When 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.
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Locations include :
– Montreal, Quebec, Canada
– Quebec city, Quebec, Canada
– Toronto, Ontario, Canada
– Manhattan, New York, USA
– Chicago, Illinois, USA
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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The latest addition to the manufacturing company’s line of bathroom and kitchen products is the Numi: a super-luxurious toilet complete with built-in music system, ambient lighting, heated seat, foot warmer, a bidet attachment that’ll clean and dry your delicates — all controlled by a touchscreen pad.
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Jeremy Hunter has spent 35 years documenting ancient rituals and festivals in 60 countries. Here is a small selection of photographs that will appear as part of Let’s Celebrate 365.
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