The Week's Links: April 12, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

• An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay ➞
• Procrastination Continued ◉
  
• A game when games were new ➞
  
• Isaac Asimov on Curiosity, Taking Risk, and the Value of Space Exploration in Muppets Magazine, 1983 ➞
  
• McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Comma From Which My Heart Hangs. ➞
  
• How the Science of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer and Predict the Future ➞
  
• Documentary about actor and magician Ricky Jay ➞
  
• Scientists Figure Out What You See While You're Dreaming ➞
  
• Backed By NEA, 500 Startups, Felicis & Others, Tynker Launches Its Visual “Learn To Code” Platform For Children ➞
  
• Microbes Buried Deep in Ocean Crust May Form World's Largest Ecosystem ➞
  
• Hand In Hand: Advice For Writers ◉
  
• What Makes Rain Smell So Good? ➞
  
• 10 New Things We Know About Food and Diets ➞
  
• Henry Rollins Advice For Young People ◉
  
• Love this: The Architectural Origins of the Chess Set ➞
  
• What Major World Cities Look Like at Night, Minus the Light Pollution ➞
  
• Michael Benson's Awe-Inspiring Views of the Solar System ➞
  
• Photos: Rarely Seen Central American Ceramics Dating from 1,000 Years Ago ➞
  
• How IMAX Pulled Spaceflight Down to Earth ➞
  
• Photos: Scenes From Life Under the Sea ➞
  
• The Secret to Olive Oil’s Anti-Alzheimer’s Powers ➞
  
• Subscribing to Smarter Creativity ◉
  
• Five-Year-Old Girl Discovers Fossil of Previously Unknown Pterosaur ➞
  
• Do you worship the tools of your trade as much as ballerinas worship their pointe shoes? ◉
  
• Creativity Top 5: Week of April 8, 2013 ◉
  
• With Music, What You See Affects What You Hear ➞
  
• Can A Brain Scan Predict Your Future Criminality? ➞
  
• Astronomers Discover Baby Supernovae ➞
  
• Public for the First Time: A Last Letter from Dying Antarctic Explorer Captain Scott ➞
  
• This Microbe Isn’t Either Male or Female, It Has Seven Options to Choose Between ➞
  
• How Your Brain Reassures You That You’re Better Than Other People ➞
  
• Musicians: How Many Hours a Day Should You Practice? ➞
• Cool: NBC releases Bryan Fuller's illustrated pilot script for 'Hannibal' ➞
  
• "Just a Theory": 7 Misused Science Words ➞
  
• The Unstoppable Ballerina: Michaela Deprince’s Journey, from Sierra Leone to the heights of American ballet. ➞
  
• Love these images: Signs of Spring ➞
  
• Caitlin Freeman's 'Modern Art Desserts' cookbook shows how to make treats inspired by artworks ➞
  
• 8 Guys, 6 Weeks: How the Cell Phone Was (Finally) Invented ➞
  
• First there was the recent radio play and now, on stage: 'Neverwhere' Conjures a Dank, Fantastical Netherworld ➞
  
• Second Sleep ◉
  
• So great: Fascinating Behind-The-Scenes Photographs Of Popular Movies ➞
  
• How to Tour the World's Greatest Science Labs ➞
  
• ‘100 Years of Flamenco in New York,’ at Public Library ➞
  
• Remains of poet Pablo Neruda exhumed to determine if he was executed by Pinochet regime ➞
  
• What Are You Tweeting For? ◉
  
• 7 great reads: this year’s ASME finalists in feature/profile writing ➞
  
• Exciting news: Dance Theater of Harlem Starts New Life ➞
  
• How Much Does a Cloud Weigh? ➞
  
• Meet Harry Beck, the genius behind London's iconic subway map ➞
  
• How To Run Your Meetings Like Apple and Google ➞
  
• The History of the World in 46 Lectures From Columbia University ➞
  
• The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in China ➞
  
• IBM On Brand ◉
  
• Why The Inventor Of Pong Says We're More Creative Now ➞
  
• When Simplicity Is the Solution ➞
  
• Game designer Jason Rohrer designs a game meant to be played 2,000 years from now, hides it in desert ➞
  
