(09/15/12) Continue to look into the eyes of this 3D cat, until your soul and mind turn into subatomic transcendent mush
(09/14/12) Did you know that mammoths were alive until 1650 BC -- after the pyramids of Egypt....
(09/13/12) 6 Small Math Errors That Caused Huge Disasters
(09/12/12) Believe it or not, this is an image of salt and pepper (via topdesignmag.com)
(09/11/12) The marvel of nature & humanity: water drop collision, under a soap bubble, in a glass of water. High-speed photography: Worlds within worlds
(09/10/12) A photographic gallery of fractals found with Google Earth
(09/09/12) If you've not heard about Benford's Law before, you're in for a real treat with this post
(09/08/12) Interesting concept. Write a letter to your future self
(09/07/12) Wondrous visualization of mysterious patterns in prime numbers
(09/06/12) Can we wind back the hands of time, using colored liquids, and find the beings who created the fabric of reality?
(09/05/12) The history of physics is the history of modern civilization. The Universe in a Nutshell
(09/04/12) Beautiful video by Jason Silva on the power of Awe
(09/03/12) Gorgeous circuit board table
(09/02/12) Review of my latest book by a supercentenarian-ologist L. Stephen Coles, M.D., Ph.D.
(09/01/12) I don't know what this photo shows, but it is curious looking
(08/31/12) Fractal mathematics gives rise to surface of immense complexity (by 0Encrypted0)
(08/30/12) Biology cell cake. Mmmm, delicious mitochondria.
(08/29/12) Wouldn't it be fun to go on a date with someone wearing an intestine necklace?
(08/28/12) "Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares." ~Dan Dennett
(08/27/12) What really happen when you type Askew into Google search?
(08/26/12) Green T4 Bacteriophage Earrings -- for your viral lovers
(08/25/12) Fractals are extremely intricate, with lots of details to explore (by HalTenny)
(08/24/12) Tasty thought. If the moon were made of spareribs, it would have 7.34x10^26 calories. Here's how I found out
(08/23/12) Can space-time paths of 6-photon scattering form great art?
(08/22/12) Renfield's Syndrome: A Mysterious Case of Real-Life Vampirism
(08/21/12) A class of 4th graders was asked to write haikus. One child wrote this. Like it?
(08/20/12) Hooters waitress thinks her prize will be a Toyota, but is shocked to see it is a "toy Yoda." Lawsuit follows
(08/19/12) 3D-printed prosthetic arm for little girl. Brings a tear to the eyes. Technology and transcendence
(08/18/12) A fractal that looks archeological but is generated from pure math (by SuicideBySafetyPin)
(08/17/12) A fractal flower for your higher-dimensional lover
(08/16/12) Man tattoos Leviticus 18:22 that forbids homosexuality on his arm. But Leviticus 19:28 forbids tattoos. (thanks Matt Parker)
(08/15/12) Sunrise as no human has ever seen it -- on Mars
(08/14/12) "LSD absolutely helped mathematicians, artists, & scientists solve their complex, seemingly intractable problems"
(08/13/12) Teja Krasek, a Slovenian artist, created a video review of "The Medical Book," highlighting her favorite images:
trepanation, heart transplants, neurotransmitters, cause of the bubonic plague, prosopagnosia, glass eyes, viruses...
(08/13/12) Extinct Cephalopod falls in love within mathematics and geometry
(08/12/12) Wow. Urine Escher
(08/11/12) Celebrate! Finally available, in living color. Near-death experiences, leech therapy, Carl Jung, face transplants, bio-weapons, test-tube babies, positrons! If you order this, please let me know what you think and which image is your favorite!
(08/10/12) More than 1,000 Earths could fit inside Jupiter. Cool visualization for kids of all ages
(08/09/12) Cool math teacher, and cool math
(08/08/12) How to draw a surprisingly lifelike horse, in 5 easy steps
(08/07/12) Keep watching until end. Looks almost like science fiction: mind-boggling movie made from the ISS (space station)
(08/06/12) Breathtaking view of the Milky Way from the surface of Mars
(08/05/12) The Curta Calculator was created by a prisoner in a German concentration camp. Take a look
(08/04/12) Vast fungal networks form hive mind for tree-to-tree communication: a behemoth botanical brain
(08/03/12) Aliens factor prime numbers in DMT-induced reality (PDF science paper)
(08/02/12) The tiger walks slowly, to the burning bush of an apocalypse
(08/01/12) "Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living"
(07/31/12) Oh Lord, But how do you eat it?
(07/30/12) Alien Lights: Illuminated Landscapes by Benoit Paille
(07/29/12) Translucent ants photographed eating colored liquids
(07/28/12) North Korea children playing the guitar
(07/27/12) What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?
(07/26/12) This TV weather report is sure to appeal to those with apocalyptic interests
(07/25/12) Fascinating. The Charlie Rose Brain Series
(07/24/12) Somewhere Over the Brainbow
(07/23/12) Humans will never find a factorion number larger than 40,585 (pdf)
(07/22/12) A phantom period of 300 yrs has been inserted between 600AD-900AD?
(07/21/12) 69,696 is the largest undulating square humans will ever find (pdf)
(07/20/12) Scream in ecstasy. 727272727272727272727272727 272727272727272727272727272 727272727272727272727272727 272727272727272727 (one long number, with no spaces) is prime
(07/19/12) Anton's Brain Syndrome: when blind people deny they are blind, despite evidence
(07/18/12) Random people on the Brooklyn streets try to guess what the Higgs Boson is
(07/17/12) Exoplanets: all known planets arranged in a delicious circular candy
(07/16/12) Insane but true: It's actually possible to compress your JPEG files by 500% with no quality loss
(07/14/12) A boy leaves his bike near a tree in 1954, and finds it this way today
(07/13/12) Woman in miniskirt: Appealing to all H.P. Lovecraft fans
(07/12/12) H.P. Lovecraft answers your relationship questions
(07/11/12) "A thetan weighs about 1.5 ounces [45 grams]," says doctor who weighed people after their deaths
(07/10/12) Poll asked voters which US presidential candidate better at repelling space alien attack
(07/09/12) 5 people playing a single guitar, together
(07/08/12) More than a third of divorce filings last year contained the word "Facebook"
(07/07/12) Bizarre Israeli and American Vortex Beams transmit 2.5 terabits per second. The Vortex Age has begun
(07/06/12) Give a spiral Klein bottle to someone you love, in this dimension or the next
(07/05/12) Why make passwords hard to remember, when this approach is so simple & secure?
