(05/09/08) String theory will become its own discipline, even if it is wrong, independent of both physics and mathematics

(05/08/08) Porn star Carrera is a genius

(05/07/08) Enter a mind-altering, dreamlike forest. No one knows if you can interact with it.

(05/06/08) Wikipedians think about the meaning of life

(05/05/08) 200 words that define the universe's evolution

(05/04/08) Ketchup experiment recovered from Columbia crash

(05/03/08) The incredible mathematical artwork of Paul Nylander

(05/02/08) "The self-similar rippling of leaf edges and torn plastic sheets"

(05/01/08) Things your body can do after you die

(04/30/08) New ways to create sounds. Electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface for simultaneous performers.

(04/29/08) The latest gossip on snow doughnuts and their kin

(04/28/08) Alex Grey, visionary artist, at Youtube

(04/27/08) The top 10 causes of world destruction in movies

(04/26/08) Could the universe be a gigantic brain cell?

(04/25/08) Man experiments with fire and sound

(04/24/08) Exploring huge, beautiful wave-like formations of ice beyond imagination

(04/23/08) "Dispatches from the Imagination Age"

(04/22/08) I'll be on the biggest night-time radio show in America, April 23, for 3 hours. Broadcast to 500 affiliate stations.

(04/21/08) Pareidolia involves the finding of images or sounds in random stimuli. Look around this guy's toilet

(04/20/08) Man is a living camera, capturing all that he sees

(04/19/08) Karen Armstrong talks about Islam, Judaism, and Christianity

(04/18/08) A baby with two faces is worshipped as reincarnation of a Hindu goddess

(04/17/08) Elephant painting

(04/16/08) Would you rather be intimate with someone you love on a spiral staircase or in front of a fireplace?

(04/15/08) Glass jellyfish

(04/14/08) Doomsday fear sparks lawsuit

(04/13/08) Semi-autonomous, artificial woman. Use mouse. Fall in love. (Be patient. Requires 15 seconds to load.)

(04/12/08) If you jump into a hole through the Earth, how long does it take you to reach the other side?

(04/11/08) Wow. Delicious fractal cookies

(04/10/08) The latest gossip on how the world will end

(04/09/08) The latest gossip on science tattoos

(04/08/08) Scientists reveal high-res map of the US carbon footprint

(04/07/08) Man says: "You could have a conversation with your strawberry yogurt before you eat it"

(04/06/08) Uncanny valley: when robots look too human

(04/05/08) Heat from data center used to warm swimming pool

(04/04/08) US patent on how to propose marriage (look at claims 37 and 40)

(04/03/08) The 3-Horse Problem is now at Polls Boutique. Click "comments" to see results

(04/02/08) My latest book, published today. "Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them." 22 Centuries of Discovery....

(04/01/08) Behold the Sabbath elevator

(03/26/08) Welcome to the world of John Hutchison (Note: I will be on vacation for a few days. Enjoy the past articles at Reality Carnival)

(03/25/08) Neuroanatomist suffers stroke, watches her mind undergo self-destruction, transports to psychedelic mind state. "We are energy beings."

(03/24/08) 4-legged entity found wandering the forest

(03/23/08) 10 most historically inaccurate movies

(03/22/08) Philosopher action figures

(03/21/08) Crayon physics

(03/20/08) 20 ways to eliminate stress from your life

(03/19/08) $2000 paintings made by a dog

(03/18/08) Legendary human-chimp "hybrid"

(03/17/08) 7 Incredible natural phenomena you've never seen

(03/16/08) The charms of Wikipedia

(03/15/08) Woman becomes fused to toilet seat

(03/14/08) Moths remember their ghostly lives as caterpillars

(03/13/08) A little teaser on the impact of Stephen Hawking

(03/12/08) If Jesus had come to Earth today, what profession would he have had before revealing his true nature?

(03/11/08) How good are experienced presidents?

(03/10/08) Strange puzzle confounds planet. What are the next 3 item in the sequence?

(03/09/08) Who is A. M. Homes really?

(03/08/08) "Planetary-Scale Views on an Instant-Messaging Network"

(03/07/08) Researcher sets saltwater on fire

(03/06/08) Moses was high on drugs when he received Ten Commandments

(03/05/08) Physicists successfully store and retrieve nothing

(03/04/08) Fly with me: Picture of electrostatic switch for 2-state model of beta-adrenergic receptor

(03/03/08) "7 Incredibly Specific Dating Sites"

(03/02/08) 10 Most Bizarre Scientific Papers

(03/01/08) The inner workings of our minds, 10 seconds before we die. Were our journeys happy on the treadmill of life?

(02/29/08) Odd things in our world

(02/28/08) Scientists from around the world attempt to decipher mysterious words and lettering on woman's shirt

(02/27/08) Traveling and exhuming the extraordinary past

(02/26/08) Sphere-like artificial intelligence. Watch carefully, and you may also see a small mammal in the foreground

(02/25/08) Find all UFO reports made in your home town

(02/24/08) Ideas are toys. Explore everything

(02/23/08) Drag chess piece. Watch machine think

(02/22/08) Tunnel House

(02/21/08) Play surface based on the Mobius strip

(02/20/08) Crossing the U.S. by car in under 32 hours

(02/19/08) The latest gossip from fusion anomaly

(02/18/08) Strange, alien-like sex

(02/17/08) The math puzzle of the blue-eyed islanders

(02/16/08) Physicist Burkhard Heim is considered by some to be the German equivalent of Hawking

(02/15/08) "Wood that works": kinetic sculptures requiring no batteries

(02/14/08) Half of U.K. men would swap sex for 50-inch TV

(02/13/08) "Smoke on the Water," a hard-rock song, sounds interesting when rendered in an ancient Japanese style

(02/12/08) Rearranging stars to communicate with aliens

(02/11/08) "Interview with far-out mathematician, Clifford A. Pickover"

(02/10/08) Strange cartoon devoted to the number e^pi - pi

(02/09/08) The amazing evolution of Dubai. Slowly scroll down

(02/08/08) Passionate people argue about "Who has done more for humanity: Jews or Muslims?" By page 4, the discussion is closed, due to threats of violence

(02/07/08) A summary of all religions in one giant chart

(02/06/08) The power of serendipity and chance when inventing

(02/05/08) After 378 pages, Russell and Whitehead finally prove: 1+1=2

(02/04/08) What is the future of Wikipedia?

