Happy π day.

In 1897, the Indiana House of Representatives voted unanimously to make π=3.2.
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-story-behind-indianas-1897-vote-to-change-the-value-of-pi/

The increasing probability of heat extremes, including out of the traditional summer season...

Graph shows shifted distribution of surface air temperature anomalies. Visual by https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5613/

Too wound up to go to bed, so I just sent lots of emails to people hoping that they'll spread the word and get lots more people to write comments to the FCC telling them that orbital data centres and sunlight-as-a-service are incredibly stupid, dangerous ideas and should never be launched.

Instructions how to submit here: https://darksky.org/news/two-satellite-proposals-threaten-the-night-sky-the-window-to-act-is-now/

I don't think it'll actually make a big difference. But I do think it's incredibly important that the official record shows how many opposed this.

Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.

Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.

Image: NASA

A newly updated reference manual for U.S. judges that provides answers to scientific and technical questions has eliminated some 90 pages about climate science.

It comes as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-judicial-center-climate-change-republican-pressure?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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