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10 Maps That Will Change How You View The World

Maps are one of those things you can lose yourself in for hours. Since their humble origins as scribbles in the sand thousands of millennia ago, maps have been useful companions during the development of human culture and society. Now, in an age of seemingly endless information, maps are more abundant, advanced and fascinating than ever before. Here are some of the most interesting maps we could find; hopefully, they will leave you looking at our little "pale blue dot" with a fresh perspective. Goode Homolosine Projection Image credit: Strebe/Wikimedia Commons The most common form of map, known as the Mercator map, is actually surprisingly inaccurate. A New Perspective Of Africa Image credit: Kai Krause You’d be forgiven for thinking the continent of Africa is about the same size as North America. This Is Where 5 Percent Of The World Lives Image credit: Max Galka The red blob in South Asia shows where 5 percent of the world live. The World Map Scaled According To Population Size Photo Gallery Related:  TeacherMappe socioculturaligeography

Play KenKen Math Puzzles - Free Math Games & Logic Puzzles! KENKEN for your Mobile Fun, addicting, yet educational. The KenKen iOS and Android apps are perfect for the whole family! KENKEN in the Classroom Calling all educators! Join our FREE program to use KenKen puzzles with your students. Rules For Playing KenKen® The numbers you use in a KenKen puzzle depend on the size of the grid you choose. The numbers in each heavily outlined set of squares, called cages, must combine (in any order) to produce the target number in the top corner using the mathematic operation indicated (+, -, ×, ÷). Here's how you play: Use each number only once per row, once per column. ®KenKen قواعد لعبة إختر حجم الشبكة. إملأ الأرقام من 1 حتى رقم حجم الشبكة. لا تكرّر الرقم ذاته في أي صف أو عامود. يجب ملء الأقفاص التي تحتوي على مربع واحد فقط بالرقم الهدف الموجود في الزاوية. يمكن تكرار الرقم ذاته في قفص واحد طالما أنه ليس مذكورا في الصف أو العامود ذاته. انقر مصطلح "التحقق" في أي وقت للتأكد من صحة الحلّ. KENKEN®的游戏规则 1) 选择方格大小。 2) 填入一个数字(最小为 1,最大不超过方格大小)。 3) 任何一行或一列不要有相同的数字。 א. ב. ג. ד.

A Real-Time Map of Births and Deaths - James Hamblin In 1950, there were 2.5 billion humans. Today there are just over 7 billion. In another 30 years, according to U.S. Census Bureau projections, there will be more than 9 billion. Brad Lyon has a doctoral degree in mathematics and does software development. "This one for world births/deaths is certainly more overwhelming than the one for the U.S.," Lyon told me, "and the rate at which they must be occurring gives another glimpse into how big the world is." That is to say, watch this and everything you're worried about today becomes nothing. "What got me interested initially," Lyon said, "was simply curiosity about what the pattern of births and deaths might be like, based on the current rates, coupled with the desire to learn more about some of the newer technologies for the web." In this case, that technology is primarily d3.js, a javascript library by New York Times graphics editor Michael Bostock.

Cloud in a Jar Activity for ages 3 to 8. On a recent foggy walk to school, my 3 year old, Q, asked what made fog. Making a cloud in a jar was the perfect opportunity to show him just how clouds and fog (which is just low lying clouds) are formed. With virtually no prep and no cost, this super cool demonstration will have you playing Zeus, the god of weather, all afternoon. Getting Ready For this demonstration I first grabbed a few things we already had in the house. glass jar with lid or a glass cup with a small platematches or hairsprayhot waterice Making the Cloud This demo couldn’t be easier and really could be done by your kiddo from start to finish. Next, we took the lid to the jar, turned it upside down, and filled it with ice. The final step was to add condensation nuclei or a seed- some tiny particles of dust, salt, pollution, or smoke that the water vapor can condense on in the air. We found it worked best to blow the match out inside the jar so most of the smoke would become trapped inside.

