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The questions are from http://www.businessinsider.com/if-you-can-solve-these-math-problems-you-are-as-smart-as-the-worlds-smartest-teenagers-2013-5?op=1&IR=T

Those questions are for 15year old teenagers in Sweden and England.

They are ranked by a site called Brilliant.org, which asks users progressively harder math and science problems.

Think you might be as smart as one of these tweens or teens?

Prove it by solving some of the math problems they've solved.






1.
https://static2.businessinsider.com/image/51801203eab8ea554100000c-1200/tadewos-abiye-getachew-17-nailed-this-tricky-algebra-question.jpg

2.
https://static1.businessinsider.com/image/51801437eab8ea2d47000010-1200/this-is-a-very-difficult-combinatorial-geometry-problem-but-nur-muhammad-shafiullah-15-solved-it.jpg

3.
https://static3.businessinsider.com/image/518015d169bedd4954000000-1200/lawrence-sun-16-solved-this-geometry-problem.jpg

4.
https://static2.businessinsider.com/image/51804d2869bedd915a000017-1200/kensen-shi-17-solved-this-kind-of-problem-during-the-us-physics-olympiad-this-year.jpg

bobbiekrantz:
Just cool down

Just cool down..


Once their is life...there is hope..

Dude, you're from a hopeless country, so you are the one that needs hope. Those guys splashing money are probably getting dole money with their fake papers. They all over Europe like a plague, we are always advised to avoid them.

bobbiekrantz:
The thing no sopos pain you na...

You don't see the likes of Bill gates and Richard Branson who are one of the richest people in the world wasting money like this.

Mad people!

mohince:
The new DSS leadership arrested the recent deadly Zaria
and Jos bomb masterminds. Some of the suspects were
reportedly apprehended at Dadin Kowa, Gombe State,
disguised, hiding in a trailer. The featured picture is of the
arrested masterminds. A second picture is at bottom.
According to vigilant citizens: “Another Boko harm member
apprehended with 287 roll of ammunition with bombs and
hijab in his back asking where is the biggest mosque at
Narabi village, Toro local government of Bauchi state, when
vigilantly personnel collected his phone there was an alert of
transfer for 2million to his account, he can’t speak the local
language of the area, he is now at Toro police station.
“Please let the relevant authorities take charge, we will
follow the situation to the end, as we can see we are the
target the northerners, last yesterday was Jos, yesterday
Kano, today in the morning Zaria and now Narabi, Bauchi
why?”
www.newsrescue.com/nigeria-pictures-of-boko-haram-bomb-masterminds-arrested-by-the-dss/#axzz3fKwVw6AX

It will be great if the security agencies can press these guys for their sponsors because if they just kill these men, the sponsors will just recruit other guys. Terrorism is like a cancer, you need to attack it at source or it just keeps spreading.

This op just proved my point he's a self obsessed narcissistic 4cktard. What type of lunatic creates a dumb thread like this. Keep wasting your time looking for likes.

Chanchit:
So you think this is a childish banter? Well I think its rather a banter with a certified lunatic, in other words I'm to blame here cos I've been replying a nut case, for example you saw my mum in one of your illusions again, sorry Bros, that's the situation your mum is currently but your remaining 4cktard siblings don't know how to tell you because of your condition.

Sorry, I won't be able to reply you again so they won't think I'm also a lunatic.

You don't need people to think you're a lunatic, It's something that has been enshrined in your family's DNA.
Lunatic plonker!

Chanchit:
After consulting your whole dumb 4cktarded family this is all you could come up with? Once again I'm disappointed, now this is an assignment for you and your ***!??* (I'm tired of saying it) family, wait till its sunny, then you all should go out and count the stars in the sky, since you really love stars. You can leave your mum behind anyway so all of you won't have to go blind.

I really love it when you get your knickers in a twist over a childish banter, I'll keep giving it to you because you are showing signs of a person that has been condemned to a mental asylum. By the way, how's your slutty mama? I heard heard she infected all the men in her shanty village with herpes.

Chanchit:
I never knew someone suffering from brain leakage could make me laugh, I can see frustration written over your reply, so you had to consult you whole dumb 4cktard family for what to type next, I'm disappointed with what you all came up with, and why would you have to end ur reply with "Arrow?" Pls I never asked for your surname.

Morning pr.ck, has your reta7ded dad?

ogaprime:
What's the difference between black hole nd worm hole??

