light is very important in just about all aspects of our lives. But what are the key things that every human should know about it? Ok, I am going to give a pass on humans under the age of 7. Younger kids probably know lots of things about light (since they use it all the time) but lets just not worry about them for now. So, if you are over the age of 7, pay attention.

What is a wave? Lets start with an example. Toss a rock into a puddle and you will see something like this:

Slow motion video of waves in a puddle.

The rock makes a disturbance in the water (a ripple). This disturbance moves radially outward from where the rock hit. It is the disturbance moving outward, not the water molecules they just move up and down. You can do something similar with a length of string. Place it on the floor and continue to shake one end. The disturbance travels down the string (a heavy string works better).

Lets look at the case of a wave traveling down a string. There are 4 properties that you could consider:

These 4 properties are:

The last three properties are related. The speed of the wave is equal to the product of the wavelength and the frequency.

So, light is a wave. This means that it has all the above properties and can do wavey things such as:

Light does all these things.

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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said yesterday that it is disappointed that Malaysias Federal Court ruled to uphold the imprisonment of opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim.

Anwar embraces Wan Azizah after the Federal Court verdict on 10 February 2015

The Federal Court agreed with a decision made by the Appeals Court in March 2014, which sentenced Anwar to five years in prison on charges of sodomy, a crime that should not exist under international human rights law, said the High Commissioners spokesperson, Rupert Colville, briefing press in Geneva.

Colville said Anwar had faced a number of charges and lengthy judicial processes after removal from the Government in 1998.

There were allegations that that case had been politically motivated and the trial marred by violations of due process rights in relation to the opportunities provided to the defence, raising concerns about the fairness of the judicial process, said Colville. In addition, Mr. Ibrahim had been investigated and his lawyers prosecuted under the 1948 Sedition Act for speaking about the case.

Colville added that OHCHR was highly concerned by the increasing use of the Sedition Act in an apparently arbitrary and selective fashion, against political opposition, human rights activists, journalists, lawyers and university professors in Malaysia since 2014.

Source: UN News Centre

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