May 3, 2012

Cliff Pickover (pickover) on Twitter

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7hCliff Pickover  @pickover

Mensa welcomes two-year-old into its ranks. 

7hCliff Pickover  @pickover

Intriguing. US Patent. Flame-throwing musical trumpet.

8hCliff Pickover  @pickover

69,696 is the largest undulating square humans will ever find.

8hCliff Pickover  @pickover

Humans will never find a factorion number larger than 40,585.

8hCliff Pickover  @pickover

Let us very carefully examine the equations behind the naked body of: 

8hCliff Pickover  @pickover

All the digits of pi, on one page: 

9hCliff Pickover  @pickover

Discarnate entities produced by DMT provide "magic melodies" called Icaros.  (thanks )

9hCliff Pickover  @pickover

Shiver in awe: (1+3)/(5+7) = (1+3+5)/(7+9+11) = (1+3+5+7)/(9+11+13+15) = ... = 1/3.

10hCliff Pickover  @pickover

Mathematics: Is a pentagon equivalent to a triangle when drawn on a doughnut in very slippery melted chocolate? 

13hCliff Pickover  @pickover

pi^4 + pi^5 = e^6, with an incredible degree of accuracy.

13hCliff Pickover  @pickover

Strange cases of porn copyright lawsuits. 

14hCliff Pickover  @pickover

Cybernetic jellyfish may one day escape the confines of their digital life and communicate with humans as peers. 

3 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

World of Cliff Pickover: Images that Make us Dream.

3 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

1000000000000066600000000000001 is a palindromic prime number, with 666 hiding among the zeros: 

3 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

Security software firm Symantec: "Religious/ideological websites are riskier to visit than porn websites." 

3 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

31, 331, 3331, etc. up to 33333331 are all prime numbers.

3 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

Shiver in ecstasy: The final 21 digits of 99^99, 999779999159200499899, is prime in addition to having 12 copies of the digit 9.

3 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

An amazing reversal: 73 is the 21st prime, and 37 is the 12th prime. This enigma is the only known combination.

3 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

What is the most dangerous technology imaginable? Michio Kaku responds in video. 

3 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

The prime number 73,939,133 fascinates. Keep removing a digit from the right end of the number. Each of the remaining numbers is prime.

3 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

An amazing sequence of prime numbers: 31, 331, 3331, 33331, 333331, 3333331, 33333331.

3 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

6089 begins a curious sequence of six primes whose digits contain only circles: 6089, 60899, 608999, 6089999, 60899999, 608999999.

3 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

Diamond and sapphire fractal necklace. 

3 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

Mathematics comes alive in this haunting image at Astral Graphics.

3 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

10 reasons you might be annoying literary agents

3 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

The presence of the hallucinogenic DMT in humans has puzzled scientists for decades. 

3 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

President Clinton reviews Robert Caro's "Passage of Power" in the New York Times.  (thanks  )

2 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

Wow. Boost Your WiFi Signal Using Only a Beer Can.

2 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

A brain injury turns a college-dropout into a mathematical genius

2 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

1966 Palomares B-52 crash. 

2 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

If the Earth had rings like Saturn, how would they look from Earth's cities? 

2 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

Most Expensive Domain Names Ever. 

2 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

Discovery of an insane 3D maze-city of Kowloon.

2 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

8-Month-Old Baby Hears for First Time. 

1 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

Novemdecillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

1 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

This tweet contains no interesting information; nonetheless, more than three of you will retweet it.

1 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

"Dogs, But Not Wolves, Use Humans as Tools."

1 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

Mobius diapers keep the poop outside!  (thanks )

1 MayCliff Pickover  @pickover

Does this path have infinite length or does it have a finite value? [animated gif]  (thanks )

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

"As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school." ~Cokie Roberts 

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Steve Jobs: "LSD is one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life." 

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Mobius Cake, Mobius Bacon, Mobius Ship. 

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Escher gerbils. 

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Successive magnification of dollar bill. 

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Batman curve. 

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Smart cat (math joke). 

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Math, love, togetherness. 

