The Week's Link: November 18, 2012

All the links posted on social networks this week:

• As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living ➞
• 11 Badass Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes ➞
• And Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year Is … GIF ➞
• Richard Silver's New York Churches Panoramas ➞ /via @Coudal
• Matt Molloy's gorgeous series of sky images ➞
• The human central processing unit, slice by slice. ➞
• Dan Ariely Presents “A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior” in Upcoming MOOC ➞
• The Patent Fix: A Wired series on the patent problem ➞
• How To Sell A $1 Snow Globe For $59: The Real ROI Of Brand Storytelling ➞
• Inside the MIT Media Lab: Big Data, Privacy, Modern Cities and More ➞
• Another great interview: Robin Sloan, Author and 'Media Inventor' ➞
• The Met’s Exhibition Catalogs Are Revived for a Digital Life, available online. ➞
• Great interview: Oliver Reichenstein on design ➞
• Adweek's 2012 Brand Genius Awards ➞
• Steve Cober: On Quitting Your Day Job & Building A Business With Heart ➞
• Your Brain by the Numbers ◉
• Do slang and vulgarity belong in the dictionary? A look at America's greatest language controversy ➞
• What do birds do in a hurricane? ➞
• Does TV actually brainwash? ➞
• Copy, Transform, Combine ◉
• Timing is everything. But exactly how the brain keeps time, which it does very well, has been something of a mystery. ➞
• Kermit the Frog Learns to Love Jazz Through “Visual Thinking” (1959) ➞
• Educating Players: Are Games the Future of Education? ➞
• How Do You Raise a Prodigy? ◉
• Love these images of dancers out of the stage. ➞
• Square Wallet, the Apple Store, and Uber: Software Above the Level of a Single Device ➞
• So great: Artist Creates Intricate Paper Cut Patterns On Newspapers ➞
• I Saw The Future Of Advertising And It's Pretty Awesome ➞
• All Consuming Passion ◉
• The Stockdale Paradox: How Optimism Creates Resilience ➞
• Excellent typography: Industrial-Strength Types ➞
• The Icon in the Costume Shop: Valentino at NYC Ballet ◉
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Raw data, now! ➞
• Inner ear implant uses biological battery to self-charge ➞
• Experience Relativity Firsthand In MIT Video Game That Slows The Speed Of Light ➞
• 4 studies on the surprising science of mind-wandering ➞
• Useful Talks And Videos From Web Design Conferences ➞
• PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 6: Street Art ◉
• The History And Impact Of The Red Cross ➞
• The Secret Lives of Kitchen Spices ➞
• 25 College Classes Based on TV Shows ➞
• Three Studios Agree to Let a Guild Certify Credits for Film Producers ➞
• Rare and Iconic Photos of Einstein Celebrate His Nobel Win 90 Years Ago ➞
• The Crisis in Higher Education: MIT Technology Review ➞
• Get To Know NYC Ballet ◉
• Amazing to see the places tweets come from: The one million tweet map #onemilliontweetmap ➞
• Cool: With Tinkercad you can quickly turn your idea into a CAD model for a 3D printer. ➞
• Arts Branding Sucks. Here Are 4 Ways To Fix It ➞
• TED introduces Playlists: Collections for curious minds ➞
• A Short Lesson in Perspective ➞
• Will we ever understand how our brains work? ➞
• When Truman Capote set out to profile Marlon Brando for The New Yorker in 1957, he knew just how to set his traps ➞
• Beth Comstock: You Have To Tell A Story, Before You Can Sell A Story ◉
• How to Devise Passwords That Drive Hackers Away ➞
• The Legendary George Nelson On Creating A Design-Driven Company ➞
• Front-end development standards ➞
• Creativity Top 5: November 12, 2012 ◉
• #InPraiseOfTheHashtag - The NYTimes.comexplains the hashtag. ➞
• From the diary of Jim Henson: Imagination Illustrated ➞
• Inside The Mind Of A Chef ◉
• Your Employee Is an Online Celebrity. Now What Do You Do? ➞
• Hypercollaborations: An Interview with Tod Machover ➞
• Key to American Innovation? Incorporating Art and Design into Education ➞
• Stop Being a People-Pleaser ➞
• John Rauser: What is a Career in Big Data? ◉
• The History of Humans is the History of Technology: The Millions Interviews Robin Sloan ➞
• In Experiments, Caffeine Accelerates the Brain's Verbal Processing ➞
• The Mystery of Human Blood Types ➞
• Early Bow and Arrows Offer Insight Into Origins of Human Intellect ➞
• Dear Brands, Tell Us A Story - Love Consumers ➞
• Meet the Salak, the Ubiquitous Indonesian Fruit You've Never Heard Of ➞
• Favorites From the Cooper-Hewitt's New Online Collection ➞
• Art as Therapy: How to Age Creatively ➞
• Amazing Close-Ups of Seeds ➞
• The Scientific Reason Complementary Colors Look Good Together ➞
• How Astronauts Take Such Beautiful Photographs in Space ➞