(02/03/08) What if one day people froze in place in a busy train station (play video)?

(02/02/08) Where mathematics and art blend into a zen-like state of peace

(02/01/08) Every great idea, in video form, all in one place

(01/31/08) Will Amazon.com's new e-book revolutionize the world and cause the demise of traditional books?

(01/30/08) Big and amazing thinking in science and technology

(01/29/08) Richard explores special paper folding techniques

(01/28/08) Nerve formation resembles alien being from a higher dimension

(01/27/08) "Could Our Universe be a Virtual Reality Processed by Other Intelligence?"

(01/26/08) Nine proofs that Google is God

(01/25/08) Top-15-amazing-coincidences

(01/24/08) 30 strangest deaths in history

(01/23/08) Eighth wonder of the world? The stunning temples secretly carved out below ground by 'paranormal' eccentric

(01/22/08) Novel approaches to visualizing information

(01/21/08) Magnetic ink comes alive in an orgy of self-creation

(01/20/08) Top 10 most bizarre videos

(01/19/08) Photo-sharing for pictures taken where you are not allowed to take them

(01/18/08) Astronauts will inhabit electric virtual worlds to keep from going insane (Via Posthuman)

(01/17/08) Your predictions and thoughts on the major issues confronting the planet in the 21st Century

(01/16/08) Can marble adding machines think?

(01/15/08) Researchers discover 237 reasons why humans have sex

(01/14/08) Wikipedia says: "Christians associate dark energy with God-driven design in the universe"

(01/13/08) "All of us are dead (nonexistent) for much of the time"

(01/12/08) Man devotes life to creating oleaginous creatures with large eyes

(01/11/08) "We hope to prevent and survive particle accelerator mishaps (e.g. quantum vacuum collapse, formation of a stable strangelet, and the creation of artificial mini-black holes)"

(01/10/08) Top 10 bizarre phobias

(01/09/08) Scientists create universe in a test tube

(01/08/08) Man devotes life to creating and exploring fractals in the Second Life virtual universe

(01/07/08) How to turn a sphere inside out

(01/06/08) Woman and lion bonding

(01/05/08) "Evolutionary Catastrophes and the Goldilocks Problem"

(01/04/08) Humorous use of web browser technology as part of movie

(01/03/08) Semen can control womens' sexual urges

(01/02/08) Jen Stark is a colorful artist

(01/01/08) Happy New Year! Today we introduce a companion to Reality Carnival called "Reality Carnival Unleashed," featuring mind-expanding six-word posts from several esteemed co-bloggers

(12/31/07) Scientists discover mysterious floating garbage patch twice the size of Britain.

(12/30/07) Grow your brain: 1800 free courses from MIT: from quantum mechanics to the history of ancient Greece

(12/29/07) Tiling and tubing beyond imagination

(12/28/07) God creating the universe via computer

(12/27/07) "Actresses are plagiarizing my quantum mechanics lecture to sell printers"

(12/26/07) Which fractal is your favorite?

(12/25/07) Hyper-complex Christmas song to enjoy

(12/23/07) Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them. 22 Centuries of Discovery

(12/22/07) Deanna is a famous science-fiction copyeditor who has 1246 myspace friends

(12/21/07) How to stop time

(12/20/07) Where do the laws of nature come from?

(12/19/07) How will your house decay, through 200 years, if left unattended?

(12/18/07) Mariana's collection of images relating to science, math, reality, and Pickover

(12/17/07) Mysterious elliptical forms on ground

(12/16/07) Dream anatomy

(12/15/07) Marry our daughter. "Within the United States girls can marry as young as 13 years old.... and the Bride Price is a custom of long standing... in the Bible"

(12/14/07) Man falls in love with tricycles

(12/13/07) History through the eyes of those who lived it

(12/12/07) Magic beyond imagination

(12/11/07) An attractive image of our neighbor in space

(12/10/07) Behold the Gomboc

(12/09/07) "Mysterious people" at Wikipedia

(12/08/07) Irene Müller transcends space and time

(12/07/07) I can think of no good reason to justify placing a photo of a ditch at Reality Carnival

(12/06/07) Ask a philosopher

(12/05/07) Mysterious close encounter between pre-assembled town and train

(12/04/07) Gaze in wonder at edits to Wikipedia in real time, on a map

(12/03/07) Woman wears a dress made of water

(12/02/07) U.S. Patent: "Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force"

(12/01/07) In love with words

(11/30/07) X-ray bottle oddity

(11/29/07) Man discovers largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island

(11/28/07) I just love slicing into the Menger sponge

(11/27/07) A massive photo collection judged to be interesting by various criteria

(11/26/07) The art of Kris Kuksi. (Be sure to click image to enlarge.)

(11/25/07) Let us speculate briefly on this visual metaphor on the meaning of life, along with its trials and tribulations

(11/24/07) Two small creatures with open mouths

(11/23/07) Piano playing beyond imagination

(11/22/07) Behold the octo-squid

(11/21/07) Come with me, and view the incredible reality in which we live

(11/20/07) Collective perception

(11/19/07) 10 amazing facts about dreams

(11/18/07) Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything

(11/17/07) In 2007, Harvard scientists show that marijuana cuts tumour growth in lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread

(11/16/07) Let's turn apples into art

(11/15/07) Man discloses "Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything" -- but the abstract doesn't look "exceptionally simple"

(11/14/07) Race begins to return man to human form before he turns into a tree

(11/13/07) Anomalies, Paranormal, and Mind Perceptions

(11/12/07) Hear the actual sounds of Saturn talking to humankind

(11/11/07) Nature creates a river

(11/10/07) Why older peopler are happier than younger people

(11/09/07) A woman named Coral is "part of a central psyche housing a system of over 50 selves"

(11/08/07) Image of ghostly bird, preseved in glass, for an eternity

(11/07/07) 55-Second Time Loop

(11/06/07) We will never know the woman's intent nor her inner hopes, desires, and fears. She is an enigma, frozen at the edge of time

(11/05/07) "For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program"

(11/04/07) Elizabeth Kucinich

(11/03/07) Video splice of 100 quotes from 100 different movies, each containing the numbers from 100 to 1

(11/01/07) "American Kids Dumber than Dirt"

(10/31/07) The breaking of frozen waves on a mysterious shoreline

(10/30/07) Author "gives away" The Heaven Virus e-book for 99 cents. "Inoculate yourself" today.

