(05/07/13) Couples have 20% greater chance of long, happy marriage if wives are 27% smarter than their husbands

(05/06/13) If a tiger and lion were placed together for some great battle, the tiger would defeat the lion

(05/05/13) Popcorn in the act of popping. Curious animated gif

(05/04/13) If you want to get tenure, don't write a book, don't be a good teacher, and don't inspire the public

(05/03/13) The Purpose of Harvard is Not to Educate People

(05/02/13) Impress your friends with this factoid. 3003 is the only number known to appear 8 times in Pascal's triangle

(05/01/13) What it's like to spend your day as a real mathematician

(04/30/13) Mystical. Can a soap bubble freeze before your very eyes?

(04/29/13) Bizarre and wondrous surface of a mosquito egg

(04/28/13) Bizarre alien birds nests, on telephone polls

(04/27/13) Do We Live Inside a Mathematical Equation? Read the great comments

(04/26/13) I love 1/998001. Try it. You get all 3-digit numbers from 000 to 999 in order. Except for 998

(04/25/13) Grapes can explode in a microwave oven, producing a fireball reminiscent of a thermonuclear explosion

(04/24/13) The universe's most wondrous number: Repeat the string 1808010808 1560 times. Append "1"

(04/23/13) Scary. "The Hands Resist Him" painting by Bill Stoneham was sold on eBay as cursed

(04/22/13) Unusual. Radiologist exhumes patient's body, encases it in wax and sleeps with it for 7 years

(04/21/13) Three fractal beings, and their kin, inhabiting the realm of pure geometry

(04/20/13) Cockpit wonderland. Rare photos within Space Shuttle Endeavour

(04/19/13) Attractively intricate paper wedding bouquet

(04/18/13) This is fractal. This is mathematics and beauty

(04/17/13) Dear Lord! Scientists discover disembodied living penis-like entities patrolling the planet

(04/16/13) Beauty and mystery -- from paper

(04/15/13) Insane Glittering Metallic Ink Clouds

(04/14/13) Fractal stained glass window -- to help you worship the fractal gods and leave your eartlhy body

(04/13/13) Mary Ellis's grave is in the parking lot of the Loew's Movie Theater in New Brunswick, New Jersey

(04/12/13) What the British say, and what they mean. Marvelous

(04/11/13) Psychedelic blue fractal being, with two eyes, emerges from mathematics

(04/10/13) Guess how many people alive today were actually born in the 1800s

(04/09/13) Who would believe that structures such as this exist in the realm of pure mathematics...

(04/08/13) Strangest Monopoly Game ever contemplated: once every 253,899,891,671,040 games

(04/07/13) Sometimes, the electric bass guitar can be a vehicle for complexity and transport

(04/06/13) Psychedelic Drug Research by David Jay Brown

(04/05/13) Ice-laden trees slowly reach out to the water beneath them, their liquor of life

(04/04/13) Imagine strolling with someone you love, hand-in-hand, in Mill Ends Park, the smallest park in the world

(04/03/13) Mysterious. All around our planet, people are texting in their sleep, like ghost-spirits emerging from another world

(04/02/13) "The Exorcist." Knitted version, obviously

(04/01/13) "If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for 10 minutes, what would you read?"

(03/31/13) The broken walls of fractaloid Carthage, in the math-encrusted city beyond your dreams. Click to mag.

(03/30/13) Imagine the joy of weaving Jupiter out of yarn

(03/29/13) I was elected a Fellow for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry for "significant contributions to the general public's understanding of science, reason, and critical inquiry through scholarship, writing, and work in the media." (Scroll down.) Other Fellows have included Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov

(03/28/13) Recent interview at a math/science blog

(03/27/13) Squids sprout wings, fly, ascending the evolutionary "chain of being" to become one with their humanoid brethren.

(03/26/13) The fractal legs of your antediluvian arthropod gods. Click to magnify

(03/25/13) A graphical timeline of all world religions

(03/24/13) Octopus teapot?

(03/23/13) Mystery clock embedded deep in NYC sidewalk

(03/22/13) What would happen if you tried to fly a normal Earth airplane above different Solar System bodies?

(03/21/13) The creator of Pringles was buried in a Pringles can

(03/20/13) Photo: One House Bay in Greece. The water is so clear that the boat seems to be floating on air

(03/19/13) Just how big is Antarctica REALLY?

(03/18/13) This amazing moonrise is unedited and shown in real time -- it is not a time lapse

(03/17/13) Proof of divine being discovered. Countries of world fit precisely into a chicken form

(03/16/13) Bon Iver - Holocene (mystic music). 6 million views. Boy following "shepherd" bird, which guides him through life

(03/15/13) Wow. "Mathematician" = best job in the U.S.

(03/14/13) A famous former leader of the IBM Research division, talking about basic research, galaxies, and chickens

(03/13/13) Man makes warm burger materialize from the quantum foam of space-time

(03/12/13) Pure math. Your fractal home of the future. (click to mag.)

