(09/15/12) Continue to look into the eyes of this 3D cat, until your soul and mind turn into subatomic transcendent mush
(09/14/12) Did you know that mammoths were alive until 1650 BC -- after the pyramids of Egypt....
(09/13/12) 6 Small Math Errors That Caused Huge Disasters
(09/12/12) Believe it or not, this is an image of salt and pepper (via topdesignmag.com)
(09/11/12) The marvel of nature & humanity: water drop collision, under a soap bubble, in a glass of water. High-speed photography: Worlds within worlds
(09/10/12) A photographic gallery of fractals found with Google Earth
(09/09/12) If you've not heard about Benford's Law before, you're in for a real treat with this post
(09/08/12) Interesting concept. Write a letter to your future self
(09/07/12) Wondrous visualization of mysterious patterns in prime numbers
(09/06/12) Can we wind back the hands of time, using colored liquids, and find the beings who created the fabric of reality?
(09/05/12) The history of physics is the history of modern civilization. The Universe in a Nutshell
(09/04/12) Beautiful video by Jason Silva on the power of Awe
(09/03/12) Gorgeous circuit board table
(09/02/12) Review of my latest book by a supercentenarian-ologist L. Stephen Coles, M.D., Ph.D.
(09/01/12) I don't know what this photo shows, but it is curious looking
(08/31/12) Fractal mathematics gives rise to surface of immense complexity (by 0Encrypted0)
(08/30/12) Biology cell cake. Mmmm, delicious mitochondria.
(08/29/12) Wouldn't it be fun to go on a date with someone wearing an intestine necklace?
(08/28/12) "Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares." ~Dan Dennett
(08/27/12) What really happen when you type Askew into Google search?
(08/26/12) Green T4 Bacteriophage Earrings -- for your viral lovers
(08/25/12) Fractals are extremely intricate, with lots of details to explore (by HalTenny)
(08/24/12) Tasty thought. If the moon were made of spareribs, it would have 7.34x10^26 calories. Here's how I found out
(08/23/12) Can space-time paths of 6-photon scattering form great art?
(08/22/12) Renfield's Syndrome: A Mysterious Case of Real-Life Vampirism
(08/21/12) A class of 4th graders was asked to write haikus. One child wrote this. Like it?
(08/20/12) Hooters waitress thinks her prize will be a Toyota, but is shocked to see it is a "toy Yoda." Lawsuit follows
(08/19/12) 3D-printed prosthetic arm for little girl. Brings a tear to the eyes. Technology and transcendence
(08/18/12) A fractal that looks archeological but is generated from pure math (by SuicideBySafetyPin)
(08/17/12) A fractal flower for your higher-dimensional lover
(08/16/12) Man tattoos Leviticus 18:22 that forbids homosexuality on his arm. But Leviticus 19:28 forbids tattoos. (thanks Matt Parker)
(08/15/12) Sunrise as no human has ever seen it -- on Mars
(08/14/12) "LSD absolutely helped mathematicians, artists, & scientists solve their complex, seemingly intractable problems"
(08/13/12) Teja Krasek, a Slovenian artist, created a video review of "The Medical Book," highlighting her favorite images:
trepanation, heart transplants, neurotransmitters, cause of the bubonic plague, prosopagnosia, glass eyes, viruses...
(08/13/12) Extinct Cephalopod falls in love within mathematics and geometry
(08/12/12) Wow. Urine Escher
(08/11/12) Celebrate! Finally available, in living color. Near-death experiences, leech therapy, Carl Jung, face transplants, bio-weapons, test-tube babies, positrons! If you order this, please let me know what you think and which image is your favorite!
(08/10/12) More than 1,000 Earths could fit inside Jupiter. Cool visualization for kids of all ages
(08/09/12) Cool math teacher, and cool math
(08/08/12) How to draw a surprisingly lifelike horse, in 5 easy steps
(08/07/12) Keep watching until end. Looks almost like science fiction: mind-boggling movie made from the ISS (space station)
(08/06/12) Breathtaking view of the Milky Way from the surface of Mars
(08/05/12) The Curta Calculator was created by a prisoner in a German concentration camp. Take a look
(08/04/12) Vast fungal networks form hive mind for tree-to-tree communication: a behemoth botanical brain
(08/03/12) Aliens factor prime numbers in DMT-induced reality (PDF science paper)
(08/02/12) The tiger walks slowly, to the burning bush of an apocalypse
(08/01/12) "Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living"
(07/31/12) Oh Lord, But how do you eat it?