(10/29/07) "Houses in weird places"

(10/28/07) I found this image intriguing to ponder (via funnypictures)

(10/27/07) Synthetic women look so real that you wish to engage them in conversation and friendship during a candlelit dinner

(10/26/07) High-IQ dog avoids loathsome gelatinous putrescence

(10/25/07) A heart-warming and educational romp through the 1960s

(10/24/07) "World's most popular blogging anesthesiologist"

(10/23/07) Miss England told to 'fatten up' if she wants to win world title

(10/22/07) Which bookshelves do you like best?

(10/21/07) Physicist finally proves universe needs no God

(10/20/07) "The Heaven Virus attacks the science fiction issues of consciousness and reality, armed with some fascinating new neuroscience results"

(10/19/07) Hear Real Angels Singing - Caught On Tape (scroll to bottom of table). "The pitch they reached was a pitch that no human can reach. The angels never take a breath, and the notes are constant."

(10/18/07) Dying genius gives world's most inspirational speech

(10/17/07) Who exactly are "shadow people"?

(10/16/07) Test your brain style. Compare with friends

(10/15/07) Sex with robots in 5 years

(10/14/07) Learn about special people, creativity, alien brains, the matrix, and quantum resurrection

(10/13/07) 1000-armed woman, who can never hear, impresses viewers

(10/11/07) The swarm behaviors of human dancelike forms

(10/10/07) Celebrate our new reality. Time is about to turn into space

(10/09/07) On the future of writers, writing, and book publishing

(10/08/07) Odd holidays

(10/07/07) How to live forever

(10/06/07) Magic or physics?

(10/05/07) "Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD when he discovered the secret of life"

(10/04/07) Book of the Week: "Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend"

(10/03/07) Liquid kiss

(10/02/07) The 8 Most Needlessly Detailed Wikipedia Entries

(10/01/07) Prototype for genetically modified patriotic cat

(09/30/07) 10 most amazing temples in the world

(09/29/07) Woman begins to embark on mating ritual with alien life form (Via pizdaz)

(09/28/07) 1001 Paintings You Should See Before You Die

(09/27/07) The art of creating creatures

(09/26/07) Dream with me, in these photos

(09/25/07) 10 most bizarre museums

(09/24/07) Do bonobo apes dream of electric sheep?

(09/23/07) Explore the mind, visions, and books of Cliff Pickover

(09/22/07) Building looks like giant piano and violin

(09/21/07) Play with electronic ants that will someday share our minds

(09/20/07) Marjorie Cameron, occultist and artist, has had an unusual life

(09/19/07) On Einstein / Ageless Future

(09/18/07) Hunting for our universe via mathematical reality

(09/17/07) Dangerous home-made laser stirs debate

(09/16/07) List of natural disasters by death toll

(09/15/07) "Reading Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves induced a marked, noticeable psychoactive response."

(09/14/07) Radio frequencies burn salt water

(09/13/07) Recursion in science fiction

(09/12/07) An interesting video on how to be happy

(09/11/07) The latest gossip on "Brain Paint"

(09/10/07) First 100 registered domain names that are still active on the World Wide Web

(09/09/07) The U.S. government is continuing its march towards an all-robot army

(09/08/07) Please read the book reviews of "A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates"

(09/07/07) Driven mad by paradoxes

(09/06/07) All in one book: future-life progression, US patents on divination inventions, spider divination, the quantum mechanics of ooscopy, Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant, and Schizophrenia and the Book of Changes!

(09/05/07) "Vertigo, Explained" (artwork)

(09/04/07) Photos of a lot of money, all in one place

(09/03/07) Would you like to have an arm wrestle contest with him?

(09/02/07) Speed demon photography, including bursting water balloon

(09/01/07) Technology to ensure you dont sit

(08/31/07) Atlas of the Universe

(08/30/07) Two scientists, Dawkins vs. Tyson, spar on science & religion

(08/29/07) On the mathematics of Jessica Alba

(08/28/07) The latest gossip on hyper-pencil art

(08/27/07) As for what sort of organisms might lurk in that exotic environment today, no one can really be certain

(08/26/07) Scientists develop technique to induce out-of-body experiences

(08/25/07) Ron Mueck’s fiberglass resin sculptures cast photo-realism into a larger-than-life glory

(08/24/07) The best outer-space photos of all time

(08/23/07) Art by the mentally ill

(08/22/07) The soul is software

(08/21/07) Leave a message for whoever is simulating our world

(08/20/07) A ficlet is a short story that enables you to collaborate with the world

(08/19/07) Bizarre inorganic life form discovered

(08/18/07) The latest gossip on the aquatic ape hypothesis

(08/17/07) Psychoactive drugs through human history

(08/16/07) The latest gossip about the secret "Skull and Bones"

(08/15/07) More gossip about the secret "Skull and Bones"

(08/14/07) Sand castles that delight

(08/13/07) "Sooner or later the intelligent human mind realizes that reality is an illusion"

(08/12/07) The mysterious "Katrina Caudle" says, "Forget nirvana or heaven.... The afterlife is no farther away than your PC." (Here is every word of the book.)

(08/11/07) 101 frightening ice cream flavors from around the world

(08/10/07) "The universe is a living system with a teleological attractor at the end of time that drives the increase and conservation of complexity in material forms."

