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Postponed video for Pi Day post
Mar. 14th, 2025 04:30 pmI decided to save this video for a future post instead of NBC News and CBS News Detroit celebrate Pi Day.
Five straight days of holidays at Crazy Eddie's Motie News
Pi Day and International Day of Mathematics 2022Courtney Coulston reacts to Phantom Regiment's Spartacus for a drum corps Ides of March
The story of hamentaschen, the Purim cookie
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Janina Gavankar and drum corps for Holi
I had to replace a non-YouTube link with the YouTube version below in one of my Geology slideshows. It's still the same video, but it has features on YouTube that the original upload lacked, so I consider it an upgrade.
Rejected video for Pi Day post
Mar. 14th, 2020 03:21 pmI rejected the following video for Math, pie, and hygiene on Pi Day at Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
What is Pi Day? Pi Day is celebrated each year on March 14 (since 3, 1, 4 are the first three significant digits of π). Impress your friends with these facts about Pi Day:
1. Because pi is an infinite number, every single digit will never be determined. Pi has currently been calculated to 22,459,257,718,361 digits.
2. Pi has it’s own writing style called Pilish. The number of letters in successive word are chosen to match the number sequence found in pi.
3. Pi can be hand-calculated fairly easy by creating a circle with a protractor and measuring its diameter with a ruler.
4. Pi was discovered by ancient Babylonians nearly 4,000 years ago.
5. Physicist Larry Shaw, the "Prince of Pi," launched the first pi celebration in 1988 at a San Francisco science museum.
6. Some people believe that tau, which is pi multiplied by two, is a more intuitive irrational number.
7. Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 and Stephen Hawking died on March 14, 2018.
8. The symbol for pi is the Greek letter π . It is the first letter of the Greek words for “periphery” and “perimeter.”
9. Because the exact number of pi can never be calculated, we will never be able to find the exact circumference or area of a circle.
10. The record for most digits of pi memorized is held by Rajveer Meena of India. He recited 70,000 decimal places of pi in 2015.
What is Pi Day? Pi Day is celebrated each year on March 14 (since 3, 1, 4 are the first three significant digits of π). Impress your friends with these facts about Pi Day:
1. Because pi is an infinite number, every single digit will never be determined. Pi has currently been calculated to 22,459,257,718,361 digits.
2. Pi has it’s own writing style called Pilish. The number of letters in successive word are chosen to match the number sequence found in pi.
3. Pi can be hand-calculated fairly easy by creating a circle with a protractor and measuring its diameter with a ruler.
4. Pi was discovered by ancient Babylonians nearly 4,000 years ago.
5. Physicist Larry Shaw, the "Prince of Pi," launched the first pi celebration in 1988 at a San Francisco science museum.
6. Some people believe that tau, which is pi multiplied by two, is a more intuitive irrational number.
7. Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 and Stephen Hawking died on March 14, 2018.
8. The symbol for pi is the Greek letter π . It is the first letter of the Greek words for “periphery” and “perimeter.”
9. Because the exact number of pi can never be calculated, we will never be able to find the exact circumference or area of a circle.
10. The record for most digits of pi memorized is held by Rajveer Meena of India. He recited 70,000 decimal places of pi in 2015.
Pi Day with Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Mar. 14th, 2019 09:13 amHappy Pi Day! In this year's celebration, I am taking a break from the last three Pi Days, which all shared a pie theme. This year, the theme is math and science with Neil deGrasse Tyson: Neil DeGrasse Tyson celebrates Pi Day and Einstein's birthday.
Here's what I wrote about the corps' program in Mythology, horror and fantasy among show themes for the 2018 drum corps season.
It was a beautiful show with lovely music. The individual execution wasn't as good as Raiders, but the content was much better and the judges gave the corps credit for it. I thought the corps would earn a 67. I was close, as the actual score was 66.2.
7th Regiment is playing a show that may be even stronger in science fact than it is in science fiction. This should come as no surprise, as the show description references physics and a famous physicist.Our eyes see by letting in light. Altering the light changes the way we see objects, people, and places. The light also influences our perception and perspective. This is why we can “bring something to light,” “shed some light on a subject,” or “see things in a different light.”The music reflects the show's emphasis on science fact over science fiction. Yes, "The Abyss" is a science fiction film, so this show qualifies as having a speculative fiction element. Science fact takes over with "Serenada Schizophrana"; the composition's Wikipedia page states that parts of it were used as the soundtrack for the 2006 IMAX film "Deep Sea 3D." Finally, both "All Love Can Be" and "A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics" come from the soundtrack for "A Beautiful Mind," which is a true story. Yes, it's about mathematics, not science, but scientists use game theory, too.
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” This quote from Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Planck is the focus of 7th Regiment’s illuminating 2018 show. Nowadays, people increasingly see things in black and white. But to really know the truth, one must see all the shades of all the colors.
Happy Pi Day!
Mar. 14th, 2012 10:35 am
Huffington Post: Pi Day in America
Today, 4,000 years after people first discovered how useful pi could be, we are about to celebrate International Pi Day. The first time a day was dedicated to pi was on March 14, 1989 at the Exploratorium, a museum of science, art and human perception in San Francisco. The idea was the brainchild of Larry Shaw, a physicist at the center...Also, Mathematicians Pictures is having a pi drop at 1:59 PM EDT today (get it? 3.14159) here.
Since then, this museum and many others, as well as universities, schools and individuals have celebrated Pi Day by performing pi-related activities; some serious and some less so, such as creating pi puns; baking, throwing and eating pies; and singing pi songs. You can check out this year's bash at the Exploratorium here.
The date is derived from the first three digits of pi -- 3.14 -- using American dating order, just as September 11 is 9/11. And 2015 is going to be a big year for pi since we will celebrate 3.14 15 (correct to 4 places).
At first, Pi Day was a gimmick and a good joke, but now it is a big deal. Many North American and UK schools use it to spark interest in maths and science projects (for example, learning how the Greeks or Arabs did arithmetic; studying famous scientists like Gauss, Newton or Archimedes who worked on pi; or perhaps calculating the volumes of real pies before eating them).
Above originally posted to Crazy Eddie's Motie News, where I made the following meta comment.
Don't expect a lot of serious posts for the next week. Tomorrow is the Ides of March. Two days after that is St. Patrick's Day. Finally, a week from today is this blog's first birthday. Party time!
