The Week's Links: November 11, 2012

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Scanning Device Enables Computers To Read And Play Sheet Music In Real-Time 
  • One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education 
  • Remix web video with Popcorn Maker, launching today 
  • Want Better Employees? Give Them An Impossible Task. 
  • UK Music Video Awards 2012 winners announced 
  • The 10 Most Beautiful Libraries in the United States 
  • Wow: CalArts' animation alumni top $26 billion in box-office grosses 
  • How did I not know about this?: Sixteen-part PBS travel/food show with David Chang 
  • 10 Words Invented by Authors 
  • The Beatles' Surprising Contribution To Brain Science 
  • Could your company's IT department or dev team soon be drafted as digital soldiers in an ongoing cyberwar? 
  • Beginnings of Bionic: Flexible, stretchable electronics could launch cyborg era 
  • The Magical Tech Behind Paper For iPad's Color-Mixing Perfection 
  • Original Creators: Escape Artist Harry Houdini 
  • Transmedia Theater Projects Tell The Stories Of Shakespeare's Tempest And Kafka's The Trial 
  • The Love You Save: Lessons On Water And Stuff 
  • Technology Tidbits: Top 100 Sites & Apps of 2012 
  • A Little Music Training In Childhood Goes A Long Way 
  • The History of Western Architecture in 39 Free Video Lectures 
  • The Rumpus Interview With Elizabeth Gilbert 
  • Why We Can't Solve Big Problems: MIT Technology Review 
  • Just A Little Meditation Causes Brain-Wave Changes
  • Mary Meeker Gives Mid-Year Internet Trends Report: Android Adoption Ramping Up 6X Faster Than iPhone 
  • Your IQ Doesn't Matter & Other Lessons About Creativity From Children 
  • Your IQ Doesn't Matter & Other Lessons About Creativity From Children 
  • How Facebook Finds The Best Design Talent, And Keeps Them Happy 
  • John Rauser: What is a Career in Big Data? 
  • Cut Your Losses: How To Know When To Quit 
  • Opinion: why arts education matters 
  • curaqion is a monthly curation of high quality answers from fascinating topics and questions on Quora 
  • Freebie: Extended Entypo Glyph Set (EPS, PDF, PSD, Typeface, Web Font) 
  • Key to American Innovation? Incorporating Art and Design into Education 
  • Carnegie Mellon Takes Online Courses to Another Level with Its Open Learning Initiative 
  • Shocking: Hurricane Sandy NYC Timelapses 
  • How Squarespace, Grouper, And East Coast Companies Worked Through Sandy 
  • Podcast: "Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects" 
  • An Ode To Creative Work, By Behance
  • Architecture photographer explains how he got that New York magazine cover shot 
  • Humans Think Like Quantum Particles: Scientific American 
  • Lady Gaga’s Manager On The Future Of Social Media 
  • 10 Music Videos That “Borrow” from Famous Artists 
  • Joi Ito, Director at MIT Media Lab, Discusses The Changing Meaning Of Leadership With Errol Morris 
  • New NASA service to alert when you’ll be able to see the International Space Station from your house. 
  • Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) Go International 
  • 25 Best Blogs 2012: TIME.com 
  • A year inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 7 - The mid-year review
  • Photographer Captures Panoramic Views Along The 40th Parallel 
  • PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 5: Hacking Art & Culture with F.A.T. Lab 
  • How Will MIT's Reverse Engineering Of Twitter's Trending Topics Algorithm Impact Twitter's Advertising Business? 
  • How Getting Rejected Fuels Creativity 
  • Your Brain Can be Nice or Logical, but Not Both at Once 
  • Why Time Magazine Used Instagram To Cover Hurricane Sandy 
  • 300+ Resources to Help You Become a Photoshop Expert 
  • Essential Trait of Every Great Entrepreneur 
  • Uncertainty, Innovation, and the Alchemy of Fear 
  • Twitter fiction: 21 authors try their hand at 140-character novels 
  • How Designers Plan To Create 'The Route 66 Of The Future' 
  • Creativity Top 5: November 5, 2012
  • NY Museum Stages First ‘Scent’ Exhibit 
  • 2012 Inductees to the Robot Hall of Fame 
  • Copyright Confection: The Distinctive Topography of the Hershey Bar 
  • Backstage At The Metropolitan Opera
  • The Return of the Hand-Painted Sign 
  • Is Dancing Uniquely Human? 
  • How to Tell If Your Kid Will Become a Great Artist 
  • In 1830, a brutal crime riveted the nation—and inspired the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  • The Conjuring Arts Research Center, A Real Life Hogwarts 
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read 
  • Mathematics anxiety can prompt a response in the brain similar to when a person experiences physical pain. 
  • What Captures Your Attention Controls Your Life - Kare Anderson 
  • Massive Open Online Courses Are Multiplying at a Rapid Pace 
  • Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves 
  • Do objective standards in art exist? 
  • Hurricane Sandy, A Drenching Reminder That Tough Times Inspire Remarkable Innovation 

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.