The Week's Links: July 26, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:  

• Clay Johnson on creative technologists, designing with empathy and news as a community service ➞
• Love the environmental graphics for the lobby of the newly renovated Public theater created by Pentagram ➞
  
• Magna Carta copies to be united to mark 800th anniversary ➞
  
• Scientists solve a 14,000-year-old ocean mystery ➞
  
• The most abandoned literary classics ➞
  
• Japanese Orchestra Prescribes Classical Music As Medication ➞
  
• Tale Of A Top-10 App, Part 2: Marketing And Launch ➞
  
• Reinventing the School ➞
  
• Rethinking Sleep ◉
  
• Explore. Create. Repeat. – An online magazine for the creative community ➞
  
• Often we confuse small talk with collaboration. Check out TED Radio Hour: Why We Collaborate ➞
  
• Photoshop's Filters In Two Minutes ◉
  
• Shakespeare: did he get his history right? ➞
  
• Creativity Top 5: Week of July 22, 2013 ◉
  
• Recommended: To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others ◉
  
• RSC to tweet Voltaire’s Candide ahead of new play by Mark Ravenhill ➞
  
• Lessons from Pixar: Why Software Developers should be Story Tellers ➞
  
• Great resource: hidden OS X features or tips and tricks ➞
  
• Director Saschka Unseld discusses Pixar, photorealism, and the making of 'The Blue Umbrella' ➞
  
• What to test your regular expression skills? Play Regex Crossword ➞
  
• Love this: Your Favorite Movies Laid Out as Vintage Treasure Maps ➞
  
• The Gut-Wrenching Science Behind the World’s Hottest Peppers ➞
  
• Great profile: With His New Film, Elysium, Director Neil Blomkamp Delivers A Hellish Vision of Paradise ➞
  
• Simon Schama: Why I write ◉
  
• Designer News + Hacker News = The News ➞
  
• How and Why to Be a Leader ◉
  
• Music Decreases Perceived Pain For Kids In Pediatric Emergency Room ➞
  
• Recommended: Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now ◉
  
• The NYTimes shares 7 stories of why people work in classical music. ➞
  
• The NYTimes wants to know: What Inspired You to Work in Dance? ➞
  
• Increase Your Team's Curiosity - Roger Schwarz ➞
  
• 50 Places Every Literary Fan Should Visit ➞
  
• Change the culture, change the world ➞
  
• Do You Know Where You’ll Be 285 Days From Now At 2 P.M.? These Data-Masters Do ➞
  
• How Gmail’s New Inbox Is Affecting Email Marketing Open Rates ➞
  
• Creativity Researcher Teresa Amabile Explains The Unexpected Benefits Of Tracking Daily Progress ◉
  
• Can a tonal language make you more musical? ➞
  
• Handy YouTube Playlist of The Joyce Theater Fall '13/Winter '14 Season ➞
  
• The Unspoken Key To Finding Meaningful Work ➞
  
• AIGA | Aquent Survey of Design Salaries ➞
  
• Why Productive People Take Better Notes ➞
  
• Why Citizen Developers Are The Future Of Programming ➞
  
• Entrepreneur Mike Sellers Advice For New Startups ◉
  
• 8 ways to deal with change (based on the habits of successful changemakers) ➞
  
• Recommended: Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits ◉
  
• 10 Lifehacks from 100 Years Ago ➞
  
• Stunning Maps of 3 Billion Tweets Reveal iPhone vs. Android Neighborhoods ➞
  
• Interesting Facts About 10 National Anthems➞
  
• Meditation In Action: A 10-Step Mindfulness Practice For Better Sleep ➞
  
• Sleep Critically Affects Childhood Brain Development ➞
  
• In Argentina, Coca-Cola Tests Market For 'Green' Coke ➞
  
• 10 of the Most Cryptic Texts in the World ➞
  
• Made by Hand: The Cigar Shop ◉
  
• Odd Facts About Twitter Hashtags During Major World Events ➞
  
• When You've Done Enough, Do More ➞
  
• Cosmos: Science, curiosity and wonder have a new host ◉
  
• A non-tech guide to launching your website ➞
  
• Design Boom interviews Paula Scher ➞
  
• Recommended: Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work ◉
  
• Interactive Infographic: World's Biggest Data Breaches & Hacks - Information Is Beautiful ➞
  
