Cliff Pickover and Reality Carnival

I have decided that from now on, once in a while, I will write about the blogs I read.

I guess I will start talking about Cliff Pickover and his Reality Carnival.

Who is Cliff Pickover?


Wikipedia says:


Clifford A. Pickover is an American author, editor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, and science fiction, and is employed at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, New York



and also:


Pickover's primary interest is in finding new ways to expand creativity by melding art, science, mathematics, and other seemingly disparate areas of human endeavor. Pickover is an inventor with dozens of, the author of puzzle calendars, and puzzle contributor to magazines geared to children and adults. His Neoreality and Heaven Virus science-fiction series explores the fabric of reality and religion.
Pickover is author of hundreds of technical papers in diverse fields, ranging from the creative visualizations of fossil seashells, genetic sequences, cardiac and speech sounds, and virtual caverns and lava lamps, to fractal and mathematically based studies. He also has published articles in the areas of skepticism (e.g. ESP and Nostradamus), psychology (e.g. temporal lobe epilepsy and genius), and technical speculation (e.g. “What if scientists had found a computer in 1900?” and “An informal survey on the scientific and social impact of a soda can-sized super-super computer.”) Additional visualization work includes topics that involve breathing motions of proteins, snow-flake like patterns for speech sounds, cartoon-face representations of data, and biomorph.
On November 4, 2006, he began Wikidumper.org, a popular blog featuring articles being considered for deletion by Wikipedia


In my opinion, Cliff Pickover is a genius. I have just finished reading his latest book:

and all I can tell you is that I've immediately started it again. It's a flow of brilliant science straight to you brain. This was the first Pickover book I've read, now I'm determined to get and read the other 35 or more he has written.

And Cliff Pickover is also the editor of one of the most interesting blogs I know, Reality Carnival, providing fresh news that shatters the ice of our unconscious. Worth more than one visit! If you like my small blog, you will adore his one.