(03/11/13) Fractal wall. Pure mathematics to hold back the hyper-dimensional waters. (click to mag.)

(03/10/13) Spiral clouds in the Himalayas stretch the imagination and spirit; digital creation

(03/09/13) Just how big is the United Kingdom, really?

(03/08/13) Vasili Arkhipov prevented the launch of a nuclear torpedo, thereby saving the world. AND you never heard of him

(03/07/13) Abe Lincoln + Fractals = Amazing!

(03/06/13) Dung beetles dream of galaxies in their ephemeral quest for transcendence and salvation

(03/05/13) Dream Mathematics. Origami beyond imagination

(03/04/13) Art made from bottle bottoms. Worth a look

(03/03/13) Dad spends 7 years on incredibly detailed maze

(03/01/13) Mysterious, skewed, anamorphic sculptures, & illusions by Jonty Hurwitz

(02/28/13) 1 TB now on a USB stick. Is that a Terabyte in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

(02/27/13) Philosopher fans. You can hear the actual voice of Bertrand Russell talking about Christianity

(02/26/13) Israel has world's highest number of scientists per capita at 135 scientists for every 100,000 workers.

(02/25/13) Math people: Enjoy the incredibly insane infinite power tower, x^x^x^x^x^x^x....

(02/24/13) Mysterious Hand-Drawn 3D Gifs by Dain Fagerholm

(02/23/13) Adonna Khare and her Pencil

(02/22/13) The inventor of Vaseline ate a spoonful of it everyday

(02/21/13) Golden Fractal. (Click to magnify)

(02/20/13) 3D Mandelbulb fractal mathematics can be strange -- beautiful and terrifying to look at

(02/19/13) Scientist J.B.S. Haldane was once asked what his study of biology had taught him about God. His answer is here

(02/17/13) Deep in the belly of New York’s subway system, a beautiful, mysterious, untouched station resides, forgotten

(02/16/13) Animated gifs come to life

(02/15/13) Lego man ripping apart his flesh and spilling his Lego innards

(02/14/13) How would you like to take a stroll through Favela? (photo)

(02/13/13) The most wonderful equation ever seen. The equation to rule them all

(02/12/13) Can 4 chords be used to magically generate a majority of great music?

(02/11/13) A map of every person in US and Canada -- with each person represented by a single dot!

(02/10/13) Did you know there's an all-female tribute band, "Lez Zeppelin." Listen

(02/08/13) Mathematical monomaniacal obsession destroys families, and, still, no one can understand the math

(02/07/13) Wow! 250,000,000 particles - animated fractal Mandelbulb, by Juanjo González

(02/06/13) Human face discovered trapped in man's testicle

(02/05/13) Geometrically Attractive Water Storage Well in Chand Baori - Abhaneri, India. Take a look

(02/04/13) Dog + Caterpillar = Dogerpillar

(02/03/13) Epic Conway's game of life -- such complexity as to make you weep for mathematical machine civilizations

(02/02/13) When better punctuation is needed. Take a look

(02/01/13) Wikipedia's most common word mapped to a country's boundary. Click to magnify.

(01/31/13) Carl Sagan denied tenure at Harvard University because his role as a 'popularizer' was considered unimportant (discussion)

(01/30/13) Spaghetti tree hoax from 1957

(01/29/13) Wikipedia: Cat organ is a musical instrument that consists of a line of cats fixed in place

(01/28/13) This is mathematics

(01/27/13) Elven Sky. Fractal. Click to magnify

(01/26/13) Imagine the algorithms running in this spider's brain as it seeks to leave reality

(01/25/13) New world of book publishing. "Dan Brown would never get published now, because his 1st 3 books sold nothing."

(01/24/13) "Math from the HOOD." Calculus

(01/23/13) Imagine spending an hour on this couch, with your mathematical lover

(01/22/13) 18-year-olds choose 100 words that represent crucial factors and concepts influencing trends in science today

(01/21/13) That '50 Shades of Grey' book is not as raunchy as you may have heard. Take a look at this image: safe for work

(01/20/13) Steps 1 to 6: Our universe: guaranteed to blow your mind

(01/19/13) Chomsky: "If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are."

(01/18/13) Imagine the joy of sucking on Saturn

(01/17/13) How to spot tourists

(01/16/13) My favorite 1-minute video on the mystery of Ultrafinitism and Israeli mathematician Doron Zeilberger

(01/15/13) My answer to Edge question: "What Should We Be Worried About?" Limits of Understanding

(01/14/13) Supposedly, this simple-looking math problem will crush your brain

(01/13/13) He finally did it! (Photo. Take a look)

(01/12/13) I'm really enjoying the book "How an Average Man Lived an Adventurous Life"

(01/11/13) Mystery Bed of Moss: Perhaps an abandoned Hotel somewhere in Europe

(01/10/13) How can you tell if you're dreaming? Here's the best answer

(01/09/13) Deep in the belly of New York’s subway system, a beautiful, mysterious, untouched station resides, forgotten

(01/08/13) The world's largest Amethyst Geode – The "Empress of Uruguay"

(01/07/13) Pure mathematics. This tree. This sunset. Transcendence

(01/06/13) Fractal Math + Canine = Scent of Blood. (Click to magnify.)

