How to build a fictional world - Kate Messner
The world building strategies of popular books like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter have been analyzed in great detail by writers and critics alike. The NPR piece “At Home in Fantasy’s Nerd-Built World” continues the conversation, taking a look at the magical creation of George R. R. Martin’s world in Game of Thrones. If you’re ready to create your very own fictional world, it’s great to start by reading lots of examples – and read like a writer, studying the craft of world building. When you’re ready to move forward, you may want to use author Kate Messner’s world building worksheet as a guide. Author/educator Kate Messner’s science thrillers Eye of the Storm and Wake Up Missing may serve as additional mentor texts for writers who want to build their own futuristic worlds.
These Scientists Studied Why Internet Stories Go Viral. You Won't Believe What They Found
A few weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal profiled Gawker editor Neetzan Zimmerman, whose job is to post content that's poised to go viral. Zimmerman does his job quite well. His posts generate about 30 million pageviews a month--tops at the site by far, six times what the second-leading staffer generates. Zimmerman's success is not the result of some computer formula; on the contrary, rather, "he understands the emotions that might compel a human being to click on something online," the Journal's Farhad Manjoo writes. If the traffic numbers don't already show the wisdom of Zimmerman's approach, the behavioral evidence certainly does. Recent research suggests that emotions hold the secret to viral web content. Take a recent a study published in the November issue of Computers in Human Behavior. After the viewing, participants were asked whether or not they would share that video with someone else. But Berger and Milkman didn't stop their analysis there. [Image: Cat via Shutterstock]
La segunda vida de Ferran Adrià con EL PAÍS Semanal
En este reportaje no hay cocinas, hay trayectos. Largos e intensos. Garabateando notas al vuelo. A pie, en tren, en avión, en taxi (Ferran Adrià no tiene coche). Todas las mañanas, a partir de las ocho, Adrià recorre a paso de infante los 50 minutos que separan su apartamento de 50 metros, en las inmediaciones de la plaza de España de Barcelona, de su taller, oculto en un palacete del XVIII cercano al mercado de La Boquería, que adquirió en 2000, cuando decidió montar un centro de investigación unido a elBulli; una masa crítica donde se dieran los primeros pasos experimentales en torno a productos y técnicas culinarias que se convirtieran después en platos rompedores en su restaurante: un establecimiento donde cada año todo era nuevo, desde el menú y la vajilla hasta gran parte de la plantilla. Proyecta un aspecto de hombre corriente. Nunca pasó por una escuela de cocina. El éxito desbocado de elBulli se convirtió en su frustración. Adrià asciende por La Rambla inmerso en su universo.
17 Equations That Changed The World
How to mount Google Drive on Linux
As I speak, more than 22,000 people signed up for a petition, desperately wanting to have an official native Linux client for Google Drive, and yet their voice is still being ignored by Google. Perhaps when it comes to boosting their bottom line, Linux desktop market is not a priority for Google. They can ignore Linux desktop market all they want, but they cannot ignore the power of FOSS. If you want to mount Google Drive on Linux, you can try google-drive-ocamlfuse, which is a FUSE-based file system backed by Google Drive. In this tutorial, I will describe how to mount Google Drive on Linux with google-drive-ocamlfuse. Install google-drive-ocamlfuse on Linux google-drive-ocamlfuse is written in OCaml, and you can use OPAM (OCaml package manager) to build and install google-drive-ocamlfuse from its source. To install google-drive-ocamlfuse on Debian: $ sudo apt-get install ocaml camlp4-extra $ git clone $ cd opam $ . $ vi ~/.bashrc $ source ~/.bashrc $ df
La historia de la muerte
Tags: historia de la muerte en occidentemuertephilippe Ariès La vida, geométricamente, tiene forma de tubo. Hay un boquete de entrada y otro de salida. La actitud ante la muerte tiene su propia historia. Hace mil años la muerte estaba “domesticada”. El historiador relata que el sentimiento de muerte era “una convicción íntima, más que una premonición sobrenatural o mágica”. Don Quijote, de Gustave Doré. Esta actitud empezó a verse en las estatuas del siglo XII. La religión católica creó el ritual de un final en la cama. La muerte se convirtió así –según Ariès– en una “ceremonia pública, organizada por el moribundo, que la preside y conoce su protocolo”. El historiador francés toma unas palabras del escritor ruso Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), en su novela El pabellón de los cancerosos, para describir esta actitud durante “siglos o milenios”. Esta muerte es, para Ariès, “domesticada”. El descubrimiento de la propia muerte El testamento Era el último escrito. Los ‘duelos histéricos’
Installation guide — Scrapy 0.18.2 documentation
Installing Scrapy¶ Scrapy runs on Python 2.7 and Python 3.3 or above (except on Windows where Python 3 is not supported yet). If you’re already familiar with installation of Python packages, you can install Scrapy and its dependencies from PyPI with: We strongly recommend that you install Scrapy in a dedicated virtualenv, to avoid conflicting with your system packages. For more detailed and platform specifics instructions, read on. Things that are good to know¶ Scrapy is written in pure Python and depends on a few key Python packages (among others): lxml, an efficient XML and HTML parserparsel, an HTML/XML data extraction library written on top of lxml,w3lib, a multi-purpose helper for dealing with URLs and web page encodingstwisted, an asynchronous networking frameworkcryptography and pyOpenSSL, to deal with various network-level security needs The minimal versions which Scrapy is tested against are: Twisted 14.0lxml 3.4pyOpenSSL 0.14 Using a virtual environment (recommended)¶ Note Windows¶
The 10 biggest ad agencies in the world, post-Publicis, Omnicom merger
Headquarters: London Country: The United Kingdom Revenue: $15.6 billion Number of employees: 165,000 Major clients: Colgate-Palmolive, HSBC and Vodafone Overall rank: 1 WPP, the world's biggest advertising company, employs 165,000 in 3,000 offices spread over 110 nations. Although occupying the top spot, it has faced some controversies, such as allegations of going to great lengths to pay lower taxes in the United Kingdom and a revolt by shareholders over Sorrell's salary. Click NEXT to read more... A branch of HSBC in central London.