(07/03/12) Wow! If you put all earth's water in one place, it'd look like this
(07/02/12) "So damn attractive." The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection
(07/01/12) Why "Nigerian" email scammers actually say they're from Nigeria
(06/30/12) Net sales revenue from eBooks surpass hardcover books, pointing to a historical moment in publishing
(06/29/12) For some reason, this semi-erotic cover featuring a naked Tarzan really makes me laugh
(06/28/12) DMT fractal entity, gazing into the depths of your soul
(06/27/12) Imagine going pleasurably insane, playing on this fractal chess board
(06/26/12) Escher, Einstein, Atomic
(06/25/12) Theremin's device, called THE THING, was used by the Soviet Union to spy on the United States
(06/24/12) Listening intently for subterranean kittens
(06/23/12) Transit of Venus, modern-art wine glass arrangement
(06/22/12) Mystical portrait: Amazing beauty and diversity of New York City
(06/21/12) Sherwin Nuland on the development of electroshock therapy as a cure for severe depression -- including his own
(06/20/12) Necrofantasia: a piano song requiring a mutant 50-fingered pianist.
Also see Hardest piano song ever
(06/19/12) Surreal photo makes Mexico City's densely populated hills look like an urban ocean
(06/18/12) Sam Harris - Death and the Present Moment
(06/17/12) Living in a strange universe filled with uprisings of sausages and hotdogs
(06/16/12) Don't you you just LOVE this fractal gear wallpaper?
(06/15/12) The fractal gears of the sentient universe turn endlessly. (Also see this one.)
(06/14/12) Birds fly from my eyes, into the ocean of reality
(06/13/12) Autism-God Study. Why autistic people don't believe in God
(06/12/12) Head of Benoit Mandelbrot, fractal pioneer, represented as a fractal
(06/11/12) Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes
(06/10/12) What is it like to have an understanding of very advanced mathematics?
(06/09/12) Are you interested in "The Medical Book: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons"? If you have a popular blog, maybe I can get you a review copy
(06/08/12) The 11 Best Science Books of 2011, by Maria Popova
(06/07/12) Shiver in awe. 1034482758620689655172413793 is the smallest 3-parastic number humans will ever find
(06/06/12) Einstein explains E=mc^2, in rare original audio
(06/05/12) Nibble on fractal pancakes for an eternity
(06/04/12) Poisoned, paratrooper mice descend upon humanity
(06/02/12) Wikipedia's list of misconceptions about illegal drugs
(06/01/12) THE MEDICAL BOOK: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons! Pre-order today to lock-in a great price for a 528-page hardcover color book. Topics: near-death experiences, leech therapy, self-experimentation, test-tube babies, face transplants, biological weapons, circumcision, and more….
(05/31/12) The delta of the Lena River in northern Siberia (left) and a cast of a human lung (right)
(05/30/12) Strange title of the week: "Zookeeper reportedly licks baby monkey's anus for over an hour"
(05/29/12) Unbelievable physics of domino fallings. Can you really knock over the Empire State building with 1-inch domino?
(05/27/12) Head blood vessels, floating forlornly in a sea of eternity
(05/26/12) 100 billion times more viscous than water
(05/25/12) Hartverdrahtet: an audio-visual trip into a procedural fractalverse, compressed into a minuscule software fragment
(05/24/12) Meth king spends drug empire's money on 18,753 comic books
(05/23/12) A kind of strange competition between spherical magnetic people
(05/22/12) A simulation of Conway’s Game of Life inside a bigger version of the Game of Life
(05/21/12) Fear the Claw of Archimedes
(05/20/12) Why humans go insane thinking about 998,001
(05/19/12) Unusual compendium. Last 10 Seconds of Every Episode of 1st Season of "Star Trek: Next Gen"
(05/18/12) Mysterious Himalayan Honey Hunters, risking their lives to harvest Earth's largest honeybees
(05/17/12) Where do Muslims exist on Earth today? (cartogram)
(05/16/12) For some reason, I just love photos of complex, Moog synthesizers. Do you?
(05/15/12) Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind
(05/14/12) A list of members of the cursed "27 Club"
(05/13/12) Which books were on the NYT bestseller list the day you were born?
(05/12/12) Updated. Disappearing Pencil puzzle drives the world crazy. Try it on your friends
(05/11/12) A number so large it will cause your head to collapse into a black hole
(05/10/12) Round peg fits better into square hole than square peg into round hole, up to the 9th dimension
(05/09/12) Does this path have an infinite length? [animated gif]
(05/08/12) Mobius Cake, Mobius Bacon, Mobius Ship
(05/07/12) Wonderful math theorems that sound like kids should know about them
(05/06/12) When Einstein Met Rabindranath Tagore -- truth and beauty and science and spirituality
(05/05/12) Study determines that this is the most relaxing song, ever
(05/04/12) Teja Krasek is a Slovenian artist interested in mathematics, art, music, surrealism, and more. Here is her colorful YouTube channel
(05/03/12) Wow, ancient Sumerian proverbs (pdf)
(05/02/12) Intriguing. US Patent. Flame-throwing musical trumpet
(05/01/12) The Vikings didn’t wear horned helmets, Napof wasn’t short, and other historical myths debunked
(04/30/12) "With matter, as with people, we see only the skin of things; we can't see into the 'engine room.'"
(04/29/12) Most Highlighted Passages of All Time on Amazon Kindle!
(04/28/12) Let's get together, and enjoy the Pizza Theorem
(04/27/12) A conversation with physicists/authors Brian Greene & Lawrence Krauss. (Like the Jewish doctor joke.)
(04/26/12) Bizarre "cyborg clams" power motor, setting stage for mythopoeic molluscan marvels beyond imagination
(04/25/12) Insane brain Rubik's Cube shocks and delights
(04/24/12) A strange book on fish nearly killed Isaac Newton's career
(04/23/12) Provocative. Dietary saturated fat not associated with increased risk of heart disease?
