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Mon. 03/14 - Why COVID Causes Loss of Smell and How To (Maybe) Get It Back

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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How many digits of pi is the right amount to use? Plus, what actually causes people to lose their sense of smell when they get COVID? And how can you work to recover yours if you lost it? And, Saturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson is going to space. Sponsors: DeVry University, Learn more at DeVry.edu/Future Lendtable, Use code KOTTKE at Lendtable.com to get an extra $50 added to your Lendtable balance Links: Vsauce short explaining Not A Wake (Vsauce, Twitter) Not a Wake: A Dream Embodying (Pi)'s Digits Fully for 10000 Decimals by Michael Keith How Much Pi Do You Really Need? (Wired) 20 Best Pi Day 2022 Deals and Freebies on Pizza, Pies and More (Good Housekeeping) How the Coronavirus Steals the Sense of Smell (NY Times) Covid Stole Your Sense of Smell? Try Physical Therapy for Your Nose. (NY Times) Pete Davidson will go to space on Blue Origin’s 4th human flight (CNBC) SNL star Pete Davidson is heading to space with crew of five on next Blue Origin flight (The Verge) 24 Years (Kottke.org) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Want to give a special someone a gift they'll truly love this Valentine's Day?

0:04.8

Treat them to something that never goes out of style.

0:07.7

A beautiful bouquet of 12 red roses.

0:11.1

They're classic for a reason.

0:12.9

And all for just £15 at Waitrose.

0:16.3

Selected lines and stores.

0:17.6

Subject to availability ends 14th of february welcome to the khaki ride home for

0:27.8

monday march 14th 2022 i'm jackson bird today how many digits of pie is the right amount to use

0:35.9

plus what actually causes people to lose their sense of

0:39.6

smell when they get COVID, and how can you work to recover yours if you lost it? And Saturday

0:45.4

Night Live's Pete Davidson is going to space. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

0:54.6

Well, today is always a fun day for mostly U.S.-based nerds who write their dates with

1:01.2

the month first, because today is 314, aka Pi Day.

1:07.4

Here on the East Coast, we are passing 314-159 p.m. right around the time that I'm editing this.

1:14.9

And back in the day, my friends and I used to love celebrating Pi Day by baking a bunch of different pies

1:20.2

and then taking them to the park on what was often one of the first reasonably warm enough days for a picnic.

1:26.5

And one of the cooler Pie Day related things that I discovered this year has actually been around for over a

1:31.5

decade now, so maybe you've come across it before, but I heard about it for the first time

1:35.4

thanks to a short video by YouTube Edutainer Vsauce. In it, he plugged a book of

1:41.3

poetry, short stories, games, etc. that was written by Michael Keith. The book is called Not Awake. And it is a 10,000-word book in which every word contains the number of letters corresponding to that respective digit of pie. So, for example, the first line is, now I fall a tired suburban in liquid under the trees.

2:05.1

And the number of letters in each of those words in order is 3-1-4-159-2-6-5-3-5-3.

2:16.5

And so it goes for the entire book, 10,000 digits of pie worth. Pretty freaking cool and

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