• A Videogame That Teaches Kids To Code ➞
  
• Joss Whedon On Worthy Work ◉
  
• Love this: Beautiful Paper-Cut, Pop-Up Cards Of London’s Famous Landmarks ➞
  
• 6 Ballet Directors Discuss Current Evolution of Form ➞
  
• The 5 Most Dangerous Creativity Killers ➞
  
• How JWT broadcast live ads from Afghanistan ➞
  
• How Climate Change Could Eventually End Coffee. Taking climate change seriously now? ➞
  
• Brené Brown: Life Lessons We All Need to Learn ➞
  
• My Year of TED: How 54 talks changed a life ➞
  
• Expecting the Best— And Getting It ➞
  
• 26 Free Charlie Chaplin Films Online ➞
  
• So clever: Book Jackets Transform Into Parcel Packaging ➞
  
• George Bernard Shaw: The playwright used this postcard to respond to unsolicited mail. ➞
  
• Brand New: 2012 Brand New Awards: Winners ➞
  
• Dennis Hopper Reads From Rainer Maria Rilke’s Timeless Guide to Creativity, Letters to a Young Poet ➞
  
• Dance despite war: Season of Cambodia Dance Festival in New York ➞
  
• Amazing: Images from on top of the Great Pyramid ➞
  
• TED Playlists: What does the future look like? ➞
  
• Primatologist Frans de Waal on memory-champ chimps, tool-using elephants and rats capable of empathy ➞
  
• Time: The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2013 ➞
  
• Murdered By Google: What Happens When The Internet Kills You? ➞
  
• IBM's Long-Form Content Shows Its Technology in Action ➞
  
• Digitized Materials From The Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room, Library of Congress ➞
  
• Check out this collection of interviews: On Creativity ➞
  
• What Should I Read Next? Book recommendations from readers like you ➞
  
• Let Yourself Go: Classic Dance Routines ➞
  
• New Oscar Wilde letter found with advice for writers. ➞
  
• Ten Reasons a Pessimist Can be Optimistic About the Future of the Book ➞
  
• Fear factor increases, emotions decrease in books written in last 50 years ➞
  
• The Making Of Descender: Andrew Wyatt On Creativity, Violin Repair Stores, And Discontent Orchestras ➞
  
• Love this: Sound Recordings from Around the World ➞
  
• Ebert on Twitter ➞
  

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The Week's Links: April 5, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

• Great resource: On staying current with development trends ➞
• Learning code: Time for us all to recognize the creative value of those 0s and 1s ➞
• The Roller Coaster Up and Downs of Selling an Orchestra ◉
• IBM's liquid transistors could help build brain-like chips ➞
• Coffitivity: Ambient sounds to boost your workday creativity! ➞
• A compatibility table showing the available default system fonts across different mobile platforms ➞
• Heart of the Swarm – the Amazing Science of Shoals, Flocks, Hives and Brains ➞
  
