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Early one morning, citizens in northern Norway awoke to an amazing sight – a giant glowing spiral, taking up a huge portion of the night sky.

My three dimensional unfolding of the quaternion Julia sets finally finished rendering.

This undulating plane is a visualization of all quaternion Julia sets.

Japan’s consumer goods lived up to their surreal billing during a recent stay at Narita Airport in Japan on my way to IAC 2009.

These beautiful shapes are three dimensional slices of four dimensional objects known as quaternion Julia sets.

The patterns on this sea shell appear to be very similar to that of a mathematical structure called a Sierpinski triangle.

When I was a kid, I used to wonder if everyone saw the world in the same way. We can all look at the same grass, but maybe the color I called green showed up in my brain as the color my friend called blue. Maybe all of our colors were shifted around to the [...]

It is said that when the 20th century is long gone, it will be remembered for two revolutionary theories – those of relativity and quantum physics.

I’ve been a bit busy lately with a new addition to the family. Her name is Luna, and she’s an Aussiedoodle – a cross between an Australian Shepherd and a Standard Poodle. She’s gorgeous, playful, and smart as a whip.

How did humans evolve from early primates? How did “human like” traits such as a smaller jaw relative to apes and hairlessness pop up when they don’t appear in the wild in any real frequency? The typical explanation for why humans have smaller jaws than early primates is that our diets changed and our brains got bigger, pressures that caused a smaller jaw. But there’s another way to look at this – what if our diets changed and our brains got bigger due to proto-human society dealing and adapting to an increasingly frequent and nearly catastrophic mutation of the jaw?