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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDaily Holidays - March 14
National Potato Chip Day This is one holiday you may take with a pinch of salt! Potato Chip Day is a celebration of the worlds best-loved snack, first created in the 19th century. Tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt was staying at Saratoga Springs in New York and kept on sending back his French fries because he said they were cut too thick. Chef George Crum cut his spuds as thin as possible, initially as a joke and the result was the worlds first potato chips. The snacks popularity spread in the 1920s, when the first mass-produced packs went on sale. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/potato-chip-day/Pi Day Pi, wonderful pi. It plays into so many aspects of our lives and goes on forever and ever and ever and ever and eve You get the point. Every year there comes a certain day that shares numerical values with Pi, and on that day there is a celebration of Pi with every kind of Pie you can imagine. You see, pies are round, and Pi is circumference over diameter, a number that, while being functionally infinite, also happens to be a constant in every circle ever. Pi day celebrates the long history of this fantastic number, and the long journey science has taken (and is still on) to seek the end of a number known to be infinite in length. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/pi-day/
International Ask A Question Day Thats right, now is your opportunity to ask that burning question thats been festering in the dark recesses of your mind. We all know theres no such thing as a stupid question, so go on, think up the wildest, craziest, most bizarre question you would like to see answered and fire away! With the wonders of modern technology these days, surely someone out there will have an answer for you. (Whether or not the answer is true is another story!) https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/international-ask-a-question-day/
Science Education Day is a chance to celebrate and say thank you to all those who share their passion for science with kids and adults everywhere and in all venues. This is a day to thank classroom and homeschool science teachers, as well as docents, volunteers, and members of the education staff at museums, zoos, aquariums, observatories, planetariums, state or national parks, science centers, nature centers, outdoor education centers, rocket parks, and any other formal or informal science setting. Its a good day to thank a teacher; post a thank you note or e-card on your social media page; say thanks on the social media page of museums and other institutions; volunteer at a school, museum, etc; or join or make a special donation to a museum or other institution as a thank you. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/science-education-day/
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Daily Holidays - March 14 (Original Post)
Sherman A1
Mar 2017
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femmocrat
(28,394 posts)1. Happy Pi Day!
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)3. Now there is a pie
I'll be careful when heating it up in the microwave! one just never knows anymore.
Tom the Mechanic
(68 posts)2. Thank you, I needed that!
I forgot about PI day, I'm ashamed.
So, I'll have a potato chip, actually I'll have 3.14 potato chips.
And my question is:
Are there any life forms that use radio waves? (other than us)
So, if I ever get an answer to that, it will cover my Science Education as well.
Great post!