(04/21/12) In-depth discussion of the most famous guitar cord in rock history
(04/20/12) Just-published issue of "IBM Journal of Research & Development" on Watson/Jeopardy and futuristic artificial intelligence (AI)
(04/19/12) Martin Gardner, The Beauty and Mystery of Mathematics, free iPad app
(04/18/12) Glimpse of the Future. Shanghai 1990 vs 2010. Nice photo comparison?
(04/17/12) Intriguing. 51% of people diagnosed with cancer die of cancer. 49% die of something else
(04/16/12) Inflate thin balloon. Change your size. Repeat. Insane fractal
(04/15/12) "Forgive me Father, For I Have Sinned." Artwork by Cliff Pickover
(04/14/12) Wow. Rubik's Cube set of drawers
(04/13/12) New at Pinterest. "World of Cliff Pickover." Science, science fiction, technology, strange reality, futurism, innovation, mathematics. Follow me, or visit each day for transcendence.
(04/12/12) Anatomical heart teapot makes us scream
(04/11/12) Nassim Taleb's 10 tips for changing your life. Agree with any?
(04/10/12) "Fractals and The Cat in the Hat"
(04/09/12) Take 3 pinches of DMT, stir in pencil lead of Escher, add mathematics and a fractal portion of science-fiction vibe, and mix well
(04/08/12) After the death of Nobel-Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman, these words were found on his blackboard
(04/07/12) Bizarre beyond belief. Salvador Dali illustrates "Alice in Wonderland"
(04/05/12) Man walks all day to create spectacular fractal snow patterns
(04/04/12) Wow. Proof that the Earth is smoother than a billiard ball
(04/03/12) Are we living in a mathematical object? And what might that have to do with religion?
(04/02/12) Strange headline of the week: "Ants' Dying Queen Mated With As Crab Spider Eats Her Head-First (VIDEO)
(04/01/12) Impossible Ledge
(03/31/12) The Feynman point is a sequence of six 9s that begins at the 762nd decimal place of pi
(03/29/12) World’s Largest Sushi Roll
(03/28/12) 3-D method for depicting monsters on your 2-D browser
(03/27/12) Worshiping in the fractal cathedral, and finally sensing the presence of God (graphics). (Click to magnify)
(03/26/12) Richard Feynman: The Last Journey Of A Genius
(03/25/12) Imagine taking DMT, looking into a mirror, and seeing this as your reflection
(03/24/12) Life-like glass heart, with ventricles for flower stems. (Click to magnify)
(03/23/12) This is what happens when you give thousands of stickers to thousands of kids
(03/22/12) Rainbows, physics, God
(03/21/12) A 1-minute film on fractal cosmic strings bends our minds and souls
(03/20/12) If Satan plays miniature golf, this is his favorite hole
(03/19/12) I had this "Human Body" book as a kid, which kick-started my interest in science
(03/18/12) Wow. Math Book and Physics Book ranked #1 and #2 today at Scientific American (look before they run out of copies)
(03/17/12) All of human achievement -- all our hopes, dreams, and fears -- in one graph
(03/16/12) I like this mysterious photo of a Moonrise by Beth Hoeckel
(03/15/12) Unusual temporary neuronal condition causes reporter to suddenly speak in tongues
(03/14/12) Why It Took So Long to Invent the Wheel
(03/13/12) Man attempts to illustrate strange history of fashion and war
(03/12/12) Fractal mathematics that looks like caramel drizzle
(03/10/12) Why the mathematicians know that 2012 is indeed the end of the world
(03/09/12) Intriguing and Wild Visualizations of Prime Numbers
(03/08/12) What really happens at the center of a mathematical singularity. Mysterious
(03/07/12) Imagine exploring this futuristic city tonight, with someone you love
(03/06/12) Girl, alien, flower, psychedelic, tendril eyes, pretty
(03/05/12) The crying of alien fish
(03/04/12) Why math is better than drugs and can be a spiritual experience
(03/03/12) Anatomical Cross-Sections Made with Quilled Paper by Lisa Nilsson
(03/02/12) Insane Fractal Spirograph (Fractal Roulette)
(03/01/12) Amazing discovery involving photos, Klein bottles, randomness, math, and beyond
(02/29/12) Gaze in awe at Belphegor's Prime: 1000000000000066600000000000001 is a palindromic prime number, with 666 hiding among the zeros.
(02/28/12) Micrograph of the surface of a kidney stone showing tetragonal crystals of Weddellite. Ouch! Ouch!
(02/27/12) Solve the peacock puzzle in less than 9 minutes, and you're a genius
(02/26/12) 35 Inspiring Color Palettes from Master Painters for to use and become a genius yourself
(02/25/12) Please learn about fractals and mathematics. They will set you free
(02/24/12) Deepest Mandelbrot Zoom ever: 2.1x10^275 (or 2^915). What will humanity find in their deepest explorations?
(02/23/12) Intriguing "pictures of math" blog
(02/22/12) Fascinating and educational. The physics of dropping a Slinky
(02/21/12) Strange, strange world, for us to inhabit...
(02/20/12) Brain made out of hands
(02/19/12) Super-super-genius Ed Witten sits in an armchair and explains string theory to you and me. Time magazine calls Witten "the greatest theoretical physicist in the world."
(02/18/12) The Lego Hadron Collider
(02/17/12) Bizarre fractal fractions that crush the cerebellum into submission
(02/16/12) 10 reasons why you might want to drink coffee
(02/15/12) Creeping mysterious manure foam causes pig farms to explode. Pig Big Bang
(02/14/12) 7 billion people walk on dot on the left. 12 of them have walked on the dot on the right
(02/13/12) Man proposes to the love of his life in Binary Code. It worked
(02/12/12) Mystical time-lapse video of the Milky Way traversing the sky above South Dakota. Dream with me
(02/10/12) 1,344-page graphic-novel condensation of all great Western literature!
(02/09/12) For the math curious: a coffee cup that is NOT topologically the same as a donut
(02/08/12) Women In Science: Why So Few? (video)
(02/07/12) "Math is sexy! The 5IVE Best Popular Books on the Subject That Prove It
(02/06/12) Pretty Mandelbrot Set. (Click to mag.)
