As much as we love books the print medium does have a way of propagating errors and mistakes which cannot be corrected as easily as electronically published material can.
Nietzsche famously said that there are no such things as facts, only interpretations. Be that as it may, every writer knows that there are certainly such [...]

Seven of the most significant blunders from the Star Wars movies…
In Episode IV, Admiral Motti, riding high on the whole “Death Star” thing, finally decides he’s going to tell Vader off just like he practiced over the phone with his mother. After bragging that he’s not scared of Vader, he tells him that his “sad [...]

As they say, “show me someone who has never failed, and I’ll show you someone who has never tried”.
There’s another factor – and I’m talking about this as a designer, but I imagine it would work in any form of the arts and to science. When you’re working and you make mistakes, particularly when you’re [...]

How many medical breakthroughs were accidental, where researchers were looking for one solution but stumbled upon another instead? Come to think of it many discoveries are probably unintentional, and that also includes a lot of good design:
It’s been happening throughout history, of course. Beautiful accidents. Unintentional intentions. We can’t plan these mistakes, but wish we [...]