Rutgers University math professor Alex Kontorovich and a few of his friends gave a shrewd demonstration of pi showing that the circumference of one pizza pie crust spans approximately 3.14 pizza pies.
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The voice of the working class goes anti-anti-anti-vaxx.
On grieving a life you never knew.
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