• Veronique Greenwood "I grew up in the future" - My futurist childhood ➞
• Another study finds music piracy 'does not displace digital sales' ➞
• Urgent, Please Read ASAP ◉
• Artist Damien Hirst Looks Back On His Life In Art ◉
• Peruvian billboard creates drinking water ➞
• The 50 Best Opening Scenes in Movies ➞
• Nine Decades of Science in The New Yorker: Looking Back to Look Ahead ◉
• Robert Rodriguez On Creative Action: "You Don't Have To Know Anything; You Just Have To Start" ➞
• The top 25 movie posters of all time ➞
• How Pi Was Nearly Changed to 3.2 … and Copyrighted! ➞
• TED Playlist: These extraordinary maestros bring you into the world of writing and conducting music. ➞
• Why Travel Makes You Awesome ➞
• 100 Metropolitan Museum Curators Talk About 100 Works of Art That Changed How They See the World ➞
• Reasoning Training Increases Brain Connectivity Associated with High-Level Cognition ➞
• 20 Things Life Is Too Short To Tolerate ➞
• The Newspaper of Tomorrow: 11 Predictions from Yesteryear ➞
• Are Birds Evolving to Avoid Cars? ➞
• Introducing MusicMoves.Me ◉
• A Tuner App That Visualizes Your Pitch In Real Time ◉
• After Twenty-Three Years, FBI Says It Finally Knows Who’s Responsible for the Largest Unsolved Art Heist Ever ➞
• Chop Chop, A Dramatic Rescue Is In Progress ◉
• Are Optical Illusions Cultural? ➞
• Creativity Top 5: Week of April 1, 2013  ◉
• The British Library chooses 100 websites they feel capture the digital universe ➞
• Fantastic: 100 Websites You Should Know and Use (updated!) - TED ➞
• Gorgeous: Hexagonal rocks ➞
• Listen as Albert Einstein Reads You A Scientific Essay ➞
• Sleep consolidates memories for competing tasks ➞
• Introducing WordsMove.Me ◉
• So great: Quentin Tarantino Screenplays as Classic Penguin Style Book Covers ➞
• The Adverb Is Not Your Friend ◉
• The Art of Film & TV Title Design: PBS Off Book ◉
• Need a Creativity Jolt? Drop by a Modern Art Show ➞
• Work Alone: Ernest Hemingway's 1954 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech ➞
• On education reform: Need a Job? Invent It ➞
• How to See Like an Artist ➞
• A tip for effective meetings: Always be capturing ➞
• Love this, so beautiful: Holi celebrations 2013 ➞
• The Temporal Doppler Effect: Why The Future Feels Closer Than The Past ➞
• How The New York Times, Warby-Parker, Burberry, Sharp, Vodafone and Others Get Creative With Data ➞
• How To Maintain Motivation When Your Goals Are Epic ➞
• So good: A compulsive tribute to Giambattista Bodoni ➞
• Introducing DanceMoves.Me ◉
• Agony & Ecstasy: A Year with English National Ballet ◉
• A Partial History of Headphones ➞
• The Effects Of Sound ◉
• The Best Animated Films of All Time, According to Terry Gilliam ➞
• HTML5 code snippets to take your website to the next level ➞
• Herb Lubalin and Expressive Typography ➞
• A Visual Timeline of the Future Based on Famous Fiction ➞
• The 20 best tools for data visualization ➞
• The Ideal Praise-to-Criticism Ratio - Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman ➞
• Why No One Likes Mobile Ads and How Companies Hope to Change That ➞
• Entire library journal editorial board resigns, citing 'crisis of conscience' after death of Aaron Swartz ➞
• Why Innovators Get Better With Age -NYTimes.com ➞
• Amazon Buys Book-Recommendation Site Goodreads ➞
• Tod Machover: how to crowdsource a symphony ➞
• Carnegie Hall MOOC Will Teach You How to Listen to Orchestras (Free) ➞
• Another great radio play: BBC Radio 2 heads over to Dark Side with Pink Floyd play by Tom Stoppard ➞
• LA County Museum Makes 20,000 Artistic Images Available for Free Download ➞
• 10 Illuminating Fan Letters From Famous Authors, To Famous Authors ➞
• Gears of War writer Tom Bissell on video games and storytelling: The New Yorker ➞
• 10 Constellations that Never Caught On ➞
• Finally, a Pop-Cultural Portrayal of Ballet as Art, Not Sport ➞
• Cultural Icons on Criticism ➞
• Break your addiction to being right. ➞
• First There Was IQ. Then EQ. But Does CQ — Creative Intelligence — Matter Most? ➞
• The 16-Year-Old Who Created A Cheap, Accurate Cancer Sensor Is Now Building A Tricorder With Other Genius Kids ➞
• Another great post by @robinsloan: Making culture for the internets—all of them ➞
• Wayfinding is fascinating: From Wayfinding to Interaction Design. ➞
• 25 Web development resources to help you create better websites ➞
• Useful: Photoshop add-ons you should be using ➞​

