Cash for pythons: Program celebrates another productive month

South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash prizes.

Florida python hunters rake in cash for eliminating invasive snakes

The South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash ...

Readers and writers: Louise Erdrich collects 20 years of stories in ‘Python’s Kiss’

Did a python “kiss” young Louise Erdrich? “I feel like it did,” Erdrich says with amusement, acknowledging the blurred line between her life and imagination. She’s talking about “Python’s Kiss,” a ...

You Can Approximate Pi by Dropping Needles on the Floor

In this simulation, 66 of the 100 needles crossed a line (you can count ’em). Using this number, we get a value of pi at 3.0303—which is not 3.14—but it's not terrible for just 100 needles. With ...
Scientific American

Mathematicians find one pi formula to rule them all

Divide any circle’s circumference by its diameter and you get pi. But what, exactly, are its digits? Measuring physical ...

From rockets to cancer research, here’s how the number pi is embedded in our lives

Every year, math nerds and dessert enthusiasts unite to celebrate Pi Day on March 14, a date whose digits represent the first ...
The Daily Progress

Albemarle to modify one real estate tax relief program, add another

Albemarle County will likely slightly modify its real estate tax relief for the elderly and disabled program and add a new program for surviving spouses of persons killed in the line of duty during ...