(01/05/13) Experts chat about misconceptions that people have about science

(01/04/13) Philip K. Dick is gone, but Get 11 Free Stories. And HERE is the Philip K. Dick documentary.

(01/03/13) Explore Everest today, in the safety of your room. Drag mouse and use mouse dial

(01/02/13) Peter Rowlett's favorite popular mathematics books

(01/01/13) Common Physics Misconceptions

(12/30/12) Strange illusion of flying people over New York City

(12/29/12) You should follow me on twitter HERE

(12/28/12) Man Walks All Day to Create Spectacular Math Snow Patterns

(12/27/12) 8 math talks to blow your mind

(12/26/12) Ikea job interview

(12/25/12) Man discovers plant leaf that looks strangely reminiscent of the fractal Mandelbrot set

(12/24/12) Visual depiction of the true meaning of a Ph.D. degree

(12/23/12) World of Cliff Pickover: "Images that Make us Dream"

(12/22/12) This is mathematics. This is fractal. This is transcendence

(12/21/12) Maria Popova's "10 Best History Books of 2012"

(12/20/12) Why mathematicians know that 2012 is indeed the end of the world

(12/19/12) LEGO model kit makes particle physics simple for school kids

(12/18/12) Mathematics. Intersecting circles more beautiful and complex than you imagined. Observe

(12/17/12) This is nature, more beautiful than dreams

(12/16/12) I made a Word Cloud for recent Tweets for @NYTObits (NY Times Obituaries Twitter stream). Like it?

(12/15/12) Tsundoku - useful Japanese word for the practice of buying books and then not reading them

(12/14/12) Ear earrings?

(12/13/12) Updated Edition of "SPIDER LEGS" ebook, by Piers Anthony and Cliff Pickover. Monsters lurk in the deep!

(12/12/12) Sugar and sulfuric acid combine for ultimate insanity

(12/11/12) Lego repair job

(12/10/12) Did the U.S. once have super-secret plans to nuke the moon?

(12/09/12) Nice! Ranked Number 1 Today. "The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection." See "Sneak Peek" to look inside

(12/08/12) Experience other realities: Cinematic Upside-Down Street Reflections

(12/07/12) New Scientist: holiday gift books recommendations. Fourth from top looks nice

(12/06/12) Amazing. Photographs captured with the shutter left open for TEN years

(12/05/12) What the heck does a math grad student do all day?

(12/04/12) Christmas in Fractal-Land. (Gorgeous graphic. Click to mag.)

(12/03/12) The most accurate pie chart I've ever seen

(12/02/12) This is how far human radio broadcasts have reached into the galaxy (click to magnify)

(12/01/12) Electron Microscope Zooms In: Finds Life on Life on Life

(11/30/12) Anatomy + Pastries = Anatomy Pastries (evilcakehead.com)

(11/29/12) I love this song "1957" by Milo Greene. Do you like it?

(11/28/12) Dr. Oliver Sacks: What I Learned from Hallucinogens

(11/27/12) Klein Bottle Opener, for higher-dimensional drinking needs

(11/26/12) I love 1/998001. Try it. You get all 3-digit numbers from 000 to 999 in order. Except for 998

(11/25/12) Mondrian Apple: taste mathematics (by Louis Davidson)

(11/24/12) 25 mind-blowing places that look insanely fake, but are actually real

(11/23/12) The Zombies rock group and the "Outer Limits" TV show, together. Nice

(11/22/12) Wonderful math paper title. "Love Affairs and Differential Equations"

(11/21/12) Best gravestone ever

(11/20/12) 20 most influential scientists recently alive. How many do we know?

(11/19/12) Fractal bee, entering higher dimensions

(11/18/12) Beautiful myterious time capsule: Parisian apartment untouched for over 70 years discovered

(11/17/12) Shiver in awe. Strange math birthday paradox

(11/16/12) New unusual interview today: "Cliff Pickover Brings Medical Science to Life with The Medical Book." Nice images

(11/15/12) My browser default is set to "wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Randompage". Every time I open my browser, I have a random glimpse at reality

(11/14/12) Star Trek Ambient Engine Noise (24-hours worth). I play this sound forever in my office. Let's see if anyone says something when they visit me

(11/13/12) Great interview: Oliver Sacks on Star Trek, Bach, schmaltz herring, and more

(11/12/12) Woman goes deliciously insane, constructing frightening fractals from colorful candies

(11/11/12) Mysterious clockwork monk from the 1560s haunts our dreams

(11/10/12) Semi-robotic hands poised in a bizarre futuristic Escher motif. Who are the makers of tomorrow?

(11/09/12) Boy with Asperger's interviews mom: "Did I turn out to be the son you wanted when I was born?"

