Review

This is a slightly different post than most on my blog. Rather than being focused on technology, my career, or my hobbies, I’m hoping that this post can be useful to the very specific set of people looking to live at the WoKo property 98 Alte Landstrasse.

This property, now a student residence for ETH exchange students, was previously a retirement home. Unfortunately, few pictures of this property exist online. Hopefully, the ones included in this article can be useful to incoming exchange students, in deciding if they want to accept an offer at this location, or choose to look on the open market. I’m leaning towards more information rather than less.

Sometimes I want to be able to easily share a list of cool science channels and resources. Some of these are pretty well known, some are a bit more niche. None of these are going to teach you at the level of a college course, but all of them provide super cool overviews and justifications for the “why” of learning, rather than just the “how”.

Today, thorough the Winnipeg Fringe Festival’s “NextGen Fringers” program, I had the opportunity to see two shows. The first one, and the subject of this post, was 1000 pieces of π. This interpretive dance piece includes only 10 moves, corresponding to each digit from 0-9. For each digit, the corresponding move is preformed.

My first reaction upon hearing this premise was “there’s no way they can make this interesting”. However, by adding in props, and keeping a rotation of dancers entering and exiting the scene, they managed to keep the 50-minute runtime interesting. There was also someone in the rear corner writing down the digits in time with the dancers, who would occasionally have spoken word sections which broke up the dancing.