The Week's Links: September 5, 2014

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ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Former New York Times Editor Jill Abramson on the Paper’s Future owl.li/B8N9q
  • You May Suffer From Sleep Drunkenness -- Science of Us owl.li/AWu2P
  • Your Brain Decides Whether to Trust Someone in Milliseconds owl.li/AWBmy
  • Pirouettes at the Tap of a Keyboard: Dance on Video From Many Corners of the Web - NYTimes.comowl.li/AWzH2
  • The Directors Who Make Television Cinematicowl.li/AWtZ6
  • The Metropolitan Opera's Peter Gelb: A High-Stakes Gambler Who Doesn't Walk Away - WSJ owl.li/AWtT5
  • Beach Crowds Are Beautiful From 5,000 Feet In The Air owl.li/AWhK3
  • Blockspring: discover APIs. owl.li/AWsDM
  • ◉ Insomnia owl.li/AWxGV
  • 13 Scientific Terms You Might Be Using Wrongowl.li/AWfqt
  • A newbie’s guide to why so many people are watching Twitch owl.li/AWrLR
  • ◉ Recommended: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative owl.li/AWyJK
  • ◉ How Do They Make Decaf Coffee? -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/9/1/…
  • Why do so many orchestras lag behind the beat?owl.li/AWfkH
  • Cartography: The true true size of Africaowl.li/AWqmR
  • Fantastic: Google Web Fonts Typographic Projectowl.li/AWhYj
  • Tripping through IBM’s astonishingly insane 1937 corporate songbook owl.li/AWfbV
  • What Happens When Creative Partnerships Explodeowl.li/AVr1O
  • ◉ A Brief History of Video Game Title Designowl.li/AWxuI
  • How Watson Changed IBM - Brad Power - Harvard Business Review owl.li/AVqUr
  • ◉ Recommended: Gone Girl: A Novel owl.li/AWyA4
  • ◉ Does It Help To Know History? -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/9/1/…
  • TEDGlobal 2014: The full lineup revealedowl.li/B2H6D
  • Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds owl.li/AVqK2
  • Our Use Of Little Words Can, Uh, Reveal Hidden Interests owl.li/AWf7E
  • Lessons In Non-Profit Storytelling From The Best In The World owl.li/AVqFV
  • Mathematician Posits Magic Formula for Broadway Hits owl.li/AVsyo
  • Can Outdoor Art Revitalize Outdoor Advertising?owl.li/AVsxv
  • A LITTLE KNOWN HACK FROM JAPAN TO GET YOUR NOTEBOOK ORGANIZED owl.li/AVr9Z
  • 75% Of Ikea’s Catalog Is Computer Generated Imagery owl.li/AVstX
  • 5 Design Legends That Switched Gears in the Middle of Their Careers owl.li/AVr4M
  • An Icy Solution To The Mystery Of The Slithering Stones owl.li/AVq7s
  • ◉ Royal Shakespeare Company: The Design of Richard II owl.li/AWxjr
  • Take a (really quick) Hyperlapse tour of 10 agenciesowl.li/AVpZH
  • ◉ Recommended: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel owl.li/AWyql
  • ◉ Lil' Buck & Prime Tyme Freestyling -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/8/31…
  • Twitch’s peak viewership now rivals the average prime-time viewers of some cable networks, including MTV. owl.li/AVpXY
  • How The 32 Teams Of The NFL Found Their Brand Footing owl.li/AVqsA
  • With $30 Million More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Things - NYTimes.com owl.li/AVpVo
  • 6 Questions For Tom Geismar, Illustrious Designer Of PBS, Xerox, And Mobil Logos owl.li/AVqmG
  • Be Smart. Don't Use Dumb Quote Marks owl.li/AVq8N
  • 3 Ways To Redesign Breaking News owl.li/AVqbR
  • A 17-Year-Old Invented This Smart Device That Makes Clean Water And Power At The Same Timeowl.li/AVqiv