(07/30/12) Alien Lights: Illuminated Landscapes by Benoit Paille
(07/29/12) Translucent ants photographed eating colored liquids
(07/28/12) North Korea children playing the guitar
(07/27/12) What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?
(07/26/12) This TV weather report is sure to appeal to those with apocalyptic interests
(07/25/12) Fascinating. The Charlie Rose Brain Series
(07/24/12) Somewhere Over the Brainbow
(07/23/12) Humans will never find a factorion number larger than 40,585 (pdf)
(07/22/12) A phantom period of 300 yrs has been inserted between 600AD-900AD?
(07/21/12) 69,696 is the largest undulating square humans will ever find (pdf)
(07/20/12) Scream in ecstasy. 727272727272727272727272727 272727272727272727272727272 727272727272727272727272727 272727272727272727 (one long number, with no spaces) is prime
(07/19/12) Anton's Brain Syndrome: when blind people deny they are blind, despite evidence
(07/18/12) Random people on the Brooklyn streets try to guess what the Higgs Boson is
(07/17/12) Exoplanets: all known planets arranged in a delicious circular candy
(07/16/12) Insane but true: It's actually possible to compress your JPEG files by 500% with no quality loss
(07/14/12) A boy leaves his bike near a tree in 1954, and finds it this way today
(07/13/12) Woman in miniskirt: Appealing to all H.P. Lovecraft fans
(07/12/12) H.P. Lovecraft answers your relationship questions
(07/11/12) "A thetan weighs about 1.5 ounces [45 grams]," says doctor who weighed people after their deaths
(07/10/12) Poll asked voters which US presidential candidate better at repelling space alien attack
(07/09/12) 5 people playing a single guitar, together
(07/08/12) More than a third of divorce filings last year contained the word "Facebook"
(07/07/12) Bizarre Israeli and American Vortex Beams transmit 2.5 terabits per second. The Vortex Age has begun
(07/06/12) Give a spiral Klein bottle to someone you love, in this dimension or the next
(07/05/12) Why make passwords hard to remember, when this approach is so simple & secure?
(07/03/12) Wow! If you put all earth's water in one place, it'd look like this
(07/02/12) "So damn attractive." The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection
(07/01/12) Why "Nigerian" email scammers actually say they're from Nigeria
(06/30/12) Net sales revenue from eBooks surpass hardcover books, pointing to a historical moment in publishing
(06/29/12) For some reason, this semi-erotic cover featuring a naked Tarzan really makes me laugh
(06/28/12) DMT fractal entity, gazing into the depths of your soul
(06/27/12) Imagine going pleasurably insane, playing on this fractal chess board
(06/26/12) Escher, Einstein, Atomic
(06/25/12) Theremin's device, called THE THING, was used by the Soviet Union to spy on the United States
(06/24/12) Listening intently for subterranean kittens
(06/23/12) Transit of Venus, modern-art wine glass arrangement
(06/22/12) Mystical portrait: Amazing beauty and diversity of New York City
(06/21/12) Sherwin Nuland on the development of electroshock therapy as a cure for severe depression -- including his own
(06/20/12) Necrofantasia: a piano song requiring a mutant 50-fingered pianist.
Also see Hardest piano song ever
(06/19/12) Surreal photo makes Mexico City's densely populated hills look like an urban ocean
(06/18/12) Sam Harris - Death and the Present Moment
(06/17/12) Living in a strange universe filled with uprisings of sausages and hotdogs
(06/16/12) Don't you you just LOVE this fractal gear wallpaper?
(06/15/12) The fractal gears of the sentient universe turn endlessly. (Also see this one.)
(06/14/12) Birds fly from my eyes, into the ocean of reality
(06/13/12) Autism-God Study. Why autistic people don't believe in God
(06/12/12) Head of Benoit Mandelbrot, fractal pioneer, represented as a fractal
(06/11/12) Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes
(06/10/12) What is it like to have an understanding of very advanced mathematics?