(11/08/12) Wind map. Intriguing

(11/07/12) Human body has changed more in past 100 years than in previous 50,000. Adults are 50% heavier and 4 inches taller

(11/06/12) Bizarre Fibonacci cabinet enthralls geometric people of all ages

(11/05/12) 3 guitars, to get you in the mood

(11/04/12) The cover of Benoit Mandelbrot's new memoir depicts fractal Mandelbrot sets emerging from his hair

(11/03/12) Dreamscape. Eye organ of fruit fly larvae, by Michael John Bridge

(11/02/12) See, hear, and speak no evil. Spooky photos of real bat embryos, by Dorit Hockman

(11/01/12) Mysterious old images: Stories of a Hollow Earth

(10/31/12) Imagine the gasps of emotion of Thomas Jefferson or Ben Franklin if they could have glimpsed this eye-catching American scene

(10/30/12) Cool fractal art installation: beyond infinity

(10/28/12) How many of these oddly named mathematical objects from "The Math Book" have you heard of?

(10/27/12) Real photo of a Seagull Flying Straight Towards the Camera of photographer Brutus Östling

(10/25/12) News flash. German court rules on a claim that the Large Hadron Collider will destroy the Earth

(10/24/12) Math, love, togetherness

(10/23/12) The Hands Resist Him, also known as The eBay Haunted Painting, featured at Wikipedia. Shiver in fear

(10/22/12) "Strange Enough" Interview. "Clifford Pickover is probably the coolest scientist and science writer on the planet"

(10/21/12) Thoughts on the planet named Kolob

(10/20/12) The Official "Tangled Cable" Appreciation Page (updated)

(10/19/12) Imagine taking 330 pounds of lipstick and cramming it into one huge cube

(10/18/12) A fractal technicolor moss at 10x magnification

(10/17/12) Fractal slugs creep along a sphere, searching for meaning in a universe far from our own

(10/16/12) Six terrifying experiments parents did on their own kids

(10/15/12) Strange and amazing math-lifeforms result from a floating-point version of Game of Life

(10/14/12) This is mathematics. Shiver in awe

(10/13/12) Woman, penetrating dimensions of time and space (graphic)

(10/12/12) How many triangles are in this blue image? 92.6% of Americans get this question wrong

(10/11/12) Breaking news: ALL credit card pin codes in the world leaked

(10/10/12) Dine with the gods, using fractal forks, spoons, and knives

(10/09/12) Play as God, and write your name in a galactic font beyond imagination

(10/08/12) It would be interesting to explore this landscape (photo)

(10/07/12) Ghostly, tormented figures unable to pull themselves apart from their decaying bodies

(10/06/12) Is it true that the number of possible different games of chess is larger than the number of atoms in the universe?

(10/05/12) There are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves in a game of chess

(10/04/12) Synchronization of metronomes: metaphor for mysterious tie that binds us all in the dance of life

(10/03/12) Very cool. Look at what the FA-18 Super Hornet does at high speed, near these humans on a beach

(10/02/12) "Smart" people (IQ > 125) are more likely to consume psychoactive drugs than low-IQ people. Here's why

(10/01/12) 10 scientific and technological visionaries who experimented with drugs

(09/30/12) How they really made Stonehenge. (picture)

(09/29/12) Everything you thought you knew about "aesthetics" and the "golden ratio" is wrong. Here's why (PDF)

(09/28/12) The Singularity Summit: the World's Leading Conference on Emerging Technologies. Use discount code "REALITY" for $100 off registration

(09/27/12) Here is very famous number called Champernowne's number: 0.1234567891011121314... Do you see how it is created?

(09/26/12) Maria Popova, born in Bulgaria, reveals some fascinating and provacative images: From Witch Doctors to Cloning

(09/25/12) The 101 Most Useful Websites of 2012

(09/24/12) Learn about psychedelic fractal mathematics, and dream

(09/23/12) Beneath the mysterious waters of the Sea of Japan, strange symbolic artworks have been spontaneously appearing

(09/22/12) The Candy-Land Number: 39.1610869536765400409....

(09/21/12) An alien landscape, created by powerful beings who have lost their minds while dreaming of the Riemann Hypothesis

(09/20/12) Great Neatorama review: Witch Doctors, Biological Weapons, Microbiome Zoo, Maggot Therapy, Cancer Chemotherapy from Chemical Warfare, Self-surgery!

(09/19/12) Technological mandalas made from soldered computer and radio components

(09/18/12) Fractal cybernetic penis of a being living in a world happier than our own

(09/17/12) World's most-wonderful number problem, in principle solvable by a student before high school. It will drive you insane

(09/16/12) Bizarre video of seemingly disembodied vocal cords singing and praying to an unseen God

(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, Napoleon 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

(12/31/10) Happy New Year on this fractal stairway to heaven

(12/30/10) Butterfly curves

(12/29/10) Living in a progressively more complicated cityscape (scroll down)

(12/28/10) "Futurology: The tricky art of knowing what will happen next"

(12/27/10) Fractals + German biologist Ernst Haeckel = A horrifying, alien, Lovecraftian Nightmare

(12/26/10) A few famous mind-numbing paradoxes

(12/25/10) An entire universe in a mathematical Mandelbulb realm beyond ordinary imagination

(12/25/10) Christmas fractal for all Reality Carnival visitors

(12/24/10) Visualization of world progress (video)

(12/22/10) Teja Krasek and musical life forms

(12/21/10) Ant swarms acting like fluids (video)

(12/20/10) Video discussion on the "first quantum machine"

(12/19/10) Hooray! "The Math Book" finally made Number 1 Best-Seller at Scientific American Book Club (on Sunday afternoon)!