(08/09/07) News Chewer's new topics: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Scientology

(08/08/07) Mystery Antikythera mechanism

(08/07/07) Lightning, trapped forever in glass

(08/06/07) Emergence, termite cathedrals, and the quest for transcendence

(08/05/07) Man cataloges every female bassoonist whom he considers somewhat attractive

(08/04/07) Octofungi: evolving autonomous art

(08/03/07) Sensory homunculus: our bodies if each part grew in proportion to the area of brain concerned with its sensory perception

(08/02/07) Mobile, gelatinous egg confounds scientists and psychics

(08/01/07) JAR, The Journal of Abduction-Encounter Research

(07/31/07) Russell take hundreds of pages to prove 1+1=2

(07/30/07) Intense man devotes life to stacking coins in remarkable ways that appear to defy the laws of physics, but don't

(07/29/07) Another intense man experiments with exotic coin stacks, defying conventional notions of "what is possible" in our pocket or reality

(07/28/07) Woman wears Mobius dress with no separate inside and outside surface

(07/27/07) Man publishes secret list for finding an actual human when calling a company

(07/26/07) Computers will never beat humans at this chess-like game

(07/25/07) People submit names of cool people and vote, and the most interesting rise to the top

(07/24/07) "Always Sunshine after Rain": a shattering odyssey of self-discovery. What emotion do you feel after watching this 15-second video?

(07/23/07) Infinite monkey theorem

(07/22/07) Visit the Garden of Eden. Other attractions include Noah's Ark, a Galilee fishing port, "biblical streets with the smells of 2,000 years ago," & regular battles between David and Goliath. See the park Map

(07/21/07) Why do chess geniuses eventually go insane?

(07/20/07) Four labile women, demonstrating ribosome-RNA interactions (From the huge, eclectic photo gallery of Kim Sallaway.)

(07/19/07) This resin cast of a kidney's urinary vessels really turns me on

(07/18/07) Long-haired man ponders the mystery of "post piles"

(07/17/07) I've always enjoyed this illusion

(07/16/07) Woman again discovers spontaneous formation of partial Mobius strip in hat

(07/15/07) First 30 pages of "The Heaven Virus" are free on line. The entire amazing book is here at Amazon

(07/14/07) Akiane is a 12-year-old prodigy, the only known child binary genius, in both realist painting and poetry

(07/13/07) Welcome to GalaxyZoo, the project that harnesses the power of your BRAIN to classify a million galaxies

(07/12/07) Accepting quantum physics to be universally true, argues Max Tegmark, means that you should also believe in parallel universes

(07/11/07) Men and women experiment endlessly with an amazing non-newtonian fluid

(07/10/07) "Why most suicide bombers are Muslim, beautiful people have more daughters, humans are naturally polygamous, sexual harassment isn't sexist, and blonds are more attractive"

(07/09/07) On the nature of the tethered soul

(07/08/07) Behold the Psychrolutes, an alienlike creature with whom you share the Earth

(07/07/07) Huge tree showing the evolution of computer technology

(07/06/07) News Chewer: Hyperspace, Sex, and More!

(07/05/07) The amazing Robin Hanson explores 14 wild ideas including: multiple universes, cryonics, artificial intelligence, simulated worlds, and the future of humanity

(07/04/07) Jews, Math, Fields Medals

(07/03/07) Ex-atheist describes near-death experience

(07/02/07) World clock: notice which number moves the quickest

(07/01/07) I searched for information on Digital Singularity and found this image

(06/30/07) Do fruit flies have free will?

(06/29/07) Self-transforming women with temporal distortion

(06/28/07) Flatland: the movie

(06/27/07) Do you have any doubts that a superior intelligence will emerge in the next few decades?

(06/26/07) I typed fractal maze into Google and found this image (Via Think Labyrinth)

(06/25/07) Scary and beautiful?

(06/24/07) Newton predicted the world would end in the year 2060

(06/23/07) Animation of interspecies contact and its ramifications in this world and the world to come

(06/21/07) New Blog! "The Women of Wikipedia"

(06/20/07) Flowers grow from steel (via Holo)

(06/19/07) Giant wind-powered mechanical centipedes

(06/18/07) The artificial use of rodentlike creatures to create ectoplasmic forms of music

(06/17/07) Scientist claims that brains constructed out of Tinkertoys could be conscious

(06/16/07) NASA speculates that nearly-transparent waterspouts account for mystery disappearances in "Bermuda triangle"

(06/15/07) Porn star creates time-travel machine using advanced physics!

(06/14/07) Japanese war-tubas (listening horns) from the 1930s for the detection of aircraft

(06/13/07) A new look at atheism

(06/12/07) The latest from jellybath.com -- featuring a patented, viscous substance in which to bathe

(06/11/07) Who is Rudy Rucker really?

(06/10/07) Advertisements from the past

(06/09/07) The three horses problem

(06/08/07) For some reason, this apple always scared me

(06/07/07) Competition for Wikipedia?

(06/06/07) Our place in the cosmos (video)

(06/05/07) What happens in the years 2029 and 2040

(06/04/07) The Sand Traveler is a rendering of 1,000 traveling particles, each in pursuit of another. Over time, patterns of travel are exposed as sweeping paths of color

(06/03/07) Watch ants live and tunnel in nutritious gel. Ants need no food or water

(06/02/07) Guide me, protect me

(06/01/07) The Top 10 strangest keyboards

(05/31/07) Trees: real or fake?

(05/30/07) If Homer Simpson were real, what would he look like? View the scientific transformation

(05/29/07) Lost cities

(05/28/07) Pulse of the World: see uploaded images in real-time

(05/27/07) Man customizes real insects with antique watch parts and electronic components

(05/26/07) True stories told in one sentence

(05/25/07) Escher's "Relativity" in LEGO

(05/24/07) The Codex Seraphinianus is 360 pages long, and appears to be a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world, written in a mysterious language

(05/23/07) Mysterious image of Saturn backlit by the Sun (Magnify here)

(05/22/07) Which of these houses would you like to live in?

