And this year, the fifth of May is filled with mathematical joy. It is — Square Root Day! It all started in 1981. "I was writing a check in late August," says Ron Gordon, who originated bringing ...

[MindYourDecisions] presents a Babylonian tablet dating back to around 1800 BC that shows that the hypotenuse of a unit square is the square root of two or 1.41421. How did they know that?

While Cinco de Mayo is the most popular reason to celebrate May 5, this year, the date is also being celebrated for another reason - Square Root Day. Similar to Pi Day being celebrated for its ...

The ancient Greeks wanted to believe that the universe could be described in its entirety using only whole numbers and the ratios between them — fractions, or what we now call rational numbers. But ...

Bob Mould, one of the headliners at Square Roots Festival Credit: Blake Little Photography If you’re as allergic to crowds as I am, Chicago’s many neighborhood music festivals can be a mixed bag.

Scheduled to open in 2023, the new 20,000-square-foot Square Roots farm will be able to produce up to three million retail packages of salad mixes, microgreens, and herbs per year, serving ...

90s alt-rock influenced Slow Pulp is one of the acts to catch at this year's Square Roots Festival. Credit: Alexa Viscius Chicago’s outdoor entertainment season arrived this year amid more ...

Around 2018, he founded Square Roots Collective. “In an age of division nationally, I felt strongly that collaborative action at the local level offered the highest potential for transcending ...