(06/09/12) Are you interested in "The Medical Book: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons"? If you have a popular blog, maybe I can get you a review copy
(06/08/12) The 11 Best Science Books of 2011, by Maria Popova
(06/07/12) Shiver in awe. 1034482758620689655172413793 is the smallest 3-parastic number humans will ever find
(06/06/12) Einstein explains E=mc^2, in rare original audio
(06/05/12) Nibble on fractal pancakes for an eternity
(06/04/12) Poisoned, paratrooper mice descend upon humanity
(06/02/12) Wikipedia's list of misconceptions about illegal drugs
(06/01/12) THE MEDICAL BOOK: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons! Pre-order today to lock-in a great price for a 528-page hardcover color book. Topics: near-death experiences, leech therapy, self-experimentation, test-tube babies, face transplants, biological weapons, circumcision, and more�.
(05/31/12) The delta of the Lena River in northern Siberia (left) and a cast of a human lung (right)
(05/30/12) Strange title of the week: "Zookeeper reportedly licks baby monkey's anus for over an hour"
(05/29/12) Unbelievable physics of domino fallings. Can you really knock over the Empire State building with 1-inch domino?
(05/27/12) Head blood vessels, floating forlornly in a sea of eternity
(05/26/12) 100 billion times more viscous than water
(05/25/12) Hartverdrahtet: an audio-visual trip into a procedural fractalverse, compressed into a minuscule software fragment
(05/24/12) Meth king spends drug empire's money on 18,753 comic books
(05/23/12) A kind of strange competition between spherical magnetic people
(05/22/12) A simulation of Conway�s Game of Life inside a bigger version of the Game of Life
(05/21/12) Fear the Claw of Archimedes
(05/20/12) Why humans go insane thinking about 998,001
(05/19/12) Unusual compendium. Last 10 Seconds of Every Episode of 1st Season of "Star Trek: Next Gen"
(05/18/12) Mysterious Himalayan Honey Hunters, risking their lives to harvest Earth's largest honeybees
(05/17/12) Where do Muslims exist on Earth today? (cartogram)
(05/16/12) For some reason, I just love photos of complex, Moog synthesizers. Do you?
(05/15/12) Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind
(05/14/12) A list of members of the cursed "27 Club"
(05/13/12) Which books were on the NYT bestseller list the day you were born?
(05/12/12) Updated. Disappearing Pencil puzzle drives the world crazy. Try it on your friends
(05/11/12) A number so large it will cause your head to collapse into a black hole
(05/10/12) Round peg fits better into square hole than square peg into round hole, up to the 9th dimension
(05/09/12) Does this path have an infinite length? [animated gif]
(05/08/12) Mobius Cake, Mobius Bacon, Mobius Ship
(05/07/12) Wonderful math theorems that sound like kids should know about them
(05/06/12) When Einstein Met Rabindranath Tagore -- truth and beauty and science and spirituality
(05/05/12) Study determines that this is the most relaxing song, ever
(05/04/12) Teja Krasek is a Slovenian artist interested in mathematics, art, music, surrealism, and more. Here is her colorful YouTube channel
(05/03/12) Wow, ancient Sumerian proverbs (pdf)
(05/02/12) Intriguing. US Patent. Flame-throwing musical trumpet
(05/01/12) The Vikings didn�t wear horned helmets, Napof wasn�t short, and other historical myths debunked
(04/30/12) "With matter, as with people, we see only the skin of things; we can't see into the 'engine room.'"
(04/29/12) Most Highlighted Passages of All Time on Amazon Kindle!
(04/28/12) Let's get together, and enjoy the Pizza Theorem
(04/27/12) A conversation with physicists/authors Brian Greene & Lawrence Krauss. (Like the Jewish doctor joke.)
(04/26/12) Bizarre "cyborg clams" power motor, setting stage for mythopoeic molluscan marvels beyond imagination
(04/25/12) Insane brain Rubik's Cube shocks and delights
(04/24/12) A strange book on fish nearly killed Isaac Newton's career
(04/23/12) Provocative. Dietary saturated fat not associated with increased risk of heart disease?
(04/21/12) In-depth discussion of the most famous guitar cord in rock history
(04/20/12) Just-published issue of "IBM Journal of Research & Development" on Watson/Jeopardy and futuristic artificial intelligence (AI)
(04/19/12) Martin Gardner, The Beauty and Mystery of Mathematics, free iPad app
(04/18/12) Glimpse of the Future. Shanghai 1990 vs 2010. Nice photo comparison?