(05/21/07) Large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs

(05/20/07) The biggest blogs in the blogosphere, as measured by unique links in the last six months

(05/19/07) Come with me, and view the future of our world

(05/18/07) A ranking of the 24 most beautiful Zen gardens suitable for mystic transport

(05/17/07) Come with me, and enter a mysterious virtual cavern

(05/16/07) Come with me, and enter 100 strange worlds

(05/15/07) Talk to me this week: "Futurist and author Dr. Cliff Pickover will discuss his new novel, The Heaven Virus, which explores spiritual technologies for the 22nd century, virtual universes, and immortality" (largest night-time radio show, across the U.S.)

(05/14/07) Artificially realities, shamanic mysticism, quantum mechanics, history’s quirkiest scholars, vintage sci-fi movies, life after death, and predictions of future technology

(05/13/07) Man says that humans function as AIDS particles that are destroying Earth like a viral infection

(05/12/07) Nothing is on sale for $6.28

(05/11/07) This is Jaspal. And here is her quantum lottery device.

(05/10/07) Reality Carnival discovers Reality Sandwich

(05/09/07) Woman takes LSD, then DMT, then makes love with boyfriend, and then becomes physically intimate with a four-dimensional Klein bottle (Warning: x-rated language)

(05/07/07) New book: Downloading your mind to a computer -- to experience your afterlife and God in a chip!

(05/06/07) New Age website says that autistics are related to mermaids via biogenetic experiment

(05/05/07) Is there a Hell? Surprising observations about the near-death experience

(05/04/07) An irreverent analysis of the debate on evolution vs creationism

(05/03/07) "What would a painting look like if it were made to please the greatest number of viewers?"

(05/02/07) Unusual French anti-AIDS poster. (Although, one of our journalists admitted finding them strangely erotic...)

(05/01/07) Video titled "Creationism In a Nutshell"

(04/30/07) 50 contemporary surreal, fantastic, and visionary artists

(04/29/07) US researchers have simulated half a virtual mouse brain on a supercomputer

(04/28/07) Although we will never understand the "purpose" of this video, I watched this five times in a row, staring as the synthetic insectoids rise to heaven. By the fifth time, you will be in a deep meditative state.

(04/27/07) Woman explores apple-like objects in the reality carnival

(04/26/06) Man sells spherical homes, hung from trees

(04/25/07) Your IQ has no relationship to your wealth

(04/24/07) Naked people get together to form 3-D objects known as polyhedra

(04/23/07) Was Timothy Leary right? Are psychedelics good for you?

(04/22/07) Predictions of the Year 2000 from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900

(04/21/07) Charlie Stross discusses the fascinating economics and future of e-books

(04/20/07) On the mystery physics of shampoo

(04/19/07) Create an alien, win a prize

(04/18/07) What exactly is "existence"?

(04/17/07) On the metaphysics of 4-D hendecatopes

(04/16/07) White peacocks are real

(04/15/07) Mysterious formation found in Burma?

(04/14/07) The top 50 movie endings of all time

(04/13/07) Math Woman and Math Man. Which photo is a greater turn on?

(04/12/07) In 20 seconds, see evolution of all life on Earth

(04/11/07) Bathypelagic woman

(04/10/07) Lynne talks about book publishing

(04/09/07) TV show on time travel

(04/08/07) Sandy used Chaoscope to create these evanescent fractal images

(04/07/07) 28-year-old Stacey creates intergalactic art

(04/05/07) What are the oddest book titles?

(04/04/07) What is the future of 3-D computer background desktops?

(04/03/07) Come with me and enter a hyper-real city. (Image source information)

(04/02/07) Researchers and mystics from around the world experiment with a mathematical object called Buddhabrot. (More information here.)

(04/01/07) Music, with repetitive chorus in Farsi language, induces neural nirvana

(03/31/07) The most incredible astronomical find of the century: hexagonal arrays on Saturn

(03/30/07) How large is your vocabulary? Are you better than your friends?

(03/29/07) Blow your mind with Mobius chess

(03/28/07) Cool link collection

(03/27/07) Zoom Quilt: collaborative art project (allow 30 second to load)

(03/25/07) On the Yahoo metaphysics of death and sexaully deviant rabbits

(03/24/07) Immortality device banned from Google search. (See interview with inventor here)

(03/23/07) Man falls, for no apparent reason

(03/22/07) Wonderful update to the Official Cable Appreciation Page

(03/21/07) 27-year-old Karene Howie, famous philosophers, truth, reality, and wisdom

(03/20/07) Cosmologists worry about the largest void in the universe. Something mysterious had to "set up the void" from the beginning of the universe.

(03/19/07) The stuff of science-fiction dreams. Although we will never truly understand the significance, mathematicians have discovered a 248-dimensional object dubbed the most complicated object in mathematics

(03/18/07) Man spends his days searching for fractals

(03/17/07) "Last night, I dreamed I was eating Truman Capote's brain. It tasted like black licorice, but smelled of blood."

(03/16/07) I typed Fractal Female into Google and found this eudaemonic woman interested in: Burning Man, creative expression, electronic music events, meditation and spirituality through dance, the art of conversation, adventures, space, painting on skin, being painted on, blacklight art, geodesics, iridescent clouds, bass waves moving through my body, glowey things, fractals and visual math, eccentric people, intricacy, evolutionary oddities, sacred geometry, playa dust, bioluminescent jellyfish, sensuality, sexuality, being alone in elevators, logarithmic spirals, lucid dreaming, ancient civilizations, hallucinating, watching meteor showers, eating sushi and mangoes, singing into strong wind, flowing water, and rooftop sunrises

(03/15/07) The electric bee conspiracy theory

(03/14/07) On the metaphysics of beauty and brains

(03/13/07) Man searches the world for the most exotic musical scores. We dare you to play these

(03/12/07) "10,000,000 Seekers Can't Be Wrong" (mind-expanding content finder)

(03/11/07) The future of technology, our children, our jobs, and our emotions

(03/10/07) Multiple dark entities play with red sphere, for no apparent reason

(03/09/07) A listing of the 51 best magazines ever published

(03/08/07) People from around the word compete to make "fake" Miro artworks called Miro Pseudomorphs. Can you beat these?

