PLEASE don’t expect a conference miracle. Writing almost never sells on pitches alone, no matter how many times you have heard that apocryphal story about THE HORSE WHISPERER. You are not going to really know what an agent thinks about your work until...
You need not worry about the apocryphal stories that your people told about our first Imperial Age. That Skywalker kid was a terrorist, pure and simple. However, our inside sources reveal that the “documentary” in progress by the Terran named Jjabrams includes a rather accurate portrayal of...
It’s not clear whether the story is apocryphal, but enough product people believe it to give one pause. As a company and as a blog, we’ve long had a complicated relationship with aha moments. On the one hand, the idea gets product managers excited about finding the inflection point ...
I like this idea too much for it to be true, I admit. But if one krayt dragon existed just a short time ago, it is not simply fodder for the cryptoxenozoologists. And so, sooner or later, someone will answer my scientific salvo. I predict thatburrowswhere the krayt dragons metamorphos...
to have said, “I hope it is not true, but if it is true, I hope it does not become generally known.” The shock experienced our apocryphal woman and other, real people, was the harbinger of what Thomas Kuhn called a “paradigm shift.” The original paradigm the idea that ...
if they can scare you away without it. Venom takes a lot of energy and resources for an animal to make so they don’t want to waste it. But baby snakes, the story goes, haven’t figured that out yet so they are more likely to actually envenomate you. Turns out that isnot true....
, and old-time residents of Puerto Jiménez are only too happy to regale you with hosts of gory tales. Some may be apocryphal, but they certainly add colour to the place. You could feasibly explore the whole peninsula in four days, but this would be rushing it, especially if you want ...
apocryphal • [英] [əˈ ɔkrəfəl] [美] [əˈ ɑkrəfəl] p p • adj. 1. 真实性可疑的2. 伪造的,杜撰的3. 作者不 明的4. 次经的;新约外传的 • well-known but probably not true ▪ an apocryphal story/tale about the president's childhood • The Journal...
This echoes Henry Ford's famous, though perhaps apocryphal, claim that: "If I had asked [consumers] what they wanted, they would have said, 'Faster horses!'" (Vlaskovits and Ford 2011). For our purposes, this notion of entrepreneurship is crucially linked to the changes in the forms and...
In his book,Surely You’re Joking Mr. FeynmanNobel-prize winning physicist Richard Feynman tells a (probably apocryphal) story about what he calls cargo cults: “In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they...