• 22 Odd Ads From National Geographic Magazine in the 1910s ➞
  
• 7 Ways The Utensils You Use Change The Taste Of Food ➞
  
• The Globe takes Shakespeare's war plays to their real-life locations. ➞
  
• Amazon launches comic-book imprint with adaptations of George R. R. Martin, Neal Stephenson ➞
  
• Ignorance & intolerance destroyed Alan Turing despite all that we owed him. Finally to be given posthumous pardon ➞
  
• 8 Things You Didn't Know About Nikola Tesla ➞
  
• Does Art Help the Economy? ➞
  
• Never Be Bored on a Business Trip Again ➞
  
• The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE ➞
  
• Scientists Get Best View Yet of the Structure of Glass ➞
  
• Stolen Picasso 'burned in stove' in Romania ➞
  
• 'The Cuckoo’s Calling': The Science That Uncovered J.K. Rowling's Literary Hocus-Pocus ➞
  
• 5 Tips For Creatives From Lee Clow And George Lois ➞
  
• My friends I urge you to read and share this: Thoughts For The Young Oddballs We Need So Badly ➞
  
• 8 Things You Didn't Know About Nikola Tesla ➞
  
• What Makes You Put Down a Book? ➞
  
• The 7-Word Autobiographies of Famous Writers, Artists, Musicians, and Philosophers ➞
  
• Why Do Babies Twitch in Their Sleep? (Adorable Video Edition) ➞
  
• Set Aside 5% of Your Time For Your “Slow-Cooked” Ideas ➞
  
• How Reading Makes Us More Human ➞
  
• Artists Reinventing the Museum, A Google Art Talk with Sam Durant ➞
  
• The Large Hadron Collider in pictures: using big technology to investigate tiny things ➞
  
• Similar to NYT, The Guardian releases a fantastic interactive article. Brilliant journalism & development: Firestorm ➞
  
• What kind of procrastinator are you? ➞
  
• Gregory Beyer: 'Thou Common Whore of Mankind,' & Other Shakespeare Lines About our Messed-Up Relationship with Money ➞
  
• What happens when old school games go face to face with new school characters? ◉
  
• Becoming a Better Judge of People ➞
  
• The Non-Designer's Essential Glossary of Web Design Terms ➞
  
• How To Prepare For A Salary Negotiation: A Check List ➞
  
• Recommended: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative By Austin Kleon ◉
  
• Yes, Kickstarter raises more money for artists than the NEA. Here’s why that’s not really surprising ➞
  

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The Week's Links: July 19, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

• Here Are Your 2013 Emmy Nominees for Best Commercial ➞
• The great Oliver Sacks on The Joy of Old Age. (No Kidding.) ➞
  
• 9 Facts Every Creative Needs to Know About Collaborative Teams ➞
• 10 Useful Web Design Tools 2013 ➞
• The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents ➞
• Why Fighting For Our Ideas Makes Them Better ➞
• Flexible identity systems: all played out? ➞
• Yes, Kickstarter raises more money for artists than the NEA. Here’s why that’s not really surprising ➞
  
