(02/08/10) Guys: "10 Ways to a Geeky Girl’s Heart"

(02/07/10) Anomalies, cancer, Maxwell's Demon, zero-point energy: Second issue of EdgeScience available for free

(02/06/10) Wenger Giant Swiss Army Knife

(02/05/10) Stunningly intricate curta mechanical calculator

(02/04/10) The unique tone of the HAPI Drum

(02/03/10) Joanne Loves Science

(02/02/10) World's creepiest icicle

(01/30/10) TED Talk: Weird, or just different?

(01/29/10) Speculations on life after death

(01/28/10) Chaos, math, mystery, card trick

(01/27/10) Gelatin raining from the sky, and other "enigmas"

(01/26/10) Interesting "product" at Amazon, with reviews? (Via Neatorama)

(01/25/10) Oceans of liquid diamond, filled with solid diamond icebergs on Neptune

(01/24/10) Crayola's Law: The number of colors doubles every 28 years

(01/23/10) Tree branches in jar

(01/22/10) 15 Ways Science Will Kill Us All: Science is wonderful of course, but it can also be vaguely terrifying.... (Via Neatorama)

(01/21/10) The difficulties of getting your book published

(01/19/10) Flaming fire forms made of Lego

(01/18/10) Great Moon hoax of 1835

(01/17/10) "50 best science blogging posts of the year"

(01/16/10) Can you really turn a sphere inside out?

(01/15/10) Ice ribbons on a metal fence

(01/14/10) How is the Internet changing the way you think? (168 new essays)

(01/13/10) Did aliens help position Woolworths stores in circa AD 2000 England?

(01/12/10) You won't find consciousness in the brain

(01/11/10) The lives of beautiful women who work the booths at technology shows

(01/10/10) Is a Time Machine Scientifically Possible?

(01/09/10) Pioneering mathematician discusses difference between the DMT experience and the LSD experience

(01/08/10) Stephen Hawking is the only person ever to play himself in any Star Trek film or series

(01/07/10) Pi Calculated to a 2.7 Trillion Digits: 123 billion digits more than the previous number

(01/06/10) The secrets behind The Wizard of Oz

(01/05/10) "Readability" instantly converts a hard-to-read web page into one that is extremely easy to read/print

(01/04/10) Brazilian spider is deadly but causes powerful arousal in men

(01/03/10) Mathematics and hallucinations

(01/02/10) Map of the world in which country sizes depend on number of languages

(01/01/10) Pickover, Avatar, DMT machine-elves

(12/31/09) Cosmic, mysterious fetal photos

(12/30/09) Wow: 528-page hardcover full-color "The Math Book" today is 1/2 price ($14.96) at Amazon!

(12/30/09) Vertebrae necklace

(12/29/09) Tesla Coil Christmas Tree

(12/28/09) Brain discovered on the Sistine Chapel

(12/27/09) Pery Burge's art for wondering and dreaming

(12/26/09) Conversion of song lyrics to "literal interpretations" for music videos

(12/25/09) Merry Christmas: Richard Feynman talks on science and math

(12/24/09) Best math image of the day

(12/23/09) Buy your own Calabi-Yau Manifold Crystal

(12/22/09) 100 Incredible Lectures from the World's Top Scientists

(12/21/09) Mathematics in movies

(12/20/09) What is mathematics?

(12/19/09) Spiral UFO puts Norway in a spin

(12/18/09) Mobius Bagel: interlocking, endless, doughy rings of math

(12/17/09) The Mobius Strip: A Gateway to Higher Dimensions

(12/16/09) Mysterious patterns in polynomial roots

(12/15/09) Toothpick art beyond imagination

(12/14/09) Psychedelic visuals caused by a totally different kind of drug

(12/12/09) Mathematician discovers a hole through a hole in a hole!

(12/11/09) The billion-year technology gap: could one exist?

(12/10/09) New book review. "What I particularly like about The Math Book is how it speaks to both hemispheres of the brain."

(12/09/09) Richard Feynman: why do mirrors seem to switch left and right, but not top and bottom?

(12/08/09) The 100 most cited books on Wikipedia

(12/07/09) Stephen Hawking on Star Trek

(12/06/09) The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia

(12/05/09) If the Earth had rings like Saturn, how would they look from Earth's cities?

(12/04/09) Mysterious swirling lights on helicopter blades

(12/03/09) Glowing alien-like flea takes top photography prize

(12/02/09) Al Seckel, brain, mind, illusion, fun, TED video

(12/01/09) Pentagon unveils new robot -- mostly a blob of goo

(11/30/09) Evolution, Kirk, Darwin, and the passion of "Cristina"

(11/29/09) Surreal paintings of Jacek Yerka

(11/28/09) Watermelon demon rises from the depths of hell

(11/27/09) Living in a fractal house

(11/26/09) What's your favorite chess set here?

(11/25/09) Hooray! "The Math Book" is finally restocked at Amazon, after 1st printing sold out in Sept! Tell your friends

(11/24/09) Radio interview on "The Math Book." Ant brains, Curta calculator, cicadas, and more!

(11/23/09) Enjoy Joanne's video on "The Math Book," which now has nearly 3000 visits. Fall in love with Joanne or the math book (your choice)

(11/22/09) A novel on the New York Times bestseller list does not bring financial security

(11/21/09) Gluing 1.6 million beautiful Buprestidae beetles on the ceiling

(11/20/09) The secret connection between Burning Man & praying mantises

(11/19/09) Lichtenberg figures

(11/18/09) Man discovers strange green flash as sun sets. (Many think it is just a myth)

(11/17/09) Convicted killer sues to silence Wikipedia

(11/16/09) Beautiful infographic: "The Ancient Hebrew Conception of the Universe." We live surrounded by water.

