FTFA: "mainly powered by solar energy" (emphasis mine) What's the rest powered by? Water? To the best of my knowledge, even electric cars need some kind of fuel to provide electricity when there's little sun or during harsh conditions.

Who fuels the cars on the way? Do they know how to spot gas stations and ask the gas station attendants to fill them up? How do they pay?

If that is really an Israeli soldier than the iconography is a dog tag. In addition, it's connected to his neck with a steel chain which is covered with a "cheap black cord". All combat soldiers cover the steel chain so that it wont reflect light and give away their position in battle.

This could easily be explained by the fact that smoking is more common in the combat and combat supporting (tank and APC mechanics for example) units than it is in the bureaucratic and intel units. Many young soldiers pickup smoking simply as a way to pass the time. Therefore, it's more likely to happen in the combat units since they stay in the army for extended periods of time (usually around 17 days) as opposed to the bureaucratic and intel units who go home every day. Soldiers in combat units simply have more time to spare. In addition, life in a combat unit is far more stressful and smoking is a popular way to deal with it. Now, I probably don't have to say that soldiers aren't sent to combat units because of their extraordinary brain power. I dont have any data to back this up, but I'm pretty sure that the average IQ in the combat and combat supporting units is lower than in the bureaucratic and intel units. With this in mind, the results aren't to surprising. It happens because a high percentage of soldiers with lower than average IQ's are sent to units which encourage smoking.

Other posters have already explained the crucial practical aspects of math, but that's not the end of the story. A good mathematical education can help a person become an open-minded and critical thinker, which is important in a democratic society. Studying math teaches you that nothing is right just because someone says so. You only believe something that makes sense to you. If a little kid finds a mistake in a Field Medal laureate's proof, then the laureate is wrong. This seems counter to open-mindness but it really isn't. Being open minded isn't about everyone being right. It's about listening to every opinion and accepting them based on their merit. This is exactly what's conveyed to a student while studying math. For a further elaboration of this point I'd recommend the book I give to anyone who complains that math is irrelevant: "The Education of T.C. MITS" by Lillian Lieber (T. C. MITS = The Celebrated Man In The Street)

Seriously. Get out of your cave and look at some of the current news. If by "Israel" you mean the government then I can find quite a few examples disproving your statement. A nation with utmost contempt for a non-Jew's life probably wouldn't send a response team to Haiti, which isn't exactly known for it's thriving Jewish poplulation, accept and provide aid to Somali refugees or send relief units to Kenya. How many other western countries have done that? And if by "Israel" you mean the population then you just made a gross over-generalization. I live in Israel and neither my friends nor myself have an "utmost contempt for a non-Jew's life and/or rights". Quite the opposite actually. You accuse the OP of listening to biased news outlets, but it seems as if you prefer to extrapolate from your narrow understanding of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict to Israel's view of the entire world. Wow.

So if he didn't get the money from web donations then he must have gotten it from the media companies? That's a false dichotomy if I've ever seen one.

Because of the angle, it's hard to tell whether the shockwave is spherical or cone shaped. A cone looks like a sphere while viewed from underneath like in the video.

This kind of anxiety has also been shown to cause behavior that confirms stereotypes. For example, if girls are told that they can't succeed in math, then they'll get more anxious than the boys before math tests and score lower: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070524082806.htm