Pi Day (March 14) is a day of global mathematical celebration, but it’s not the only numerically significant calendar date. It’s far from the rarest, either. In fact, today marks a special occasion ...

[MindYourDecisions] presents a Babylonian tablet dating back to around 1800 BC that shows that the hypotenuse of a unit square is the square root of two or 1.41421. How did they know that? We don’t ...

And while normally we would reserve such a sentiment for a day that’s a bit less… Mondayish, today it just feels right. Three new levels of venerable beer hijinks and flat-screening tend to have that ...