(11/15/09) The Shocking State of Contemporary Mathematics: meetings where no one can understand one another, nor even makes an attempt

(11/14/09) Cuttlefish communicate with psychedelic color language

(11/12/09) Amazing magnifications of the infinitely interesting surfaces of "Mandelbulbs". Explore a universe, forever

(11/11/09) 1 Million Spiders Make Golden Silk for Rare Cloth

(11/10/09) Wow, ancient Sumerian proverbs (pdf)

(11/09/09) Scientists create sentient mechanical computer, using matchboxes and beans, that learns Tic-Tac-Toe

(11/08/09) Recent updates made to the following Blogs: Wikipedia Rejects, Galactic Question Center, "The 6000"

(11/07/09) New DVD on Psychedelics, DMT, Reality

(11/05/09) Perpetual motion machines

(11/04/09) Yale University's Introduction to Fractals

(11/02/09) "The Greatest Question Ever Asked?"

(11/01/09) Russian boy accordion genius

(10/31/09) Strange trends: why book reviews don't matter anymore

(10/30/09) Fractals that make you dream

(10/29/09) Absurdist animation with music: "Get on my horse." Listen a few times, and go slightly insane

(10/28/09) Video interviews of hot SF authors

(10/27/09) Clawed demon from brainpaint.com

(10/26/09) Roger Penrose Says Physics Is Wrong, From String Theory to Quantum Mechanics

(10/25/09) Mysterious shadow art via pseudo-random agglomeration

(10/24/09) The effect of "piano stairs" on behavior

(10/23/09) God is not the Creator, claims academic

(10/22/09) Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

(10/21/09) Insects remind us of aliens

(10/20/09) What interesting books are on the nightstand of author Cliff Pickover?

(10/19/09) Plasma Balls, Tripods, DMT, and Giant Fractal Mantoids

(10/18/09) Chlidren in hyper-real, misty landscapes. Transcend

(10/17/09) Neurologists say that black licorice turns women on more than anything else

(10/16/09) Magic dots -- art-generating web page. Experiment now

(10/14/09) Man decorates basement with $10 worth of Sharpies

(10/13/09) Zebrafish brain. Notice the eyeballs that resemble hamburger patties

(10/12/09) Spontaneous formation of dancers in train station

(10/11/09) Dead salmon brains have a soul?

(10/10/09) Wonderful world of early computing

(10/09/09) Stunning temples secretly carved out below ground by 'paranormal' eccentric

(10/08/09) Transforming Carl Sagan voice into music video

(10/07/09) Michio Kaku: Will We Ever Be a Galactic Civilization?

(10/06/09) Papercut sculptures from single sheets of paper

(10/05/09) Underwater gardens: Award-winning planted aquariums

(10/04/09) First issue of a new magazine "EdgeScience" is free online. Is the Global Mind Real?

(10/03/09) This Guy's Cellphone Takes Augmented Reality To a Whole New Level

(10/01/09) Conversion of bird positions to transcendent music

(09/30/09) Oliver Sacks: What Charles Bonnet lucid hallucinations reveal about our minds [video]

(09/29/09) Scientific American bookclub gives a secret "sneak peek" inside the early, most-primitive entries of "The Math Book." Take a look at the sample photos

(09/28/09) Praying Mantis Catches a Hummingbird

(09/27/09) An amazing array of curious math interviews

(09/26/09) Fractals + biologist Ernst Haeckel = A Horrifying Lovecraftian Nightmare

(09/25/09) Wow: A music video for Jonathan Coulton's song Mandelbrot Set

(09/24/09) Jaguar experiences hallucinogenic effects of yage

(09/23/09) What humans will look like in the year 3000

(09/22/09) Alien-like ice jelly creatures

(09/21/09) The mathematics of reality

(09/20/09) Ultra-slow-motion captures unseen worlds

(09/19/09) Beautiful women, with long hair, in ultra-slow motion

(09/18/09) The most interesting gathering in the world: "The Singularity Summit"

(09/17/09) Lego robot sudoko solver

(09/16/09) In-depth study of hypercomplex realms

(09/15/09) Alien fractal home

(09/14/09) Woman prepares for mating ritual with crustacean

(09/13/09) Amazing. Hermit Crab in Glass Shell

(09/12/09) Saturday night, I'll be on the largest night-time radio show in the US, discussing a variety of topics

(09/11/09) The famous model and science educator/blogger, Joanne Manaster (a.k.a. "science goddess" on twitter), discusses her latest, favorite book

(09/10/09) Architects Unveil Massive Mobius Strip Library for Kazakhstan

(09/09/09) Hooray! A book review of "The Math Book" in both Boing Boing and Neatorama

(09/08/09) Black Lemurs trip on psychoactive millipedes

(09/07/09) I created this Word Cloud for my new Math Book, by entering the text into a free on-line tool. (Go here to find out how you can create your own Word Clouds)

(09/06/09) Dancing in a Klein Bottle. What more could you want?

(09/05/09) Musings on the Multiverse. Are You Ready? (Dr. Michio Kaku)

(09/04/09) Is this quivering blob pulsating across your floor "alive"?

(09/03/09) Sugar and candy math

(09/02/09) Bizarre nested Klein bottles

(09/01/09) Rock-balancing curiosities

(08/31/09) Interview with author Cliff Pickover

(08/30/09) Upside-down rainbow

(08/29/09) Rudy Rucker, Cliff Pickover, infinity, and the omnivorous space space squid from Dimension Z

(08/28/09) Mandelbrot set with Pickover stalks (video of a strange math landscape)

(08/27/09) Creating haunting faces using toilet paper rolls

(08/26/09) At 'Beyond Belief' discussion, Tyson rebukes Dawkins for his rhetorical style. Dawkins responds with wit

(08/25/09) Mind-boggling quantum mechanical thought experiments

(08/24/09) Dr. John Conway talks about infinity and "surreal numbers." Can any human truly "understand" this?

(08/23/09) Origami seed

(08/22/09) Lego Build of USS Harry S Truman Aircraft Carrier

(08/21/09) Mia is an unusual violinist, interested in cryptozoology, megaliths, and urban exploration. Updated photos

(08/20/09) Living root bridges

(08/18/09) Neil deGrasse Tyson: "The universe is not here for us."

