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Exploratorium, San Francisco

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Did you know that Pi Day (3.14)—one of the geekiest holidays celebrated—started here at the Exploratorium in 1988? (go ahead, Wikipedia it!) The holiday pays homage to that irrational, never-ending number π, 3.14159265359....

This year, we invite you to get your literary geek on by mixing pi + poetry and SEND US your “pi-kus” and “pi-ems.” Pi-kus are poems about pi in a traditional 3-line Japanese haiku form—5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third. Pi-ems are poems about pi, too, but the letters in each consecutive word have to correspond to the next digit of pi. For example: How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics. “How” has 3 letters, “I” has 1, and “need” has 4 (3.14…). Pi Day, March 14, is just around the corner! Send your Pi-kus and Pi-ems to [email protected] and we'll read them aloud during our π celebration on 3.14.14!