Sometimes industry scientists will go to meetings just to search out the latest hot discovery that they may be able to use in the development of a new product.
As the Chief Scientist of the world's largest research program aimed specifically at the climatic aspects of clouds, aerosols, and radiation, I find this unique book, authored by the leading lights in our subject, to be a unique review of the latest, hottest discoveries about clouds, including how they are changing now and how they might change in the future.
Then, on the first Thursday of Cannes 2012, came Rust and Bone and Matthias Schoenaerts – playing a bare-knuckle boxer opposite Marion Cotillard – was suddenly the hottest discovery on the Croisette.
Despite controlling the sole supply of the hottest discovery in cell biology since DNA, WARF was not bombarded by requests for the right to work with Thomson's stem cell lines.
Despite being considered by many to be the hot favourite, Discovery disappeared from the running, with US firm Scripps in pole position in the ever lengthening sales process.
The occasion for this interview is The Good Cook, his six-part series for the BBC – which is something of a shock development, because Hopkinson is not some hot new discovery; he was born in 1954, and has a long career both as a chef and as a food writer behind him.
Although there are a lot of apps now competing in the newly hot "social discovery" space, Sonar's position in this battle has been to focus on its ranking technology as its defining factor.
This is Tyler Boss, the hot new discovery of this year's MoCCA.
What 'being the best' means to the Clarke Award is about showcasing the best of science fiction to the world, not being bigger, better or first to the hot new discovery simply for its own sake.
Even though the pre-Hot Coffee discovery GTA San Andreas version involved visiting prostitutes, shooting drug dealers, car jacking, executing pedestrians and cutting deals with bent cops, it never had an AO rating.