• How To Prepare For A Salary Negotiation: A Check List ➞
  
• The Non-Designer's Essential Glossary of Web Design Terms ➞
• Choreographer Wayne McGregor: Dance, Physical Thinking & Misbehaving Beautifully ◉
• Recommended: Make Good Art By Neil Gaiman ◉
• The History of Typography, in Stop-Motion Animation ◉
• Creativity Top 5: Week of July 15, 2013 ◉
• Front-Load Your Week + 3 Other Stress-Busting Time Management Strategies ➞
• How clutter affects you and what you can do about it. ➞
• The UN should be full of grandmas: 10 Grandmothers From Around The World, Pictured With Their Most Comforting Dish ➞
• National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2013 Our Town Grant Recipients ➞
• The Tricky Business of Innovation: Can You Patent a Magic Trick? ➞
• Get ready to lose an afternoon: GeoGuessr drops you in a Google street view, you have to figure out where you are. ➞
• 5 Critical Mistakes Schools Make With iPads (And How To Correct Them) ➞
• 5 Famous Books That Were Originally Self-Published ➞
• Jack Dorsey's Keynote at Disrupt 2012 ◉
• How the Higgs Boson Was Found ➞
• Rethinking Our Approach To Education ◉
• Recommended: Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind ◉
• This American Life 500th anniversary: Ira Glass on show’s history. ➞
• The World's Best Commercials, 2012-13 ➞
• JK Rowling or Robert Galbraith: How to pick a pen name ➞
• Resource: Required reading for digital product designers ➞
• What is the future of orchestras? ➞
• A Brief History of Sliced Bread ➞
• How Your Brain Slows Down Time ➞
• The last words and final moments of 38 presidents ➞
• The How of the Historian ➞
• Alfred Hitchcock Recalls Working with Salvador Dali on Spellbound ➞
• How JK Rowling was unmasked ➞
• A year inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 6 - Dressing the ballet ◉
• Do More, Faster: The Consequences of Accelerated Modern Life ➞
• The Unanticipated Consequences of a Frictionless Mobile Experience - Peter Kriss ➞
• Recommended: Daily Rituals: How Artists Work ◉
• Trust Yourself ◉
• Talking Art In A Capitalist World ◉
• Why do you work in the arts? ➞
• 10 Cultural Events We’re Looking Forward To in the Second Half of 2013 ➞
• The Evolution Of Advertising ➞
• CSS Typography cheat sheet ➞
• How the touch screen revolution is impacting UX ➞
• Amazing: Birds Frozen In Flight: Photos by Paul Nelson ➞
• A Visual History of Magic ➞
• If you could see sound, this is what it would look like ➞
• Bob Mankoff picks his 11 favorite New Yorker cartoons ➞
• 10 old movies about new technology ➞
• You don't have to like new art, but it helps to understand it ➞
• Sketching For Better Mobile Experiences ➞
• A Short, Animated Look at What’s Inside Your Average Cup of Coffee ➞
• Keep working, keep learning, any form of standing still is deadly ◉
• Ballerinas Defined ◉
• Building A Portable Design Toolkit ➞
• Seth's Blog: Thinking about money ➞
• Cool: Close up view of water droplets on leaves on the Russian BIO-5 plant growth experiment ➞
• Boldly-Colored, Minimalist City Posters Featuring Iconic Urban Structures. Love these. San Francisco is great. ➞
• Annie Leibovitz On Getting The Shot--And The Future Of Photography ➞
• GoodUI: Ideas for higher conversion rates and ease of use. ➞
• Amar G. Bose, Acoustic Engineer and Inventor, Dies at 83 - NYTimes.com ➞
• The butterfly that looks like an owl. ➞
• Amazing: Wired Space Photo of the Day ➞
• True Intelligence Goes Way Beyond Logic ➞
• Downloaded: How Napster Conquered the World, How the World Conquered Napster, and Where We Are Now ➞
• Interesting tool from MIT: Immersion: a people-centric view of your email life using only your metadata ➞
  
• UI Principles for Great Interaction Design ➞
  
• How An Umbrella Pushed Pixar’s Aesthetic Into New Territory ➞
  
• What Do Ants Know That We Don't? ➞
  
• Would You Pay To See A Digital Ballet? ➞
  
• The Public Theater Launches New Collaboration with Local Communities ➞
  
• Who designed the "broken image" icons? ➞
  
• 3D Printing Enters The Dining Room With These Cool Ceramic Dessert Dishes ➞
  
• Resource: csswizardry/CSS-Guidelines ➞
  
• The Rise of Julie Larson-Green, the Heir Apparent at Microsoft ➞
  
• The greatest literary takedowns of all time ➞
  
• This Sunday, This American Life airs its 500th episode, here: The 15 Best ‘This American Life’ Episodes (So Far) ➞
  