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The Week's Links: March 29, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

• ​Secrets of the Most Successful College Students ➞
• Harvard Develops Micro-Drones Based On Origami ➞
  
• The Art Of Storytelling Around An App ➞
  
• Study: It's Harder to Tune Out Cell Phone Talkers Than Regular Human Conversations ➞
  
• JWT announces advertising alliance with experimental psychologist ➞
  
• Can computers fill the role of choreographers? ➞
  
• So great recipes here: A World Map of Flavors – 36 Regions, 36 Herb and Spice Combinations ➞
  
• Branded Interactions, or what happens when a gesture becomes synonymous with your app. ➞
  
• Is The Key to Happiness Being Busy? ➞
  
• More on the "Unrealized Promise" of digital textbooks ➞
  
• Colum McCann On The Radical Act Of Storytelling ◉
  
• Useful: Photoshop add-ons you should be using ➞
  
• 'Ballet's Greatest Hits,' with Nigel Lythgoe, coming to cinemas ➞
• The Science of Life, Love and The Sky ◉
  
• Vint Cerf: Actually, the Internet’s going to be just fine ➞
  
• Just Do It & Make It Count ◉
  
• An In-Depth Comparison Between iOS Map Frameworks: Apple MapKit vs. Google Maps SDK ➞
  
• Behind One Of Fashion's Biggest Ideas--The Chanel Jacket ➞
  
• Coming Soon: A Monotype Exhibit Tracing The Roots Of Modern Typography ➞
  
• Useful: Antwort - Responsive Layouts for Email ➞
  
• The Story of Christoph Niemann’s Petting Zoo App- The New Yorker ➞
  
• So great: National Geographic's Cartographic Typefaces. ➞
  
• The Art of Illustrations, Web Comics and 3D Printing ◉
  
• Seven Amazing Wooden Marble Machines by Paul Grundbacher ➞
  
• On Conducting, Motion Capture And The Maestro's Mojo ◉
  
• Brain Researchers Can Detect Who We Are Thinking About ➞
  
• The wonderfully analog tweets of Alton Brown ➞
  
• What a 14-Year-Old Can Teach You About Management ➞
  
• Can anyone turn streaming music into a real business? ➞
  
• A brief history of the Booooo! ➞
  
• A Brief History of Applause ➞
  
• Study: unlock creative thought by zapping left prefrontal cortex ➞
  
• Scientists create formula for perfect parking ➞
  
• 5 smart materials, like inks that conduct electricity ➞
  
• Fascinating: 2,000 Years of Partying - The Brief History and Economics of Spring Break ➞
  
• 10 Ideas That Make A Difference ➞
  
• Creativity Top 5: Week of March 25, 2013 ◉
  
• Mark Twain Wrote the First Book Ever Written With a Typewriter ➞
  
• A Gallery of Stanley Kubrick Cinemagraphs: Iconic Moments Briefly Animated ➞
  
• On Keeping a Notebook in the Digital Age ➞
  
• Inventing Magic Toys, Puzzles And Video Games ◉
  
• Creative Commons Announces “School of Open” with Courses to Focus on Digital Openness ➞
  
• Digital Files and 3D Printing—in the Renaissance? ➞
  
• Start With The Supposition That People Don't Make Sense: David Chang on The Paul Holdengraber ◉
  
