It’s Saturday again and we all know what that means. Well two things. First, I got up late and second it’s another thrifty polygon of awesome. This weeks Concept Crucible Hexup runs the gamut from ideas surrounding storytelling and creativity to space flight and materials research. Enjoy, and as usual feel free to join the conversation by linking your awesome idea discoveries to the Twitter hashtag #CCHexup.
A commentary on storytelling
This web comic panel from Yale Stewart’s JL8 offers an insightful look on what makes a story and the nature of storytelling.
Thoughts on a Creative Career
Ze Frank offers some sage advice on how to embark on a creative career. Spoiler: just start doing it. Creating things, finding your voice and sharing it, and learning to take criticism.
Test spaceflight? Hell yes.
Virgin Galactic announced another successful test of it’s commercial spacecraft SpaceShipTwo. The test marks another in a series of successful tests of the craft. The test is good news for the blooming commercial spaceflight industry of New Mexico, if only I could afford the 200K ticket. See more at Space.com 
Computers are reading your dreams. Sort of.
This isn’t Star Trek, yet, but some experiments are starting to be able to decode brain signals for objects in peoples dreams with increasing accuracy. The tests seem to confirm that the brain works more or less the same way waking and dreaming. Read about it at Science News
Mastering Liquidity
Scientists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have developed a surface that can control the flow of liquids moving across it. Applications include tents that could better react to weather, pipes that could control their own flow, or self cleaning contact lenses.
Read the full story over at the BBC
Photography, now with more lasers
Have you ever wanted to take high res three dimensional images from say a kilometer away? Well now you can. All you need is some superconducting nanowires and some lasers. You and I might not have the materials but these guys do.
And that is the Concept Crucible Hexup for this week.