• The Summer Jobs of 14 Future U.S. Presidents ➞
  
• Positive Trends in Arts and Culture Funding—At Least on the Surface - Nonprofit Quarterly ➞
• Why you think your phone is vibrating when it is not ➞
  
• Happy 25th Birthday to Nike's 'Just Do It,' the Last Great Advertising Slogan ➞
  
• The pleasure of… simple things in everyday life ◉
• 10 Greatest Ideas in the History of Science ➞
• Creativity, math, and 12-tone music ➞

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The Week's Links: July 12, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

• Paula Scher: Once you know what you're doing, it's not as good ◉
• 6 Things Mozart Can Teach Entrepreneurs ➞
• Why you’ll share this story: The new science of memes ➞
• Why Teaching Makes You Smarter ➞
• Tale Of A Top-10 App, Part 1: Idea And Design ➞
• Fantastic: A menagerie of mechanical animals ➞
• Take a tour of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home with Google Street View ➞
• Creativity, math, and 12-tone music ➞
• 10 Greatest Ideas in the History of Science ➞
• How clutter affects you and what you can do about it. ➞
• A Tribute To Alfred Hitchcock ◉
• A fascinating look at the history of aspect ratios ➞
• What Makes A Journal Entry Historically Interesting? ➞
• Check out the winners of 2012-13 FPO Awards ➞
• Gorgeous: Flowers X-Ray Photos - Two Ways ➞
• The Big Fat List of Documentaries About Photography ➞
• So great: The Anatomy of a New Yorker Cartoon ➞
• Knowledge + Taste = Meaningful Judgement ◉
• Perspective: The Capacity of an iPod Visualized as Vinyl ➞
• Del Close's Eleven Commandments of Improvisation ◉
• Creativity Top 5: Week of July 8, 2013 ◉
• NPR's The Songs Of The Summer, going back to 1962. ➞
• The 100 Best First Lines from Novels ➞
• Explore Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley On Google Street View ➞
• The Innovative Mosaic Of American Symphonies ➞
• 25 Free Charlie Chaplin Films Online ➞
• David Bowie Narrates Sergei Prokofiev’s Children’s Symphony Peter and the Wolf ➞
• Introducing the Wired Map Lab: Our Quest to Find, Explore, and Make Maps ➞
• 11 Famous Works of Art That Were Never Actually Completed ➞
• A Radical New Way to Look at Facebook. Matt Buchanan at The New Yorker looks at Graph Search. ➞
• Is There A Scientific Definition Of "Design"? ➞
• Gorgeous: Spectacular Tiny Sculptures Made of Recycled Watches ➞
• Absolutely engrossed by Miranda July's new art project around email. ➞
• Building Our New Shrines ◉
• The Hut Where the Internet Began ➞
• How to Be a Genius ◉
• 60 of the world's happiest facts ➞
• What Lies Beneath: Epic Scenes From NYC's Magnificent Underground Tunnels ➞
• The Public Theater Launches New Collaboration with Local Communities ➞