(08/16/09) Good news! "The Math Book" can now be ordered from Amazon. Color illustrations make the book appeal to students, teachers, artists, puzzle solvers, & even SF fans.

(08/14/09) Aliens factor prime numbers in DMT-induced reality (PDF science paper)

(08/12/09) A list of the hottest, newest science/math books. Feed your brain

(08/11/09) Researchers around the world study strange tombstone to assess its meaning

(08/10/09) Octopus in Plexiglas wonderland

(08/09/09) The Secret Lives of Ants: what can we learn from them?

(08/08/09) Progressive evolution of beehive in a bell-jar

(08/07/09) Europe's first floating apartment complex

(08/06/09) "As the viewer gets closer, the machine tries to engage in communication by generating a light and sound code."

(08/05/09) Singing, ringing, alienlike tree. Haunting

(08/04/09) Unusual art made from books

(08/03/09) Molds show surprising degree of intelligence

(08/02/09) New book explores the impact on American mathematics of mathematicians fleeing Nazi Germany

(07/31/09) A Bibliography of Mathematical Fiction by Alex Kasman

(07/30/09) Science and math twitter people, aggregated all in one place. A never ending stream of their tweets and dreams

(07/29/09) Educational fractal video

(07/28/09) Romantic mathematics with a heart

(07/27/09) 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About

(07/26/09) Massive, bizarre "soap bubble" found floating in outer space

(07/25/09) Cliff Pickover celebrates the publication of The Math Book with a Twitter challenge and giveaway. Let's have some fun with this!

(07/24/09) Bizarre graphic arises from the surprisingly complex art of cake cutting

(07/23/09) In their search for patterns, mathematicians have uncovered unlikely connections between prime numbers and quantum physics

(07/22/09) Ten ways to change your life in 59 seconds

(07/21/09) Carl Sagan explains the 4th Dimension

(07/20/09) Researchers use MRI scans to study sushi

(07/19/09) Mystic encounter with alien-like 30-foot red octopus in freezing water!

(07/18/09) Electric, psychedelic plants

(07/17/09) Fractal necklace

(07/16/09) Mathematics comes alive in this haunting image at Astral Graphics

(07/14/09) 5 Scientific Theories That Will Make Your Head Explode

(07/13/09) Fractal temples beyond imagination

(07/12/09) Famous philosopher says, "If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree."

(07/11/09) Chopstick art

(07/10/09) 1000 naked people form a mysterious eye-shape

(07/09/09) The strange result of having sex with a Rubik's cube, 9 months later

(07/08/09) For very technical readers, the IBM Journal of Research and Development has some fascinating abstracts on an infinite variety of subjects

(07/07/09) Creating Art with Rubik's Cubes

(07/06/09) Richard Feynman speaks on Creation, the Universe, and the Ultimate Laws

(07/05/09) Stephen Hawking: "Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution"

(07/04/09) Neuromancer at 25: What It Got Right, What It Got Wrong

(07/03/09) Ant mega-colony takes over world

(07/02/09) If aliens are monitoring our TV broadcasts, this is what they are currently watching

(07/01/09) An unknown lifeform discovered in North Carolina sewer

(06/30/09) A blog highlighting scientific research and papers that appear to be quite strange

(06/29/09) Art from bacterial colonies

(06/28/09) Michael Jackson's patent

(06/27/09) A bubble photographed in the process of cracking

(06/26/09) Man falls in love with a mathematical Yoshimoto cube

(06/25/09) "Civilization: Heaven and Hell," a video people now watch in elevators as they ascend or descend

(06/24/09) Fascinating new "Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior." Fads, crazes, manias, collective delusions, scares, panics, mass hysterias. Look at the table of contents....

(06/23/09) Meditative music-maker: click on squares

(06/22/09) Psychedelic jellyfish-like creature

(06/21/09) Why are no scientists truly famous today as they were in the days of Einstein or even Asimov/Sagan?

(06/20/09) Less than 50% people surveyed could correctly locate the heart

(06/19/09) 10 scientific objects that changed the world

(06/18/09) He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died

(06/17/09) Bracelet designs based on Pickover Strange Attractor (mathematics)

(06/16/09) Fractal cheetah (More information here)

(06/15/09) Prank scientific paper accepted for publication

(06/14/09) Beautiful and transcendent long-exposure photos

(06/13/09) My most ambitious math book (>525 mind-boggling color pages!) is in publisher's warehouse within a month! I placed more sample images from The Math Book here to give you an indication of artistry & content

(06/12/09) Artist Rob Matthews printed out all of Wikipedia’s featured articles, and bound them in a 5000 page book

(06/11/09) Attractive real-life hobbit house to live in

(06/10/09) OCD, religion, Martin Luther, St. Ignatius, God

(06/09/09) Evolution, religion, schizophrenia, and the schizotypal personality (video lecture)

(06/08/09) Reality and multiverses in the melting pot

(06/07/09) 15 Essential Moments To (Re)Visit if You Had a Time Machine

(06/05/09) Resurrection & Immortality in the Flesh

(06/04/09) 54 Tips For Writers, From Writers

(06/03/09) Brains, conscious minds, quantum theory, computers, Rudy Rucker

(06/02/09) Today's Interview With Cliff Pickover: Mainstream & "Indie" Author. Tips for writing, publishing, and dreaming

(06/01/09) The iceberg of our dreams

(05/31/09) Maps of Seven Deadly Sins in America

(05/30/09) Coaxing bees into making honeycomb sculpture

(05/29/09) World's most mathematical tattoo

(05/28/09) Tiny futuristic city of gleaming metal skyscrapers, made of bismuth crystals

(05/27/09) Global superbrains, singularities, mind uploading

(05/26/09) On parallel universes

(05/25/09) The increasing diversity of the universe

(05/24/09) Magnetic termites combine to form hive-mind, a warm-blooded super-organism with thermal regulation of mound

(05/23/09) Creating mystical, dreamlike music using an iPhone

(05/22/09) Charlie Stross speculates on the mysterious future of technology

(05/21/09) "Jews in Hyperspace". I also give a free book excerpt, along with tips to help you publish your own works to the Kindle

(05/20/09) The illusion of sex

(05/19/09) Physicists Create Universe Smaller Than a Marble

(05/18/09) For those of you who are artists: Charlie Brown lost in a Miro universe

(05/17/09) I'm a big fan of impressive-looking equations. Can you beat this?

