A Brief History of Military CamouflageIn the late ‘90s, the Canadian military adopted a digital pattern that replaced swirls with a pixilated design. The idea was not to make the uniforms undetectable, but rather to create ambient visual noise that the roving glance of an enemy would disregard. In 2001 the US Marines adopted a similar design. Today all branches of the American military have some version of digital camouflage.
Genius 13-Year-Old Has a Solar Power BreakthroughWhen I was 13 I was smoking cigarettes I’d found on the ground and playing Super Nintendo like it was my life’s work. This kid discovered a way to draw 20-50% more power from solar cells.
7th grader Aidan Dwyer was walking in the woods during the winter, and looking up, he noticed something about the bare branches above him. They didn’t appear to be growing randomly. So he took some measurements of the angles of the branches, crunched some numbers, and wouldn’t you know it, he found that the ubiquitous Fibonacci Sequence was behind it all. He suspected there was a reason behind this. That trees were using this pattern to gather more light.
Timelapse – The City LimitsLocations include :
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Quebec city, Quebec, Canada
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Which country has the most debt? Answer may surprise you.By contrast the United States’ gross national debt is closer to 100 percent of gross domestic product, according to estimates from the International Monetary Fund and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
That still puts the U.S. in better shape than other industrialized nations including Greece, Italy and Ireland, according to the OECD estimates. Of course, those are among the European countries whose high debt levels have raised concerns in recent months.
Here are the 10 developed countries with the most gross debt, compared to GDP, based on the OECD’s projections for 2011:
1.Japan – 213 percent of GDP
2.Greece – 157 percent
3.Italy – 129 percent
4.Iceland – 121 percent
5.Ireland – 120 percent
6.Portugal – 111 percent
7.United States – 101 percent
8.Belgium – 101 percent
9.France – 97 percent
10.United Kingdom – 89 percent
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