(12/19/10) Gold nanoparticles transform trees into mysterious street lights?

(12/18/10) Amorina Ashton's Alien Nest

(12/17/10) Martin Gardner, Stephen Hawking, Benoit Mandelbrot, Isaac Asimov

(12/16/10) Stunning Facebook friendship map of connections around the world

(12/15/10) Strange homes beyond imagination (scroll down)

(12/14/10) Wikipedia has a list of its "Most Wanted Articles"

(12/13/10) The Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known scientific computer

(12/12/10) Strange video involving the singing of the digits of pi

(12/11/10) Many siblings have very different personalities. Why?

(12/10/10) Odd educational song about the Black Plague

(12/09/10) Hyper-detailed simluated reality: largest model train exhibition in the world

(12/08/10) 20 most influential scientists alive today

(12/07/10) Nazi scientists proposed creating a giant space mirror to burn enemy nations

(12/06/10) Is Death the End? Experiments Suggest You Create Time

(12/05/10) Sushi photos of the week

(12/04/10) Amazon selling color/hardcover "The Math Book" for nearly half price. Nice Holiday Gift?

(12/03/10) Fractal Gods of the Apocalypse

(12/01/10) Strange clock, formed by roving nude cartoon men. (Click to toggle analog/digital)

(11/30/10) "Being a professor is not the job I thought it would be"

(11/29/10) 5 famous scientists dismissed as morons in their time

(11/28/10) The surreal treehoppers

(11/27/10) The AMY project attempts by physics experiments alone to discover whether the world is a dream or not!

(11/26/10) Naked people in the fourth dimension. Enjoy

(11/25/10) Alien Thanksgiving?

(11/24/10) Examples of wrong scientific beliefs that were held for long periods

(11/23/10) The rise of Mobius stories

(11/22/10) A rare combination of Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke in dialogue

(11/21/10) Einstein Maze (for you or your kids)

(11/20/10) We believe that the easiest way to change people's behavior for the better is by making it fun to do

(11/18/10) My favorite mind-boggling gears. What's your favorite?

(11/17/10) What if the Largest Countries had the Largest Populations?

(11/16/10) Auditory/optical illusion known as the McGurk Effect

(11/15/10) The man who writes students' papers tells his story

(11/14/10) Madness via alternate feline realities

(11/13/10) A school of fish form a complex super-structure and hive mind

(11/11/10) Living with a friendly dog in a polyhedral home

(11/10/10) 50 interesting facts about Pi

(11/09/10) Why Richard Feynman can't tell you how magnets work

(11/08/10) Surprising inventions by famous people

(11/07/10) Steampunk jewelry becoming popular

(11/06/10) Ralph Gomory: The Innovation Delusion

(11/05/10) Platinum, Snails, Slugs

(11/04/10) Scientific American has an audio interview with me on mathematics, strange creatures, and beyond

(11/03/10) Robots with fingerless hands will one day rule the world

(11/02/10) Wandering slowly through Japan's "Suicide Forest"

(11/01/10) 20 die in air disaster after smuggled crocodile escapes on a plane

(10/31/10) Complex mathematical problem solved by bees

(10/30/10) Mathematicians in love with fractal analysis of crumpled wads of paper

(10/29/10) Top-Ten Afterlife Movies

(10/28/10) The fractal dimension of every interesting fractal object

(10/27/10) Helping chickens enter the afterlife

(10/26/10) 1st nonmammalian species can claim membership in this exclusive club of self-awareness

(10/25/10) Alien-like ring evolving on Sun

(10/24/10) On the beauty of magnetic cows

(10/23/10) Strange live-crab vending machine

(10/22/10) I went into the isolation tank to see if it was possible to kill time

(10/21/10) Death holds no sting: new studies on effects of psychedelics

(10/20/10) Let's dive into the Mandelbulb fractal

(10/19/10) Art, mind, spirit, transcendence

(10/18/10) Twitter Mood Can PREDICT the Stock Market, Study Says

(10/17/10) Bake some fractal cookies to honor the amazing life of Benoit Mandelbrot, father of fractal geometry.

