tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200383812024-03-07T16:39:34.372-08:00The Six Thousand"6000 intriguing people you want to meet online before you die. <br>
Who will make the list tomorrow?" (Edited by Cliff Pickover, www.pickover.com, author of "The Math Book.")Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-44197238848092903792010-05-31T13:11:00.000-07:002010-05-31T13:15:50.667-07:00Emily SchallerEmily Schaller (Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Ph.D. Planetary Science: Caltech, 2008) is in love with Titan Meteorology, Surfaces of Kuiper Belt Objects, and Figure Skating. [Source of image: Discover Magazine]Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-77685290353180090112010-04-24T16:07:00.000-07:002010-04-24T16:12:16.184-07:00Rebecca SklootRebecca Skloot is a science writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Discover. She specializes in narrative science writing and has explored a wide range of topics, including goldfish surgery, tissue ownership rights, and the perils of packs of wild dogs in Manhattan. She is also a contributing editor at Popular Science magazine. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-76769169843064113242010-02-16T17:10:00.000-08:002010-02-16T17:14:18.061-08:00Daniela Schiller"Daniela Schiller served in the Israeli army, but it was not until she went parachuting during college that she truly understood the power of fear. Now she is building on that epiphany as a postdoc at New York University, studying memory and fear."She plays drums in a rock band called The Amygdaloids.For more info, see the Discover Magazine article. Photo by Ethan Hill.Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-77507361582171251332009-11-07T05:48:00.000-08:002010-09-01T05:13:39.374-07:00Valerie CaseyValerie Casey works with start-ups, governments, and companies all over the world on challenges ranging from creating new products and services, to transforming organizational processes and behaviors. Fast Company writes, "Valerie Casey is rallying the creative community to her version of a Kyoto treaty for designers -- and her peers are signing on in droves." She is listed as one of Time Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-56737518912307521562009-09-30T13:17:00.000-07:002009-09-30T13:20:09.739-07:00Beth Shapiro We can’t bring the dodo bird back, says Beth Shapiro (with the head of the most complete specimen, below), but we can learn from their remains. Beth Shapiro is an evolutionary biologist. She focuses on tracing the population history of recently extinct (e.g., mammoth, dodo) or threatened species (e.g., bison, polar bears). She is a MacArthur Genius. Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-88031589893321851502009-08-26T12:44:00.000-07:002009-08-26T12:47:35.484-07:00Elif Erdine BaskinElif Erdine Baskin is an architect and researcher. She loves mathematics and art, and she received her Master of Architecture and Urbanism degree from the Architectural Association Design Research Lab (AADRL) in 2006. She received her Bachelor of Architecture degree from Istanbul Technical University in 2003, graduating as the top 3rd of her class.Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-9568363954016433482009-07-21T19:07:00.000-07:002009-07-21T19:13:19.232-07:00Marissa Ann MayerMarissa Ann Mayer is the Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at the search engine company Google. Vogue magazine calls her "the 34-year-old megamillionaire, Oscar de la Renta–obsessed, computer-programming Google executive who lives in a penthouse atop the Four Seasons, San Francisco." She received her B.S. in Symbolic systems, graduating with honors, and M.S. in Computer Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-24507056941854248902009-06-11T06:52:00.000-07:002009-06-11T07:00:05.457-07:00Zadi DiazZadi Diaz is a new media producer and co-founder of Smashface Productions, a production company focused on developing original programming for the web, bridging new and traditional media, and building and cultivating online communities. She is currently the co-creator and host of EPIC FU, a popular Streamy and Webby award-winning web series about internet culture, as well as co-founder of Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-90403008892702053252009-05-24T17:43:00.000-07:002009-05-24T17:45:17.575-07:00Mary RoachMary Roach is an American science writer. She has published three books: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005) and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (2008). She began her writing career at the San Francisco Zoological Society, producing press releases on such topics as elephant wart surgery. (Source: Wikipedia)Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-16202358578100751792009-04-26T17:03:00.000-07:002009-04-26T17:08:05.131-07:00Elisabeth Kübler-RossElisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (July 8, 1926 – August 24, 2004) was a Swiss-born psychiatrist and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying. She is a 2007 inductee into the National Women's Hall of Fame. She was the recipient of twenty honorary degrees and by July 1982 had taught, in her estimation, 125,000 students in death and dying courses. Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-71149663642215767312009-03-19T17:18:00.000-07:002009-03-19T17:20:30.097-07:00Debbie BerebichezAfter obtaining the Doctorate Degree, Dr. Debbie Berebichez pursued two postdoctoral fellowships in applied mathematics and physics and conducted further research at Columbia University's Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics department as well as at New York University's Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences. She is a talented linguist, who speaks five languages. She currently works on Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-87342952072166230882009-02-21T10:34:00.000-08:002009-02-21T10:37:46.196-08:00Martin GardnerMartin Gardner is one of my greatest heroes. He is a popular American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics. His mind roams far and wide. Learn more about him here, here, and here.Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-14227768000362684882009-01-17T17:08:00.000-08:002009-01-17T17:09:37.647-08:00Laura JaneLaura Jane is interested in "creativity, consciousness, memetics, mythology, religion, and human potential for the cosmically inclined." Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-32472597182616718052008-12-16T08:05:00.001-08:002008-12-16T08:06:51.799-08:00Julia Mullikin"As a visual artist, I am interested in technology as a medium for storytelling." Her website is: http://www.electricgoddess.com/.Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-14429775967723345352008-11-10T13:34:00.000-08:002008-11-10T13:43:47.779-08:00Jane F. KotapishJane F. Kotapish, a native of Virginia, studied at the College of William and Mary and at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. She is a modern dancer and freelance writer based in Brooklyn. Salvage is her first novel. "I have always watched myself watching myself. And so I know that what I am doing is flirting with the possibility of going mad…. And I see that what I am doing is sad and Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-45719243292288895452008-10-03T10:36:00.001-07:002008-10-03T10:38:16.359-07:00Gina TrapaniGina Trapani is a tech writer and web developer based in San Diego, California by way of Brooklyn, New York. The lead editor of Lifehacker.com, a daily weblog on software and personal productivity, Gina has authored two books based on the web site: Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day (Wiley, December 2006) and the second edition, Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-91131262365475350212008-09-12T18:52:00.000-07:002008-09-12T18:55:33.704-07:00Olivia JudsonOlivia Judson is an evolutionary biologist at Imperial College London. She graduated from Stanford University, and received a doctorate from Oxford. She wrote the popular book, Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation. Learn more about her here.Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-52526514866860722352008-08-15T13:34:00.000-07:002008-08-15T13:39:50.326-07:00Maggie TurnbullMargaret Turnbull is an amazing astronomer who received her PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in 2004. According to the Wikipedia: "Turnbull is an authority on 'Habstars,' solar twins and planetary habitability. In 2002, Turnbull developed the HabCat along with Jill Tarter, a catalog of potentially habitable solar systems. The following year Turnbull went on to further identify 30 Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-40483677081441999662008-07-14T17:45:00.000-07:002008-12-09T11:19:17.156-08:00Melissa Lafsky"Melissa Lafsky is the deputy web editor at Discover magazine. She was previously the editor of the New York Times's Freakonomics blog, and is a former associate editor of HuffPo's Eat The Press. Lafsky was a practicing attorney at a firm in New York before founding the blog Opinionistas.com, which became internationally known for its relentless skewering of the corporate world. She currently Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-14000804234017294332008-06-16T06:30:00.000-07:002008-12-09T11:19:17.385-08:00Diablo CodyGenius stripper-turned-blogger-turned-screenwriter. Memoirist. Oscar winner for screenplay. Best-selling author.Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-79316840870065731622008-05-16T10:48:00.000-07:002008-12-09T11:19:17.495-08:00Matthieu RicardWhat is happiness, and how can we all get some? Buddhist monk, photographer and author Matthieu Ricard says: We can train our minds in habits of happiness. See the TED video.Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-57177775072141891372008-04-09T18:42:00.000-07:002008-12-09T11:19:17.689-08:00Nina HachigianNina Hachigian is a Senior Vice President and Director for California at American Progress. Based in Los Angeles, she is the co-author of The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise. Earlier, Hachigian was a Senior Political Scientist at RAND Corporation and, for four years, the director of the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy. Watch the video.Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-66576165303639266732008-03-07T06:38:00.000-08:002008-12-09T11:19:18.010-08:00A. M. HomesA. M. Homes is an American fiction writer known for her controversial and strange stories and books. "A Real Doll," A. M. Homes's short story about a boy who dates, seduces, and eventually rapes his sister's Barbie doll, is one of the most twisted, disturbing pieces of fiction I've ever read—and also one of the best. It's shocking, funny, strange, challenging, and indescribably real. Click here Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-43145572982069349972008-02-06T08:29:00.000-08:002008-12-09T11:19:18.367-08:00Audre VysniauskasAfter obtaining her degree in Electrical Engineering and spending 15 years working with factory automation and information systems, in 2001 Audre Vysniauskas made a major career change and, signing herself just audre, became a professional illustrator. At about the same time Audre became a vociferous advocate of the use of computers in creating art. She remains extremely active in the digital Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038381.post-62748146344055448442008-01-06T07:04:00.000-08:002008-12-09T11:19:18.706-08:00Sasha CagenSasha Cagen was born in Rhode Island and graduated from Barnard College. She is an author and entrepreneur who builds communities around passions and new ideas. Sasha’s second book is To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us (Simon & Schuster, 2007), a collection of 100 real, handwritten lists and the stories behind them. Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.com0