Blackhole is a region of space-time so deformed by its mass that it exerts a gravitational pull that not even light can escape. The point at which the gravitational pull becomes so great as to make escape impossible is called the event horizon
At the center of the blackhole lies a region of space-time with infinite curvature.
Blackholes are formed when the core of a supermassive star collapses in on itself

Wormhole is "Einstein-Rosen bridge" and are a hypothetical tunnel that would connect two points in space-time.
There are valid solution for equations in the theory of relativity that contain wormholes, but unlike black holes, there hasn't been any observational evidence for wormholes so far.
In theory, a stable wormhole could be used as a way to travel across vast expanses of space.

Chanchit:
See!? I was right, your family breeds dumb 4cktrds, and as it stands you might be suffering from brain leakage cos I never mentioned "parents" oooooh, now I understand, your parents are siblings, you're just looking for a way to tell me, sorry, I can't help you. You have to suffer the consequences, cos your family would keep reproducing 4cktards like you.

Your profile picture shows you're one ugly narcissistic inbred, that's why you're so frustrated.
If you were anymore of a b1tch, you’d have puppies.
Yeah, and then you wouldn’t be the only dog on this forum.

Just chill, dumb Arrow!

Chanchit:
Hey Mr, I never asked for where you were conceived, so keep the history to your self and if dumb 4cktards is really hereditary in your family its all well and good.

I take it then your parents are siblings.

Chanchit:
I just read 10 jargons, all the points makes no sense to me.

Did your parents conceive you on the motorway by any chance? because that's where most accidents happen, it might also explain why you're such a dumb 4cktard!

BRAINTORMS:
2 and 9 seems to contradict

No 2 is about quantity
no 9 is about distance

bjprodint:
So sun too b star?I never knew

All stars are Suns. It becomes a star when it has planets and asteroids revolving around it which forms a solar system. The other stars you see in the sky are in a different solar system to ours, they are billions of light years away.

beyoncausme:
wats our bizness wit stars...

Why did you post a comment you dumb narcissistic plonker.

I'm really glad a science article has ended up on the FrontPage, you will be surprised how many Nigerians don't know about the concept of a blackhole, wormhole, relativity and so on. We need to learn new things everyday.

https://en.es-static.us/upl/2014/03/stars-nasa-e1396092457476.jpg

1. Every star you see in the night sky is bigger and brighter than our sun.
Of the 5,000 or so stars brighter than magnitude 6, only a handful of very faint stars are approximately the same size and brightness of our sun and the rest are all bigger and brighter. Of the 500 or so that are brighter than 4th magnitude (which includes essentially every star visible to the unaided eye from a urban location), all are intrinsically bigger and brighter than our sun, many by a large percentage. Of the brightest 50 stars visible to the human eye from Earth, the least intrinsically bright is Alpha Centauri, which is still more than 1.5 times more luminous than our sun, and cannot be easily seen from most of the Northern Hemisphere.



2. You can’t see millions of stars on a dark night.
Despite what you may hear in TV commercials, poems and songs, you cannot see a million stars … anywhere. There simply are not enough close enough and bright enough. On a really exceptional night, with no Moon and far from any source of lights, a person with very good eyesight may be able to see 2000-2500 stars at any one time. (Counting even this small number still would be difficult.). So the next time you hear someone claim to have seen a million stars in the sky, just appreciate it as artistic license or exuberant exaggeration – because it isn’t true!

3. Red hot and cool ice blue – NOT!
We are accustomed to referring to things that are red as hot and those that are blue as cool. This is not entirely unreasonable, since a red, glowing fireplace poker is hot and ice, especially in glaciers and polar regions, can have a bluish cast. But we say that only because our everyday experience is limited. In fact, heated objects change color as their temperature changes, and red represents the lowest temperature at which a heated object can glow in visible light. As it gets hotter, the color changes to white and ultimately to blue. So the red stars you see in the sky are the “coolest” (least hot), and the blue stars are the hottest!

4. Stars are black bodies.
A black body is an object that absorbs 100 percent of all electromagnetic radiation (that is, light, radio waves and so on) that falls on it. A common image here is that of a brick oven with the interior painted black and the only opening a small window. All light that shines through the window is absorbed by the interior of the oven and none is reflected outside the oven. It is a perfect absorber. As it turns out, this definition of being perfect absorbers suits stars very well! However, this just says that a blackbody absorbs all the radiant energy that hits it, but does not forbid it from re-emitting the energy. In the case of a star, it absorbs all radiation that falls on it, but it also radiates back into space much more than it absorbs. Thus a star is a black body that glows with great brilliance! (An even more perfect black body is a black hole, but of course, it appears truly black, and radiates no light.)

