By John Carpenter

Blue Sky Reporter

AUSTIN, Texas — As SXSW Interactive launches its 22nd year at the intersection of American capitalism, hipster cool and tech-geek pride, the Lone Star State’s capital features a high density of smartest-kid-in-your-high-school-math-class types.

So it’s fitting that this carnival of knowledge-seeking wraps itself around a once-in-a-lifetime confluence of mathematics and time-keeping — the Pi moment of the century.

Click here to read the rest of the story, published in the Chicago Tribune March 12, 2015