Did you know there are holidays for almost everything? While the U.S. may have 11 official federal holidays, there are actually thousands of quirky, themed days that make the calendar a whole lot more ...

Private investigator Mike LaCorte joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the profession of private investigator. How often are the people they're hired to watch cheating on their ...

Just a couple weeks ago was the eighth anniversary of the (five significant digits) Pi Day, pi being 3.1416 (rounded up) and the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Having ( ...

'An Egyptian scribe called Ahmes documented one of the earliest and most accurate accounts of pi in a papyrus scroll written in around 165BC' (Greyfebruary) From reproductive rights to climate change ...

Why are we asking this now? A French computer programmer has calculated pi to a world record of almost 2,700 billion decimal places. Fabrice Bellard said he did it for the programming challenge rather ...