Failing again. Failing better.
National Geographic recently posted an article about the discovery of a planet that seems to break the rules of planet formation. CoRoT-20b is a gas giant about four-fifths the size of Jupiter, making it small for a gas giant, yet it has four times Jupiter’s mass, making it incredibly dense. So dense in fact, that…
Built by Boston Dynamics as part of DARPA’s robo-cheetah project, this machine can gallop along at 18mph, a new record for legged robots. io9.com said this much be part of a secret Voltron project, but I keep thinking of John and Sarah Connor. I think they might be in trouble.
If you know what to look for, there is a lot going on in this one. And it has a slightly different soundtrack than the other trailers. April 1 is coming.
It’s Friday, so I guess it’s movie day on this site. Here is J.J. Abrams’s TED talk. It’s a great talk for storytellers because it stresses not only the importance of mystery and curiosity but also the human element of a story. Abrams talks about mystery and curiosity, and how they are crucial for propelling…
Here’s a link to an 18-minute presentation by Seth Godin. Although his talk is primarily aimed an entrepreneurs, I think there are some great lessons for writers and other creatives as well. Seth Godin tells his audience that they are creative enough, that having creative ideas is fairly easy. The hard part is executing those…