(02/05/12) Mavericks of the Mind: Thought Provoking Interviews on Consciousness by David Jay Brown
(02/04/12) Toto's Africa by Perpetuum Jazzile. Worth listening to
(02/03/12) If you are exposed to the color red when you take IQ test, your IQ is lower
(02/02/12) The Greatest Books of All Time, as Voted by 125 Famous Authors
(02/01/12) Circumcising men is one of the most effective "vaccines" against AIDS, reducing chances of infection by 60% or more
(01/31/12) Fractals, science fiction, alien brains
(01/30/12) The Top 10 Women Who Impacted Technology in 2011
(01/29/12) Pig's dissection anatomy origami
(01/28/12) US Patent. Giant Gummy Bear
(01/27/12) "Physical books are tokens of our identity, a kind of continuity over a lifetime, a bearer of memory."
(01/26/12) Enjoy this relaxing gif of a Holstein enjoying a nice brushing:
(01/25/12) Insane puzzles for kids of all ages!
(01/24/12) Impress your friends at your next party with this awesome and bizarre phrase: "Weakly hyper-Woodin cardinals." Enjoy
(01/23/12) The Mathematical Papers of the deadly "Unabomber"
(01/22/12) 16 of the smartest children in history
(01/21/12) Woman, geometry, hands, pattern
(01/20/12) New monkey species discovered, and promptly eaten
(01/19/12) Why is the Sky Dark at Night?
(01/18/12) Huge subcontrabass saxophone: "the mother of all saxophones"
(01/17/12) Your insane fractal apartment building of the far future. Imagine living in this city. Click to magnify
(01/16/12) Lovecraft meets 3-D fractals
(01/15/12) How would you like to climb the highest mountain in the entire Solar System?
(01/14/12) Stephen Hawking will now take your questions (YouTube)
(01/13/12) Photo. Before you drift to sleep tonight, meditate on the beauty of the universe
(01/12/12) Cows, intelligent tongues, and the quest for transcendence
(01/11/12) Mystery cat, high above the trees, transcends space and time
(01/10/12) Very nice harmonies as the unusual song progresses: "Mumford and Sons - Little Lion Man"
(01/09/12) For you mathematical nerds. A mysterious and wonderful proof that pi=4. At which step does it go wrong?
(01/08/12) Controversial retired bishop John Spong discusses the deepest mysteries of Christianity (YouTube)
(01/07/12) Two artificial intelligences, with facial expressions, are unexpectedly placed face to face. Conversation ensues.
Here is Another Example of what happens when you let two artificial intelligences have a conversation
(01/06/12) Beautiful math: Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do (And why your girlfriend is a whore)
(01/05/12) Alan Moore, reality, sock-puppet snake god, Terence McKenna, science
(01/04/12) I thought that, perhaps, you could find this page of my book covers in different languages to be exciting. How many languages do we recognize?
(01/03/12) Robert Heinlein’s predictions for the Year 2000 (from 1952)
(01/02/12) Imagine relaxing for a few minutes here, slowly breathing, and happy, as if swimming in a sea of mystery
(01/01/12) 3-dimensional fractals and the search for the 'true' 3D Mandelbrot
(12/30/11) Carving books with knives, to take us to new worlds.
(12/29/11) Skies rain with metallic balls: a prelude to invasion by higher-dimensional angels or aliens
(12/28/11) Pet dog from 30,000 years ago, yearns for the spirit of his ghostly master
(12/27/11) Daniela Witten, daughter of two string theorists, age 27
(12/26/11) New Worlds Forming. Jerry Gretzinger: mysterious road map grows and grows....
(12/25/11) Usually, people open gifts at Christmas. But, what happens if the reverse were true?
(12/24/11) Technical paper involving colored light: "Classical conditioning of female sexual arousal"
(12/23/11) What a nuclear detonation looks like after 1 millisecond
(12/22/11) Famous Slovenian artist Teja Krasek explores Wolfram's Parametric Snowflake Design. Video is here.
Software so YOU can experiment is here
(12/21/11) I typed fractal menorah into Google and found this image
(12/20/11) A drumstick hitting a cymbal at 1000 frames/sec. Note the flexibility
(12/19/11) The "Science Goddess," Joanne Manaster, has an awesome YouTube review of The Physics Book. Play it a few times to get in the mood
(12/18/11) Diagram: The Quantum Physics of Genesis
(12/17/11) Lana Del Rey: nice voice. A little mysterious. Mystical
(12/16/11) Ethereal, mathematical spider patterns from "Keys to Infinity"
(12/15/11) Drawing Autism is an incredible collection of artwork by people diagnosed with autism
(12/14/11) Beautiful TimeScapes of American Southwest. Watch and shiver (2 minutes)
(12/13/11) 16 amazing, curious unsolved problems in mathematics. (I like the Euler brick problem.)
(12/12/11) Imagine writing a novel, set on the grounds of this home. (Click to magnify)
(12/11/11) The best science fction Books (according to Reddit)
(12/10/11) PHOTO: Where are the Aliens Hiding?
(12/09/11) Diamonds: why Schrodinger's Cat might really be alive and dead at the same time
(12/08/11) Cry: while being reminding of the precious gift of life, and the beauty all around us
(12/07/11) Michelle Feynman is the daughter of Richard Feynman, a famous genius physicist
(12/06/11) This image might make a great background for you computer screen
(12/05/11) Radio interview: "From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection" (13 minutes)
(12/04/11) Fractal giraffe
(12/03/11) Patent for game that models heaven and hell
(12/02/11) Octagons appear in Spain
(12/01/11) 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = ?
(11/30/11) Evolution of all life on Earth, via Homer Simpson
(11/29/11) "An invaluable treasure, this Illustrated Chronology of How We Understand the Universe is the best thing since Bill Bryson's short illustrated history of nearly everything"
(11/28/11) Converting mathematics to romance
(11/27/11) Would you love to relax and read a book in this room, imagining all is right with the world? Could you be happy in this room in your afterlife?
