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I read a decent amount of self-improvement books, especially ones that spark creativity.

But my current favorite piece of advice isn't from a book.

It's from the film Star Wars, Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back.

Yoda said,

“Try not. Do or Do not, there is no try.”

Continue Reading "Change All Year Round" →

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Every year I look ahead to November and December with excitement and joy.

No, it’s not the holidays. And it’s not the wonderland of snow.

It’s the release of the New York Times List of 100 Notable Books.

Continue Reading "End-of-Year Awards and Best-of Lists for Books" →

My day is surrounded by stories.

Yes, I work in a place quite literally stacked with books, but that is not what I mean.

Continue Reading "Once Upon a Day" →

For baseball fans, it’s spring time.  For football, it’s fall.

But for video game enthusiasts, “the season” begins in September and stretches till Black Friday in November.  

Most of the best games of the year come out in this three-month window, and awards season follows in December.

It’s easy to overlook stellar titles in this digital deluge, so I’m here to recap some of the best games so far.

Continue Reading "What’s your 2018 Game of the Year?" →

We are truly living in a new golden age of astronomy.

Many wondrous and strange places in the Solar System have been explored, thanks to the Hubble telescope and dozens of NASA missions to planets and large objects circling our Sun.

But what sorts of worlds are out there beyond the Solar System?

Continue Reading "Super Earths, Rogue Planets, Hot Jupiters and Diamond Worlds" →