Math Is More Than Just Numbers: Celebrate Pi Day a Different Way

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March 14, 2022

Education Math Is More Than Just Numbers: Celebrate Pi Day a Different Way While you savor that apple or key lime pie, consider the many ways math influences our lives By Alissa S. Crans

Public Health Contagions Worse Than COVID Will Prevail If Neglect of Global Public Health Continues Health security is as important to a nation as a standing army By The Editors

Climate Change Russia's War in Ukraine Sends Tremors into the Arctic Experts worry tensions could spill into the polar region and potentially affect science and security By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Space Exploration NASA Criticized for Ending Pronoun Project More than 100 employees at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center were surprised when a test project allowing them to add their pronouns to their agency identifiers was abruptly canceled By Nadia Drake

Epidemiology People, Not Science, Decide When a Pandemic Is Over Historians of the 1918 influenza pandemic discuss lessons for what the future of COVID might look like By Tanya Lewis

Culture Popular Health Claims, Such as a Woman's Fertility Dropping at Age 30, Are Wildly Overblown People should be skeptical of big claims based on only one study and dig a little deeper By Naomi Oreskes

Mental Health Ukrainians Face Lasting Psychological Wounds from Russian Invasion A psychiatrist who specializes in PTSD and stress describes the trauma that war survivors and refugees commonly experience By Arash Javanbakht,The Conversation US

Energy Radioactive Material Is Basically Everywhere and That's a Problem The RadSecure program aims to remove dangerous substances from medical facilities and other industries By Sarah Scoles

Paleontology A Treasure Trove of Dinosaur Bones in Italy Rewrites the Local Prehistoric Record New fossils are changing a decades-old story about the species that roamed the Mediterranean 80 million years ago. By Emily Schwing | 05:51

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FROM THE ARCHIVE What Is Pi, and How Did It Originate? Steven Bogart, a mathematics instructor at Georgia Perimeter College, answers By Steven Bogart | May 1999

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