(04/17/12) Intriguing. 51% of people diagnosed with cancer die of cancer. 49% die of something else
(04/16/12) Inflate thin balloon. Change your size. Repeat. Insane fractal
(04/15/12) "Forgive me Father, For I Have Sinned." Artwork by Cliff Pickover
(04/14/12) Wow. Rubik's Cube set of drawers
(04/13/12) New at Pinterest. "World of Cliff Pickover." Science, science fiction, technology, strange reality, futurism, innovation, mathematics. Follow me, or visit each day for transcendence.
(04/12/12) Anatomical heart teapot makes us scream
(04/11/12) Nassim Taleb's 10 tips for changing your life. Agree with any?
(04/10/12) "Fractals and The Cat in the Hat"
(04/09/12) Take 3 pinches of DMT, stir in pencil lead of Escher, add mathematics and a fractal portion of science-fiction vibe, and mix well
(04/08/12) After the death of Nobel-Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman, these words were found on his blackboard
(04/07/12) Bizarre beyond belief. Salvador Dali illustrates "Alice in Wonderland"
(04/05/12) Man walks all day to create spectacular fractal snow patterns
(04/04/12) Wow. Proof that the Earth is smoother than a billiard ball
(04/03/12) Are we living in a mathematical object? And what might that have to do with religion?
(04/02/12) Strange headline of the week: "Ants' Dying Queen Mated With As Crab Spider Eats Her Head-First (VIDEO)
(04/01/12) Impossible Ledge
(03/31/12) The Feynman point is a sequence of six 9s that begins at the 762nd decimal place of pi
(03/29/12) World�s Largest Sushi Roll
(03/28/12) 3-D method for depicting monsters on your 2-D browser
(03/27/12) Worshiping in the fractal cathedral, and finally sensing the presence of God (graphics). (Click to magnify)
(03/26/12) Richard Feynman: The Last Journey Of A Genius
(03/25/12) Imagine taking DMT, looking into a mirror, and seeing this as your reflection
(03/24/12) Life-like glass heart, with ventricles for flower stems. (Click to magnify)
(03/23/12) This is what happens when you give thousands of stickers to thousands of kids
(03/22/12) Rainbows, physics, God
(03/21/12) A 1-minute film on fractal cosmic strings bends our minds and souls
(03/20/12) If Satan plays miniature golf, this is his favorite hole
(03/19/12) I had this "Human Body" book as a kid, which kick-started my interest in science
(03/18/12) Wow. Math Book and Physics Book ranked #1 and #2 today at Scientific American (look before they run out of copies)
(03/17/12) All of human achievement -- all our hopes, dreams, and fears -- in one graph
(03/16/12) I like this mysterious photo of a Moonrise by Beth Hoeckel
(03/15/12) Unusual temporary neuronal condition causes reporter to suddenly speak in tongues
(03/14/12) Why It Took So Long to Invent the Wheel
(03/13/12) Man attempts to illustrate strange history of fashion and war
(03/12/12) Fractal mathematics that looks like caramel drizzle
(03/10/12) Why the mathematicians know that 2012 is indeed the end of the world
(03/09/12) Intriguing and Wild Visualizations of Prime Numbers
(03/08/12) What really happens at the center of a mathematical singularity. Mysterious
(03/07/12) Imagine exploring this futuristic city tonight, with someone you love
(03/06/12) Girl, alien, flower, psychedelic, tendril eyes, pretty
(03/05/12) The crying of alien fish
(03/04/12) Why math is better than drugs and can be a spiritual experience
(03/03/12) Anatomical Cross-Sections Made with Quilled Paper by Lisa Nilsson
(03/02/12) Insane Fractal Spirograph (Fractal Roulette)
(03/01/12) Amazing discovery involving photos, Klein bottles, randomness, math, and beyond
(02/29/12) Gaze in awe at Belphegor's Prime: 1000000000000066600000000000001 is a palindromic prime number, with 666 hiding among the zeros.
(02/28/12) Micrograph of the surface of a kidney stone showing tetragonal crystals of Weddellite. Ouch! Ouch!
(02/27/12) Solve the peacock puzzle in less than 9 minutes, and you're a genius
(02/26/12) 35 Inspiring Color Palettes from Master Painters for to use and become a genius yourself
(02/25/12) Please learn about fractals and mathematics. They will set you free
(02/24/12) Deepest Mandelbrot Zoom ever: 2.1x10^275 (or 2^915). What will humanity find in their deepest explorations?
(02/23/12) Intriguing "pictures of math" blog
(02/22/12) Fascinating and educational. The physics of dropping a Slinky
(02/21/12) Strange, strange world, for us to inhabit...
