Codex of Türi: Study traces origins of Estonia's oldest dated manuscript covers
A recent study by Dr. Alar Läänelaid and his colleagues has provided new insights into the creation of the oldest dated ...
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Guest column: The sound of music … Edison to Elvis
That happened 20 years earlier, when French inventor Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created the “phonautograph” — “a machine that inscribed the vibrations of airborne sounds” and ...
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OJ Simpson’s estate rejects Kim Kardashian’s $15K offer to buy her late dad’s inscribed Bible
OJ Simpson’s estate turned down Kim Kardashian’s $15,000 offer to purchase her late father Robert Kardashian’s inscribed Bible. According to People, the SKIMS founder reached out to Malcolm ...
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Pi Day is about more than pie throwing and pizza deals
He accomplished this by approximating the circumference of a circle by the perimeters of regular polygons inscribed in and circumscribed around the circle. Pi is ubiquitous in modern science and ...
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Daniel Sage explains the history of pi
He accomplished this by approximating the circumference of a circle by the perimeters of regular polygons inscribed in and circumscribed around the circle. How is pi used in research, teaching and ...
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We still can’t get enough pi … but why?
Let’s paint a picture of ‘pi’. jakedobkin/Flickr (cropped), CC BY-NC-SA Jonathan Borwein (Jon), University of Newcastle and David H. Bailey, University of California, Davis The number pi (? = ...