Holidays 2021-03-14
One of my favorite days of the year, today's holidays consist of the start of Daylight Saving Time, doing crafts with children, asking questions, checking batteries in important devices, potato chips, spiders, butterflies, moths, pi, tau, : Check Your Batteries Day Half Tau Day International Ask a Question Day Learn About Butterflies Day Moth-er Day National Children's Craft Day National Potato Chip Day Pi Day Save a Spider Day Daylight Saving Time Starts Today has one of my favorite suite of holidays, covering geniuses, math, and nature. Though Genius Day commemorates the birth of Albert Einstein in 1879, it could also mark the death of Stephen Hawking in 2018. Today is also a day to celebrate moths, learn about butterflies, and act kindly towards spiders. Did you know you can calculate pi using hotdogs? And here is a pi versus pie comparison. And did you know that pi has a friendly rivalry with another number, tau , which also has a holiday today?