Holiday abdominal perimeters, Snakebitten on the toilet, CEO holiday recitations, Muddy White Christmas

This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Increasing perimeters — Some people are big on holidays – bigger than they were before those holidays. A team at the University of Castilla-La Mancha and the University of Valladolid, Spain, sized up some first-year undergraduate nursing students, […]

Speedy pi

Investigator Kurt Godden writes: You might enjoy this YouTube of my daughter reciting the 1st 500 digits of pi in 90 seconds. EDITOR’S NOTE: If you prefer more digits, presented slowly, click here to see Stephanie Godden do that: Part 1; Part 2; and the reaction.

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