The Misconception: You should focus on the successful if you wish to become successful. The Truth: When failure becomes invisible, the difference between failure and success may also become invisible.
As Interest Fades in the Humanities, Colleges Worry At Stanford this month, Jeremy Dean showed graduate students how to use Rap Genius to teach the classics in the digital age. Credit... Jim Wilson/Th
Meet the hit man who also teaches Sunday school. “Special Agent Charles Hunt” is paid by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to pose as a hit man. He’s hired by people you might, and might not, expect:
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If there’s anything that’s even harder than making a movie, it’s making your first movie. All week long, we’ve been sharing words of hard-won wisdom given to us by some of the veterans of the industry
Soon after Steve Jobs returned to Apple as CEO in 1997 , he decided that a shipping company wasn’t delivering spare parts fast enough. The shipper said it couldn’t do better, and it didn’t have to: Ap
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Anxiety: We worry. A gallery of contributors count the ways. If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It’s become the default response when you ask anyone how they’re doing: “Busy!” “ So busy.” “Crazy busy.” It is, pretty…
I’m a fan of the original Total Recall from 1990, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone. Like the Stars Wars-obsessed character Tim Beasley from Spaced, who sets fire to all his memorabilia
This past June, Connecticut and Maine became the first states to pass bills requiring labels on all foods made from genetically modified organisms (GMOs). In November 2012 California voters rejected t
Credit: Getty Images Every now and then during the workweek—usually around three in the afternoon—a familiar ache begins to saturate my forehead and pool in my temples. The glare of my computer screen
Small unmanned air vehicles like this quadrocopter could be turned into swarms of exploding flying robots, and Dutch researchers say there's not much that can be done right now to stop them. Dkroetsch
Share on Facebook Summer 2013 International Man Alfonso Cuarón learned to direct in his native Mexico, traveled to Hogwarts for Harry Potter , and a dystopian future for Children of Men . For his late
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In February, after nearly 18 years of thinking and writing about interactive storytelling (as well as a good many other topics), I received a Ph.D. in that subject from the University of Teesside in t
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Published 2 October 2013 Share page About sharing Tony Gilroy, one of Hollywood's most sought-after screenwriters, is responsible for The Devil's Advocate, Armageddon and the Bourne films, to name jus
O ne morning this summer, I got up at first light – I'd left the blinds open the night before – then drank a strong cup of coffee, sat near-naked by an open window for an hour, worked all morning, the
There’s been news of a survey going around asking if a karma system in the next Grand Theft Auto would make the game more enjoyable. I’ve recently become a bit cynical towards karma systems. It seems
So a few people have complained that the quests in Fallout 3 are shallow or nonsensical. Other people really dig them. Two common responses are: The quests in Fallout 3 are stupid compared to the earlier Fallout games. The quests in Fallout 3 are so much better than in Oblivion. Let’s look at one of…
Just about any teenager in Chicago today can tell you the story of Chief Keef and Lil JoJo, two rappers from the South Side neighborhood of Englewood whose songs serve as anthems for their rival gangs
In 2003, officials in Garden Grove, California, a community of 170,000 people wedged amid the suburban sprawl of Orange County, set out to confront a problem that afflicts most every town in America:
"In practice, before long the objectors will include only a handful of eccentrics." — Robert Ettinger, author, The Prospect of Immortality , forefather of modern cryonics, in 1965 "I have some nuanced
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Opinion Your Brain on Fiction AMID the squawks and pings of our digital devices, the old-fashioned virtues of reading novels can seem faded, even futile. But new support for the value of fiction is ar
CINEMA 2023 Fall Film Festivals The Awards Insider team reports live—from the mountains and near the canals—on this fall’s buzziest films. LIVE FROM VENICE & TELLURIDE Don’t miss out on our Labor Day
Worldbuilding is an essential part of any work of fiction. But especially for science fiction or fantasy, it's the lifeblood of storytelling. But when worldbuilding fails, it can wreck your whole stor
Rian Johnson, who wrote and directed films including Looper and Brick , not to mention directing a few episodes of Breaking Bad , tweeted early this morning: "To me the great hope is one day some litt
Ripley – Character flaw: Lack of trust I remember when I first heard the term “three-dimensional character.” It sounded like one of those things clueless producers mutter when they don’t know why they
Amy Sussman/Getty Images Where do you live and why ? I live in Austin, Texas. I came in 1980 to work for Texas Monthly, but I only lasted on the staff for six months. I just never left. Austin has a k
Joel Green is hysterical and there's nothing I can do about it. I try bouncing him on my knee, but whenever I stop the giggles make way for fresh anguish. I try offering him a carton of apple juice, b
Before Sid Meier was Sid Meier —the iconic video game designer whose name is stamped on classic titles like Pirates! and Civilization —he was just another computer hacker. Watch The Week In Games: Wha
Fall 2010 Man of Vision With a painter's eye, Ridley Scott looks at the world as a giant stage for epic battles and human struggles. In over 20 films, including Blade Runner , Gladiator and Black Hawk
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