(11/26/11) The Easter Island "Heads" have bodies
(11/25/11) Map of America Visualized by McDonald's Locations
(11/24/11) I typed Thanksgiving Fractal into Google and found this image
(11/23/11) Stephen King's Rules for Time Travel
(11/22/11) Can you really publish 1+1=2 in a prestigious scientific journal? (PDF)
(11/21/11) Killed by Bad Philosophy: Why brain preservation followed by mind uploading is a cure for death (PDF)
(11/20/11) Is math education really unnecessary?
(11/19/11) Listen to my "Coast to Coast" radio interview on The Physics Book, parallel universes, quantum resurrection, Dyson spheres, Einstein, and more
(11/18/11) Lego Antikythera mechanism
(11/17/11) Dr. Fiorella Terenzi: astrophysicist, "A cross between Carl Sagan and Madonna"
(11/16/11) Cliff Pickover on the Beauty of Our Universe
(11/16/11) Boing Boing and quantum immortality
(11/15/11) Strange futures for our universe (physics paper pdf)
(11/14/11) Women, science jokes, quantum theory, Big Bang Theory TV show
(11/13/11) Using adhesive tape to construct inter-dimensional wormholes
(11/12/11) 3-hour Coast to Coast radio interview: Parallel Universes & Quantum Immortality
(11/11/11) Take a sneak peek inside The Physics Book at Scientific American, where book price is $1.99
(11/10/11) Scoop-it: cool science news
(11/09/11) Brian Greene: "Math is the gateway to reality," and funnyman "Colbert is a bag of particles"
(11/08/11) World Population: Where it's thick and where it's thin (fascinating photo essay)
(11/07/11) Every Insanely Mystifying Paradox in Physics: A Complete List
(11/06/11) A beam of light is depicted traveling between the Earth & Moon in real-time: 1.26 seconds
(11/05/11) Can something come from nothing?
(11/04/11) Parallel Universe, child, mom
(11/03/11) Hooray! The 2011 Neumann Prize was just officially announced for the best book written in the last two years on the history of mathematics. See interview link
(11/02/11) Modern Algorithms Crack 18th Century Secret Code
(11/01/11) The coolest microscope photos you'll ever see. (Click to ID them.)
(10/31/11) I typed Halloween Fractal into Google and found this image for today
(10/30/11) Celebrate: "7777777777" finally found in pi
(10/29/11) The world's first nuclear reactor is prehistoric
(10/28/11) Fractal Mondrian artwork
(10/27/11) I typed Fractal Pizza into Google and found this image
(10/26/11) Space Telescope: Top 100 Images
(10/25/11) A few cool image samples from The Physics Book at Neatorama
(See also: Forbes)
(10/24/11) How'd you like to live in this surreal town?
(10/23/11) I typed Fractal Intestine into Google and found this image
(10/22/11) Did humans smarter than us once roam the Earth?
(10/21/11) Cool. Throw panoramic ball camera into the air to capture a scene. View the results
(10/21/11) Finally, on 10/20/11, it's available at Amazon.com! "Physics Book: Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection." Thanks to all Reality Carnival followers for inspiration over the years. This book is dedicated to you.
(10/19/11) Intriguing. Shark vs octopus
(10/18/11) Jewish math problems
(10/17/11) Wow. A Fold in the Brain is Linked to Keeping Reality and Imagination Separate
(10/16/11) Moby Dick, the tautochrone, and super-cool physics!
(10/15/11) A stick bomb: mechanical spring-loaded device made from sticks woven together under tension
(10/14/11) Professor Courtenay Raia lectures on science and religion
(10/13/11) I'm in love with this amazing formula for pi, involving just 1 digit
(10/12/11) Meditating man forms portal in stomach to explore parallel worlds
(10/11/11) Classical Bach song turns super-jazzy once 5-string bass kicks in
(10/10/11) Wow. Imagine walking into this teacher's physics class your first day. Click to mag.
(10/09/11) Fractal love
(10/08/11) Fractal Menger Sponge made of Post-Its
(10/07/11) Imagine scenes of your life flashing, 42 seconds before you die. What would they be?
(10/06/11) Kamikaze ants explode with death juice
(10/05/11) Imagine spending time with someone you love in the Infinity Room
(10/04/11) Bosch's depiction of paradise & hell, in brightened super-hi-res version to admire. Click to mag. (At Museo Nacional del Prado)
(10/03/11) Would you like to tour mysterious hyper-packed Kowloon Walled City? (Click to mag.)
(10/02/11) Wow, let's look into the future beyond 10,000 AD
(10/01/11) Teja from Slovenia made a cute video teaser for "The Physics Book" and quantum resurrection; see floating globules at end
(09/30/11) Five iconic science images, and why they're wrong
(09/29/11) Cool. Strange new metal-based life-form rapidly evolving
(09/28/11) Cute, edible computer mother board & circuitry
(09/27/11) I typed the unlikely phrase "Electrons Are Apes" into Google and found this page
(09/26/11) There exists only a single electron in the universe!
(09/25/11) Let's meet here, tonight. In dreams
(09/24/11) Wow. Boost Your WiFi Signal Using Only a Beer Can
(09/23/11) Stereotypical asexual math genius (IQ=185) living on canned mackerel
(09/22/11) Added list of every scientist mentioned in "The Physics Book" here. How many do you recognize? (Hard to believe this colorful book is published in October!)
(09/21/11) What really happens when a cannonball is dropped in mercury?
(09/20/11) Beautiful diagram of humanity's exploration of space. Like it? (click to mag.)
(09/19/11) Beautiful 1836 image of balloon-craft for finding "moon bison" & winged women on moon
(09/17/11) Paul Bourke's experiments with mathematics and reality. Beautiful.
(09/16/11) You're getting married tomorrow: which of these wedding cakes do you choose?
(09/15/11) The most interesting gathering in the world: "The Singularity Summit." I'll be going...
(09/14/11) The strange large intestine of vegetarian Adolph Hitler
(09/13/11) A higher-dimensional being lovingly reveals a portion of its face and alimentary canal
(09/12/11) An Étude, on paper, a beautiful-looking musical score
(09/11/11) Mysterious and beautiful 24-Hour View of the Sky. Worth the look
(09/10/11) Wow, ask author/scientist Sam Harris anything!