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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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The Week's Links: November 4, 2012

All the links posted on social networks this week:

• Hurricane Sandy, A Drenching Reminder That Tough Times Inspire Remarkable Innovation ➞
• Creativity Top 5: Post Sandy - ◉
• Hurricane Sandy: How You Can Help - ◉
• Kurt Vonnegut’s Eight Tips on How to Write a Good Short Story ➞
• A dash of algebra on wireless networks promises to boost bandwidth tenfold, without new infrastructure. ➞
• The Pew Internet Report On Younger Americans’ Reading and Library Habits ➞
• Listen to Your Intuition, Because Your Body Can Predict Future Events Without Conscious Clues ➞
• Science Confirms The Obvious: Rejection Can Make You More Creative ➞
• Exposing Kids To 10 Hours Of Science A Year Makes Them Smarter ➞
• DNA has a 521-year half-life ➞
• White whale mimics human speech ➞
• 30 gifts to 30 strangers in Sydney, a must-see end-of-week treat ◉
• A Look At The World's Most Amazing Kitchens, Restaurants, And Food, Courtesy The Selby ➞
• How a Google Headhunter's E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole ➞
• Neal Stephenson talks REAMDE with lawyers, security experts ➞
• The Immersive Web And Design Writing ➞
• The Rhythms of Work vs The Rhythms of Creative Labor ➞
• Is Windows 8 The New Modernism? ➞
• A New Gates-Funded College Offers Higher Ed To Those With Grit, Not Test Scores ➞
• How to Focus Mind Map ◉
• Paying Tribute To Artists Who Hand-Paint Signs In A Digital Age ➞
• Seriously Amazing: The Smithsonian's Q&A site. ➞
• ASME's Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years ➞
• Why Do We Say “Pardon My French” When We Curse? ➞
• How Slight Sleep Deprivation Could Add Extra Pounds ➞
• 25 Fun Size Facts About Classic Halloween Candy ➞
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Explores Photo Manipulation ➞
• Can too much caffeine kill you? ➞
• Comedians@Google Eddie Izzard: Sometimes you have to kill your creative babies ◉
• 5 Reasons Michael Faraday Is as Cool as Tesla ➞
• Why Do We Get Shivers Up Our Spines? ➞
• Cybercrime: Mobile Changes Everything — And No One's Safe ➞
• Love this: Ballet dancers in Wonderland. ➞
• It’s Always Done This Way ➞
• Dance Is Like Thought: Helen Keller Visits Martha Graham's Studio ➞
• The anticipation of giving: Rare video of Frank Oz eulogizing Jim Henson ◉
• Powerful: Scenes From World War II Photoshopped Onto Today's Streets ➞
• At What Age Will Your Creativity Peak? ➞
• Neal Stephenson on the Future of Books and the Ubiquity of Gadgets ➞
• Check out the gorgeous site for NBR New Zealand Opera ➞
• Peekaboo! Cambridge scientists discover why children think they are invisible when they hide their eyes ➞
• Custom Built Orchestra Uses Instruments Made From Fallen Tree Branches And Pierced Light Bulbs ➞
• America's Facebook Generation Is Reading Strong And Going To Libraries ➞
• No one ever bought anything on an elevator - ◉
• Starbucks Builds a Library-Themed Pop-Up Store in Tokyo ➞
• Mapping the Twitter Languages of London ➞
• David Attenborough's collection of Edward Lear's ornithological prints ➞
• Linda Rottenberg: If no one is calling you "crazy," you're probably not thinking big enough. ◉
• What are your Top 10 Favorite Words? ➞
• Fact-checking at The New Yorker ➞
• The Thinking Mindset vs. The Doing Mindset: Pick One (And Only One) ➞
• The NYTimes Magazine Body Issue is fantastic. Case in point: The Island Where People Forget to Die ➞
• 40 Things To Say Before You Die ➞
• 12 Guidelines for Deciding When to Persist, When to Quit ➞
• The psychology of Tetris ➞
  

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The Week's Links: October 27, 2012

All the links posted on social networks this week:

• Making the right typographic choices ➞
• “The Power of Storytelling,” Part 2: Jacqui Banaszynski on the future of stories ➞
• “The Power of Storytelling,” Part 1: A bunch of American storytellers go to Romania… ➞
• Musical tweets to save an orchestra ➞
• In Brief: 2014 Winter Olympic Games Pictograms ➞
• A Brief Wondrous Interview with Junot Díaz ➞
• Fact-checking at The New Yorker ➞
• All Hallow’s Read: A Parents’ Guide to Scary Books for Young Readers ➞
• And consider gifting a book this Halloween for All Hallow's Read ➞
• Get a new scary audiobook by Neil Gaiman for free and his publisher makes a donation to charity, until Halloween. Go: ➞
• Joe Queenan: My 6,128 Favorite Books- Looking at the lifelong obsession with reading. ➞
• The Making Of Beyoncé's "I Was Here" Performance For World Humanitarian Day 2012 ➞
• Original Creators: Tech-Thriller Author And Director Michael Crichton ➞
• L.A. Public Library inherits treasure of maps saved from dumpster ➞
• Why Great Ideas Get Rejected ➞
• 5 Educational Videos you should not Miss ➞
• David Allen on How to Fix Your Life ➞
• 20 of Tech's Most Underrated Founders ➞
• Designer Kitchens and the People Who Don't Cook in Them ➞
• Steven Spielberg, Doris Kearns Goodwin & Tony Kushner talk about what it takes to wrestle an epic presidency into a film... ➞
• Teaching Physics with a Massive Game of Mouse Trap ➞
• Should All Students Be Forced to Learn Computer Science? ➞
• What Makes Temple Grandin’s Brain Special? ➞
• What Do Nic Cage, William Gibson, Doctor Who & Justin Bieber Have In Common? ◉
• Teenage Brains Are Like Soft, Impressionable Play-Doh ➞
• The History of Trick Or Treating Is Weirder Than You Thought ➞
• Dolphins Sleep With Only Half Their Brain at a Time ➞
• A chicken and egg thing ◉
• Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Stolen Painting? ➞
• The Smallest Nonprofits Should Have The Most Powerful Brands ➞
• MIT Technology Review Relaunches 'Digital-First' ➞
• 10 Essential Books for Book Nerds ➞
• Worth a revisit: How do our favorite tech companies make money? ➞
• Turn Your Career into a Work of Art ◉
• The ArtReview Power 100 2012 ➞
• Books Change How a Child's Brain Grows ➞
• My Walletless Month: Happier, Healthier and Ready to Ditch Cash Forever ➞
• PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 4: Steampunk ◉
• Rejection bolsters creativity, researchers find ➞
• Robert Atwan, the founder of The Best American Essays series, picks the 10 best essays of the postwar period. ➞
• Video of Samuel Beckett Directing His Absurdist Play Waiting for Godot (1985) ➞
• Book Design at Pentagram: A Symposium, Saturday, October 27 ➞
• An Intimate Portrait Of Innovation, Risk, And Failure Through Hipstamatic's Lens ➞
• Responsive Comping: Obtaining Signoff with Mockups ➞
• The Effect of Color ◉
• Hitchcock’s Storyboards from 13 Classic Films ➞
• Mapping The Entertainment Ecosystems of Apple, Microsoft, Google & Amazon ➞
• Paola Antonelli on Design as the Interface Between Progress and Humanity ◉
• World Shakespeare Festival Presents 37 Plays by the Bard in 37 Languages: Watch Them Online ➞
• Announcing 'Source': Where Journalism and Coding Collide ➞
• Spectacular: National Geographic Photo Contest 2012 ➞
• Teaching Writing for the 21st Century · A great Storify collection. ➞
• AOL May Have Invented Email's Next UI Paradigm ➞
• Creativity Top 5: October 23, 2012 ◉
• Training the brain to stress less ➞
• Great Resource: Datavisualization.ch Selected Tools ➞
• Craig Mod on Intertwingularity and the "User Experience" of Printed Publications ◉
• Why Are Elections On Tuesdays? ➞
• In Praise of Slow Mastery: 10 Great Achievements That Took Time ➞
• Why College May Be Totally Free Within 10 Years ➞
• Behind The Scenes Of Dishonored: An Interview With The Creators Of The Epic Dystopian Game ➞
• A Collection of Printable Web Browser Sketching and Wireframe Templates ➞
• A Real-time Dance Performance Interacting With Intricate Projection Mapping ➞
• The New Tao of Leadership (with John Maeda) ➞
• How To Work Better ◉
• Disney Research Aims To Revolutionize Design By Merging Optics With 3D Printing ➞
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Delivers the Greatest Science Sermon Ever ➞
• The 101 Most Useful Websites on the Internet ➞
• From the TED Blog 10 talks on making schools great ➞
• Grin and Bear It: How to Tackle Your Tougher Tasks ➞
• code {poems} Is An Anthology Of Thoughtful And Moving Expressions Of Programming Language ➞
• 10 Inventions You Haven't Heard About ➞
• What Is It About People That Are Right A Lot ◉
• Becoming Human: The Origin of Stone Tools ➞
• The Top Ten Human Evolution Discoveries from Ethiopia ➞
• World Shakespeare Festival Presents 37 Plays by the Bard in 37 Languages: Watch Them Online ➞
• PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 3: Visual Culture Online ◉
• How Did Dinosaurs Sleep? ➞
• The Traumatic Birth of the Modern (and Vicious) Political Campaign ➞
• The Anti-Skyscraper Law That Shaped Sydney, Australia ➞
• Predictions From The Father of Science Fiction ➞
• How the Football Field Was Designed, from Hash Marks to Goal Posts ➞