• Jim Jarmusch's 5 Golden Rules (or non-rules) of Moviemaking by Jim Jarmusch ➞
• 2012-13 FPO Awards Winners ➞
• Siri’s Creators Demonstrate an Assistant That Takes the Initiative ➞
• Mick Guzauski On Mixing Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories" with Universal Audio ➞
• The Surprising History of the Pencil ➞
• Gorgeous: Flowers X-Ray Photos ➞
• Why Immersion In Storytelling Is Not Wasted Time ◉
• Why Genre Rules e-Books, and What the Big Publishers Are Doing About It ➞
• The Placing Literature App Lets Your Map Scenes From Novels ➞
• Why Should Children Study the Arts? ➞
• Being a Lifelong Bookworm May Keep You Sharp in Old Age ◉
• Resources for Mac and iOS Developers ➞
• 6 Scientific Tactics to Stop Procrastinating ➞
• Another cool Google Doodle, this one a mini game commemorating the Roswell incident. ➞
• 20 Things You Might Not Know About Your Favorite Liquors ➞
• Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure ➞
• Why Did Einstein Play the Violin? ➞
• All of Terry Gilliam's animation bits from Monty Python's Flying Circus ➞
• 3 Tips on Overcoming Learning Plateaus from David Foster Wallace ➞
• Fearlessness is not the same as the absence of fear ➞
• Cavernous Subway System Transformed Into Vibrant Art Gallery ➞
• The Science Of How Applause Spreads In An Audience ➞
• Remembering Doug Engelbart ➞
• Thirteen Tenets Of User Experience ➞
• DOUGLAS C. ENGELBART, 1925-2013: Computer Visionary Who Invented the Mouse -NYTimes.com ➞
• Watch Douglas Engelbart Give The Greatest Presentation In History ➞
• Great resource: PortKit: UX Metaphor Equivalents for iOS & Android ➞ /@khoi
• So good! - Who Made That? The Magazine’s 2013 Innovations Issue ➞
• UI Animations: Celebrating animations of interest in software user interfaces. ➞
• Amazing: Jimi Hendrix "All Along The Watchtower" Isolated Guitar Track ➞ /via @theloop
• The Right Mindset for Creativity ➞
• Google uses Big Data to prove hiring puzzles useless and GPAs meaningless ➞
• The graphic art of Harry Potter ➞
• Can Brain Scans Really Tell Us What Makes Art Beautiful? ➞
• 8 Things We've Learned Lately About Thunder and Lightning ➞
• What Scientists Now Know About Repairing Memories ➞
• A Look Inside Mel Blanc’s Throat as He Performs the Voices of Bugs Bunny and Other Cartoon Legends ➞
• Introducing Wireless Philosophy: An Open Access Philosophy Project Created by Yale and MIT ➞
• Yes! Watch His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks’ Classic Screwball Comedy Starring Cary Grant, Free Online ➞
• Why the Tomato Was Feared in Europe for More Than 200 Years ➞
• Mr. Magoo’s Cartoon Version of William Shakespeare’s Comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream ➞
• Every Night You Lose More Than A Pound While You're Asleep (For The Oddest Reason) ➞