  • Productivity Hack Of The Week: A Simple Way To Answer Emails Much Faster owl.li/AVqe2
  • 100 Most Creative People 2014 owl.li/AYweb
  • How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies owl.li/AVn79
  • The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Advertising owl.li/AVn5A
  • A 56-Song Playlist of Music in Haruki Murakami's Novels: Ray Charles, Glenn Gould, the Beach Boys & More owl.li/AU1Ov
  • Seeing Through the Illusion: Understanding Apple’s Mastery of the Media owl.li/AVpJI
  • Amazon Updates Their Login Screen For The First Time In A Decade owl.li/AVptj
  • Why Top Tech CEOs Want Employees With Liberal Arts Degrees owl.li/AVpUv
  • Download for Free 2.6 Million Images from Books Published Over Last 500 Years on Flickr owl.li/AU1Lo
  • Interactive Map Lets You Browse Over 650 Photos Taken by ISS Astronauts owl.li/AVp4A
  • Amazing: Listen to Freddie Mercury & David Bowie on the Isolated Vocal Track for the Queen Hit 'Under Pressure,' 1981 owl.li/AVnbw
  • 10 Historic Canal Towns to Visit That Aren't Veniceowl.li/AVn7K
  • The Boy with Half a Brain - Indianapolis Monthlyowl.li/AStqX
  • What Happened to Motorola owl.li/ASthn
  • Scientists agree: Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone owl.li/ARTrS
  • Inside Google's Secret Drone-Delivery Programowl.li/ASsWc
  • MIT and Marriott Are Testing a Matchmaking Table Fed by LinkedIn Data owl.li/ARTga
  • 60-Year-Old Rock Mystery Solved With GPS Trackingowl.li/ASsMv
  • Can Advertising Do Good? owl.li/AQnF0
  • 60-Year-Old Rock Mystery Solved With GPS Trackingowl.li/ASsEt
  • ‘Yours Lovingly': A Reading List About Letters and Pen Pals owl.li/AStwi
  • What’s Inside: The Science of Sriracha’s Fiery Deliciousness owl.li/AQnib
  • The World's Most Colorful Beaches owl.li/AMPno
  • Who's In The Office? The American Workday In One Graph owl.li/AMP0X
  • How Movies Manipulate Your Brain to Keep You Entertained owl.li/AKiqb
  • Facebook Targets Ads Based on Cell Signal Strengthowl.li/AMImW
  • What happens when you remove the hippocampus? - Sam Kean | TED-Ed owl.li/AKhzc
  • The Look Of Funny: How The Onion's Art Department Works owl.li/AKIdn
  • How Fast Food Chains Pick Their Next Locationowl.li/AK0vQ
  • Lessons In Website Testing From A Masterowl.li/AKiV2
  • Ebola Doctor Reveals How Infected Americans Were Cured - Scientific American owl.li/APLxH
  • New York Times’ Digital Subscription Growth Story May Be Ending owl.li/AImHw
  • The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Realityowl.li/AHS7g
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/AHBQI
  • How I Kept a 373-Day Productivity Streak Unbrokenowl.li/AFs5u
  • Machine Learning Algorithm Studying Fine Art Paintings Sees Things Art Historians Had Never Noticed owl.li/AFvGP
  • There's Finally A Modern Typeface For Programmersowl.li/AFrWP
  • Your Phone Is Key To The Future Of Concertsowl.li/AFuV0
  • An Unusual Cure for Not Enough Sleep owl.li/AFrtQ
  • Brad Templeton: Privacy and Security Are Not Mutually Exclusive owl.li/AFugC
  • A study shows how the memory of failure can help you learn faster. owl.li/AHT3G
  • HBO could clear $600 million per year with online streaming owl.li/AFrsn
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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.