(10/16/10) "Vampire numbers for dummies"

(10/15/10) Strange, creative, or artistic scientific maps

(10/14/10) Dr. Michio Kaku on everything from time pretzels to escaping to parallel universes

(10/13/10) Computers, Japanese Chess, and the nature of mind

(10/12/10) Optical Illusions from Bill Nye & Jerry Andress

(10/11/10) Fractal necklace and beyond

(10/09/10) Fractal love

(10/08/10) Fractal Chess

(10/07/10) Wikipedia's updated list of common misconceptions

(10/06/10) Pi necklace accurate to 100th decimal place

(10/05/10) Polyhedral cantaloupe

(10/04/10) Six-dimensional tic tac toe

(10/03/10) White peacocks are real

(10/02/10) Flowering people

(10/01/10) 13 things that do not make sense

(09/30/10) The creators of the world were closer to men than to gods, argues John Gribbin

(09/29/10) Wikipedia's list of common misconceptions

(09/28/10) Mysterious Bach on glass harp

(09/27/10) Mandelbrot fractal mask

(09/26/10) A living wall of sand descends upon us all -- apocalyptic

(09/25/10) Insane-looking mask, of unusual origins, gazes into the secrets of your soul

(09/24/10) Is the deity a nonlocal quantum mind?

(09/23/10) Alien within alien within alien within alien... (by Jared)

(09/22/10) My fractal heart beats for you

(09/21/10) On the creation of ultra-complex air systems by intelligent termite "hive minds"

(09/20/10) Fractal Snowflake + Cupcakes = Serious Math

(09/19/10) "Stephen Hawking's 'new' theory of everything is the same old CRAP"? (over 130 comments)

(09/18/10) Man discovers ant death spiral

(09/17/10) Image of the day: Stonehenge made from Twinkies

(09/16/10) Each time you visit, you see a new quirky alien

(09/15/10) 100 important mathematical equations drawn on board: How many can we name? (magnify photo if you wish)

(09/14/10) Quantum physics adds twist to chess

(09/13/10) If you jump into a hole through the Earth, how long does it take you to reach the other side?

(09/12/10) "13 Books Nobody's Read But Say They Have"

(09/11/10) Kiki-Kaku-God

(09/10/10) Conquest of earth by electric snakes

(09/09/10) World in a toilet paper roll

(09/08/10) Earthbound insects in an enchanted forest

(09/07/10) What's The Next Big Trend in SF Literature?

(09/06/10) Stephen Hawking says universe not created by God

(09/05/10) LSD, Cary Grant, and Europe

(09/04/10) Long mp3 interview on the amazing author Robert Heinlein.

(09/03/10) A Mandelbrot-set fractal, with skeleton perched inside

(09/02/10) I often love classic books transformed into "graphic novels." Do you?

(09/01/10) Futurama Writer Created and Proved a wonderful Mathematical Theorem Just for One Episode

(08/31/10) Does the Past Exist Yet?

(08/30/10) Information and simulated reality

(08/29/10) Taste infinity: fractal pecan pie

(08/28/10) Rubik's Cube head

(08/21/10) Why doesn't Batman just kill his arch-nemesis, the murderous Joker?

(08/20/10) The utter mystery of the Confuzzle

(08/19/10) Miss Cellania's hottest math shapes

(08/18/10) Man discovers largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island

(08/17/10) Math art related to the Mandelbulb and Mandelbox

(08/16/10) Sushi image of the week

(08/15/10) Type in your own Name to find your favorite images. Please also try Clifford Pickover, Pickover, and Cliff Pickover

(08/14/10) Androids: all is love

(08/13/10) Flying into a dimethyltryptamine fractal cathedral

(08/12/10) Man, beer, cigarette, Klein bottle

(08/11/10) David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 min

(08/10/10) In the year 2525 (a futuristic song from the past)

(08/09/10) Christopher Hitchens on his cancer diagnosis and whether it has changed his thoughts on God

(08/08/10) Inspirations in ice

(08/07/10) Wander with someone you love in this Medieval fractal

(08/06/10) Please enjoy this fractal garden of Eden. If only we could find God in its infinite depths

(08/05/10) Please enjoy this woman's Mandelbrot-set tattoo in the complex plane

(08/04/10) Please enjoy this shiny fractal cow

(08/03/10) Questioning the Wisdom of Teaching With Technology

(08/02/10) I typed Fractal Girl into Google and found this image at weird-art.com

(08/01/10) 'The Best Writing Advice I Ever Received...'

(07/31/10) Stross: how many people does it take to maintain our current level of technological civilization?

(07/30/10) Somewhere over the rainbow eucalyptus

(07/29/10) Is this the Dawning of the Age of the Anthropocene?

(07/28/10) Tesseracts on parade

(07/27/10) Japanese create robot butterflies that confound viewers of all ages

(07/26/10) Fractal Drums and beyond

(07/25/10) Fractal cows and other topologies

(07/24/10) A study of near-death experiences (PDF)

(07/23/10) New site: Over 50 years of IBM Journals, from checkers-playing machines to fractals

(07/22/10) Dealers supply "digital drugs" that get you high through your headphones?

(07/21/10) Man discovers human eye weighing 220,000 pounds

(07/20/10) Giant sculpture of mathematical interest, which replicates the Ishango bone

(07/19/10) Spontaneous evolution of song-like structure in a train

(07/18/10) What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning?