(05/16/09) World's most bizarre 3-D puzzle

(05/15/09) Imagine an army of sperm-powered nano-robots spreading throughout the world and enveloping us all

(05/14/09) Bizarre walking gel. Creeping along like some entity from a science-fiction movie

(05/13/09) Were ancient rock carvings the result of insane people in caves? See comparison with mentally ill scratchings

(05/12/09) How to map the multiverse. Our universe is just one of zillions....

(05/10/09) Dream about the diversity of creatures with whom we share this Earth in this actual photo

(05/09/09) Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall on a comedy TV show

(05/08/09) The Singularity, Ray Kurzweil, and Vernor Vinge

(05/07/09) Woman and alien shower curtain

(05/06/09) Mind Meld: What are the most realistic (and most ridiculous) uses of science in science-fiction film and TV?

(05/05/09) Dazzling house, patterned after a seashell

(05/04/09) Sex in the Middle Ages

(05/03/09) Fractal world gallery

(05/02/09) Remotest places on Earth based on a travel time to the nearest city

(05/01/09) The beautiful math that links coral, crochet and hyperbolic geometry

(04/30/09) 3D Spider Tattoo. Extra-careful design to give illusion of three dimensionality

(04/29/09) The creation of roads with vibrational patterns designed to generate music

(04/28/09) Conversion of actual reality to give the impression that we live in a toy-like world

(04/27/09) A security "captcha" approach using images of cats and one lone dog. Humans, but not computers, can pass the test

(04/26/09) Mysterious female "king" in Canaan, the land that became ancient Israel

(04/25/09) Waters boil with mystery jellyfish in one of Palau's marine lakes

(04/24/09) Crustapod art

(04/22/09) Plankton art

(04/21/09) "Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz": The world's strangest musical scores

(04/20/09) Ray Kurzweil and the strange future of humanity

(04/19/09) Huge multi-fingered blue hand discovered in outer space

(04/18/09) The 10 biggest intellectual fights of all time

(04/17/09) Would you like to impress your friends with a human bookshelf in your home?

(04/16/09) Unusual art piece featuring cow, cemetery, & underground humanoids. (Related artwork here.)

(04/15/09) Man obsessed with rocks perched precariously on other rocks

(04/14/09) How to give people the illusion that they are about to fall into a large hole

(04/13/09) Do near-death experiences really offer a glimpse of the afterlife?

(04/12/09) Zoomorphic fantasy maps

(04/11/09) "Religious Ideas Burrow Into Brains"

(04/10/09) What role does the brain play in consciousness?

(04/09/09) Artist paints herself having sex with each president of the USA

(04/08/09) Concept art: mathematics of solar system building

(04/07/09) Young ladies with robots, computers, and science-fiction devices

(04/06/09) Imagine the brain you'd need to be able to understand this paper in its entirety

(04/05/09) Spiritual reality is veiled from us, and science offers a glimpse behind that veil.

(04/04/09) Geniuses with Asperger's Syndrome, and who read science fiction, evolve into new species that rules our future

(04/03/09) Strange rock grows before our eyes and envelope us in a sense of mystery (video)

(04/02/09) Strange organic forms emerge from "hi-resolution" Tetris after weeks of simulation

(04/01/09) "The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics." Fractals, Rubik's Cube Robots, the Infinite Monkey Theorem.... Bargain price.

(03/31/09) A multi-eyed alien form descends upon humanity with wants and desires that we can barely comprehend

(03/30/09) Thirty Free Image Resources on the Web

(03/29/09) If you could erase one mistake from history, what would it be?

(03/28/09) Your dreams will be in black and white if you watched black and white TV as a kid

(03/27/09) Who is Debbie Berebichez?

(03/26/09) Giant underwater creature stares at us, as if in awe of our existence

(03/25/09) Six Projects That Could Change Publishing for the Better

(03/24/09) Skull from another universe

(03/23/09) Unusual video featuring a hyperspace DMT trip within the fabric of reality

(03/22/09) Good news. The new paperback edition of "The Loom of God: Tapestries of Mathematics and Mysticism" is about to be published. Does the book seem interesting to you?

(03/21/09) Strange-brain fractal (click to magnify)

(03/20/09) eBay Scammer on Judge Judy

(03/19/09) Giant Stingray Could be World’s Largest

(03/18/09) Do you like "living walls"?

(03/17/09) Glass pyramid that could house 1 million people

(03/16/09) If you had one hour left on earth, how would you spend it?

(03/15/09) Kepler's Streak

(03/14/09) How to destroy civilization with nanotechnology and gray goo

(03/13/09) For all you budding novelists.... "6 Ways to Rapidly Publish Your Own Book"

(03/12/09) The setting of the moon (a "moonset") can be a pretty as a sunset

(03/11/09) The AMY project attempts by physics experiments alone to discover whether the world is a dream or not!

(03/10/09) For all you budding novelists..... How to Write a Novel: The Fractal Snowflake Method

(03/09/09) "The Petaminx: A Mind-Boggling, Satan-Loving Homemade Dodecahedral Puzzle!"

(03/08/09) Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, & Daniel Dennett, chatting together on video about religion

(03/07/09) Model Masha Telna from Kharkov is said to have large eyes reminiscent of images of beings from other solar systems

(03/06/09) Strange Proto-Canaanite Ancient Language of Universal Symbols Discovered

(03/05/09) Archaeologists in Siberia have discovered a bizarre series of ancient, misshapen skulls

(03/03/09) Do these mysterious stones mark the site of the Garden of Eden?

