HE might be just two years old, but Jaylan Amor is making giant waves in the world of surfing. The toddler is believed to be the youngest boarder on the Gold Coast and is already winning sponsorship deals with surf businesses.
He first stepped on a board at Currumbin beach six months ago and now brings the beach to a standstill each time he catches a wave. “No one here has ever seen anyone this young surf before – he’s just incredible,” dad Peter said.
Jaylan’s surfing skill came as no surprise though, as his four-year-old sister Shayla learned to surf a year ago.
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What if the entire world’s population lived in one giant mega city? That’s probably a really bad idea, but it’s an interesting thought to give us an idea of just how many people are out there. These illustrations show how big this city of the world would be based on the population density of different real cities. If everyone in the world lived in one giant city with the population density of New York, everyone could fit in a land mass the size of Texas.
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Tracing one person’s lineage back in time forms a binary tree of parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and so on. However, the number of individuals in such an ancestor tree grows exponentially and will eventually become impossibly high. For example, an individual human alive today would, over 30 generations, going back to about the High Middle Ages, have 230 or about 1.07 billion ancestors, more than the total world population at the time.
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To celebrate Harrison Ford’s 40th credited big-screen appearance in Cowboys & Aliens this weekend, Steve Murray takes a look back at everyone’s favourite acting chameleon.
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