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Grigory “Grisha” Perelman, the genius who won fame last week spurning a million-dollar prize after revealing his solution for Poincare’s Conjecture. Is living with his mother in a humble flat in St Petersburg, co-existing on her $74-a-month pension.

Read the story, this is the type of person that we should be looking up to, not the Brad Pitts and the 50cents.

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Officials at the CIA and scientists around the world have pondered the “cocktail party problem” for decades. How could they separate one sound - perhaps a voice - from a group of other recorded sounds, perhaps a multitude of voices at a cocktail party? Now, two researchers have found a mathematical solution the problem.

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