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Bizarre, but perhaps sexy and instructive, math diagram from Asia?

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Recycling center for Klein bottles. 

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Two atoms walk out of a bar. One says, "Darn! I forgot my electrons inside!" The other says, "Are you sure?" "Yep, I'm positive."

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

The dangers of dividing by zero (visual math joke).

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Teacher fired for short math word problem. 

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar.

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

I think you should be more explicit here in Step 2.

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

A graph on math jokes. 

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

How To Get Rich By Writing A Book About.... (a million dollar idea)

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Testing a student's understanding of math: 

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Visual Math humor. Which is your favorite? 

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Humorous response to math problem. 

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Nice! Wonderful math theorems that sound like kids should know about them. 

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Zeckendorf's theorem, named after Belgian mathematician Edouard Zeckendorf. 

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Delicious french-fry coated hot dog on a stick. 

30 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

All the cool things you wanted to know about the novelist Stephen King.

29 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

If someone forced you to read one of my books, from cover to cover, which would you select? 

29 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

An unknown life-form discovered in North Carolina sewer.

29 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

1000 naked people form a mysterious eye-shape.

29 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

The Quest of the Gods. The Riemann Hypothesis is a number mystery that has perplexed mathematicians for 150 years.

29 AprtejaKrasek  @tejaKrasek

My Mobius strips decorating the city at night... 

29 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Higgs boson walks into church. Priest: "Leave. We don't accept your kind here." Particle replies, "But how can you have mass without me?"

29 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

A surreal, beautiful universe in slow motion. 

29 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

The strange fake missiles of North Korea:  (thanks)

29 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Lazy caterer's mathematical sequence. 

29 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

A neutron, in a bar, buys a drink. The neutron asks the bartender, "How much do I owe you?" The bartender replies, "For you, no charge!"

29 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Interesting. Progressive evolution of beehive in a bell-jar.

29 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Neal Stephenson: has the Internet put real innovation on hold? (thanks )

28 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

What the publisher meant to say to the book author.

28 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Very cool vintage NYC photos.  (thanks)

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Wow. When Einstein Met Rabindranath Tagore -- Truth and Beauty and science and spirituality. 

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Study determines that this is the most relaxing song, ever.

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

The mystery of Maria Popova:  

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

It's a fact: Most people's sexual partners have (on average) a greater number of sexual partners than they have. 

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Creating ghostlike entities from cadaver slices.

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Professor devotes his life to the study of a single mystery number: 6174. 

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Ancient Sumerian proverbs (pdf). 

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

View 4 Million Digits of Pi in a Single Image. 

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

World's oldest-known joke is Sumerian: 1,900 BC.

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Intriguing. US Patent. Thumb-sucking inhibitor. Nice drawings.

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Intriguing. US Patent. Motorized rotating ice-cream cone.

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Intriguing. US Patent. Flame-throwing musical trumpet.

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Intriguing. US Patent. Butt-kicking apparatus. 

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Intriguing. US Patent: Nicotine-coated coffee beans.

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Wow, ancient Sumerian proverbs (pdf). 

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Perpetual motion machines. 

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Yale University's Introduction to Fractals. 

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Beauty and mystery of mathematics, and fee iPad App.

27 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

2,000 patents have been granted for shaped pasta. 

26 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Wow, can microscopic buckyballs make you live forever?

26 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Humans have 46 chromosomes. Donkeys have 62.

26 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

The Vikings didn’t wear horned helmets, Napoleon wasn’t short, and other historical myths debunked: 

26 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Autistic boy with hidden tape recorder catches NJ teacher, aide bullying kids.  (thanks )

26 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

"We are here on Earth to help others. What the others are here for, I have no idea." ~from: 

26 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

"Potatoes have 48 chromosomes, two more than people." ~from:

26 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

"Isaac Newton thought Jesus came to Earth specifically to operate the levers of gravity." ~from: 

26 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

"With matter, as with people, we see only the skin of things; we can't see into the 'engine room.'" ~from: 

26 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Spectacular graphics, mind-twisting ideas. Brian Greene on the anthropic principle.  (thanks )

25 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

"It isn't a coincidence that since the internet became ubiquitous, toilet graffiti have almost disappeared." ~James Meek

25 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has travelled less than a third of the way round the Sun. (thanks )

25 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Long interview on physics milestones through the ages. Challenges the imagination. 

