The Week's Links: November 28, 2014

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ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Watch A 5-Part Series On The History Of Video Game Graphics owl.li/ECHSs
  • How Designers Recreated Alan Turing's Code-Breaking Computer for Imitation Game owl.li/EGDdL
  • Apple’s iCloud Photo Library: A Quick How-To Guide owl.li/EGLtw
  • MIT Media Lab Maps History's Biggest Celebrities owl.li/EGs3U
  • Here’s some remarkable new data on the power of chat apps like WhatsApp for sharing news stories owl.li/ECGQu
  • Google launches Contributor, a crowdfunding tool for publishers owl.li/ECGpU
  • 75+ tools for investigative journalists owl.li/ECyQW
  • See Hemingway's Novels Condensed Into 15-Second Animations on Instagram owl.li/ECCtE
  • The Shockingly Old Origin of the Fax Machine owl.li/ECmKL
  • A Kindle Designer's Touching Online Memorial To The Marginalia Scribbled In Books  owl.li/ECCg1
  • The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science owl.li/EyOt5
  • Don't change a thing: 8 inventions that never needed updating owl.li/ECBXF
  • License Plates From The 50 States, Redesigned owl.li/ECHKG
  • The XKCD Guide to the Universe's Most Bizarre Physics owl.li/ECB3N
  • You Can Now Search for Every Tweet Ever Sent in the Twitter App owl.li/EyMC5
  • Why Pentagram's Michael Bierut Is Obsessed With Black And White owl.li/EyLYi
  • Amazing: Incredible Photos Taken at Exact Opposite Ends of the Earth owl.li/EyrEE
  • Want: This Tiny Cardboard Battery Is Like A Vitamin For Your Smartphone owl.li/EyJ8b
  • How People's Political Passions Distort Their Sense of Reality owl.li/Eyrsy
  • Designers Of Android And Dropbox On The Smartphone Of 2020 owl.li/EyIBa
  • An Astronaut Reveals What Life in Space Is Really Like owl.li/Eyrmz
  • ◉ Instead of futurists, let’s be now-ists: Joi Ito at TED2014 owl.li/EGQHU
  • "The best work advice I ever got" owl.li/EyHKf
  • 20 Self-Deprecating Notes Found on Vintage Photographs owl.li/Eys9P
  • Your Job May Affect How Your Brain Ages owl.li/EyNrW
  • The givers and the takers owl.li/EyqYH
  • 10 Facts About the Internet's Undersea Cables owl.li/Eykzt
  • Why Humans Can Solve Some Problems Better Than Computers, with Luis von Ahn owl.li/EyeU2
  • The Science Of Simplicity: Why Successful People Wear The Same Thing Every Day owl.li/Eyks7
  • Interesting: Night Time Eiffel Tower Photos Are a Copyright Violation owl.li/EyaBt
  • Thanksgiving Recipes Across the United States. We’ve scoured the nation for recipes that evoke each of the 50 states (and D.C. and Puerto...
  • ◉ How “Lion King” Regained Its Crown As Broadway’s Top-Selling Show: An Algorithm owl.li/EGQz2
  • The 10 Most Watched Ads on YouTube in October owl.li/EuFPS
  • How music education influenced Google CEO Larry Page owl.li/EyjyF
  • Searching For a Better Battery, with Brad Templeton owl.li/EyjqR
  • Ad of the Day: New York City Ballet Shows PlayStation Gamers a Proper Victory Dance owl.li/EyreO
  • How America’s Oldest Magazines Are Modernizing (And Monetizing) Their Archives owl.li/Eqrmx
  • Why I’m teaching Serial instead of Shakespeare owl.li/EqigV
  • Interactive graphic: Every active satellite orbiting earth owl.li/EpPL0
  • Why Wearables Should Be Free owl.li/Eq1ui
  • Big Data and Bigger Breaches With Alex Pentland owl.li/EpPAZ
  • David Grady: How to save the world (or at least yourself) from bad meetings owl.li/EpXOm
  • Kandinsky on the Spiritual Element in Art and the Three Responsibilities of Artists owl.li/EpPkq
  • ◉ Parsing Is Such Sweet Sorrow: Shakespeare through the lens of statistics owl.li/EGQrr
  • Facebook is making 'Facebook at Work,' so you can Facebook at work owl.li/EpS0s
  • Which reads faster, Chinese or English? owl.li/Es5mn
  • It’s small touches that can make a difference in New York’s online layouts owl.li/EpR0o
  • It’s small touches that can make a difference in New York’s online layouts owl.li/EpK2A
  • The Composer Of Serial's Soundtrack Comes Clean About Its "Ambiguous" Score owl.li/EpCzL
  • The world’s biggest chocolate-maker says we’re running out of chocolate - The Washington Post owl.li/EmmAg
  • Norman Lear On The Nature Of Belly Laughs, The Stories All Around You, And Shaping TV As We Know It owl.li/EpC3R
  • The Disease of Being Busy owl.li/Em1Go
  • It's A Neil Gaiman Universe; We Just Live In It owl.li/EmICm
  • The most extraordinary photos you've never seen. owl.li/ElPXe
  • David Foster Wallace’s mind-blowing creative nonfiction syllabus owl.li/EmFXJ
  • Fitbit Data Now Being Used In The Courtroom owl.li/EpOZI
  • Tech Time Warp of the Week: Before Apple Pay, There Was That Thing Called RFID owl.li/EmFtt
  • Batteries Nearly Drained and Vital Science Done, Philae Has Gone to Sleep owl.li/El0Ly
  • 4 Simple Remedies For Burnout Backed By Science owl.li/El0Cd
  • Playing With Perceptions : TED Radio Hour owl.li/EkOwS
  • Earth's Most Stunning Natural Fractal Patterns owl.li/El0Ab
  • More dinosaur species have been found in China than anywhere else owl.li/EkOvj
  • 6 ideas from creative thinkers to shake up your work routine owl.li/EkODr
  • Pigeons appear to use gravity to set a course back to their lofts owl.li/EkOtK
  • PBS Food, The History Kitchen: How Lincoln Transformed Thanksgiving owl.li/EkOBs
  • Erin McKean: The joy of lexicography owl.li/EkOye
  • Posters for imagined movie sequels owl.li/El0N5
  • Google's Larry Page: The most ambitious CEO in the universe owl.li/EkLQp
  • Fallen Arches: Can McDonald's get its mojo back? owl.li/EkLOh
  • The Man Who Made the UK Say “I’m Sorry For What We Did To Turing.” owl.li/EkEXG
  • The Invention of Sliced Bread owl.li/EkLvS
  • ◉ The #Art of the Hashtag owl.li/EkNav
  • The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science owl.li/EkEU6
  • In the sleepy world of podcasts, ‘Serial’ has emerged as a global phenomenon owl.li/EkKPf
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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: November 21, 2014

