A La Mode

That's right math fans, it's national Pi day! Ah, the wonderful relationship between a circle's diameter and its circumference is celebrated with great enthusiasm among some of humanity's more unique specimens.

Every Mar 14, while the vast majority of Americans are busy with bracket mania, a collective of pi-lovers gets together to eat pi themed foods, sing songs to pi, read love poems to pi, and have pi reciting contests. Watch out baseball, a new past time is on the horizon! Moreover, watch out March Madness...Pi is unstoppable, BABY!

Ok, while Dick Vitale may not be overly concerned with how many digits of Pi he can recite, apparently there is a growing contingent of Americans who are falling madly in love with Pi.

While the mysterious, seemingly random and infinite string of digits that makes up the number found when a circumference is divided by its diameter, is somewhat intriguing, I'm not sure I understand the whole annual celebration event that is National Pi Day.

Check out Yahoo!'s article for more information.

The participants are probably some pretty smart guys and gals. Mathematicians, scientists, and physicists. They are probably curing diseases, building bridges, and solving some of the world's problems to make life more pleasant for all of us.

Still, deep down in most of our hearts, I think they'll always be lovingly referred to as "Math Nerds".

Americans' Thoughts on Healthcare

Not that anyone looks at this blog anymore, but check out CBS' article on what Americans think about healthcare.

For those of you that live your lives according to the ways of Jesus of Nazareth, what do you think about universal health care?

Certainly universal health care would cost more, so would you accept the cost in order to have let healing of the sick be distributed more justly?

The stats CBS state are surprising to me. If the vast majority of Americans think our healthcare system needs wide sweeping change, why aren't our politicians giving more effort to such a seemingly universal desire?