The Week's Links: February 28, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

• XKCD's "Frequency" - using blinking GIFs to visualize the relative frequency of the momentous and trivial http://owl.li/tLkQ0
• After 400 years, mathematicians find a new class of shapes http://owl.li/tLqTs
• Watch the Experimental Short Films by Tezuka Osamu, the Walt Disney of Japan http://owl.li/tLqV9
• What Happens When You Make The Internet Share A Video Game http://owl.li/tP365
• iPad App Trains People To Fix Their Bad Eyesight http://owl.li/tPrUv
• Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators owl.li/tLftx
• More than 700 new planets discovered today owl.li/u54LA
• Oral History: Sex! Drugs! Apps! SXSW Interactive At 20 owl.li/u4Q5q
• ◉ Second Sleep owl.li/sW6Wy
• The Making Of The Typeface Signo owl.li/tLfnB
• Can Volcanic Magma Power The Future? owl.li/tL9HW
• The Neuroscience Of Imagination owl.li/tL9td
• ◉ The Powerlessness of Positive Thinking - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/2/20…
• Agatha Christie's war record gives clue to her plots with drugs and poison owl.li/tL9nY
• How Stress Hormones Impact the Behavior of Investors owl.li/tKaUd
• 6 Common Mistakes in Logo Design owl.li/tKaQm
• ◉ IBM On Brand owl.li/sW6VB
• 15 Minute History: Quick History Lessons from a New, Chart-Topping Podcast owl.li/tK9S9
• ◉ The Fear Of Not Knowing - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/2/20…
• To Automate Everything, Solve These Three Challenges owl.li/tK1Lr
• Mystery Behind Galileo's Visual Illusion Discovered owl.li/tFlN5
• Why Does This Bookstore Keep Its Books in Bathtubs? owl.li/tBDvl
• Elegant Mathematical Formulas Activate the Same Brain Region As Music And Art owl.li/tBD1q
• How Technology Enhances Creativity owl.li/tBCJB
• 5 Everyday Objects Developed from NASA Technology owl.li/tBfV8
• What Happens When Your Brain is on Alfred Hitchcock: The Neuroscience of Film owl.li/tBfOw
• Why The New York Times Hired A Biology Researcher As Its Chief Data Scientist owl.li/tzBpU
• ◉ Fishing for Ideas - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/2/20…
• IDEO Labs: We Like owl.li/tzxUk
• Painters Painting: The Definitive Documentary Portrait of the New York Art World (1940-1970) owl.li/tzxRc
• At New Marc Jacobs Concept Store, No Money Will Change Hands owl.li/tzxBU
• Stanley Kubrick’s List of Top 10 Films (The First and Only List He Ever Created) owl.li/tzx7P
• A program used predictive language to produce an entirely new poem in the voice of the Bard. owl.li/twFre
• Beautiful: The Gershwins & Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs owl.li/twE7N
• How a Book Thief Forged a Rare Edition of Galileo’s Scientific Work, and Almost Pulled it Off owl.li/twE0Z
• ◉ Nine Decades of Science in The New Yorker: Looking Back to Look Ahead owl.li/sW6RQ
• The Gorgeous Reality of Not Being Liked by Everyone owl.li/twDQh
• Three Ways Leaders Can Listen with More Empathy owl.li/twll5
• Must read: The CalArts Class Who Created a Great Renaissance of Animation owl.li/twjWO
• ◉ Benjamin Zander: The Art of Possibility - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/2/20…
• 15 Fascinating Reddit AMAs You Need to Read owl.li/twjNY
• Patterns in music and the natural world: Creating stronger spider silk and other new materials. owl.li/twgHB
• The Race to Save America's Public-Media History owl.li/twgoT
• Apple's Forgotten Designs owl.li/twg9a
• Must read: A Manifesto for Quality Thought owl.li/twfi1
• Case Study — Typographic Design Patterns And Current Practices (2013 Edition) owl.li/twfah
• Spike Jonze discusses his love-hate relationship with tech owl.li/twf5Z
• Deep Inside Baz Luhrmann’s Creative Chaos owl.li/tweZh
• Is there a way to encourage routine strategic thinking throughout an organization? owl.li/twbzr
• What to expect in 2014: Adapting to Facebook's Edgerank changes owl.li/twaBm
• Coming soon to a table near you: print-on-demand pasta owl.li/tw8D0
• JRR Tolkien advised by WH Auden to drop romance from LOTR. owl.li/tw8uZ
• Getty Images, Sheryl Sandberg Team Up to Make Stock Photos of Women More Empowering owl.li/tw8k5
• 20 Challenger Brands to Watch in 2014 owl.li/tw8eR
• Sound Scientist: Inside the Home Studio of Radiolab's Jad Abumrad owl.li/tw84e
• Why Watson and Siri Are Not Real AI owl.li/tw7T1
• 4 Lessons Designers Could Learn From The Hoefler & Frere-Jones Split owl.li/tw4aP
• 10 Of The Year's Best Science Visualizations owl.li/tw43x
• New York's Fashion Industry Reveals a New Truth About Economic Clusters owl.li/tw0cX
• MIT: A cochlear implant that can be wirelessly recharged would use the natural microphone of the middle ear. owl.li/tw01p
• 6 Powerful Communication Tips From Some Of The World's Best Interviewers owl.li/tvZ9j
• ◉ A Tuner App That Visualizes Your Pitch In Real Time owl.li/sW6OV
• Easy ways to supercharge your friendships owl.li/tvUb9
• ◉ Recommended: The Unpublished David Ogilvy - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
• Ars Technica: The 2014 Google tracker—Everything we know Google is working on this year owl.li/tvTXd
• The 18-year-old who sold his start-up to Yahoo talks to Jonathan Ford about the business of skim-reading owl.li/tvGcG
• Clever Crow Solves Complicated Eight-Part Puzzle owl.li/tvBH2