How Do They Make Decaf Coffee?

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Mental Floss kicks off a new series on You Tube The Big Question, and they start with "how do they make decaf coffee?"

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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.

Does It Help To Know History?

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Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker: 

The advantage of having a historical sense is not that it will lead you to some quarry of instructions, the way that Superman can regularly return to the Fortress of Solitude to get instructions from his dad, but that it will teach you that no such crystal cave exists. What history generally “teaches” is how hard it is for anyone to control it, including the people who think they’re making it.
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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.

Lil' Buck & Prime Tyme Freestyling

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Lil' Buck and Prime Tyme freestyling a hybrid of hip hop and ballet to get the week going. 

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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.

The Week's Links: August 29, 2014

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All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • An Unusual Cure for Not Enough Sleephttp://owl.li/AFrtQ

  • Brad Templeton: Privacy and Security Are Not Mutually Exclusive owl.li/AFugC
  • A study shows how the memory of failure can help you learn faster. owl.li/AHT3G
  • HBO could clear $600 million per year with online streaming owl.li/AFrsn
  • Half Of The United States Lives In These Countiesowl.li/AFcZZ
  • The beautiful spiral ink drawings of Chan Hwee Chongowl.li/AFbT0
  • 89 Essential Quotes About Design owl.li/AEmyp
  • Last Call — Clay Shirky on The end of the printed newspaper. owl.li/AFbRI
  • Dunkin’ Donuts And Starbucks: A Tale Of Two Coffee Marketing Giants owl.li/AEmx9
  • A Picture Of Language: The Fading Art Of Diagramming Sentences owl.li/AErFv
  • Designing an Effective Donate Form owl.li/AEmv9
  • The Look Of Funny: How The Onion's Art Department Works owl.li/AEmF1
  • How To Sell Diverse Books: A Bookstore Owner's Advice owl.li/ADqYZ
  • Fantastic: First Flight with the Wright Brothersowl.li/AFnEB
  • Sleep in Ikea Showrooms Through Airbnb in Australiaowl.li/ADqTV
  • Making Mistakes : TED Radio Hour : NPRowl.li/ADq4D
  • ‘From Under The Rust’, A Short Profile of Train Car Restorer Charlie Sedgley owl.li/ADoAY
  • This Is Your Brain on Silence owl.li/ADpXX
  • Next for Virtual Reality: Video, Without the Games -NYTimes.com owl.li/ADow9
  • CHINA'S FUTURE | The Economist explores China's economy and history. owl.li/ADoQF
  • Explore A Van Gogh-Styled Google Maps Remixowl.li/ADoqn
  • ◉ Robert Brunner: What All Great Design Companies Know - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/8/24…
  • You Can Increase Your Intelligence: 5 ways to Maximize Your Cognitive Potential owl.li/ADoFh
  • Ralph Lauren debuts iOS-connected fitness & health tracking Polo Tech t-shirt owl.li/AMegu
  • How to Solve Google’s Crazy Open-Ended Interview Questions owl.li/ADqWc
  • The sustained success of the immersive theatre show Then She Fell, inspired by the Life and Work of Lewis Carroll owl.li/ADooJ
  • How We Did It: Project Edison | IDEO Labsowl.li/ADock
  • New Jersey Is Testing Solar-Power Commuter Podsowl.li/ACnmp
  • The Vocoder began as an early telecommunications device and a top-secret military encoding machineowl.li/AxOwF
  • Flowchart: David Foster Wallace On How To Live A Compassionate Life owl.li/AygL8
  • Children’s drawings could predict their intelligence later in life owl.li/AxOaG
  • Help NASA Out by Looking at Beautiful Pictures of Space owl.li/AyeaQ
  • Hyperlapse, Instagram’s New App, Is Like a $15,000 Video Setup in Your Hand owl.li/AK3fU