(09/09/11) For $1 million, would you stay in the Eiffel Tower during this lightning strike?
(09/08/11) Wow: New Kindle feature lets you ask authors questions. (Authors must be living)
(09/07/11) Strange results of microwaving a bar of Ivory soap
(09/06/11) A love poem for theoretical physicists?
(09/05/11) For the next 5 minutes, please engage in Mamihlapinatapei with me. How did it feel?
(09/04/11) Man discovers lovely physics of 2 balls welded together
(09/03/11) Transcendent music construction: Play these together, some or all, start them at any time, in any order
(09/02/11) Three men. One alien fish. Strange
(09/01/11) Tolkien responds to questions of race from Nazi Germany
(08/31/11) A nice gift. I LOVE YOU turned into voice-print artwork
(08/30/11) Unusual preparation of child's skull, showing how baby teeth are pushed by permanent teeth
(08/29/11) Planets viewed from Earth as if they were at the distance of our moon
(08/28/11) Which of these misconceptions did you fall for?
(08/27/11) The most religious of all fractals: the Jerusalem Cube (click to magnify)
(08/26/11) Good news: "The Math Book" is in Spain, France, Netherlands, Czech Republic, China, & Korea translations
(08/25/11) Good news: maybe someday we can traverse the universe using wormholes and call all of space-time our home (technical PDF)
(08/24/11) Can you go another layer deeper with another image? Bridge over a bridge over a bridge
(08/23/11) The piano piece almost no one attempts to play: Stockhausen's 10th Klavierstucken
(08/22/11) Beautiful futuristic concept for traffic lights
(08/21/11) Insanely complex "Picture of Everything" by Howard Hallis
(08/20/11) How science-fiction author Robert Heinlein handled his fan mail
(08/19/11) Apparent Communication with Discarnate Entities Induced by Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) by Peter Meyer
(08/18/11) Musings on author H. P. Lovecraft. Should we read him today?
(08/17/11) Super-mathematician murdered brother, aunt, and uncle and did math in mental institution
(08/16/11) Physicist Brian Greene, mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, Isaac Newton, Ed Witten, Ramanujan, geniuses, artists
(08/15/11) Watch as your entire life flashes before your eyes, 3 seconds before you die
(08/14/11) Type in any Wikipedia entry, and see the number of visits through time
(08/13/11) The latest mind-blowing curiosities from the mysterious and eclectic Michael Coleman
(08/12/11) Looking for the Thumbprints of Parallel Universes
(08/11/11) Abandoned farm in Iceland, encircled by Aurora Borealis
(08/10/11) Please enjoy the curious figures in this US patent application
(08/09/11) The batman equation
(08/08/11) Sean Carroll: Distant time and the hint of a multiverse
(08/07/11) Are you interested in "The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection"? If you have a blog that has more than 100 visitors a day, let me know. Maybe I can get you a review copy
(08/06/11) The mind-numbing world of bosons
(08/05/11) 100 Greatest Discoveries in Physics (youtube)
(08/04/11) I typed Fractal Rodent into Google and found this image
(08/03/11) Encyclopedia mentions the "machine elves" seen while taking the drug DMT
(08/02/11) Illustrated guide to a Ph.D. (and human acquisition of knowledge)
(08/01/11) Physics comes alive in ultra-realistic simulations
(07/31/11) Do Parallel Universes really exist?
(07/30/11) Authors, like Vonnegut, who are famous for the wrong book
(07/29/11) Love in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
(07/28/11) Belief in evolution vs national wealth
(07/27/11) Hooray, my book "Archimedes to Hawking" is #1 in Kindle Store today in the Science category!
(07/27/11) PhD Comics Guide to Dark Matter and Exploring the Universe
(07/26/11) A journey into a black hole. Interesting/educational video
(07/25/11) The Singularity is Far: A Neuroscientist's View
(07/24/11) Lisa Randall, higher dimensions, particle physics
(07/22/11) Wow. Creating bones from trees
(07/21/11) Mathematics: Invented or Discovered?
(07/20/11) Mysterious video: numbers, police, deer, transcendence
(07/19/11) Piano house
(07/18/11) Mobius Strip tasty treat
(07/17/11) Love this YouTube: "The Infamous Double Slit Experiment."
(07/16/11) Drugs and the Meaning of Life (Sam Harris)
(07/15/11) Lots of cool curiosities at the Neatoshop. Start with the pi ice cubes for math lovers -- and then explore
(07/14/11) THE PHYSICS BOOK: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection! Pre-order today to lock-in a great price for a 528-page hardcover color book
(07/13/11) Mandelbulb fractal titled "Deep in the Mandel Swamp"
(07/12/11) Stimulate your brain: kids can understand black holes using simple algebra
(07/11/11) Frightening and detailed T. Rex formed from balloons
(07/10/11) What is the "Fundamental Fysiks Group"?
(07/09/11) "Metaphase Typewriter," a quantum device to communicate with disembodied spirits
(07/08/11) Author's last name slowly evolves via gradual access to his book covers from Amazon.Com
(07/07/11) A video containing every one of Ray Harryhausen's creatures, starting with King Kong
(07/06/11) Robin Hanson explores 14 wild ideas including: multiple universes, cryonics, AI, simulated worlds
(07/05/11) I've published over 40 books, but I should tell you about some of my favorite books of other authors
(07/04/11) Dear Miss USA: Should evolution be taught?
(07/03/11) ‘Draw a circle around the one God loves the most’
(07/02/11) DMT, Terence McKenna, machine-elves, large hadron collider, conspiracies, Ray Kurzweil, higher dimensions
(07/01/11) Every year, four million cats are eaten in Asia
(06/30/11) The fullness of your bladder shapes your decision-making mind in interesting ways
(06/29/11) Fascinating cartoon explains evolution to a creationist
(06/28/11) Collection of classic comic book ads with amazing exaggerated claims/marketing
(06/27/11) Sea monkeys from the future make deadly lovers. Don't have sex with a time traveler
(06/26/11) History of Science Fiction Infographic (click text header to magnify)
(06/24/11) Man develops and consumes Fried Kool-Aid to seek higher realities
(06/23/11) Bizarre and insane Mandelbrot-set cat video
(06/22/11) Man makes World's Smallest Klein Bottle - and earrings
(06/21/11) Why major in Mathematics? Here's why...