(07/17/10) Hot women's fashion reminiscent of skeletal systems

(07/16/10) Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals (TED talk)

(07/15/10) Recyling center for Klein bottles

(07/13/10) What I'd wish I'd known when I was 18

(07/12/10) Galaxies on a string

(07/11/10) Even the meek deer can have power and control when engaging dogs

(07/10/10) Doomsday weapons: a photographic retrospective

(07/09/10) ET-inspired fashion show

(07/08/10) Martin Gardner's Tic Tac Toe Trick (video)

(07/07/10) Fly through a strange 3D fractal

(07/06/10) List of most expensive paintings

(07/05/10) NASA Finds Crack in Universe

(07/04/10) Swiss watch in a tomb dating back to the Ming dynasty

(07/03/10) Aurora Australis

(07/02/10) Five ways to become happier today

(07/01/10) Thoughts on the future of humanity

(06/30/10) Are we overlooking alien beacons?

(06/29/10) Simpson's Statistical Paradox: Results for a whole group may be the exact opposite of each part

(06/28/10) Steven Strogatz's complete 15-part series on mathematics in the New York Times

(06/27/10) What bizarre planet do these alien creatures inhabit?

(06/26/10) What a bookshelf!

(06/25/10) Jon Stewart ponders the future of energy...

(06/24/10) First replicating creature spawned in Life simulator

(06/23/10) Woman content living in microscopic dream home

(06/22/10) Sam Harris on the mystery of death

(06/21/10) The Bizarre and Wonderful World of Quantum Theory and How Understanding It Has Ultimately Changed our Lives

(06/20/10) Philip Zimbardo on "The Secret Powers of Time"

(06/19/10) What 3 Web sites most stimulate leading thinkers and writers?

(06/18/10) Jews are deeply united by their genetic infrastructures

(06/17/10) What Americans used to read: Bestselling books for each decade of the 20th century

(06/16/10) Ulysses as a graphic novel online

(06/15/10) Bizarre alien-like fish

(06/14/10) Ten of the Greatest Math Puzzles

(06/13/10) Which Vladimir Kush painting is your favorite?

(06/12/10) Creating unholy malformations of the Rubik's Cube

(06/11/10) Discovery of an insane 3D maze-city of Kowloon

(06/10/10) Exploring time travel and alternate history in books, movies, TV, and pop culture

(06/09/10) Self-publish on Kindle. Sell 36,000 e-books. Get film deal

(06/08/10) "Religion is a spandrel piggybacking on adaptations such as orgasm"

(06/07/10) Incredible space image taken in the "Lockman hole." Each speck is an entire galaxy. Shiver at the immensity

(06/06/10) Creation of sand mandala

(06/05/10) Aliens Found in Ohio?

(06/04/10) Thoughts on alien languages

(06/03/10) The early universe on your USB memory stick

(06/02/10) "The future of book publishing: 18 million authors in America, each with an average of 14 readers"

(06/01/10) Drugs, snails, and the mind

(05/31/10) Asperger's, atheism, and the quest for transcendence

(05/30/10) 8-Month-Old Baby Hears for First Time

(05/29/10) Janna Levin drawing exotic formulas, contemplating the deepest recesses of reality

(05/28/10) Futuristic Waterscraper Architecture

(05/27/10) Bookshelf "porn": A collection of all the best bookshelf photos

(05/26/10) Fractal Foundation: Inspiring Interest in Science, Math, and Art Through Fractals

(05/25/10) What the Kindle's most highlighted passages say about humanity

(05/24/10) An actual interstellar alien beacon? (Click photo)

(05/23/10) Science/Math Journalist Martin Gardner, my inspiration, died. Here a few links in memorium: (1) a video, (2) very last article published by Martin Gardner (discussing Oprah Winfrey), (3) Ivars Peterson, (4) Obituary, (5) James Randi

(05/22/10) Disturbing and emotional SF short story wins award (Warning: strong language)

(05/21/10) Mike Naylor's Naked Geometry

(05/20/10) Cancer, strawberries, Earl Grey tea, cooked tomatoes, and beyond

(05/19/10) A rare glimpse of Pac Man's skull

(05/18/10) Everything you wanted to know about mathematics and art

(05/17/10) Theoretical physicist Janna Levin on Colbert show

(05/15/10) Different sizes of infinity: Enter the mysterious Hilbert's Hotel

(05/14/10) Creature in sonic liquid

(05/13/10) UFO Lamps complete with abducted animal

(05/12/10) Alien visual message to humanity found in outer space?

(05/11/10) Scientists find: Beautiful women are bad for your health

(05/10/10) Scientists discover Hand of God in outer space

(05/09/10) "Real-Time Science URLs"

(05/08/10) "Deep fried sushi" image of the day

(05/07/10) Free tool. Push a button & get a URL. Start typing into it with all your friends. See what they write in real time. Collaborate.

(05/06/10) Imagine walking into these rooms...

