Luckily, there are people in the world whose job is to write words that grab people’s already overloaded attention. Those people spend mountains of time and money on research to understand how people process words online — and, better yet, what makes people stop mid-scroll and take action....
Ejecting from an aircraft is rare, but pilots sometimes have to resort to pulling the ejection handle to save their lives. Photo courtesy U.S. Air Force U.S. Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady was helping to enforce the no-fly zone over northern Bosnia on June 2, 1995, when a Bosnian...
Bullets do damage when they transfer their energy to the things they hit. The faster something loses its momentum, the more force it produces. (One way to define force is as the rate at which an object's momentum changes.) A rifle bullet coming to a stop in a tenth of a second produ...
BRITAIN’S ARMED forces have much to be proud of. The Royal Navy is engaged in some of the most intense naval skirmishing since the Falklands war, knocking Houthi missiles out of the sky above the Red Sea. The Royal Air Force (RAF) is still flying over Iraq and Syria to keep Islamic ...
By the end, they may see 25 objects in the morning, train all day, and then at night be asked to write down descriptions of all the things they saw. Another observation game happens in the field with a sniper scope. According to Army Ranger Sniper: What they would usually do was hide...
Think you’re not in a position to learn how to write like Hemingway? Many business people faced with the task of persuasive writing for marketing purposes are quick to say: “Hey, I’m no Hemingway!” But really, who better than Hemingway to emulate? Rather than embracing the flowery ...
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According to Axl Rose, a fellow rocker actually inspired him to write it — Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee. When Crue released "Home Sweet Home" in 1985, it really opened the door for a lot of other hard rock bands to release their own power ballads. While the majority of Motley Crue'...
The great historian Shimon Dubnov served as our guide and inspiration. Until the moment of his death he said over and over again to his companions in the Riga ghetto:“Yidden, shreibt un fershreibt”(Jews, write it all down). His words were heeded. Overnight, countless victims become ...
Joanna Wiebe:When you force yourself to re-write every sentence with ‘you’ at the beginning. You then are more likely to be sure that you’re actually writing copy that your reader is going to care about. Then once you’ve re-written every line like that, and trust me you will noti...