Roz Savage's satellite phone--her primary connection to the outside world as she rowed the Atlantic Ocean from the Canaries to Antigua last year--stopped working 24 days before the end of her 103-day journey. With no ability to text message, blog or receive weather reports, it was then that she finally "got into the zone."
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a
person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as
possible" - Freeman Dyson