(02/20/12) Brain made out of hands
(02/19/12) Super-super-genius Ed Witten sits in an armchair and explains string theory to you and me. Time magazine calls Witten "the greatest theoretical physicist in the world."
(02/18/12) The Lego Hadron Collider
(02/17/12) Bizarre fractal fractions that crush the cerebellum into submission
(02/16/12) 10 reasons why you might want to drink coffee
(02/15/12) Creeping mysterious manure foam causes pig farms to explode. Pig Big Bang
(02/14/12) 7 billion people walk on dot on the left. 12 of them have walked on the dot on the right
(02/13/12) Man proposes to the love of his life in Binary Code. It worked
(02/12/12) Mystical time-lapse video of the Milky Way traversing the sky above South Dakota. Dream with me
(02/10/12) 1,344-page graphic-novel condensation of all great Western literature!
(02/09/12) For the math curious: a coffee cup that is NOT topologically the same as a donut
(02/08/12) Women In Science: Why So Few? (video)
(02/07/12) "Math is sexy! The 5IVE Best Popular Books on the Subject That Prove It
(02/06/12) Pretty Mandelbrot Set. (Click to mag.)
(02/05/12) Mavericks of the Mind: Thought Provoking Interviews on Consciousness by David Jay Brown
(02/04/12) Toto's Africa by Perpetuum Jazzile. Worth listening to
(02/03/12) If you are exposed to the color red when you take IQ test, your IQ is lower
(02/02/12) The Greatest Books of All Time, as Voted by 125 Famous Authors
(02/01/12) Circumcising men is one of the most effective "vaccines" against AIDS, reducing chances of infection by 60% or more
(01/31/12) Fractals, science fiction, alien brains
(01/30/12) The Top 10 Women Who Impacted Technology in 2011
(01/29/12) Pig's dissection anatomy origami
(01/28/12) US Patent. Giant Gummy Bear
(01/27/12) "Physical books are tokens of our identity, a kind of continuity over a lifetime, a bearer of memory."
(01/26/12) Enjoy this relaxing gif of a Holstein enjoying a nice brushing:
(01/25/12) Insane puzzles for kids of all ages!
(01/24/12) Impress your friends at your next party with this awesome and bizarre phrase: "Weakly hyper-Woodin cardinals." Enjoy
(01/23/12) The Mathematical Papers of the deadly "Unabomber"
(01/22/12) 16 of the smartest children in history
(01/21/12) Woman, geometry, hands, pattern
(01/20/12) New monkey species discovered, and promptly eaten
(01/19/12) Why is the Sky Dark at Night?
(01/18/12) Huge subcontrabass saxophone: "the mother of all saxophones"
(01/17/12) Your insane fractal apartment building of the far future. Imagine living in this city. Click to magnify
(01/16/12) Lovecraft meets 3-D fractals
(01/15/12) How would you like to climb the highest mountain in the entire Solar System?
(01/14/12) Stephen Hawking will now take your questions (YouTube)
(01/13/12) Photo. Before you drift to sleep tonight, meditate on the beauty of the universe
(01/12/12) Cows, intelligent tongues, and the quest for transcendence
(01/11/12) Mystery cat, high above the trees, transcends space and time
(01/10/12) Very nice harmonies as the unusual song progresses: "Mumford and Sons - Little Lion Man"
(01/09/12) For you mathematical nerds. A mysterious and wonderful proof that pi=4. At which step does it go wrong?
(01/08/12) Controversial retired bishop John Spong discusses the deepest mysteries of Christianity (YouTube)
(01/07/12) Two artificial intelligences, with facial expressions, are unexpectedly placed face to face. Conversation ensues.
Here is Another Example of what happens when you let two artificial intelligences have a conversation
(01/06/12) Beautiful math: Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do (And why your girlfriend is a whore)
(01/05/12) Alan Moore, reality, sock-puppet snake god, Terence McKenna, science
(01/04/12) I thought that, perhaps, you could find this page of my book covers in different languages to be exciting. How many languages do we recognize?
(01/03/12) Robert Heinlein�s predictions for the Year 2000 (from 1952)
(01/02/12) Imagine relaxing for a few minutes here, slowly breathing, and happy, as if swimming in a sea of mystery
(01/01/12) 3-dimensional fractals and the search for the 'true' 3D Mandelbrot
Want more stories? See: Archive 1 (2003),
Archive 2 (2002), Archive 3 (2011-2003)