(03/02/09) My hero Isaac Asimov, interviewed by Bill Moyers

(03/01/09) For all you deep thinkers: the future of quantum cognition and the quantum nature of word associations

(02/28/09) Art and human reality

(02/27/09) The latest gossip on giant heads

(02/26/09) The artwork of Jacek Yerka delights and enthralls

(02/25/09) Female cyborg, ready to satisfy the needs of her keepers (via Essays & Effluvia)

(02/24/09) Trailer now available for Ray Kurzweil's movie: "Transcendent Man"

(02/23/09) The year's oddest book titles

(02/22/09) A mathematical theory places limits on how much a physical entity can know

(02/21/09) Atlantis found with Google maps? Strange underwater pattern off coast of Spain: 100 mi across, 17,800 ft deep.

(02/20/09) Rudy Rucker, a mathematician and science-fiction writer, discusses the future of self-published books

(02/19/09) Genetic, evolving algorithms erupt from lab and find use throughout the globe

(02/18/09) The DNA of God: Astronomers discover double helix 80-light-years in length. This DNA should be sequenced

(02/17/09) Mathematics: The only true universal language. "A fish is barely of the medium in which it lives and swims"

(02/16/09) Interview with Tessa Dick, last wife of Philip K. Dick

(02/14/09) Researchers suggest that the Middle Earth world of Tolkein may have actually existed

(02/13/09) Why Was the Computer Invented When It Was?

(02/12/09) National Security Agency, Supercomputers, Minds, Brains, Thought

(02/11/09) Is mathematics the language of the universe?

(02/10/09) Woman smiles as she begins to morph

(02/09/09) If you are exposed to the color red when you take IQ test, your IQ is lower

(02/08/09) How and why your brain creates god-like beings

(02/07/09) Man seeks applications of Mobius strip circuit (see lights blinking in video at end)

(02/06/09) Man invents amazing 3-D images for your 2-D computer display. So real. Look now

(02/05/09) Senior writer at Wired magazine takes entry-level position at Wal-Mart

(02/04/09) The secret passwords of the Marranos

(02/03/09) Slightly asymmetrical puzzles enthrall viewers

(02/02/09) Why good novels change our lives and change our brains

(02/01/09) Fact or fiction: alien skulls found around the world?

(01/31/09) Engineers use far-infrared imaging to reveal the ectoplasmic ghosts and ghouls hiding within all of us

(01/30/09) Jellyfish become immortal and begin their quest for world domination

(01/29/09) Mathematicians analyze the wonderful, colorful, and sweet children's game "CandyLand". (Another paper on the subject is here

(01/28/09) Come, let us dream together at this ring of fire

(01/27/09) Gallery of wonderful, artistic forms that defy description

(01/26/09) Frightening hypodermic-needle chandelier sculpture

(01/25/09) Art made from "maps" (aerial photos). Like them?

(01/24/09) Peruvian Pablo Amaringo paints intricate, detailed visions he experiences under the influence of ayahuasca, a mind-altering brew

(01/23/09) Educational video on consciousness, souls, and brains

(01/22/09) For those of you who use the information-networking tool "Twitter," you can choose to follow me and other writers/scientists/bloggers whose work you enjoy. It's rather easy to select several authors to follow

(01/21/09) Fascinating audiovisual portrayal of Bach music, played chopped up, upside-down, Mobius, reverse, and beyond

(01/20/09) Gaze in awe at 650 million years of land movements upon the face of our world -- crammed into 1 minute

(01/18/09) Pickover's Glimpse into Neoreality and Higher Dimensions. Gaze in Awe and Horror. Dream with me

(01/17/09) Laura Jane is interested in "creativity, consciousness, memetics, mythology, religion, and human potential for the cosmically inclined "

(01/16/09) People with long ring fingers become fantastically rich

(01/15/09) Bizarre, static, paper sculpture seems to move and track you with its eyes

(01/14/09) "Entering Cliff Pickover's world is like falling headfirst into a turning kaleidoscope"

(01/13/09) Behold the fractal bear

(01/12/09) Brazilian butterfly flocks. Dream with me

(01/11/09) In science fiction, eccentric genius "Nikola Tesla" is said to have invented many strange things

(01/10/09) Fumage is a mysterious surrealist technique in which impressions are made by the smoke of a candle

(01/09/09) Most Expensive Domain Names Ever

(01/08/09) Mysterious cartoon. Ask your friends what it means, and enjoy the wonderful feedback you receive. (Image from Excitementmachine.org)

(01/08/09) I enjoyed this wonderful new book by Daniel Tammet: Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind. Buy it, and feed your brain

(01/07/09) Unusual art. Man nests along side of building

(01/06/09) An unusual webpage titled "Need Help with this Equation"

(01/05/09) Quantum mechanics of UFOs/aliens. Man says that if you first "believe" in aliens, then they will come

(01/04/09) Imagine living with someone you love in an OrganiCube. (Via Posthuman Blues)

(01/03/09) Famous Paranoramal Hoaxes that Everyone Bought Into

(01/02/09) Speculations by a fantastic set of scientists, thinkers, and dreamers on the far future. What will change everything -- even in our own lifetimes?!

(01/01/09) Isn't this weird? I thrust my book through a software book crusher. The output is every word in the book, according to frequency of occurrence

(12/31/08) The mind-shattering art of R. S. Connett

(12/30/08) Evangelical Christians shocked by poll results -- Jesus no longer needed for entrance to heaven

(12/29/08) Fractal cats from higher dimensions penetrate our dreams

(12/28/08) The brain anatomy of rich kids is different from poor kids

(12/27/08) 4 digital artworks. Which is best? 1) Bronze skeletal teeth and chocolate in a haunting high-tech admixture, 2) In a synthetic fractal jungle, life surrounds us, as if in a dream, 3 "The Last of the Butterflies", or 4) Painting with smoke

(12/26/08) Good papers on parallel universes always fire up my imagination

(12/25/08) When does a pareidolia pattern become so impressive that we begin to doubt reality, doubt ourselves, doubt what is real?

(12/24/08) Strange minds, in watery mazes, as if all around us

(12/23/08) Slightly disturbing sci-fi semi-nude women with robotic parts created to make us wonder what it means to truly "love" someone

(12/22/08) What one scientist did the most to demonstrate that humans were not so "special" after all?