5. There are no green stars.
Although there are scattered claims for stars that appear green, including Beta Librae (Zuben Eschamali), most observers do not see green in any stars except as an optical effect from their telescopes, or else an idiosyncratic quirk of personal vision and contrast. Stars emit a spectrum (“rainbow”) of colors, including green, but the human eye-brain connection mixes the colors together in a manner that rarely if ever comes out green. One color can dominate the radiation, but within the range of wavelengths and intensities found in stars, greens get mixed with other colors, and the star appears white. For stars, the general colors are, from lower to higher temperatures, red, orange, yellow, white and blue. So as far as the human eye can tell, there are no green stars.

6. Our sun is a green star.

https://en.es-static.us/upl/2011/04/greensun.jpg
The sun in extreme ultraviolet, false color green. The human eye cannot see at this wavelength at all.

That being said, the sun is a “green” star, or more specifically, a green-blue star, whose peak wavelength lies clearly in the transition area on the spectrum between blue and green. This is not just an idle fact, but is important because the temperature of a star is related to the color of its most predominate wavelength of emission. (Whew!) In the sun’s case, the surface temperature is about 5,800 K, or 500 nanometers, a green-blue. However, as indicated above, when the human eye factors in the other colors around it, the sun’s apparent color comes out a white or even a yellowish white.

7. Our sun is a dwarf star.
We are accustomed to think of the sun as a “normal” star, and in many respects, it is. But did you know that it is a “dwarf” star? You may have heard of a “white dwarf,” but that is not a regular star at all, but the corpse of a dead star. Technically, as far as “normal” stars go (that is, astronomical objects that produce their own energy through sustained and stable hydrogen fusion), there are only “dwarfs,” “giants” and “supergiants.” The giants and supergiants represent the terminal (old age) stages of stars, but the vast majority of stars, those in the long, mature stage of evolution (Main Sequence) are all called “dwarfs.” There is quite a bit of range in size here, but they are all much smaller than the giants and supergiants. So technically, the sun is a dwarf star, sometimes called “Yellow Dwarf” in contradiction to the entry above!

8. Stars don’t twinkle.
Stars appear to twinkle (“scintillate”), especially when they are near the horizon. One star, Sirius, twinkles, sparkles and flashes so much some times that people actually report it as a UFO. But in fact, the twinkling is not a property of the stars, but of Earth’s turbulent atmosphere. As the light from a star passes through the atmosphere, especially when the star appears near the horizon, it must pass through many layers of often rapidly differing density. This has the effect of deflecting the light slightly as it were a ball in a pinball machine. The light eventually gets to your eyes, but every deflection causes it to change slightly in color and intensity. The result is “twinkling.” Above the Earth’s atmosphere, stars do not twinkle.

9. You can see 20 quadrillion miles, at least.
On a good night, you can see about 19,000,000,000,000,000 miles, easily. That’s 19 quadrillion miles, the approximate distance to the bright star Deneb in Cygnus. which is prominent in the evening skies of Fall and Winter. Deneb is bright enough to be seen virtually anywhere in the Northern hemisphere, and in fact from almost anywhere in the inhabited world. There is another star, Eta Carina, that is a little more than twice as far away, or about 44 quadrillion miles. But Eta Carina is faint, and not well placed for observers in most of the Northern hemisphere. Those are stars, but both the Andromeda Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy are also visible under certain conditions, and are roughly 15 and 18 quintillion miles away! (One quintillion is 10^18!)

10. Black holes don’t suck.
Many writers frequently describe black holes as “sucking” in everything around them. And it is a common worry among the ill-informed that the so-far hypothetical “mini” black holes that may be produced by the Large Hadron Collider would suck in everything around them in an ever increasing vortex that would consume the Earth! “Say it ain’t so, Joe!” Well, I am not Shoeless Joe Jackson, but it ain’t so. In the case of the LHC, it isn’t true for a number of reasons, but black holes in general do not “suck.”

This not just a semantic distinction, but one of process and consequence as well. The word “suck” via suction, as in the way vacuum cleaners work, is not how black holes attract matter. In a vacuum cleaner, the fan produces a partial vacuum (really, just a slightly lower pressure) at the floor end of the vacuum, and regular air pressure outside, being greater, pushes the air into it, carrying along loose dirt and dust.

In the case of black holes, there is no suction involved. Instead, matter is pulled into the black hole by a very strong gravitational attraction. In one way of visualizing it, it really is a bit like falling into a hole, but not like being hoovered into it. Gravity is a fundamental force of Nature, and all matter has it. When something is pulled into a black hole, the process is more like being pulled into like a fish being reeled in by an angler, rather than being pushed along like a rafter inexorably being dragged over a waterfall.

The difference may seem trivial, but from a physical standpoint it is fundamental.

