It is not every day that someone makes a room full of bigwigs look, well, dumb. A group of prominent East Bay residents including Congressman Jerry McNerney and Danville Mayor Mike Shimansky were ...

If you want to remember a phone number, more digits of Pi (Happy Pi Day!), or any other long string of numbers, here are two mnemonic devices to add more meaning to those numbers and thus aid your ...

Why memorize pi, poems when it's all on your phone? To have it in your heart There's a world of information in your pocket — but some folks prefer to use their memory and rev up their brains, nourish ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Monday is March 14 — aka 3/14, a date celebrated the world over as "Pi Day," after the irrational number. This year, to celebrate, musician Michael John Blake had the idea to compose, record and put ...