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The Week's Links: October 21, 2012

All the links posted on social networks this week:

• Predictions From The Father of Science Fiction ➞
• How the Football Field Was Designed, from Hash Marks to Goal Posts ➞
• Beethoven’s ‘lost’ sonata to receive world premiere this weekend ➞
• How Did the Pigskin Get Its Shape? ➞
• Science Images that Border on Art ➞
• Painting Portraits With Bacteria ➞
• At the end of November, Twitter will host a five-day Twitter Fiction Festival ➞
• The Science Behind Steak and a Bold Bordeaux ➞
• X-Ray Telescope Puts Glorious Nebulae in New Light ➞
• NALAC honors Ballet Hispanico founder TINA RAMIREZ ➞
• Mice who love bossa nova give hint at how music taste forms ➞
• Resource: 21st Century Literacy - writing units to teach 21st Century skills. ➞
• Linus Torvalds Answers Your Questions at Slashdot ➞
• Dance Cinematography: Creating The LXD World ◉
• Another great TED-Ed: How does math guide our ships at sea? - George Christoph ➞
• Cool: Peek, New Travel Site Offers Curated Itineraries & Recommendations ➞
• The Onion's First TED Talk Parody Is Freaking Hilarious (Because It Seems So Real) ➞
• The 11 Winners Of Our Innovation By Design Awards - Co.Design ➞
• 11 Creative Breakthroughs People Had in Their Sleep ➞
• Andrew Zuckerman: On Curiosity, Rigor, and Learning As You Go ◉
• The sushi of Jiro's dreams will run you $20/minute ➞
• Bizarre-Looking Libraries from All Over the World ➞
• Ben Whitesell on fan art, copyright and Moonrise Kingdom ➞
• Google offers historical exhibitions, wields its search powers to tell untold stories ➞
• The Very Concrete Place Where The Cloud Lives ◉
• Tony Marx’s Challenges Running the New York Public Library ➞
• Giving online customers the chance to pay what they want works ➞
• Australian researchers report deep breathing reduces musicians’ performance anxiety. ➞
• Gaming Faces Its Archenemy: Financial Reality ➞
• Transmedia = device agnostic media ◉
• Art.sy Is Mapping the World of Art on the Web ➞
• And the future of storytelling is . . . ➞
• An Installation Celebrates The Creative Act Of Copying ➞
• Creativity Top 5: October 16, 2012 ◉
• Your IQ Doesn't Matter & Other Lessons About Creativity From Children ➞
• What Books Have You Stolen?  ➞
• Art and Neuroscience: a State of the Union ➞
• On The Creating And Sharing Of Awe ◉
• Scientists confirm there is an inherited element to creativity ➞
• Is This The World's Most Interactive Print Ad? ➞
• Art.sy: An Art Genome similar to Pandora. ➞
• Most Of The Things You Worry About Never Happen ◉
• The 40-30-30 Rule: Why Risk Is Worth It ➞
• Another great TED-Ed: The story behind your glasses - Eva Timothy ➞
• 10 Do-ers you should follow on Twitter ➞
• Overworked, Overwhelmed, Overscheduled? Work More ➞
• Starlee Kine: What Making Ideas Happen Has To Do With Little Orphan Annie and Phil Collins ◉
• Paris 3D: One epic parallax look at the city through the ages. ➞
• Resource: PHP - The Right Way ➞
• Meditation & Resisting Urges ◉
• Resource: JavaScript - The Right Way ➞
• Resource: Learning JavaScript Design Patterns ➞
• Love this: Coverjunkie is a celebration of creative covers & their ace designers.➞

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