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ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

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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 Great Brain Debate

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Throughout history, scientists have proposed conflicting ideas on how the brain carries out functions like perception, memory, and movement. Is each of these tasks carried out by a specific area of the brain? Or do multiple areas work together to accomplish them? Ted Altschuler investigates both sides of the debate.

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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.

Knowledge vs. Intelligence

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The difference between knowledge and intelligence is key here. Knowledge is the collection of skills and information a person has acquired through experience. Intelligence is the ability to apply knowledge. Just because someone lacks knowledge of a particular subject doesn’t mean they can’t apply their intelligence to help solve problems.
Knowledge is wonderful, but it fades as techniques and technologies come and go. Intelligence sustains. Its borders extend beyond any technique or technology, and that makes all the difference.

Anthony Colangelo, A List Apart. 

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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 Knowledge, London’s Legendary Taxi-Driver Test, Puts Up a Fight in the Age of GPS

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The New York Times Magazine has a fantastic article by Jody Rosen about The Knowledge, which is as much about London taxi drivers as it is about what it is to commit to be the best in a certain field:

The examination to become a London cabby is possibly the most difficult test in the world — demanding years of study to memorize the labyrinthine city’s 25,000 streets and any business or landmark on them. As GPS and Uber imperil this tradition, is there an argument for learning as an end in itself?
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[Matt] McCabe had spent the last three years of his life thinking about London’s roads and landmarks, and how to navigate between them. In the process, he had logged more than 50,000 miles on motorbike and on foot, the equivalent of two circumnavigations of the Earth, nearly all within inner London’s dozen boroughs and the City of London financial district. He was studying to be a London taxi driver, devoting himself full-time to the challenge that would earn him a cabby’s “green badge” and put him behind the wheel of one of the city’s famous boxy black taxis.
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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.