How can one study Botany? There are millions of plants on our planet. How can one study them? It will take us several lifetimes to understand the differences between species....
You have cleared your desk, you have finished all your chores, you have turned your mobile phone on silent, and you have disconnected from the internet. For the next hour,...
The United States Navy SEALs go through some of the most intense and rigorous training you can think of. The dropout rate in basic training is pretty high. Over the...
Matthew Jockers, Professor of English and Data Analytics at Washington State University, conducted an interesting study. He designed a computer program that used sentiment analysis as a proxy for plot...
When Microsoft released Windows 10, they did an experiment. Instead of a boring blue screen with the Microsoft logo at the start-up, they introduced a lock screen. The lock screen...
About five years ago, I joined a writing workshop to convert an idea that was bubbling in my head into a novel. The workshop was going to last for one...
Kurt Vonnegut was a great American storyteller and teacher. Known for his satirical style of writing, he was one of the most famous writers of the 1960s. His career spanned...
Did you know that until the early forties, there was no consistent sway system to grade diamonds? Diamond merchants used various, usually broad, terms to talk about the quality of...
I recently came across a writing exercise that I found very benefiting. Chris Fox talks about it in his book "5000 Words Per Hour." He calls it writing sprints. A...