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» Teenaged immigrant solves problem that baffled Isaac Newton
Sixteen year old Shouryya Ray denies being a genius, but he’s being hailed in news reports for having come up with the solution to a problem that has baffled mathematicians ever since Sir Isaac Newton first posed it over 300 years ago.
The problem involved calculating the path of a projectile that is subject to both gravity and air resistance. Ray also solved a second problem, involving a body colliding with a wall, as part of a school project.
Ray says his chief motivation was curiosity. “When it was explained to us that the problems had no solutions, I thought to myself: well, there’s no harm in trying,” he explained.
Ray, who was born in Kolkata, India, moved to Germany four years ago when his engineer father got a job teaching at a technical college in Dresden. He says that he acquired his “hunger for mathematics” when he learned calculus from his father at the age of six — but now the son has outstripped the father’s ability to follow.
“He never discussed his project with me before it was finished and the mathematics he used are far beyond my reach,” Subhashis Ray admits.
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This is the picture at the entrance of the Palestinian Consulate in Mexico. It features Emiliano Zapata and Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni.
The arabic is translated to:
Long live Zapata - hero of the Mexican revolution - 1915
Long live Abd al Kader al Husseini - hero of the Palestinian revolution - 1948
The author is Burhan Karkoutly the same guy who ilustrated Ghassan Kanafani’s books.
aw hell yeah
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me in the mall as a kid getting snatched up by my mom when im touching something im not supposed to be touching
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24/5/12, Second day of strike in Asturias. The miners continue to block the streets with barricades to protest the budget cut forced on the sector by the government.
Meanwhile in the USA,

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[Flash 10 is required to watch video]
Jenna Maroney for off-brandheelz.com
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Gerard Piqué Funny Moment
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CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD~
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There are exactly three countries on Earth that do not provide guarantees for paid maternity leave. Papua New Guinea and Swaziland are two of them. Care to guess the third?




