Divisible By Pi

It’s often forgotten by people nowadays, but we owe much of our scientific, philosophical and mathematical knowledge to the Islamic world. While Europe was going through what I like to call its “shitheap period” — more commonly known as the Dark Ages, but whatever — Islam was preserving and translating ancient texts, as well as pushing [...]

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You know how there are those songs that you just love? The ones that invariably wind up on your most listened to playlist for a good many months before they fade off into the distance, waiting to be rediscovered at some undisclosed point in the future? The ones that feel like someone is mainlining nostalgia [...]

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