25 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Some of the covers of my books are quite colorful:

25 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Life explained: The differences between men and women.

25 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

A Brain Cell is the Same as the Universe. 

25 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Chinese restaurant sign thanks Jews for eating there on Christmas:

25 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Researchers around the world study strange tombstone to assess its meaning. 

25 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Book explores the impact on American mathematics of mathematicians fleeing Nazi Germany. 

25 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

A Bibliography of Mathematical Fiction by Alex Kasman.

25 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Octopus in Plexiglas wonderland. 

25 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Wow. Google bumps up Gmail storage to 10GB to celebrate the launch of Google Drive 

25 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Most Highlighted Passages of All Time on Amazon Kindle!

24 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Climb with me an infinite fractal staircase to deities beyond imagination. (click to magnify.) 

24 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Bacon and Egg Breakfast Pizza (photo). 

24 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Please, let's get together, and enjoy the Pizza Theorem.

24 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

A heart-shaped pizza for romantic pizza lovers.

24 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

The cover of my book "Calculus and Pizza" features a smiling pizza chef tossing a pizza. 

24 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

"Fractal pizza for crust lovers, it maximizes the crust."

24 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Problem: What is the volume of a pizza of radius z and thickness a? Answer: pizza (pi*z*z*a)

24 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Golgotha Alien Orb by Cliff Pickover. (See top row of images.)

24 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

The Official Tangled Cable Appreciation Page.

24 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

"What would a painting look like if it were made to please the greatest number of viewers?" 

24 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Could the universe really have arisen from 'nothing?'

24 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

The Top 2 best-seller books at Scientific American today look fairly interesting, don't they? 

23 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Why e-books make this bookstore owner "cry every day."

23 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

The Netherlands, Spain and Australia showed the largest decrease in belief in God: 

23 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Russia, Latvia and Slovenia showed the highest increase in belief in God: 

23 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

If the mice in our mousetraps have ghosts, we're in big trouble.

23 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

"If Mayans were good at predicting the future, there'd be Mayans." ~

23 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Waitress: 'Do u have any questions about the menu?' Me: 'What kind of font is this?' ~

23 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

If this tweet makes you smile, even if only very slightly, then retweet. Otherwise, ignore.

23 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

“You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” ~C.S. Lewis

23 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

"They're not looking for liquids, they're not looking at your shoes. They just look at you." How Israel does airports: 

23 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, The Ugly Duckling, and other classic children's stories as minimalist posters: 

23 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

The greatest books of all time, voted by 125 famous contemporary authors: 

23 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Shiver in awe. 7353 is the largest number, n, that humans will ever find such that both n and n^3 have only odd digits.

23 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Impress your friends with this factoid. 3003 is the only number known to appear 8 times in Pascal's triangle. 

23 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Shiver in awe. 18 is the only positive number that your fellow humans will ever find that is twice the sum of its digits.

23 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

I love the number 13, because 13 is the precise number of Archimedian solids that exist in our universe. 

23 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Lovely. 16 is the only number humans will ever find of the form x^y = y^x with x and y being different integers.

23 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

I typed my twitter ID here, and found I had an "influence score" of 66.7.

22 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Teja often has interesting tweets related to math, art, and mind:

22 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

What's our favorite video in the series  by ? 

22 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. ~C. Jung

22 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

"Geometry aims at knowledge of the eternal." ~Plato

22 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Jill Sobule seeks transcendence (YouTube song).

22 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Strange result: "...We prove that vigorously-flipped coins are biased to come up the same way they started." 

22 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." ~Jonathan Swift

22 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Saturday night. Shut the lights off now. Dream with me: Angelic music made with Novachord (1939) & Theremin (1920)

22 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

I'm tweeting on Saturday night, but no one is listening. Like dropping a pebble into a dark well, and hearing no echo or rustle from beyond.