(12/21/08) Captivating woman in front of mysterious animal corpse of unknown species, for no apparent reason.

(12/20/08) The afterlife and the living dead

(12/19/08) Whales and the quest for transcendece

(12/18/08) Who is Maja Einstein?

(12/17/08) Mind-altering psychedelics may someday bring all of us to a more creative state in which death need not be feared

(12/16/08) World rushes to design Noah's Ark Islands to house "climate refugees"

(12/15/08) A vast wall of water, apocalyptic and effervescent, may someday descend upon us all (photo)

(12/14/08) Multitentacular creature, with bright orange internal organ, cheats death

(12/13/08) Dreamlines creates an interactive visual experience based on user input and Web images. Try "Aliens" as input

(12/12/08) Unusual book title of the week: "Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse"

(12/11/08) Laws of science and the great minds behind them. From Archimedes to Hawking

(12/10/08) Zombie hand made of mushroom-like material rises from ground

(12/09/08) Amazing fractal furniture, for all your needs! No matter how complex your life is, you can stay organized

(12/08/08) Naked women, whale research, and the quest for transcendence

(12/07/08) An actual 3-D visualization of viral happy factors diffusing through the landscape of awareness

(12/06/08) Explore a vast realm in which dancing hexapods teach us what it means to be human, and to dream

(12/05/08) I typed Fractal Sex into Google and found this image. Can you find better, using the same 2 key words?

(12/04/08) "Body-swapping is so odd that it could be risky for anyone in real mental distress"

(12/03/08) On the existence of "shadow cats" that lurk at the edges of our vision in a nonmaterial world

(12/02/08) Transdimensional deer materialize on power lines. The mystery is still unsolved.

(12/01/08) Discussion on religion, religious truth, and the future of religion

(11/30/08) The Future Technological Singularity

(11/29/08) Strange video in which, in the very end after much agony, a hive mind of herbivores defeat the carnivores

(11/28/08) For $50 million tax free, would you become a virtual vampire? This means you must stay in your home during daylight hours for the rest of your life, never to leave except in cases of medical emergencies and doctor visits

(11/27/08) Intricate mathematical sculptures beyond imagination

(11/26/08) Marijuana wards off Alzheimer's and keeps recall sharp

(11/25/08) Goat materializes on mountain side, with no obvious physical means through which to attain position: a metaphor for the precarious mystery that we call life, mystery, spirit, and mind

(11/24/08) An entire serious, scientific journal devoted to deep thinking on the "Neuropsychology of Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs"

(11/23/08) Quantum fortune cookie

(11/22/08) World's sexiest women are now "alien" life forms, born with no belly buttons or constructed in secret Arctic labs, far from the scrutiny of ordinary men

(11/21/08) "Video with an unusually moribund group of backup singers, sitting around in what appears to be a drug- or witchcraft-induced trance." Watch video 3 times, and go insane.

(11/19/08) "Mathematics and the Psychedelic Revolution"

(11/18/08) Dr. Kiki Sanford, Amanda Congdon, Xeni Jardin, Rita J. King: Who are these high-tech journalists? Whom would you like to meet most?

(11/17/08) Best minds in the world ponder the Angel and Devil Problem on an infinite chessboard

(11/16/08) Disembodied head stirs emotions

(11/15/08) Amazing underground rivers and lakes

(11/14/08) Reincarnation, John Adams, Belief, Brains, and Minds

(11/13/08) The latest gossip on wasp sucking

(11/12/08) "It's as if we are living inside a hologram. The illusion is almost perfect. You really need a machine like GEO600 to see it."

(11/11/08) The Book of Ingenious Devices, by three Muslim brothers

(11/10/08) Semum, interdimensional beings, pareidolia, Turkey, Farah Yurdozu

(11/09/08) Is there anything you believe to be true that most of your friends do not believe to be true?

(11/08/08) "Top 10 Most Useful and Informative Twitter Users"

(11/07/08) Robot flautist shocks world by flawlessly playing "Flight Of The Bumblebee"

(11/06/08) Cosmic close-up of the eastern Veil Nebula: menacing flying forms and garish colors

(11/05/08) Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

(11/04/08) Summary of the strange and wonderful "Singularity" conference. What does the future really hold?

(11/03/08) I just love this rousing climax of Tubular-bell-related music as multiple musicians come together to transcend reality in an orgy of percussion, female vocals, and chimes. Agree? Does it make you shiver a little too?

(11/02/08) The position of the U.S. relative to other countries

(11/01/08) Is this insane or what? Can a woman really give birth to rabbits?

(10/31/08) Disappearing Pencil puzzle drives the world crazy. Try it on your friends.

(10/30/08) Top 10 visionaries

(10/29/08) Shiva's Throat and Electric ghosts from higher dimensions

(10/28/08) Which of my previous 5 books seems potentially the most interesting to you? Why?

(10/27/08) I just love insanely large numbers. Do you?

(10/26/08) Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism. Oh God, "a malformed packet could also be an emergent signal"

(10/25/08) Online divorcee jailed after killing virtual husband

(10/24/08) People are now meditating on Green Sex

(10/22/08) Move the Earth, now

(10/21/08) Personal secret: this is the novel I have reread more times in my life than any other: Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast." (Please psychoanalyze me and tell me why this book seemed special to me.)

(10/20/08) 10 most incredible waterfalls of ice

(10/19/08) List of atheist scientists and technologists

(10/18/08) Strange theories of memories residing outside the brain

(10/17/08) Secret headquarters for paranormal reports

(10/16/08) Lace tree

(10/15/08) New ocean sparks questions about changing maps, textbooks

(10/12/08) Butterfly art

(10/08/08) I will be exploring the Dead Sea from Oct 8 to Oct 22, with infrequent posts to Reality Carnival during this time. Please enjoy entries on my twitter channel, and sign up to follow me on twitter. Thanks.

(10/08/08) Occasionally, fans of my books take mysterious photos of themselves with my books, for no apparent reason. This one is notable due to the presence of metallic polyhedra (upper right).