• Who Really Invented the Smiley Face? ➞
  
• The Northern Lights—From Scientific Phenomenon to Artists' Muse ➞
  
• Lovely: Fresh Off the 3D Printer - Henry Segerman's Mathematical Sculptures ➞
  
• What Mosh Pits Can Teach Us About Disaster Planning ➞
  
• These Little Robot Bees Could Pollinate the Fields of the Future ➞
  
• Six Centuries Ago, Chinese Explorers Left This Coin Behind in Africa ➞
  
• Coffee: How Different People Serve the World’s Favorite Hot Drink ➞
  
• Ballet 101: Dispelling myths for newcomers and skeptics ➞
  
• Are Piracy, Knock Offs and Minecraft Good For Us? ◉
  
• The Improbable Rise of NPR Music ➞
  
• Reports of the Death of Opera Have Been Greatly Exaggerated ➞
  
• Music of Vivaldi Boosts Mental Vitality ➞
  
• Ze Frank: The Shift From 0 To 1, What Is Creativity? ◉
  
• In Search of Haruki Murakami, Japan’s Great Postmodernist Novelist ➞
  
• The 10 most popular TED-Ed lessons so far ➞
  
• These are so great: Minimalist Video Game Posters ➞
  
• John Maeda & The Art of Leadership ➞
  
• Dave Pell's Tips On Building A Huge Email Newsletter Around Your Project ➞
  
• How much is the internet worth? ➞
  
• Will The New York Times Redesign Lead To A New Web Standard? ➞
  
• Typographica: Our Favorite Typefaces of 2012 ➞
  
• George Lucas announces plans for museum devoted to the story-telling arts ➞
  
• Smithsonian Magazine 2012 Photography Contest: 50 Finalists ➞
  
• Amazing: Gazette collects your RSS feeds into a weekly ebook ➞
  
• Should We Be Sleeping in Shifts, Rather than 7-Hour Blocks? ➞
  
• Computer Arts Magazine On Pure and Simple Logos ➞
  
• Information Is Beautiful visualized the major causes of death in the 20th Century ➞
  
• Daphne Koller Brings the World Into Stanford Classes ➞
  
• 5 Lessons In UI Design, From A Breakthrough Museum ➞
  
• Sleeping less than six hours a night skews activity of hundreds of genes ➞
  
• Useful: Learn CSS Layout ➞
  
• Study: DNA strand length could be indicator of your life span ➞
  
• Marvel announces weekly comic series for mobile devices ➞
  
• Ridley Scott and Machinima partner to create 12 sci-fi shorts ➞
  
• The Photographer Who Made Architects Famous➞
  

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The Week's Links: March 22, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

• Underground Library Lets Subway Riders Sample Books On iPhones ➞
• And You Can Dance. For Inspiration. (Five Views On Dance) ◉
  
• List of inventors killed by their own inventions - Wikipedia ➞ /via @radiolab
  
• UX Design: Designing For The Multifaceted User ➞
  
• The Photographer Who Made Architects Famous ➞
  
• How did I miss this: National Geographic Found, a new photo tumblr. ➞ /via @kottke
  
• Everything You Need To Know About Quotes and Accents ➞
  
• Cool: loads.in - test how fast a webpage loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide ➞
  
• Google Art Project adds nearly 2,000 works, from street art to prized photos ➞
  
• Apple Finally Adds Two-Step Verification to iCloud and Apple ID ➞
  
• The Devil Is An Artistic Director ◉
  
• Harry Houdini: Audio of the escape artist introducing his famous "water torture" escape ➞
  
• A Modest Proposal By John Bohannon: Get Rid Of Powerpoint And Use Dancers Instead ◉
  
• NEA ARTS: Beyond Museum Walls: The Smithsonian Institution's Mobile Strategy ➞
  
• Can’t Get That Song Out of My Head: An Animation of a Psychological Phenomenon We All Know ➞
  
• J.K. Rowling criticizes TV for romanticizing adolescence ➞
  
• App Building DIY Way: Non-Techie Entrepreneurs Find Outside Resources to Help Them Create Software ➞
  