(03/07/07) I typed Wire Girl into Google and found this image

(03/06/07) The latest gossip on retropsychokinesis

(03/05/07) God is a hot topic today. You've heard of the God books of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Victor Stenger, and Daniel Dennett. Now see the book that predated them all

(03/04/07) Buy your own parallel universe (Via HR)

(03/03/07) Complex, beautiful guitar to stimulate the neurons of your left hippocampus

(03/02/07) World's largest bubble wall

(03/01/07) Behold the future (Via MG.)

(02/28/07) Should Christians own cats?

(02/27/07) Direct your primordial creature, feed it, watch it evolve

(02/26/07) Each of these photos is real but look somewhat unreal

(02/24/07) Using simple algorithms and amazing ingenuity, creative woman develops higher-dimensional cybernetic jellyfish that evolve and may one day escape the confines of their digital life and communicate with humans as peers

(02/23/07) The latest gossip on dimethyltryptamine

(02/22/07) Man devotes life to making guitars out of 10,000 matchsticks

(02/21/07) Let us dine on fractal cauliflower tonight

(02/20/07) Art beyond imagination

(02/19/07) Cory Doctorow explains why the more free e-books an author gives away, the more money the author makes

(02/18/07) Reality Carnival Editor: interview in New York Times today

(02/17/07) 20 greatest guitar solos ever, with videos

(02/16/07) Brain diseases that some people want to have

(02/14/07) Telomeres, Immortality, and the Quest for Transcendence

(02/13/07) 2000 people agree to be nude, hunched over like sheep

(02/12/07) The latest gossip on the technological singularity

(02/11/07) Evolution of the Web, and Beyond

(02/10/07) Man plays unusual guitar to transcend spacetime

(02/08/07) Marina creates life-sized realistic chocolate skulls, cast from an actual human skull

(02/07/07) Secret Canadian spy coins conquer the planet

(02/06/07) Woman uses simple diagrams to understand the world. Here is one example

(02/05/07) Man walks every Manhattan street in two years

(02/04/07) Man starts catalogue of every unsolved problem in the universe

(02/03/07) Wikipedia entry for Chris Langan

(02/02/07) Enjoy the life and wisdom of Chris Langan: the world's smartest person and person with the highest IQ (part 1)

(01/31/07) Man's Blog says, "Did you know that everything is pointless? Examine the rotting corpse which is this blog. It will help you contemplate your place in the universe...."

(01/30/07) Human cheese

(01/29/07) Impossible guitar

(01/28/07) World's most unusual book title: "IF(Sid_Vicious == TRUE&& Alan Turing == TRUE) } ERROR_Cyberpunk() }"

(01/27/07) Impressive guitarist transports us to new realities

(01/26/07) My interview. We entered Second Life, the on-line virtual universe, to explore, dream, and discuss the nature of reality and our place in our vast cosmos. (More photos of our journey here.)

(01/25/07) Carved crayons beyond imagination

(01/24/07) The numbers pi and e on a blind dinner date

(01/23/07) Aliens may be smart but have no "awareness"

(01/22/07) Microsoft focuses on "Immortal Computing"

(01/21/07) Top 100 cryptic animals

(01/20/07) Short movie lets us visualize our consciousnesses, our connections, and our lives

(01/19/07) Mysterious game with transcendent, heavenly music confounds players. If possible, listen to the music in the dark, with someone you love.

(01/18/07) Scientist crams M&Ms into Klein bottle

(01/16/07) Jeannine gives us the latest gossip on Menger sponges made of business cards

(01/15/07) The dance of life and beauty, within us all

(01/14/07) A few unusual surveys. Which interests you the most?

(01/13/07) Woman paints detailed world map on man's butt

(01/12/07) Man attempts to reprogram your mind to be happy

(01/11/07) Geniuses from around the world search in vain for the seven horses

(01/10/07) You ask. Philosophers answer

(01/09/07) Man gives a vial of DMT (dimethyltryptamine) and a microcassette recorder to people

(01/08/07) Book review: Sushi, Psychedelics, Parallel Universes, and the Quest for Transcendence

(01/07/07) Fractal Fantasies game intrigues psychonauts and puzzlers of all ages

(01/06/07) Explore a world of mysterious thought experiments

(01/05/07) The patents of celebrities

(01/04/07) Free book excerpt: a celebration of strange and beautiful lives

(01/03/07) Scientists study children's drawings of "the soul"

(01/02/07) Alien-like mantis (via Hell)

(01/01/07) Aliens factor prime numbers in DMT-induced reality. Happy New Year from Reality Carnival!

(12/31/06) "No matter how deep you go, there's always more"

(12/30/06) Tickle your mind: Spacetime Warps and the Quantum: A Glimpse of the Future

(12/29/06) Man catalogues every Google and Youtube video dealing with consciousness and reality

(12/28/06) Joe Rogan talks about mind-altering drugs and reality

(12/27/06) Intense man devotes life to fantastic 3-D chess game called 3D8

(12/26/06) "Springtime on Mars in the Year 2020"

(12/25/06) The ebullient Lisa Randall explains mysteries of higher dimensions

(12/24/06) Merry Christmas: Morse-Thue sequence (01101001100101101001011001101001...), converted to sound, induces higher brain states and neural nirvana

(12/23/06) Top 10 earnings based on use of Google ads

(12/22/06) 100 most influential Americans

(12/21/06) One billion mazes

(12/20/06) Lovers have rings made from their bones

(12/19/06) Swiss army knife, on steroids

(12/18/06) On the implications of Glamourbombs

(12/17/06) Can you solve the Immortal Witch YouTube puzzle?

(12/16/06) Come with me and experience undulation at the end of time

(12/15/06) Who are the ant people?

