A numerical pun, Square Root Day celebrates the alignment of a date into the form of the squaring of a number. For example, May 5, 2025, or 5/5/25, represents 5 x 5 = 25, with the square root of ...

May is almost here, bringing warmer weather and various holidays, such as Mother's Day, Memorial Day and Cinco de Mayo. While Cinco de Mayo is the most popular reason to celebrate May 5, this year ...

That is, September 9th, 1981. The number of the month (9) multiplied by the day (9) equaled the year — 81. In other words, the square root of 81 is 9. So Gordon called the day Square Root Day.

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Chimpanzees don't just drum on tree roots for fun -- they do it in rhythm, and they may be using it to send messages ... specific trees and even specific root thickness and height, because the ...

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Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP): Since 1987, JJ/WBGSP has enabled more than 7,000 mid-career professionals from 160 developing countries and Japan to complete graduate ...

Whether it’s basketball, billiards, or table tennis, sports in the U.S are segregated by sex. And most of the time those divisions are taken to be natural, not the result of social choices. Journalist ...

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