• Get Scott Berkun's Mindfire 1.1 Free for the next 48 hours ➞
  
• 5 steps to get crisp about that idea floating in your head ➞
  
• The 150 Things the World's Smartest People Are Afraid Of ➞
  
• What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years ➞
  
• "Applied Design" at MoMA is the first exhibition to include the 14 video games the museum acquired last year. ➞
  
• La Sagrada Familia: Under Construction For Over 130 Years ◉
  
• Literary Magazines Adapt to the Digital Age ➞
  
• Dance Your PH.D. ◉
  
• Responsible Considerations For Responsive Web Design ➞
  
• From Google Ventures: 4 Steps For Combining The Hacker Way With Design Thinking ➞
  
• A Map of the World According to Illustrators and Storytellers ➞
  
• The GitHub Generation: Why We're All in Open Source Now ➞
  
• Aaron Sorkin was right: Kill Your Meeting Room — The Future's in Walking and Talking ➞
  
• How will we manage and market the arts of the future. Good article: My Arts Utopia ➞
  
• Will Authors Get Compensated for Used E-Book Sales? ➞
  
• Transmedia Storytelling Comes Alive With Secret Cinema ➞
  
• Creativity Top 5: Week of March 18, 2013 ◉
  
• FOUND: A New Collection of Rare Photos from the National Geographic Archives ➞
  
• The Algorithm That Helps You Friend People You Don't Know ➞
  
• Announcing the 2013 winners of The Brain Prize ➞
  
• David Parsons' Caught vs Wrecking Crew Orchestra's Tron ◉
  
• Researchers Explain Goals and Structure of Brain Activity Map: MIT Technology Review ➞
  
• The Gamification of Education? ➞
  
• Dan Ariely's Course on "A Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior" Open for Enrollment! ➞
  
• A Photo Service That Understands the Contents of Your Images ➞
  
• So great: Father hacks Donkey Kong so his daughter can play as Peach and save Mario. ➞
  
• Email Best Practices for Teams ➞
  
• Milestones ◉
  
• Even Bees Get a Buzz When They Drink Caffeine ➞
  
• Mapping How the Brain Thinks ➞
  
• The Secret Lives Of Dancers ◉
  
• Lousy Sleep Isn't Good For Your Body, Either ➞
  
• Digital Files and 3D Printing—in the Renaissance? ➞
  
• Transforming Raw Scientific Data Into Sculpture and Song ➞
  
• This Is What 15,000 Volts Look Like Going Into a Piece of Wood ➞
  
• Is Cursive Handwriting Going Extinct? ➞
  
• Hello World! Processing: A Smart New Documentary On The Awesome Potential Of Creative Coding ➞
  
• Why Great Ideas Get Rejected: From TEDxOU ➞
  
• The New Psychology of Marketing ➞
  
• Fascinating: Danse Macabre - A Scandal at the Bolshoi Ballet, The New Yorker ➞
  
• I Want My Music Videos: The Art Form Gets Its Own Museum Exhibition ➞
  
• Research has shown that we are not very good judges of how effectively we're learning new information. ➞
  
• "Embracing Analog" at SXSW: What the growing fascination with the physical means for marketers ➞
  
• The Stax Records Guide To Overcoming Setbacks ➞
  
• Reflections on the First Hackathon at the White House: MIT Center for Civic Media ➞
  
• Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas on the wildly successful Kickstarter movie campaign ➞
  
• Can’t Get That Song Out of My Head: An Animation of a Psychological Phenomenon We All Know ➞
  
• Valentina Lisitsa, The Justin Bieber of Classical Piano ➞
  
• TED Playlists: What does the future look like? ➞
  
• Sleep Deprivation Effects: 8 Scary Side Effects Of Too Little Shut-Eye ➞
  
• A new website for CERN ➞
  
• Whose Idea Were Cruises, Anyway? ➞
  
• Can You Make Sad Songs Sound Happy (And Vice Versa)? ➞
  
• Pixar's Senior Scientist explains how math makes the movies and games we love ➞
  