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The Week's Links: July 5, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

• The world's smallest museum ➞
• A history of color photography ➞
• How New Fonts Are Helping Dyslexics Read and Making Roads Safer ➞
• From New York to Mumbai, the Top 100 Design Trends of the Urban World ➞
• 5 1/2 Examples of Experimental Music Notation ➞
• Every Night You Lose More Than A Pound While You're Asleep (For The Oddest Reason) ➞
• Mr. Magoo’s Cartoon Version of William Shakespeare’s Comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream ➞
• Why the Tomato Was Feared in Europe for More Than 200 Years ➞
• The Gut-Wrenching Science Behind the World’s Hottest Peppers ➞
• Science on money. Literally. ➞
• Mapping mobile devices and twitter use. Amazing. ➞
• Macoto Murayama's Intricate Blueprints of Flowers ➞
• What Animal Sounds Look Like ➞
• How to Convert X-Rays From A Distant Star into Blues, Jazz and Classical Music ➞
• The Rain Room: Making it Rain, Everywhere But On You ➞
• Creativity Top 5: Week of July 1, 2013 ◉
• The Gripping, Mind-Blowing, Thrilling Evolution of the Movie Trailer ➞
• So, how are cocktails named? ➞
• Hummingbird Feathers Reverberate Like Violin Strings ➞
• E-Readers Don’t Cut Down on Reading Comprehension ➞
• On Venus It Snows Metal ➞
• That “Old Book Smell” Is a Mix of Grass and Vanilla ➞
• A New 3D Map of the Universe Covers More Than 100 Million Light-Years ➞
• Waking Up With a New Accent: Foreign Accent Syndrome Is a Real Thing ➞
• Clapping is Contagious ➞
• Penguin Book Covers Get Redesigned By Street Artists ➞
• The Disney Strategic Recipe - Todd Zenger ➞
• TED Playlists: How does my brain work? ➞
• The Corporation is at Odds with the Future - Grant McCracken ➞
• 12 Ideas About The Future Of Media (From New York Times, Digg, and The New School) ➞
• Salvador Dalí’s 100 Illustrations of Dante’s The Divine Comedy ➞
• The 50 Books Everyone Needs to Read, 1963-2013 ➞
• Useful: Resources for Mac and iOS Developers ➞
• Read Fiction and Be a Better Leader ➞
• What exactly is skeuomorphism? ◉
• Free Ebooks for Designers and Developers ➞
• These Amazing Twitter Metadata Visualizations Will Blow Your Mind ➞
• How to Build a Digital Brain ➞
• Nat Geo Mines Its Unpublished Archives for Precious Gems ➞
• MIT Whiz Sets Out to Humanize the Internet of Things ➞
• How the Large Hadron Collider Will Bring the Internet to Everything ➞
• 6 Unproduced Pixar Films and Sequels ➞
• 20 Photos of Iconic Buildings and Bridges As They Were Being Built ➞
• A Child’s Introduction to Jazz by Cannonball Adderley (with Louis Armstrong & Thelonious Monk) ➞
• 7 Great Works That Inspired Geeks To Change The World ➞
• What Happens When You Deactivate Your Facebook Account ➞
• Why Spiderman is Such a Good Dancer ➞
• Leo Tolstoy’s library of work goes online ➞
• Beyond the Brain: Advances in neuroscience promise many things, but they will never explain everything. ➞
• At in-depth look at the design for the Vesper app. ➞
• Arts and culture was fastest-growing philanthropic cause in 2012 ➞
• New German research finds a darkened room encourages freedom of thought and inspires innovation. ➞
• Scott Adams: Creativity and Memory ◉
• Introducing Wireless Philosophy: An Open Access Philosophy Project Created by Yale and MIT ➞
• 5 Minute Drill: How to Negotiate Like a Pro ➞
• Notes toward a theory of the theater of bartending. ➞
• A Visit to MillerCoors' Real-Life Research Lab ➞
• Creativity Top 5: Week of June 24, 2013 ◉
• Coffee vs. beer: Which drink makes you more creative? ➞