(06/20/11) Man discovers an equation that says "Hi"
(06/19/11) The fractal containment vessel for an antediluvian God
(06/18/11) This isn’t a painting
(06/17/11) The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts
(06/16/11) Camera attached to inside of hula hoop reveals new perspective on rotating bodies
(06/15/11) Women from around the world discuss binary fingernails
(06/14/11) Christians, surrealism, death, alien life, sorrow
(06/13/11) Why 4-dimensional space is a crazy place: constructing the anatomy of Lovecraft's Yog-Sothoth
(06/12/11) The Rx Visual Blog: a feast for the eye and brain
(06/11/11) Mystery Spinning Euler Disks approach "infinite speed"
(06/10/11) Performance with multiple iPads builds to a rousing guitar-solo-ish climax
(06/09/11) Kids use chocolate to measure the speed of light
(06/08/11) US Patent Application: Method of Recording and Saving of Human Soul for Human Immortality...
(06/07/11) Jellyfish, with humanoid eyes, peers into the very depths of your soul
(06/06/11) Fractal mathematical object beyond imagination
(06/05/11) Keyboard whose keys are raised in proportion to their frequency of use
(06/04/11) Top 10 Prehistoric Fish Alive Today
(06/03/11) Are jellyfish aliens? What is a jellyfish, really?
(06/02/11) The book of secrets: The Voynich manuscript has intrigued and frustrated linguists for centuries
(06/01/11) Man explores fractal Menger sponge as it crumbles and sways at the edge of the apocalypse
(05/31/11) Please tell your Kindle friends: "Jews in Hyperspace" now only 99 cents, with DRM removed!
(05/30/11) Fractal garden of the gods
(05/29/11) Visualizing music via mystical caterpillar-like entities
(05/28/11) Creating wonderful secret codes using "Visual Cryptography"
(05/27/11) Beautiful electron microscope images
(05/26/11) We Will Become Like the Gods We Once Feared
(05/25/11) Physics and the Immortality of the Soul (>100 comments)
(05/24/11) A nursing's student's love for art and anatomy
(05/23/11) A Timeline Into the Far Future
(05/22/11) Scientific Illustration Archive
(05/21/11) "From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension" (audio interview with me on my book)
(05/20/11) Embryonic creatures languidly float in an amniotic bed of dreams
(05/19/11) Intricate fractal mesh: alien support structure for buildings in the 22nd century. (click to magnify)
(05/18/11) Eerie, alien spider panorama in Pakistan
(05/17/11) Fast test for pre-Alzheimer's: name all the animals you can in 1 minute
(05/16/11) Can religion affect your financial destiny? (chart)
(05/15/11) The Phantom Time Hypothesis suggests that the early Middle Ages (614-911 A.D.) never happened
(05/14/11) How big is Africa really?
(05/13/11) Documentary heaven: food for your brain
(05/12/11) Mathematical uniting of two worlds (through an exploration of fractal mathematics)
(05/11/11) Bizarre three-line proof that "I am Dracula"
(05/10/11) The mystery of QR Codes
(05/09/11) Mathematical seahorses beyond imagination
(05/08/11) Worshipping in the fractal castle of infinity
(05/07/11) Interview: Dr. Rick Strassman (psychedelic drugs)
(05/06/11) I typed Fractal Fish into Google and found this image
(05/05/11) Spider attacks an ant (with surprise ending)
(05/04/11) The fractal eardrums of an antediluvian god
(05/03/11) Word of the day: "Mamihlapinatapai"
(05/02/11) Welcome to the fractal palace of the lord of the DMT machine-elves
(05/01/11) Interesting recent issue of Science News features great articles on "cosmic questions"
(04/29/11) 11111111111111111111111 is a prime number. Enjoy.
(04/29/11) Strange Siberian alien life-form was a hoax formed from brown bread
(04/28/11) Dreamlike, angelic music made with Novachord (1939) & Theremin (1920)
(04/27/11) "What is the best possible question, and what's the best answer to it?"
(04/26/11) Complete history of the Universe in 18 minutes
(04/25/11) Fractal wasp-like alien (click to magnify)
(04/24/11) Should You Date a Mathematician?
(04/23/11) I typed Insane Fractal Embryo into Google and found this image
(04/22/11) Now more than 100,000 youtube visits: "Strange alien stick-like creatures..."
(04/21/11) Prestigious math journal "retracts" paper
(04/20/11) Creating ghostlike entities from cadaver slices
(04/19/11) Professor devotes his life to the study of a single mystery number: 6174
(04/18/11) Gain true insight into your personality and mind. Answer 20 questions, and be shocked by the accuracy
(04/17/11) "Simian line" in the palm and its ultimate meaning in medicine
(04/15/11) I present many letters from readers who wrote to me about their mystical DMT experiences (scroll down)
(04/14/11) U.S. Patent: "Hat simulating a fried egg"
(04/13/11) Google Books show the complete Table of Contents of "The Math Book" -- fractals, puzzles, and more
(04/12/11) Mystical golden ray, hive-mind migration
(04/11/11) Vi Hart's Doodling in Math Class: Infinity Elephants
(04/10/11) Cyborg whale (click to magnify)
(04/09/11) Wonder what is exactly on the opposite side of the Earth from your backyard? Check here
(04/08/11) Strange fractal octopi
(04/07/11) I typed Fractal Monkey into Google and found this image
(04/06/11) The future is now: Holographic sentient entity performs to screaming crowds
(04/05/11) Vi Hart eats Mobius Strip
(04/04/11) I typed Fractal Monkey into Google and found this image
(04/03/11) Vi Hart's Youtube on Snake Puzzles has over 200,000 visits
(04/02/11) Vi Hart: "Every school should replace calculus with recreational math"
(04/01/11) Danica McKellar, women, girls, mathematics, AlJezeera, youtube
(03/31/11) Artwork of Paul Gerrard
(03/30/11) Amazing artwork using big books, knives, tweezers and surgical tools...