(10/07/08) If you could have control over your dreams at night and make them as real as your experiences in waking life, would you accept such a power?

(10/06/08) The Bible as a parallel universe from the 63,779th dimension

(10/05/08) Strange squid suckers

(10/04/08) "What the hell is this thing?"

(10/03/08) Gaze in awe as Wal-Mart is scientifically visualized as an organism that spreads through the U.S. over time

(10/02/08) Man got head stuck in particle accelerator. Saw flash "brighter than a thousand suns"

(10/01/08) The world's 23 toughest math questions

(09/30/08) The observable universe, on a logarithmic scale

(09/29/08) Why do all the major peninsulas on Earth point south (Italy, Florida, tips of South America and Sweden etc.)?

(09/28/08) Todd Schorr's Artistic depiction of parallel universe that we have no desire to visit

(09/27/08) Saudi Arabia will one day have the world's biggest brain -- a supercomputer beyond imagination

(09/26/08) Seventy surreal sapient simians dream of life in another universe, far from the realm of man

(09/25/08) "Top 50 Hottest Science-Fiction Girls"

(09/24/08) How science-fiction author Robert Heinlein handled his fan mail

(09/23/08) The latest gossip on near-death experiences

(09/22/08) "The World's Best Quotes in 1-10 Words"

(09/21/08) Jewish atheisits at Wikipedia. Who is your favorite?

(09/20/08) Sam Harris, a famous scientist and author, comments on Sarah Palin

(09/19/08) Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing. Their genius profoundly affects us but tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all to suicide

(09/18/08) Poll results are in: Who would Thomas Jefferson have preferred for President: Sarah Palin or Barack Obama? (Voting still open)

(09/17/08) Strange 'ant from Mars' discovered (via The Anomailist).

(09/16/08) Frightening new footage from "The Day The Earth Stood Still"

(09/15/08) Most alien-looking place on Earth

(09/14/08) Spirits of the dead will Twitter from the afterlife by 2075

(09/13/08) Poll results are in: Britannica vs. Playboy magazine

(09/12/08) Man killed by exploding Lava Lamp

(09/11/08) Any of you use twitter? For those of you who want to subscribe to my twitter feed....

(09/10/08) Scientists create lifelike spider with artificial intelligence and apparent sapience

(09/09/08) Morgellons disease and visits from parallel unnvierses

(09/08/08) I found the "title" of this page to be compelling: "UFOs, Crop-circles & Sexy Aliens"

(09/07/08) Orangutan from Borneo photographed using a long spear tool to fish

(09/06/08) Psychic resonance between human voice and puppy ensemble causes relaxation and sleep

(09/05/08) $2,683,765 of funding to ideas at the edges of reality

(09/04/08) Would you rather marry: the best mathematician in the world or the best chess player?

(09/03/08) Kim, a young woman speaking against a backdrop of trees, expresses fascination with awesome mysteries of science

(09/02/08) Mathematicians explore the ramifications of butterfly curves partitioned into two entities

(09/01/08) Transcendent Butterfly curves, created from r = e^cos(t) - 2cos(4t) + sin^5(t/12). (Click to magnify)

(08/31/08) Top 100 science books

(08/30/08) Sushi love and DNA

(08/29/08) Use of Google is changing the neuronal architecture of our brains, paving the way for a new definition of humanity

(08/28/08) Rubik's Cube robot

(08/26/08) Which of these 5 people is the most evil? Interesting world-wide results. (Click "vote now," if you would like to vote)

(08/25/08) How mad can a scientist get?

(08/24/08) People afflicted with certain eye diseases give similar reports of beings from parallel universes

(08/23/08) Car enthusiasts dream of small, smart cars

(08/22/08) Texas house sucked into worm hole

(08/21/08) Virtual cemeteries of the future will feature ghost-like entities of departed real-world people. (Click photos to enlarge ghosts.)

(08/20/08) Imagining the 10th dimension

(08/19/08) World-wide information on belief in God

(08/18/08) Fears of magical penis loss

(08/17/08) Imagine you are 15 years old and can see your life now and your accomplishments. Would your teenage self be "proud" of your accomplishments in life? (Click "vote now," if you would like to vote)

(08/16/08) The biggest secret on the Internet: Web security words actually help to digitize old books

(08/15/08) Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge

(08/14/08) Demon hand from a higher dimension

(08/13/08) My life as a sponge

(08/12/08) On octopuses and Rubik's cubes

(08/11/08) The latest gossip on the Noah's Ark replica

(08/10/08) Strange tigers that appear to be safe to play with

(08/09/08) Download a two-hour math film for free, or watch it online, or get the DVD

(08/08/08) On the beauty and mystery of silicon-based lifeforms

(08/07/08) Most expensive new science book on the web: List price: $8539.00

(08/06/08) Insects enhanced by mechanical parts

(08/05/08) Some book reviewers find the Reality Carnival editor to be mentally ill: "Pickover seems to be the near-genius-level equivalent of a child afflicted with severe ADD..."

(08/05/08) Some book reviewers find the Reality Carnival editor to be mentally ill: "I thought that the author had lost his mind." (Amazon review)

(08/04/08) On classical music, pianos, death, and the quest for transcendence

(08/03/08) A personal glimpse at Bill Gates's frustrations with software

(08/02/08) The latest art gallery from Space Collective

(08/01/08) Cellphones, popcorn, pranks

(07/31/08) Is Google making us stupid?

(07/30/08) 50,000 years of cultural development will collapse into 20 years

(07/29/08) Wonderfully strange dining at Dinner in the Sky

(07/28/08) You have the opportunity to determine the IQ of your child, before your child is born. Which IQ do you choose? (Click "comments," and scroll up to see world-wide voting results)

(07/27/08) Great opening sentences from science fiction

(07/26/08) Free book give-away for "A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection."

(07/25/08) A ranking of the 10 most mind-expanding blogs that will instill a sense of wonder. (One of the blogs is by a woman)

(07/24/08) Android trapped within large maze: seeks the meaning of life and salvation. A metaphor for all of us. Dream now.