(12/14/06) The 'Taos Hum' is a low-pitched sound heard in numerous places worldwide... Its source is still a mystery

(12/13/06) Ten ways to build a cult following

(12/12/06) The amazing and elegant Kate Jones brings you the world's three most mind-expanding games: Quintillions, The Game of Y, and Octiles

(12/11/06) The most unusual buidlings

(12/10/06) 50 works of art you should see before you die

(12/09/06) Click on image to create the stuff of dreams

(12/08/06) Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection

(12/07/06) Man explores new realities by writing on a white board

(12/06/06) Brain comparisons are fun

(12/05/06) In 3 minutes, the largest dot will travel around the circle once, the next largest dot will travel around the circle twice, the next largest dot three times, and so on

(12/04/06) The faces of the modular Sommer Cube feed into twisted conduits that comprise a 3-D tunneling maze beyond imagination. (Click here and here to see partial maze)

(12/03/06) Oh God, mysterious artistic card haunts world. Caution: view only in a well-lit room

(12/02/06) Fifty most amazing mysteries to ponder

(12/01/06) Kids draw human organ systems

(11/30/06) Galileo's finger is on display at the Museo di Storia del Scienza in Italy

(11/29/06) Man invents device to transport users into new worlds through lucid dreaming

(11/28/06) Man devotes life to shrinking coins through magnetic fields

(11/27/06) How can humans migrate through the galaxy?

(11/26/06) Alien cloudlike sculptures at Zymoglyphic museum

(11/25/06) Puzzles that test your sense of reality

(11/24/06) Man discovers best way to picture infinity

(11/23/06) Man invents liquid armor to make us all superheros

(11/22/06) Man claims to see "unmistakable buildings, walls, sculptured former gardens, towers, and parapets" on the moon

(11/21/06) Fearless in Second Life: Sex, Money and Fame in a Virtual World. (See also Huffington Post.)

(11/20/06) Can a random collection of data be conscious?

(11/18/06) Man discovers strange green flash as sun sets

(11/17/06) Men design photorealistic synthetic women with whom they may fall in love

(11/16/06) Does the brain tap into the future?

(11/15/06) Spy satellite reveals levitating islands

(11/14/06) The gradual assembly of a sentient humanoid from components

(11/13/06) Man demonstrates card trick that penetrates from one universe to another. Watch video to very end

(11/12/06) A list of every great novel that takes place in a laboratory. Which is your favorite?

(11/11/06) On the metaphsyics of nutmeg psychosis

(11/10/06) 50 years from now, which contemporary cultural memes will be extinct?

(11/09/06) Man discovers early attempts at subliminal advertising in spam

(11/08/06) Scientists perform odd experiments, deforming Earth by spinning it fast

(11/07/06) Are animals conscious?

(11/06/06) Spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness

(11/05/06) On the metaphysics of earthworm art

(11/04/06) Wikipedia Knowledge Dumper: "The Best of the Wikipedia Rejects!"

(11/03/06) Strange art, alien instruments, and beyond

(11/02/06) The margaritaceous mystery of Cash Columns: an experiment in adverstising

(11/01/06) Mysterious snowflake shaped like Greecian column astonishes scientists. Just luck, or evidence of a hidden world just millimeters away?

(10/31/06) Man makes pumpkin computer, for no apparent reason

(10/30/06) Man encounters intelligent being while using DMT

(10/29/06) Create sophisticated, valuable Jackson Pollock artworks by dragging mouse

(10/28/06) The fingers of God

(10/27/06) Richard Dawkins on TV talk show

(10/26/06) The Official .9999999999 Appreciation Page

(10/25/06) The Official Martian Glass Worm Appreciation Page

(10/24/06) The mysterious pace of human achievement, all in one graph

(10/23/06) Terence McKenna, Alex Grey, Robert Anton Wilson, and more: a listing of every psychedelic, educational video available today for free

(10/22/06) Shrimp-like entity placed on treadmill, for no apparent reason

(10/21/06) LibraryThing helps you catalog your books and connects people with the same books. Here's Pete's list

(10/20/06) Man patents invisible drones that will quietly take over the planet

(10/19/06) Man invents the steampunk mechanical lion to impress the ladies

(10/18/06) Man reveals secret Coca Cola formula

(10/17/06) Robot solves Rubik's Cube (video)

(10/16/06) From Einstein to Aliens

(10/14/06) Man creates world's coolest watch collection

(10/13/06) Man devotes song to pi. Click on song link 31415 and press play

(10/11/06) From weird biology to cutting-edge computer technology, the IBM Journals continue to delight the mind and eye

(10/10/06) First YouTube video featuring Reality Carnival editor, made by Reality Carnival fan. Watch it 10 times to go insane.

(10/09/06) Horrifying contest in which artists realistically depict actresses as if they were starving (Via Presurfer)

(10/08/06) Reality explorers around the world augment reality with HDR imaging. Here's an example of a startling new realm. Click here to learn more about HDR. Another example here.

(10/07/06) The emegence of terranauts -- fish that become creative and explore land with robotic vehicles

(10/06/06) Oh God! A man patents a ladder to be used by spiders!

(10/05/06) Botulism toxin cures depression by preventing frowning

(10/04/06) From higher dimensions to the inner mind: psychedelic interviews

(10/03/06) Cloud formations that tend to make us believe in God or that we are on the threshold of transcendence

(10/02/06) A number of women devote their lives to growing exceptionally long fingernails

(10/01/06) Laura Goodwin catalogues every beautiful woman to appear on the original Star Trek TV series

(09/30/06) Scientists from around the world attempt to decipher mysterious words and lettering on woman's shirt

(09/29/06) Latist gossip on researchers' discovery of "The Aphex Face", a mysterious entity, in a spectrograph (visualization of the sound spectrum). More information Here

(09/28/06) Richard Dawkins discusses the "God Delusion" on video

(09/26/06) Man mathematically averages every Playboy centerfold to create single result

(09/25/06) A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection

(09/24/06) Igor Falecki generated complex rhythm patterns when 3 years old

(09/23/06) "The Hundred Most Important Science Books"

(09/22/06) The latest information on Jesus Camp

(09/21/06) "5,000 of the most important photographs of the last 150 years"

(09/20/06) The museum of scientifically accurate fabric brain art

(09/19/06) On the metaphysics of underground worlds

(09/18/06) International survey: What inspired you to take up science?