22 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Cool, free math magazine: 

22 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

What Does the Future of Education Have in Common with Yoga?

21 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

A conversation with physicists/authors Brian Greene & Lawrence Krauss. (Like the Jewish doctor joke.) 

21 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

The Beauty and Mystery of Mathematics. 

21 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Graham Hancock on Ayahuasca, Consciousness & Other Realities -- interview with Sonia Doubell. 

21 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

"The 50 Best Science Writers of All Time"? A list of interesting scientist/authors.  (thanks )

21 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Musings on Wikipedia. 

21 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Wow. Proof that the Earth is smoother than a billiard ball.

21 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

How Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Patients Face Death

21 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

"An incredible theorem: Archimedes' Hat-box Theorem." (thanks )

21 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Shiver in delight. 367 is the largest number humanity will ever find whose square has strictly increasing digits.

21 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Single-author papers now rare. Were Einstein, Fermi, & Feynman lucky in finding ideas that 1 mind could present? 

21 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Bizarre "cyborg clams" power motor, setting stage for mythopoeic molluscan marvels beyond imagination. 

21 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

On Tweetbombing and its implications for the future of Twitter. (thanks )

21 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

What makes a Genius? (video) 

21 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Shiver in ecstasy. 2673 is the largest number humans will ever find that does not have any digits in common with its 4th power.

20 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Should aspiring writers avoid reading certain books?

20 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

How many infinities are there? A mind-bender video for your weekend. (thanks )

20 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Just-published issue of "IBM Journal of R&D" on Watson/Jeopardy and futuristic AI. 

20 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Scientist builds world's largest Klein bottle. (See top row).

20 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

The mathematics of heart-shaped surfaces: (x^2 + 9/4y^2 + z^2-1)^3 = x^2z^3 - 9/80y^2z^3 = 0. 

20 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Shiver in delight. 5041 is the largest square humans will ever find of the form n! + 1.

20 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Insane brain Rubik's Cube shocks and delights.

20 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

A strange book on fish nearly killed Isaac Newton's career. (thanks )

19 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Martin Gardner, The Beauty and Mystery of Mathematics, iPad app.

19 Aprlauriefriedman  @lauriefriedman

The Beauty and Mystery of Mathematics (and a free iPad app) by, author of The  Book  

19 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Cantor, Boltzmann, Gödel & Turing. Did genius "drive them a little insane or to suicide"? 

19 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Why the mathematicians secretly know that 2012 is the end of the world. 

19 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

The beautiful math that links coral, crochet, and hyperbolic geometry.

19 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Provocative. Dietary saturated fat not associated with increased risk of heart disease?  (thanks )

19 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Intriguing. Human internal organs formed from animals. (see top row.)

19 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Shiver in ecstasy: 7658 is the largest number humans know of that does not have any digits in common with its cube.

19 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

There are only five possible "tetrominoes," which are shown in the illustration here: 

19 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Ghosts, reality, hyper-computers. 

19 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Large Cats and Mirrors. 

19 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

The famous Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education.

19 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Scientists Build Computer Using Swarms of Wet Swarming Crabs?

17 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Scream in ecstasy. 7353 is the largest number n that humans will ever find so that both n and n^3 have only odd digits.

17 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Shiver in mystery. 144 is the largest square that humans will ever find in the Fibonacci sequence.

17 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Earth’s Most Stunning Natural Fractal Patterns.

17 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival: "News that shatters the ice of our unconscious!" 

16 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Memory Foraging: When the Brain Behaves Like a Bee

16 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Ian Stewart: 17 equations that changed the world. (thanks )

15 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

"If I were asked in one second to give a one-word description of mathematics I might say 'patterns.'" ~

15 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Alex Bellos explains the math of book publishing, and why e-books arent as cheap as you might think. 

15 AprCliff Pickover  @pickover

Shiver in awe: 8 is the largest cube that humanity will ever find in the Fibonacci sequence.


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