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Our solution to the pi equation: Eat more pie
With a national beer as thickly colored as liquid chocolate, do you really think any true Irish imbiber would tint his or her beer green this Sunday, St. Patrick's Day? Just say no to cabbage-colored brews this weekend. But before you break out the...
Tags: Sandwiches, St. Patrick's Day, Foods and Beverages, Shamrock, Key Lime Pie
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Pie being served for Pi Day in Ellendale, N.D.
The Ellendale Opera House will have its annual Pi Day party on Thursday, March 14. Pie will be served from 2 to 5 p.m. Each slice is $3.14, which includes ice cream, whipped cream and a beverage.Tags: Pies and Tarts
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3.14 ways to spend Pi Day on the road
Apparently, pi is no longer just a handy way of expressing the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It’s a lifestyle, and the biggest day of the pi year — March 14, of course — is nearly upon us. Here’s how to...
Tags: Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts)
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Schmoozing, and its limits, in a wired world
I recently hired a student to help me get wired into what I'm told is the minimum needed to survive in today's digital world. So now in addition to Facebook, I am able to link in, tweet, Google Plus and other things I can't remember because I haven't used...
Tags: Google+, Autism, Girl Scout Cookies, NASA, Social Media
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Today is Pi Day!
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsMarch 14 might not mean a lot to some, but for a select few, this day makes our hearts smile. This day, this seemingly normal Wednesday, is Pi Day 2012. That's right, 3/14 (or 3.14). Pi is the mathematical symbol used to measure and calculate a circle'...Tags: Science and Technology
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Pi Day champion three years in a row [Corrected]
The number pi is unusual in the mathematical world. As far as the experts know, it never repeats, creates any kind of pattern or ends.
But that didn't stop Harbor Day School eighth-grade student Benjamin Most from memorizing 4,030 digits of the famous...Tags: Science and Technology, Teaching and Learning, Students, Education
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For The Record
Pi Day: The headline on the March 16 online story "Pi Day champion three years in a row" incorrectly stated Benjamin Most was a two-time champion. He has won the contest three times. -
Just in time for Pi Day, pie sales emerging from a so-so year
March 14 is National Pi Day, celebrating a mathematical constant that the nation’s pie industry has long co-opted for itself. Too bad, then, that sales are coming off a year that seems less pie-centric than many had predicted.
Last year was...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, Dwayne Johnson, Pies and Tarts, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Houston celebrates Pi Day
KIAHIt may be the nerdiest days celebrated by math enthusiests worldwide. It's Pi Day adn Albert Einstein's Birthday. The intellectual students at Rice University really let loose and celebrated with 2012 pies. Bill Courtney, Rice University Director of...Tags: Museums, Albert Einstein, Human Interest, The Happiest News!, Science and Technology
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Pi Day offers slice of fun
Staff WriterCALEXICO — Whipped cream flew through the air Wednesday as students gleefully chucked pies at teachers’ faces in honor of Pi Day. At 3:14 p.m., a large circle of students cheered on as plates of whipped cream smacked into a firing wall of...Tags: Teachers, Relay for Life, Teaching and Learning, Whipping Cream, Pies and Tarts
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Out and About calendar March 12- 19
Bingo, 6:30 p.m., Moose Lodge, 410 Ninth Ave. S.W. Monster Burgers, 5-7 p.m., Eagles Club, 316 S. Second St. Big Burgers, 5-7 p.m., VFW, 821 Circle Drive. TUESDAY, 3.13 Old-time Music Jam, 2 p.m., Red Rooster Coffee House, 202 S. Main St. Read...Tags: Lobbying, Music, Politics, St. Patrick's Day, Foods and Beverages
Mar 13, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 12, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Mar 7, 2013
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Feb 25, 2013
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Aug 1, 2012
|Resource Link| KDAF-LTV
Mar 13, 2012
|Story| KWCH
Mar 15, 2012
|Story| Daily Pilot
Mar 16, 2012
|Story| Daily Pilot
Mar 14, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 14, 2012
|Story| KIAH-LTV
Mar 15, 2012
|Story| Imperial Valley Press Online
Mar 8, 2012
|Story| Aberdeen News
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