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"Now go on, boy, and pay attention. Because if you do, someday, you may achieve something that we Simpsons have dreamed about for generations: you may outsmart someone!" -Homer Simpson
Today, March 14th, is known tongue-in-cheek as Pi Day here in the United States, as 3.14 (we write the month first…
Whew! Busy week for me, hence the missing post or two. Traditionally Saturdays on this blog tend to be non-physics fare - either links, commentary on something nonscientific, or whatever. Today I think it will be the celebration of Pi Day!
Pi Day: As you know from the SB main page, today is pi…
Nathan Lau's Chocolate Haupia Pie
This entry for the Scienceblogs Pi Day Pie Contest was sent to us by reader Nathan Lau of the House of Annie food blog. It is a chocolate haupia pie, which Nathan describes as a "Hawaiian-style coconut milk-based pudding". He has the full recipe and step-by…
So here we have pi squared, which an engineer would call "10." -Frank King
It's Pi Day today in the United States: March 14th, or as we write it, 3/14. (Don't know how you do it in Europe, where there is no 31st of April.) So, let's start things off with a song for the day: Cab Calloway's "…
My daughter's homework for math class today was to bring in a pie. They had quite a party. Don't know how the teacher got that one past the administration since, in the interest of nutrition, sweets are not supposed to be distributed at holiday parties (or on any occasion, actually).
That is not Pi. How do I know this? Because Pi are square.
To integrate concepts of constants, like pi, into the minds of the elemtary school students of present day America is surely worth this one time nutritional sacrifice.