So black holes don’t suck, but they are very cool. Actually, they are cold. Very, very cold. But that’s a story for another time.

http://earthsky.org/space/ten-things-you-may-not-know-about-stars

175:
Figure it out . . .it's fun though! Let's see the smart NL political commenters

It's yellow, dude!

Number 8 is really gross.

Harbdulrasaq:
Yes It is...... A reader of mine sent these in and they are shocking when I saw the tag that came with the pictures.... They are images from Kojo street Ajegunle, Lagos state....

Please what is the new administration going to do with this mess?

We are living in hell already..... Whats your take?


http://www..net/2015/07/photos-you-wouldnt-believe-this-is.html#.VZeSfbWn3Mw

cc lalasticlala

Most Nigerians are just naturally dirty and lazy, it's always easy to blame your useless government for everything but you guys have no duty of care to your environment.

TheSonOfMark:
It still wouldn't negate the neo-perception that they are a conglomeration of vindictive kleptomaniacs masquerading as saints who keep regurgitating the now cliched, stale mantra of "change" even when the reality of their shenanigans betray and contradict the much vaunted change.

Is that Swahili you are typing in?

vivaciousvivi:
Oh comon! Blocked the drain pipes? Its not possible is it?

OK, so here's the weird thing about semen... It is made of various components, and as the lighter less viscous components are "washed out" what is left is a bizarrely rubbery polymer-like substance. A typical session would only yield a small chunk the size of a pencil eraser. Alone it would not be a problem, but when mixed with with a wad of hair I can imagine it forming an effective drain plug. If you have a thousand boys wanking themselves crazy every day in that University bathroom, you can understand why the drains are getting blocked.

You're welcome, go on about your day now, I hope you enjoy your newfound knowledge.

(For reals, you can try this experiment yourself if you have access to semen and a shower. Just rub it around in your hand a bit while water runs over it)

These are the people ruling Nigeria and you wonder why Nigeria is in a hopeless state. nd these guys are the highest paid lawmakers in the world, honestly Nigerians must be really dumb to tolerate these animals.

Animals!

That's 72 mother in-laws to worry about.

Barbaric Animals.

In a country where some states are owing workers almost a years salary, the legislators who are extremely rich already are then given this amount of allowance

There are thousands of Africans drowning in the Mediterranean sea yearly trying to flee poverty which includes a significant amount of Nigerians. There are pupils attending schools with leaking roofs and no windows in this country.


Australian lawmakers can earn whatever they want because I don't see Australians queuing up in foreign embassies because they have a highly developed economy.

It's high time Nigerians unite and stand against these criminals.

There's no such thing as "surgery to turn white".

Your basal skin color is determined by the density and the production levels of cells within your skin called melanocytes that produce the melanin that give you whatever colour you have when all outside factors like sun exposure are kept out of the equation.

Understanding this basic concept will give you the following insights:
A "surgery" to turn white is useless; unless you'd want to strip one's skin off, which seems pretty extreme to me.
When light-coloured people go in the sun, ultraviolet light activates these melanocytes and induces more melanin production. That's "tanning" (try to disregard the orange tone of artificial spray paint tanning).

[img]http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2d91747da84bba9e6b1d3ebcba112c14?convert_to_webp=true[/img]
Some people are born with a mutation that completely impairs the production of melanin. This is called albinism. Albinism is colour-blind (the girls below are both from the same African descent) and widespread through mammals.

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Other people, like Michael Jackson, have an auto-immune disease in which patches of your skin lose their melanocytes, essentially losing any ability to produce the basic colour your healthy skin has. This is Vitiligo, as Kat Sommers explains. In Michael Jackson's case, this was already apparent in the early years, contrary to popular belief.

[img]http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-13fbf4c15f23477a2df0df8ebeb2f37b?convert_to_webp=true[/img]
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Mr. Jackson apparently chose to mask the lesions by making his overall skin tone as light as possible, which is not an unusual approach.
Although it is very hard to tell what is true or not with the level of gossip and speculation a star of that level attracted and still attracts, Mr. Jackson was a person in the spotlights and he came from a poor family trying to break with poverty through the world of show business; the way he looked was paramount in becoming famous and possibly caused him to worry about the disease and its implications more than a mere mortal would.

This has possibly led to an obsession with the way he looked and resulted in him trying all sorts of experimental and/or alternative treatments that might have further harmed his skin.

But surgery? Very unlikely.

I'm not saying he didn't undergo plastic surgeries by the way, you don't need to be an expert to see that he did.
I'm just saying it was not to turn white.

http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Michael-Jackson-get-surgery-to-turn-white