• Neil Tyson Pounds The Table, Demanding A Future, Now! ➞
  
• 12 Steps to Incorporate Exercise into Your Life ➞
  
• Classic worth revisiting: Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling ➞
  
• Jesse Rosen: Doing More About Diversity in America's Orchestras ➞
  
• 4 inspiring kids imagine the future of learning ➞
  
• A Day in the Life of a Digital Editor, 2013 - Technology ➞
  
• How Disney Bought Lucasfilm—and Its Plans for 'Star Wars' ➞
  
• Everything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You ➞ /via @davepell
  
• Brilliant idea, can't wait to try it: Hack the Met - Metropolitan Museum of Art Tour ➞
  
• I'm Not Your Consumer: How Research Misses The Human Behind The Demographic ➞
  

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The Week's Links: March 15, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

• So cool: Disorienting Portraits of People Walking In A Tilted New York City ➞
• ​Drunk Texts from Famous Authors. Enough said. ➞
• Dancers In Slow Motion ◉
• I'm Not Your Consumer: How Research Misses The Human Behind The Demographic ➞
• Brilliant idea, can't wait to try it: Hack the Met - Metropolitan Museum of Art Tour ➞
• Met buys a David for $840: Sharp-eyed curators spot that sketch is an artist’s original, rather than a copy ➞
• A guided hands-on with the NYT's first design overhaul since 2006, set to go live this fall ➞
• Is Your User Content Online Legally Yours? ➞
• Spectacular: Smithsonian Magazine's 2012 Photo Contest ➞
• Creativity Top 5: Week of March 11, 2013 ◉
• Our brains, and how they're not as simple as we think ➞
• James Dean In Ballet Class ◉
• Watch: A Music Video For Typography Lovers ➞
• If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong: The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers ➞
• Can limitations make you more creative? Q&A with artist Phil Hansen ➞
• A Book Is Born ◉
• Ogilvy & Mather Chief MIles Young Is Trying to Reinvent the Troubled Agency ➞
• How emoji conquered the world: The story of the smiley face from the man who invented it ➞
• Sharks Have Social Networks, Learn From Friends ➞
• UCLA Film School professor Howard Suber explains how you can be a better storyteller ➞
• What entrepreneurs can learn from artists ➞
• What's Next? What's Now? ◉
• The Big-Data Interview: Making Sense of the New World Order ➞
• Add to the list of recently launched podcasts you should check out: The Gently Mad Podcast ➞
• icons times: the day's headlines as icons ➞
• The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made According to The New York Times ➞
• Art In The Era Of The Internet: The Impact of Kickstarter, Creative Commons & Creators Project ◉
• BRANDING 101: What Building a Brand Means Today ➞
• Such a great story: Why I Hacked Donkey Kong for My Daughter ➞
• A first look at the upcoming redesign: Introducing A New Article Design —NYTimes.com ➞
• New ‘Subway Libraries’ Encourages Commuters To Read On-The-Go ➞
• Wanna Play? Computer Gamers Help Push Frontier Of Brain Research ➞
• Player-Centric Design: The UX of The Room ➞
• Why it's so hard to kids to learn their colors--and a trick that might help. ➞
• Google's Art Project Launches Art Talk with The Museum of Modern Art ◉
• Curious about this: Art Copy&Code, A series of experiments to re-imagine advertising ➞
• A look at the The Rite of Spring ballet, not the music, the dance. ➞
• Fish: The Best App/Essay/Manifesto I've Seen In Years ◉
• WP Magazine, the Education Issue: After years of crouching, arts ed is raising its hand again ➞
• Useful: Meaningful Transitions - Motion Graphics in the User Interface ➞
• Andrew Anker: Always be humble ➞
• Download Hundreds of Free Art Catalogs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art ➞
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