The Week's Links: June 28, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

• The One-Minute Trick to Negotiating Like a Boss ➞
• What Kids Are Reading, In School And Out ➞
• The 4 Weapons Of Exceptional Creative Leaders ➞
• The typewriters of famous authors. ➞
• The Gripping, Mind-Blowing, Thrilling Evolution of the Movie Trailer ➞
• Coffee vs. beer: Which drink makes you more creative? ➞
• A Visit to MillerCoors' Real-Life Research Lab ➞
• Tim Carmody on the Past, Present and Future of Reading ◉
• Defry Your Burnt Brain: 4 Quick Ways To Unplug In The Afternoon ➞
• Attention Must Be Paid ◉
• 5 Actual Facts About the Science of Dreams ➞
• 15 Weird Sample Dialogues from Old English Textbooks ➞
• Design Observer: 50 Books/50 Covers 2012 Winners Announced ➞
• Perfect pitch may not be so 'perfect' ➞
• Neil Gaiman prepares for social media 'sabbatical' ➞
• Gareth Kay: Brand Building in a Digital Age ◉
• Who Benefits from Arts and Cultural Districts? ➞
• This is great: pictures of people around the world, reading. ➞
• AJ Jacobs: The Importance of Self-Delusion in the Creative Process ◉
• Habit Change = Identity Change ➞
• How to Build a Collaborative Office Space Like Pixar and Google ➞
• 3 Tips on Overcoming Learning Plateaus from David Foster Wallace ➞
• What Leap Motion And Google Glass Mean For Future User Experience ➞
• The World's Best Commercials, 2012-13 ➞
• How To Be Prolific: Guidelines For Getting It Done From Joss Whedon ➞
• Bertrand Russell: The First Media Academic?: A Retrospective of His Influential Radio Appearances ➞
• Herb Lubalin and Expressive Typography ➞
• Today's Google Doodle in honor of Antoni Gaudi is fantastic. ➞
• MoMA Pays Tribute to Le Corbusier ➞
• How did I not know about this blog: Photoshop Secrets ➞
• The Art of Animation, Motion Graphics, Tech Gone Wrong & Why They Go Viral ◉
• Color management and UI design ➞
• Joss Whedon: 'I kept telling my mum reading comics would pay off' ➞
• David Ogilvy: 10 Qualities of Creative Leaders ◉
• 22 Iconic Music Logos Explained ➞
• Your Hidden Censor: What Your Mind Will Not Let You See ➞
• Laughter and the Brain: Can humor help us better understand the most complex and enigmatic organ in the human body? ➞
• 10 Literary Restaurants for Hungry Book Nerds Around the World ➞
• MIT Technology Review: Introduction to the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2013 ➞
• New Canadian research finds reading a literary short story increases one’s comfort with ambiguity. ➞
• Cannes 2013 Recap: See All the Grand Prix Winners ➞
• The full spectrum of elements, a reimagined periodic table from LIFE magazine, circa 1949. ➞
• Some visual fun: Shattering Flowers & Fruits with Liquid Nitrogen in Super Slow Motion ➞
• Traditional Japanese Art Created Using Excel Spreadsheets. What? ➞
• The Theory Behind Social Networking & Dijkstra's Algorithm (MIT Video Lesson) ◉
• Physicists on money. Exactly what the title says. ➞
• George Lois and Lee Clow on the Simple, Complicated Future of Advertising ◉
• In case you've wondered what's inside Google Glass, here is a teardown. ➞
• Some of the mashups are amazing: Mashing Up Old and New Famous Faces ➞
• New Canadian research finds reading a literary short story increases one’s comfort with ambiguity. ➞
• Ghostly Pictures: What Phantom Limbs Can Tell Us About Your Brain ➞
• Sizing Up Big Data, Broadening Beyond the Internet ➞
• Saul Griffith's Top 3 Tips to Successfully Launch a New Technology ➞
• Behind the Scenes on Successful Viral Video Advertising Campaigns ➞
• Doctor Performs First Google Glass-Equipped Surgery ➞
• 6 Reasons Why Ballet Dancers Make Awesome Employees ➞
• How typeface influences the way we read and think ➞
• Beautiful: Spectacular GIFs of Flickering City Lights at Night ➞
• Why Lucas and Spielberg see Hollywood at the edge ➞
• 3,000 Classic Books in a tiny USB ➞
• Eight Ways of Looking at Intelligence ➞
• Za'atar: A Spice Mix With Biblical Roots And Brain Food Reputation ➞
• By Creatives, For Creatives: A Travel Guide App For The Globe-Trotting Creative ➞
• The Secret Science of Scalping Tickets ➞
• Why Do We Think We Don't Sleep Enough? ➞
• 50 Great Movies You Can (Legally) Watch for Free Right Now ➞
• Kinect and Classical Music: A Match Made in Disney Heaven? ➞
• TED-Ed: What color is Tuesday? Exploring synesthesia - Richard E. Cytowic➞
• Yoga is better for your brain than exercise, study finds ➞
• Emily Post's Internet Etiquette: How to Behave in a Digital World ➞
• Loved this, you should watch it: The Invisible Made Visible presented by This American Life ➞
• 50 Years of Space Exploration ◉
• When a Web-based artwork becomes technologically obsolete, does updated software simply restore it or changes it? ➞
• Seven Questions to Ask Your Data Geeks ➞

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