(05/05/10) Free clip art, for any purpose. No credit needed

(05/04/10) Mind, dreams, drugs, reality

(05/03/10) Fascinating Reality Puzzles in The New York Times today! Tell your friends. Win a book

(05/02/10) Eternal Scream - A Droste Recursion Effect

(05/01/10) Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking

(04/30/10) Reports of luminous seas

(04/29/10) "The zombie roach crawls where its master leads"

(04/28/10) Circular walking bookshelf

(04/27/10) Time traveler caught in 1940 photo?

(04/26/10) Woman emerges, embryonic, from plastic sheath

(04/24/10) Penetration (safe for work)

(04/23/10) An infinite cosmic garden of budding stars

(04/22/10) A book perhaps made by combining pseudorandom entries in Wikipedia, binding them, and selling them

(04/21/10) Nice multi-track musical recording: 2 people in one small room

(04/20/10) Fermi believed in aliens? What a paradox

(04/19/10) Earthworms form herds and hive minds to make decisions

(04/18/10) American hip hop duo discusses mysteries, science, and the wonders of the universe (warning: rough language)

(04/17/10) This is not a spiral

(04/16/10) I typed Good and Evil into Google and found this nice fractal (created by ChaosPro 3.3 Fractal Software)

(04/15/10) Unusual review of "The Secret" at Amazon.com causes a stir. (Read entire review)

(04/14/10) Sushi transfers genes to your gut

(04/13/10) Entropy, eggs, and rifles

(04/12/10) On the rapid, semi-automated insertion of strange Wikipedia-based books in Amazon.com

(04/11/10) Report on the conference devoted to polymath Martin Gardner

(04/10/10) Early interface designs make me thankful for the modern-day keyboard

(04/09/10) Insectile dreams

(04/08/10) Brian Greene, string theory, higher dimensions, and beyond (video)

(04/07/10) Large Hadron Collider with Lisa Randall of Harvard and Kyle Cranmer of NYU (video)

(04/06/10) Woman begins experiments with Mobius music box

(04/05/10) Cartoon involving time machine

(04/04/10) Ocean waves and mysticism

(04/03/10) Fibonacci spiral?

(04/02/10) If you follow me on twitter, you can be rapidly notified about additional interesting headlines and ideas

(03/31/10) Dreamlike animation illustrating Fibonacci sequence, Golden Ratio, and more

(03/30/10) Hairy-looking fractal

(03/29/10) Learning about the catenary curve (nice video)

(03/25/10) Fish with a see-through head

(03/24/10) Five Ways to Become Happier Today

(03/23/10) Hive mind solves high-dimensional Tic-Tac-Toe problem

(03/22/10) Joanne talks about physicist Paul Dirac

(03/21/10) A lament for the bookshelf

(03/20/10) Hand-eye coordination

(03/16/10) How many of these predictions from the year 1900 have come true?

(03/15/10) Last Person on Earth--What Would You Do?

(03/14/10) French village went insane after CIA spiked its bread with LSD

(03/13/10) Research shows: If you go on a virtual date first, the real-life date will be MUCH better

(03/12/10) Here's how you can publish directly to the Kindle and bypass a publisher (scroll down)

(03/11/10) Identify the formulas behind the naked woman known as @avflox on twitter

(03/10/10) "Experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently (video)

(03/09/10) Lisa Randall on "higher dimensions"

(03/08/10) 137-year archive of Popular Science for free browsing

(03/07/10) Martin Luther King and Star Trek

(03/06/10) How Star Trek Should Have Ended

(03/05/10) Hooray. Library Journal selects best math book of 2009

(03/04/10) Brain size and intelligence

(03/03/10) Horrifying insect-like entity discovered in a garden. Your pulse will race when you see this

(03/02/10) Mystery photos. When and where were these photos taken?

(03/01/10) Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works

(02/28/10) Bookshelf wallpaper

(02/27/10) Questioning the anthropic principle

(02/26/10) Michael Shermer gives his opinion on his dinner with Bill Gates and other great minds

(02/25/10) Are aliens free from original sin?

(02/24/10) Carl Sagan on Drake Equation

(02/23/10) Christopher Hitchens debates religious Catholics (video)

(02/22/10) I noticed that Google scanned in my latest all-color book, "The Math Book"

(02/21/10) Historic, incredible, revolutionary change in book publishing

(02/20/10) Wouldn't you have liked to have been invited to this dinner?

(02/19/10) The wisdom of the hive: is the Web a threat to creativity and cultural values?

(02/18/10) Heroic altruistic ants face death alone to save colony

(02/17/10) Does the Geneva Wheel mechanism intrigue you?

(02/16/10) May God Have Mercy on the Superplexus Puzzle

(02/15/10) A brain lives in your intestine

(02/14/10) The perils of recursion

(02/12/10) A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything

(02/11/10) Brain surgery boosts spirituality

(02/10/10) How to Create an Instant Bestselling Novel

(02/09/10) Take fish oil, and stay completely sane

(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....

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