  • Beautiful: Wired UK typography owl.li/AxO5l
  • ◉ A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/8/23…
  • Fantastically Wrong: Why People Were Terrified of Nighttime Air Until the 1900s owl.li/Aydlt
  • ‘Beep’, A Documentary About the History of Sound in Video Games owl.li/ADogT
  • TED Playlist: Kickstart your creativity owl.li/AxNKZ
  • Fitness Trackers Show How Many People Woke Up During the Bay Area Quake owl.li/AImJk
  • Disney Research algorithm merges and edits multiple first-person video feeds into one seamless cut. “Social Video” Algorithm...
  • Amazing: Folger's Shakespeare Library Releases 80,000 Images of Literary Art Into the Public Domainowl.li/Axtie
  • The Engineer of the Original Apple Mouse Talks About His Remarkable Career owl.li/Avn8K
  • One Step Ahead: Improving Performance with Prebrowsing owl.li/AxqAr
  • ∞ Every Hitchcock cameo owl.li/AvmGN
  • Bunda Cliffs in Australia: Is this the End of the World?owl.li/AvnUD
  • The Harvard Classics: Download All 51 Volumes as Free eBooks owl.li/Av8PJ
  • ◉ How To Be Different -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/8/23…
  • The 30-year-old health sector billionaire owl.li/AvnEX
  • The Most Productive People Know Who to Ignore - Ed Batista - Harvard Business Review owl.li/AxNET
  • Are You Anxious or Stressed? owl.li/Av8Eb
  • The Ultimate Directory Of Free Image Sourcesowl.li/Av5oh
  • Nicholas Felton Quantified Literally Every Conversation He Had in 2013 owl.li/Av4WK
  • Beautiful Open is a compendium of beautifully-designed open source projects owl.li/Av2qV
  • Ad Staffers Are Going Back To School To Learn Digital Skills owl.li/Av4tV
  • Why the World Smells Different After It Rainsowl.li/Av2kr
  • The Internet Is Officially More Popular Than Cable in the U.S. owl.li/Av4iF
  • Great Read: Why I design at Facebook — The Year of the Looking Glass owl.li/Av2gm
  • TED Playlist: How leaders inspire owl.li/Av37D
  • Age and Gender Matter in Viral Marketing - Kelsey Libert - Harvard Business Review owl.li/Av5xl
  • All the Stuff Soldiers Have Carried in Battle, From the 11th Century to Today owl.li/Av1Mf
  • How Long Would It Take the Whole World to do the Ice Bucket Challenge? WIRED does the math.owl.li/Av0Od
  • Lessons From The Last Time Civilization Collapsedowl.li/Av0v2
  • The Future of Mobile Apps for News owl.li/AuScS
  • Let’s talk about margins owl.li/AuZey
  • 4 Apps That Get You Lost, So You Can Have Actual Experiences owl.li/AuMId
  • 118 Years Ago, The New York Times Crowdsourced a New Motto owl.li/AuX1S
  • How Long Do CDs Last? It Depends, But Definitely Not Forever owl.li/AuHTY
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Adam Carolla’s Settlement with the Podcasting Troll owl.li/AuWOz
  • Before He Died, Richard III Lived Large owl.li/Av1Cm
  • What a Pickpocket Can Teach You About Time Management owl.li/Auwyv
  • The National Park Service turns 98 on Monday, and all park entrance fees will be waived owl.li/ADmt6
  • More than a toy: Oculus Rift VR headset becomes a tool for real-life surgery demos owl.li/AunMj
  • Writers Who Published Great Books Before Age 25owl.li/Aunec
  • The Artist, the Thief, the Forger, and her Lover. How did the “Mona Lisa” become famous? owl.li/As7Zq
  • The Engineer of the Original Apple Mouse Talks About His Remarkable Career owl.li/AshSS
  • ◉ Alain de Botton: Art for Life's Sake owl.li/ArodN
  • A brief history of USB, what it replaced, and what has failed to replace it owl.li/As9eL
  • The End of Authentication. You just discovered a Vermeer in your aunt’s basement. But who will verify if it is real? owl.li/As7K0
  • ◉ Recommended: Company owl.li/ArsfU
  • 6 Ways Your Brain Tries To Kill Your Ideas And How To Fight Them owl.li/As88E
  • Forgeries Gone Wild! How widespread is art forgery?owl.li/As7wP

 

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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.