(03/29/11) Afterlife debate with Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Rabbi David Wolpe and Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
(03/28/11) Solar system model
(03/27/11) Sonification of Tohoku earthquake
(03/26/11) Need 5 more Twitter followers. If you follow me in the next few days, send me an email, and I'll personally thank you
(03/25/11) Jews, food, fractals, and Sierpinski gaskets
(03/24/11) Why walk the seemingly infinite Appalachian Trail, when you can see it all in 4 minutes
(03/23/11) Self-surgery
(03/22/11) Insane asymmetric Rubik's Cube
(03/21/11) How the Hippies Saved Physics
(03/20/11) Now you can watch Isaac Asimov’s unaired science show
(03/19/11) Creatures and psychoactive faces
(03/18/11) Over 300,000 visits to Youtube's mysterious "hand-fingers"
(03/17/11) Top 50 Novels for Tech Geeks
(03/16/11) "Jevons Paradox"
(03/15/11) Is it actually possible to play the rapid, classical piece "Flight of the Bumblebee" using beer bottles?
(03/14/11) Woman with octopus hair prays for her lost lover
(03/12/11) Woman wears black nanofabric that dissolves as a function of arousal state
(03/11/11) Artist experiments with submerged humanoids
(03/10/11) Which one of these surreal arts would you be happy to have in your living room?
(03/09/11) Imagine spending several days with someone close to you in this cave hotel
(03/08/11) Could you be happy living in this church converted into a home?
(03/07/11) Haunting images of Robert Parke Harrison. Which is your favorite?
(03/06/11) "A guy called Vasili Arkhipov saved the world."
(03/05/11) Delicate organic structures with a geometric twist
(03/04/11) An entire parallel universe in a evolving mathematical landscape
(03/03/11) Cardboard sculptures resemble mysterious 3D Mandelbulb sets
(03/02/11) Perhaps these entities look like new planets
(02/29/11) Environments to dream about.... and in which to fall in love
(02/28/11) Boy Without a Cerebellum Baffles Doctors
(02/27/11) The most expensive domain name in the world. Guess before you click
(02/26/11) Bertrand Russell's message to the future. Recorded in 1959. Wonder clip
(02/25/11) Frightening octopus chairs haunt our dreams
(02/24/11) A glimpse of the future, when all books will be immediately available for free
(02/23/11) Artificial hummingbirds watching humanity, forever
(02/22/11) Chinese magician's goldfish trick sparks controversy
(02/21/11) Strangely expensive book at Amazon: "$4,719.00 & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping"
(02/19/11) Strange advertisement for sushi?
(02/18/11) Photos of where I work every day...
(02/17/11) Perpetual motion machine?
(02/16/11) How many centuries would it take you to solve the the Teraminx puzzle?
(02/15/11) Understanding the religious beliefs of others
(02/13/11) The mother of all genomes, and the greatest of mysteries: Water flea has 8000 more genes than humans
(02/12/11) Ed Pegg's amazing "math puzzle" page
(02/11/11) An octopus that lives in a beer bottle
(02/10/11) Brian Greene and David Gelernter on the Universe
(02/09/11) VIDEO: Isaac Asimov on Learning, Computers, Religion, Population Growth and the Universe
(02/08/11) Ghostlike globules float in our dreams, praying to their mathematician gods
(02/07/11) Math can be beautiful, alien, and transcendent
(02/06/11) A Physicist Explains Why Parallel Universes May Exist
(02/05/11) Muppets Analytical Computer
(02/04/11) For sushi lovers: the sushi chair
(02/03/11) Science fiction writers, editors, critics and publishers talk the future of publishing
(02/02/11) Another fractal cabinet in which to store all your belongings
(02/01/11) Can you sit and relax and do nothing while looking at an ocean scene for 2 minutes? Probably not
(01/31/11) Consciousness, world trends, sustainability, spirituality, and future
(01/30/11) Man Builds a Time Warp to the 1800s in His Basement
(01/29/11) Animated sequence depicting growing tower, shows rise of civilizations and human knowledge
(01/28/11) 'Is Reality A Mathematical Structure?' Max Tegmark explains
(01/27/11) A brief history of physicians who murder
(01/26/11) Nice vocals, music, guitar work
(01/25/11) Thought-provoking graphic: Which countries match GDP & population of America's states?
(01/24/11) "Nothing In Life Is As Important As You Think It Is, While You Are Thinking About It"
(01/23/11) Europe According to the United States of America
(01/22/11) Can deer ever be frightening? "Our house was built along well worn deer trails...."
(01/21/11) The Undesigned Brain is Hard to Copy
(01/20/11) 'Is Reality A Mathematical Structure?' Max Tegmark explains
(01/19/11) Bizarre Nested Klein Bottles Will Blow Your Mind
(01/18/11) From cosmism to deism: The rise of artilects (artificial intellects, i.e., godlike intelligent machines)
(01/17/11) Nobel prize winner and DNA teleporation. Ghosts in our genes?
(01/16/11) Edge Question now online. 156 answers to: "What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?
(01/15/11) Isn't the song "Bruise on the Sky" great?
(01/14/11) Foam descending upon the human race
(01/13/11) Discovery of Jesus in Mandelbulb 3-D fractal
(01/12/11) Geeks like us: libraries of the rich and famous
(01/11/11) Novel bookcase. Want one?
(01/10/11) Contemporary Mathematics: meetings where no one can understand one another, nor even makes an attempt
(01/09/11) The Mandelbox fractal: a new landscape of architectural & organic qualities
(01/08/11) Fractals that make you dream
(01/07/11) Things babies born in 2011 will never know
(01/06/11) Listening to Mozart's piano sonata K448 can reduce the number of seizures in people with epilepsy?
(01/05/11) Glass aliens from dimension X
(01/04/11) Mathematically inspired, spirit-expanding art
(01/03/11) Nuclear Radiation Giant Stag Beetle of Bikini Atoll, 15-inch?
(01/02/11) Stephanie Ortigue: love neuroscientist
(01/01/11) Children in hyper-real, misty landscapes. Transcend
Want more stories? See: Archive 1 (2003),
Archive 2 (2002), Archive 3 (2010-2003)