Category Archives: Intellectual Curiosity
MATHEMATICS: “Pi Day Quiz: How Many Digits Can You Name?” ☮
It’s Pi Day – the day that math geeks across the globe collectively pause to celebrate the first three digits of pi, or 3.14.
The mathematical constant, which is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, can be used to find the area or circumference of a circle — along with that of the pie you’re hopefully enjoying right now.
MATHEMATICS: “Why Math Geeks Are So Excited About March 14, 2015, at 9:26:53” ☮
It’s a most auspicious holiday for math lovers. Saturday, March 14, 2015 is Pi Day, a celebration of the irrational number that describes the ratio of a circle’s diameter to its circumference. Pi is approximately 3.141592653, but it continues at random to infinity. No matter how many numbers after the decimal place you use, the only way to get it exactly is to use the symbol pi.
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MATHEMATICS: “Happy Pi Day” ☮
Spoiler Alert: i 8 sum Pi
h/t: Doodle Craft
CHRISTIANITY: “An Early Objection” / Christopher Hitchens ☮
CREATIONISM: “Holes in the Creation Theory” ☮
ANTI-AUTHORITARIANISM: “On Human Emancipation” / Christopher Hitchens ☮
INJUSTICE: “Chelsea E. Manning and the Power Elite” ☮
CRITICAL THINKING: “Are Atheists Smarter Than Religious People?” / BBC One / Sunday Morning Live ☮