(07/23/08) The 20 science-fiction novels that will change your life

(07/22/08) Seven of the deadliest delicacies: come dine with death

(07/21/08) The following sites now discuss the Israel poll mentioned on (07/10/08): site 1, site 2, site 3, site 4, site 5

(07/20/08) Architects create creepy tower, featuring human-like creatures along its surfaces

(07/19/08) What happens to your body if you drink a coke right now?

(07/18/08) Huge, purple balloon flower

(07/17/08) How can we make mazes that are challenging, fun, and pleasurable to gaze upon?

(07/16/08) Mad scientists: build a lifeform contest

(07/15/08) Come with me, and enter strange realms of emotion and imagination

(07/14/08) Test your friends: artist or ape?

(07/13/08) Can writers make more money by giving away free e-book versions of their works?

(07/12/08) Strange building sprouts octopus tentacles

(07/11/08) Since the 1960s, Art Garfunkel has been a voracious reader. We are pleased to present a listing of every book Art has read over the last 40 years

(07/10/08) Would the world be better off today if Israel had never formed after World War II? Why? (Click "comments" to see world-wide voting results)

(07/09/08) A large flock of birds behave as one group brain, flowing like sentient lava in a space of three dimensions

(07/08/08) Enter higher dimensions of thought and mind through image vibration

(07/07/08) The IQ of William James Sidis

(07/06/08) Art made from tires

(07/05/08) Aliens in the field: "achieving that degree of mathematical accuracy"

(07/04/08) Explore books on-line, as if you were in a physical store

(07/03/08) If Jesus had wanted his message to spread in an undistorted fashion, why did he not write down his message? (Click "comments" to see world-wide voting results)

(07/02/08) Can a video game teach evolution?

(07/01/08) The latest gossip on unworkable devices

(06/30/08) The latest gossip on pareidolia

(06/29/08) "Denial of evolution is a defining characteristic of education in Orthodox Judaism"

(06/28/08) If you had the choice to travel to any time in the future or any time in the past, and STAY THERE, what would you choose? Surprising world-wide survey results here. (Click "Vote now" to contribute)

(06/27/08) Usually, people open gifts at Christmas. But, what happens if the reverse were true?

(06/26/08) Actual advertisements that would be considered politically incorrect today

(06/25/08) A website with "rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" in its domain name does not do very much, as far as we can tell

(06/24/08) Photo showing how the world will end: a city at the edge of the world

(06/23/08) The latest compelling cat for your home resembles a tiny tiger

(06/22/08) Wikipedia refuses to remove medieval drawings of Mohammad

(06/21/08) If Jesus, Moses, Mohammad, Buddha, and Confucius were gathered in a room, who would be the first to speak? Surprising world-wide survey results here. (Click "Vote now" to contribute)

(06/20/08) First close-up picture (at NASA website) of large quantity of liquid water found on Mars

(06/19/08) Teja Krasek creates alien artworks at the edges of imagination

(06/18/08) Associated Press demands cash for 5-word quotations

(06/17/08) An entire issue on the technological singularity. Will you sell your soul on eBay in the year 2035?

(06/16/08) Mathematicians, art majors, and fornication

(06/15/08) Reality-tunnel: How beliefs and expectations create what you experience in life

(06/14/08) Skuon's spiders -- once the vital sustenance of desperate refugees -- now a national delicacy. Black, hairy, and packing venomous fangs: eat them at the Frizz restaurant

(06/13/08) The paths of air traffic over North America visualized in color and form

(06/12/08) This video of a reptile and a human baby makes me nervous

(06/11/08) Man uses Venn diagrams to better understand romance

(06/09/08) Creepypasta are short stories designed to unnerve, disturb or scare the readers. "Don't read this page if you're alone"

(06/08/08) People look into pink cloud and see strange forms, as if an entire parallel cosmos is millimeters away

(06/07/08) Stay in New York for $30M? (Click "Vote now" to contribute)

(06/06/08) Nassim Taleb's 10 tips for changing your life (at bottom of page)

(06/05/08) Giant gipsland alien earthworm

(06/04/08) 20 most fascinating prehistoric paintings

(06/03/08) 8 Best: Non-Wikipedia Pedias

(06/02/08) Geoduck clam sports a phallic, three-foot-long neck and a life span of 160-plus years. It enjoys a near cult-like following. People pay $100 to taste it.

(06/01/08) Man catalogues every famous monkey in history

(05/31/08) Short video of a man who buys a ghost....

(05/30/08) The Internet can be beautiful, like fireworks

(05/29/08) Martian lifeform found?

(05/28/08) Indian baby dropping ritual?

(05/27/08) Choose 1 of the following gifts for an alien visitor: the Bible, a Physician's Desk Reference, a severed human finger, The Starry Night painting, Bach sheet music. (Click "Vote now" to contribute).

(05/26/08) Lesbian alien sex scenes spook censors

(05/25/08) Man creates intelligent lifeform by subjecting cornstarch to 80-Hz sound

(05/24/08) Man devotes his life to turning Rubik's Cube into a subwoofer speaker

(05/23/08) "150 Things You Didn’t Know About The Human World"

(05/21/08) Post-modern prophecy: urgent myths for urgent times? A dialogue between authors Daniel Pinchbeck and Douglas Rushkoff

(05/20/08) Can you decode the secret message?

(05/19/08) This walk is a little scary if you don't like heights

(05/18/08) 33 weird statues from around the world

(05/17/08) Spiders on drugs

(05/16/08) Cloud houses of the mysterious and rich

(05/15/08) Wikipedia explores sex in science fiction

(05/14/08) What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard reveals all

(05/13/08) 5 scientific laws, followed by a contest regarding your most interesting experience with science or funny personal story about a science class

(05/12/08) Many dolphins suddenly become aware of a lizard-like toy and study it with a shocking intensity

(05/11/08) Longest-running scientific experiment (very slow drip)

(05/10/08) Edo people of Nigeria have a chromatographic system of writing based on color combinations

(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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