lettura a voce alta | Arti e bagagli Adobe Acrobat Markierungswerkzeug (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Forse non tutti sanno che Adobe Reader, il lettore di file in formato pdf gratuito della Adobe, è in grado di leggerci a voce alta i nostri documenti con una voce sintetica, ma comprensibile. Non è solo un giochino, ma un utile strumento per quanti fossero nell’impossibilità, temporanea o permanente, di leggere tali documenti coi propri occhi. L’opzione di lettura è un po’ nascosta nel menu di Reader e l’attivazione non è immediatamente intuibile. Infatti si deve procedere in due passi. Prima si va nella voce di menu Vista->Leggi a voce alta->Attiva lettura a voce alta. Leggi solo questa paginaLeggi documento fino alla fine Durante la lettura si attiveranno, nella stessa voce di menu, anche le opzioni di Pausa/Riprendi e Interrompi. In ogni caso, chi volesse già fiondarsi a testare questo strumento dovrà tenere presente ancora un paio di cose. La pazienza è d’obbligo, ma si arriva comunque al risultato. Buon ascolto :-) Mi piace:

The US really has 11 separate 'nations' with entirely different cultures 25 little places which are just too wonderful to be real The following little places are undoubtedly some of the most magnificent and fantastical on the planet. They look like illustrations from fairy tales, captivating you with their seemingly otherwordly perfection. You’re left with just one question in your head: which one should I head to first? Yangshuo County, China Burano, Italy Dazhai, China Bled, Slovenia Kakortok, Greenland Jiufen, Taiwan Hallstatt, Austria Reine, Norway Riomaggiore, Italy Gásadalur, Faroe Islands Zermatt, Switzerland Moselle, Germany Manarola, Italy Vang Vieng, Laos Desenzano del Garda, Italy Shirakawa-gō, Japan Colmar, France Damüls, Austria Cemoro Lawang, Indonesia Portofino, Italy Shaanxi, China Morro de São Paulo, Brazil San Marino Xitang, China Tuscany, Italy

Grid Paper PDFs Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs Downloadable and very printable, I find these PDFs extremely useful. Tip number one! Though I do return the correct header for a PDF, sometimes Explorer gets confused when downloading... So if you're running Windows, you may need to right-click a link and choose "Save link to disk". Tip number two! Some people may need to turn off the option in Adobe's Acrobat reader "shrink to fit" which may resize the grid slightly to fit your printer's printable area. Tip number three! If you want the hexes aligned with the other edge of the paper, just make your paper size "11 x 8.5" and print the result in landscape mode! Translations Belorussian (provided by Ucallweconn weblog) Other

8 Maps Showing How The US Fits Into The Rest Of The World How the US Population Fits in Europe by reddit user jackblack2323 The US is the third most populous country on earth, with over 320 million people according the current U.S. Census Population Clock. Yet, only around 4.4% of the world’s people live in the country and considering it’s only the 180th most densely populated country on earth, it’s rather sparsely populated. Moreover, if the US ever wanted to catch-up with China (most populated) or India (soon to be most populated), it would have to increase its population fourfold (1.2 billion+). Even then, this would still only make it the 89th most densely populated country on earth (assuming of course no population changes in any other country). However, all this can be rather difficult to visualize. US vs. (see map at the top of this page) The map at the top of the page, shows a combination of European countries that roughly match the population of United States. US vs. How the US population fits into China by reddit user jackblack2323

Macro photos of snowflakes show impossibly perfect designs One of the true wonders of the world are snowflakes, tiny designs made of ice that are so individually unique, so detailed, and so spectacular it's hard to comprehend that they happen naturally and aren't pulled from the depths of our own imaginations. Photographer Alexey Kljatov has a special talent for capturing the brief life of these beautiful ice creations. He features many of his snowflake photos on Flickr. Kljatov says, "I capture snowflakes at open balcony of my house, mostly on glass surface, lighted by LED flashlight from opposite side of glass, and sometimes in natural light, using dark woolen fabrics as background." Here is some of his impressive work: Alexey Kljatov/CC BY-NC 3.0 Alexey Kljatov/CC BY-NC 3.0 Kljatov describes his technique for shooting snowflakes in a blog post, for those of you who want to try your own hand at this.

School background with school supplies and empty paper Free vector in Adobe Illustrator ai ( .AI ), Encapsulated PostScript eps ( .EPS ) format for free download 6.12MB ABSFreePic.com absolutely free stock photos download ShutterStock.com New plans save you over 30%. Flexible options. No daily limits Religions and Language Families in Europe.[[MORE]]... Religions and Language Families in Europe. by midnightrambulador Europe: Pick Your Master RaceReligion and language have been two of the most important factors in shaping cultural identities. So I thought it would be interesting to see language families and religious denominations overlaid on a single map of Europe, and since I couldn’t find such a map, I decided to make one myself.

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