Your Data Needs A Story: How to Hook Your Readers From the First Sentence
- Jun 6, 2017
- 1 min read
Published by Interesting Engineering
“An irresistible attraction to gecko feet is an occupational hazard for engineers who study how one thing sticks to another.”
This was the intriguing start of an article I read recently. Gecko feet? What do geckos have to do with engineering? I was hooked.
As I read on, I learned the story of Stanford mechanical engineering graduate student Elliot W. Hawkes (now a visiting assistant professor at Stanford). Hawkes and a team of researchers invented a climbing apparatus that used sticky pads inspired by geckos, which are expert climbers because their feet stick to vertical surfaces.
By the end of the article, I was cheering... Read Full Article.
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