Cliff Pickover

@pickover

Increase your sense of wonder. Author of 50 books & 530 patents. Yale Ph.D. Create/Innovate. "Pickover contemplates realms beyond our known reality." ~NY Times

New York
Joined September 2008

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  1. 7 hours ago

    This cartoon is almost funny.

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  2. 14 hours ago

    Self-similarity in the Mandelbrot set, shown by zooming in while panning in the negative-x direction.

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  3. 15 hours ago

    This is an example of a fractal puzzle.

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  4. 15 hours ago

    Fortune cookie paradox mystifies viewers.

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  5. 15 hours ago

    Fractal wedding band (Mandelbrot set), for love that reaches toward infinity.

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  6. 15 hours ago

    Aliens among us. Quadrilateral “creature” from an Algorithmic Menagerie. Source (Raven Kwok):

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  7. 16 hours ago

    Coca Cola sales in Sweden drop by 50% during Christmas, due to the drinking of "Julmust."

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  8. 17 hours ago

    Usual message found in fortune cookie.

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  9. 18 hours ago

    "In a rebuttal to Krantz's article, called 'Some Facts that Evaporate upon Examination,' Mandelbrot noted that he 'fully published' on the Mandelbrot set before Brooks and Matelski did." Info:

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  10. 18 hours ago

    "Hutber's Law" states that "improvement means deterioration." "It is founded on the cynical observation that a stated improvement actually hides a deterioration."

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  11. 19 hours ago

    The World Carrot Museum educates and amuses visitors through the "collection, preservation, interpretation and exhibition of objects relating to the carrot."

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  12. 19 hours ago

    "Three-Handed Chess." Pawns must go forward in the direction they originally face.

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  13. 19 hours ago

    "Hotelling's Law" is an observation in economics that in many markets it is rational for producers to make their products as similar as possible.

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  14. 19 hours ago

    "Marchetti's Constant" is the average time spent by a person for commuting each day, which is approximately one hour.

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  15. 19 hours ago

    "Jevons Paradox": occurs when technological progress or government policy "increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing amount necessary for any one use), but the rate of consumption of that resource rises due to increasing demand."

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  16. 20 hours ago

    "Braess's Paradox": an alteration to a road network to improve traffic flow that actually has the reverse effect and impedes traffic through it.

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  17. 21 hours ago

    Students: a very simple intro to sequences in mathematics:

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  18. 21 hours ago

    This is unusual artwork by Cai Guo Qiang.

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  19. 22 hours ago

    "Krantz circulated copies of the review to people, including Mandelbrot, who took strong exception to the review and wrote a rebuttal..... Krantz refused to withdraw his review." Free PDF:

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  20. 23 hours ago

    A page exists at Wikipedia titled "Fractal-generating software."

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