From all of us kids at the BRI, we hope all you mums out there are having the most terrific Mother’s Day possible.
Now here’s a song that must have been written just for you…
Bonus: From teh BBC – nature’s toughest mothers.
Posts Tagged: ‘Holidays’
April 8, 2012
Easter Bilby
BRI T. here, reporting from the field in Australia. Just wanted to show you two things. First, look at this tasty fella, sitting right now on our dining room table here in Sydney:
It’s an Easter bilby! An Easter marsupial!
You can imagine our surprise when we just came across this just this morning at The Guardian, posted on Friday:
Instead of rabbits to represent Easter, conservationists in Australia aim to replace the Easter bunny with the Easter bilby. This rare native marsupial is on the threatened species list, with as few as 600 of the animals left in the wild. Its habitat is being destroyed by rabbits, which were introduced to Australia and are now seen as a pest.
Happy Easter, everyone! And happy bilbys!
March 17, 2012
500,000 People in Dublin…
…just called and told us to tell you:
Hey, Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Hope yours is as good as it was for these guys:
By Peter Muhly, AFP/Getty Images
March 14, 2012
3.14 is International Pi Day!
Now don’t get irrational on us!
Today marks the mathematically quirky Pi Day, celebrated because the month and day of today’s date — 3/14 — correspond to the first three digits of pi: 3.14. Observed in science and math communities around the world, Pi Day has become an annual event that is recognized on universities campuses, in particular.
Larry Shaw created Pi Day in 1988. The holiday was celebrated at the San Francisco Exploratorium, where Shaw worked as a physicist, with staff and public marching around one of its circular spaces, then consuming fruit pies. The Exploratorium continues to hold Pi Day celebrations.
What a day! Thank you Larry Shaw, the Prince of Pi!
Is he giving us the finger? Never mind…let’s celebrate Pi Day!
• Hey, how’s that Pi taste?
• We’ve never heard of this Mazda model before:
• American Pi: Uno-dos-tres…catorce!
• It’s Pi Throw Day in Alberta:
- Take the pie in the face for FREE!
- Buy a real pie for $π³ (about $31).
- Redirect the pie to the person who first sent it to you or to a third party for $10.
- Choose not to participate as Pi Throw is a voluntary charity event.
• “This experiment attempts to convert the first 10,000 digits of pi into a musical sequence.” It is blowing our minds. (h/t)
• Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein!
• It’s also the birthday of Raoul Lufbery! He was a PIlot!
And François Morel! A PIanist!
And Waclaw Sierpinski! A mathematician! What?
• Don’t you need a Pi Opener today?
• Here’s a song by Pink Floyd – the band that starts with Pi!
Hey, “Pigs” starts with Pi, too! Holy cow!
• What do you do when you have a very mysterious and extra dangerous math problem that needs solving?
You call this guy:
• And now we’ve tortured you enough. Well not quite:
Q: What did the the bad mathematician say?
A: A = Pi • rrrrr2
That’s because he was a…
Goodpi, everybody! Happy Pi Day!
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March 8, 2012
March 8: International Women’s Day
From the CBC:
Building on a 101-year-old tradition, International Women’s Day, is being celebrated Thursday under the banner to connect with girls and inspire their futures.
Over one million men and women honoured the day for the first time in 1911 in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, marching in rallies vying for women’s right to work, vote and hold public office.
It has since grown into a global day of action recognizing women’s achievements and highlighting barriers that are yet to be broken.
This is a little long as modern attention spans go, but it is a really nice little video:
February 14, 2012
Happy Valentine’s Day
We were going to post something about the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre – but we got all soft and squishy. (Could have been the marshmallow and rum toddies we had for lunch.)
From our very recently released Uncle John’s 24-Karat Gold Bathroom Reader (page 190):
TOGETHER AGAIN
It was 1921. In a one-room schoolhouse in rural Wisconsin, two third-graders became “sweethearts.” But after the school year ended, Mac McKitrick and Lorraine Beatty lost contact with each other…for 85 years. Then, in 2009, they were reunited through family members (their brothers had become friends). The two lovebirds instantly remembered each other and picked up right where they left off: McKitrick proposed, Beatty said yes, and the newlyweds moved in with each other at an Illinois retirement home. “I still picture Lorraine as my third-grade sweetheart,” said McKitrick. “I’ve carried that in the back of my mind for all those years.”
January 16, 2012
If you google “Martin Luther King”
…you get 505 million results.
If you google “racism”…you get 8.5 million results.
I think we have a winner.
* Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, everybody.
December 31, 2011
Have a Doggy New Year
From all of us at the BRI, may you all have a very Doggy New Year. Like this dog, we mean. In the video. When the guitar’s playing. Not when it’s not playing. Because that would be a grim, upset, possibly about to bite someone kind of New Year…
P.S. Have a very Penguin New Year, too.
December 24, 2011
Scut Farkas Says Merry Christmas
And he still looks exactly the same.
If you need a reminder, here you go. (“I have since heard of people in extreme duress speaking in strange tongues…” )
Merry Christmas, everybody. Talk to you in a couple days.
December 23, 2011
“The Night Before Christmas” Read By Bob Dylan
We ain’t kidding:
That’s actually really fun. It’s like he’s performed before or something…