(09/16/06) After being a traumatized dyslexic child, artist becomes micro-miniature

(09/15/06) Internet alien presence

(09/14/06) Sleeping pill, zolpidem, awakens the brain dead

(09/13/06) Stan Romanek finds mystery equations by side of bed

(09/12/06) Man dreams of journeying down every highway 42 in the U.S.

(09/11/06) Smart dancing robots 1 and dancing robots 2.

(09/10/06) Love and fear of sushi (Via Siam River). Also see "Sushi Never Sleeps"

(09/09/06) What is genius?

(09/07/06) Intense insect-lover catalogues ants in movies

(09/06/06) Latest gossip on the mysterious mesopelagic woman

(09/05/06) I typed Twisted into Google and found this image (from Cherokee Forest Voices)

(09/04/06) People from all nations vote on issues, from sex to God

(09/03/06) A 28-year-old woman named Jenn made this art. She says, "It pinkens your teeth as you chew." Click to enlarge

(09/02/06) Wasp nest engulfs car, forming a living, liquid hive mind: the end of days is near

(09/01/06) List of movies that concerns fractured and unstable realities

(08/31/06) Hyper-vegetarian builds 500-pound potato battery

(08/30/06) A computer mouse that has been worked too hard

(08/29/06) Fraud in Lebanon photos shocks world

(08/28/06) Emmetropic woman surrounded by dark fungal growths of unknown etiology

(08/27/06) Man claims that symmetrical symbol is beginning to appear throughout the world

(08/26/06) With respect to the Pluto controversy, what would creatures from Jupiter say about Earth?

(08/25/06) Number crop circle "not made by humans"

(08/24/06) Children sleep soundly in the Armor of God

(08/23/06) 10,000 reasons civilization is doomed

(08/22/06) I typed Flying Woman into Google and found this image from brucebriscoe.com

(08/21/06) Sam Harris suggests that a new book on science and God is meaningless drivel

(08/19/06) Physicists discover that the structure of a brain cell is the same as the entire universe.

(08/18/06) See my heart in real time. Move your mouse cursor to excite me

(08/17/06) Reality distortion via faces

(08/16/06) Worst form of torture imaginable: the Blood Eagle (Warning: if you want to remain happy for the rest of your life, skip this headline.)

(08/15/06) World's strangest title for a novel: "0.1361015 212836 45556 67891 10512 013615"

(08/06/06) Early Christians ate psychedelic snails to see God

(08/05/06) Young Spanish girls race soporofic snails

(08/04/06) World's first World Happiness Map

(08/03/06) Can science fiction be used to predict the future?

(08/02/06) Top four reasons why SETI hasn’t found an alien signal

(08/01/06) Transdimensional deer materialize on power lines. The mystery is still unsolved.

(07/31/06) Gray goo will envelope us all by 2030. God save us from "global ecophagy by biovorous nanoreplicators"

(07/30/06) Man simulates alternate realities through visual means

(07/29/06) Beautiful computer-generated plants grow according to spam-email attributes

(07/28/05) Hannah and Priscilla spend their lives within an infinite intestine

(07/27/05) Artist eats mushrooms. Goes insane with technical drawing pen (From BenTolman.Com)

(07/26/06) Is it possible for people to determine if this is a knot, simply by looking at the figure?

(07/24/06) Man breaks sound barrier, creating strange cloud

(07/23/06) Student charges $1 per pixel and becomes rich

(07/22/06) Fisherman discovers fish with human teeth

(07/21/06) The day an amorphous foam rained down on the human species (view photos in sequence): First photo, Second photo, Third photo

(07/20/06) Physicist claims that a middle-ear-parasitic insect caused rapid evolution of chimp to man

(07/18/06) Solipsism Syndrome: environments that make you feel that everything is a dream

(07/17/06) Gradually scroll down to see heaven transform into hell

(07/16/06) An extreme experiment with muscle building (Via image shack)

(07/15/06) Mechanically separated chicken and other horrors

(07/14/06) What do you want to do with your life?

(07/13/06) Reality Carnival editor talks about Mobius strips & gateways to higher dimensions (move slider 30 minutes into radio show)

(07/12/06) On the scientific creation of zombie dogs

(07/10/06) Using bats as high-tech war weapons

(07/09/06) Museum of unworkable devices

(07/08/06) Man spend life studying molecular wonder-gear with 8,292 parts

(07/07/06) Mysterious gallery of hybrid images and optical effects

(07/06/06) Stephen Hawking asks a question at "Yahoo Answers," and within a few hours, receives over 10,000 replies

(07/05/06) Our Mobius dreams surround us

(07/03/06) Captivating woman in front of mysterious animal corpse, for no apparent reason. (Readers can GUESS what animal it is.)

(07/02/06) One million small creatures become a hive mind with group intelligence

(07/01/06) Can you tell if people are good or evil by looking at their faces?

(06/30/06) Reality Carnival editor on largest nighttime radio show in America. Call and say hi.

(06/29/06) Multiverse science and physical reality

(06/28/06) Man devotes life to folding circles

(06/27/06) Creativity and famous discoveries from dreams

(06/26/06) Hawking says that Universe is a projection of billions of movies played on top of one another

(06/24/06) An amazing array of photos showing the size of our world

(06/22/06) Everything you wanted to know about parallel universes

(06/21/06) We're working on a game that will let you pool your brainpower to make predictions about the near future

(06/20/06) 13 things that don't make sense

(06/19/06) Physicists from around the world discuss quantum bananas and parallel universes

(06/18/06) Man discovers UFOs in various ancient artworks

(06/17/06) The secret behind The Wizard of Oz

(06/16/06) Pour a plaster solution into an ant hill, let it harden, then brush away sand (From Bioone.org)

(06/15/06) Man develops intriguing optical illusion that defies our notion of reality

(06/14/06) I'll be at the Center for Inquiry booth this weekend at New York's first science street fair

(06/12/06) Two scientists devote their lives to determining the average color of the universe

(06/11/06) 1000 artworks beyond imagination

(06/08/06) Researcher draws anatomically correct skeleton of Charlie Brown

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