The Week's Links: January 10, 2014

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All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • The Science & Psychology Of Social Mediahttp://owl.li/smyxE
  • At City Ballet, Footwear Is Almost as Important as Feet http://owl.li/smyQu More here:http://owl.li/smyQv
  • People Don’t Make More Friends, They Just Replace Their Old Ones http://owl.li/smIl0
  • The Bogus Bard: 5 Stories About Shakespeare We Wish Were True http://owl.li/spcFC
  • 15 Tech Trends That Will Define 2014, Selected By Frog http://owl.li/spcId
  • Spectacular Shots of Golden Hour Across the World http://owl.li/spcL9
  • ◉ On Top Of The World owl.li/smn0u
  • A Simple Logic Question That Most Harvard Students Get Wrong owl.li/smynI
  • Designers Charles & Ray Eames Create a Promotional Film for the Groundbreaking Polaroid SX-70 Instant Camera (1972)owl.li/smyaA
  • The 100 Most Influential People in Health and Fitness owl.li/smy53
  • ◉ Talk Less, Do More -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/1/9/…
  • This Clear, Flexible Electronic Circuit Can Fit on the Surface of a Contact Lens owl.li/smxDG
  • Scientists seek to make something like a Google Map of the brain: The Brain, in Exquisite Detail owl.li/smscU
  • Google’s Ray Kurzweil predicts how the world will change owl.li/smbuh
  • Three Is the Right Number for Persuasion, a Study Says owl.li/smbcr
  • Edutopia compiled Resources for Arts Integration into curriculums. owl.li/slCsB
  • Mind-Blowing Video Shows How Lighting Can Transform How Your Face Looks owl.li/skzf8
  • Scientists Successfully Model a Living Cell with Software: Scientific American owl.li/skzbe
  • ◉ Tony Kushner: Does Theater Still Matter?owl.li/smmOK
  • 2013: The Year in Interactive Storytelling -NYTimes.com owl.li/skz83
  • Sweden leads the way in mobile-payment technology- The Economist owl.li/skz3n
  • ◉ Using Language to Shape a Creative Culture - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/1/7/…
  • The Beatles Perform a Fun Spoof of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1964) owl.li/skyNy
  • So great: Symmetry, A Short Film That Unfolds in Two Mirrored Chapters owl.li/skyHh
  • Steven Levy, with access to the NSA, for Wired: How the NSA Almost Killed the Internetowl.li/smpSz
  • ◉ Room For Literature owl.li/smmx3
  • Why Is No Among a Child's First Words?owl.li/siDM2
  • 8 Subconscious Mistakes Our Brains Make Every Day--And How To Avoid Themowl.li/shTXg
  • 1942 ‘Time Capsule’ Apartment Discovered In Paris owl.li/shP6F
  • ◉ "Die Fledermaus" as seen and heard from the conductor's Google Glass -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/1/7/…
  • How Sleep Deprivation Decays the Mind and Body owl.li/shOk8
  • Google Puts Over 57,000 Works of Art on the Web owl.li/shOhD
  • Beyond selfies and twerking … the words that really mattered in 2013 owl.li/shOfe
  • Four iPad Stats Every Publisher Should Knowowl.li/shKgr
  • 28 Beautiful Quotes About Librariesowl.li/shF35
  • Watch Japanese scientists levitate things using nothing but soundwaves owl.li/shEXd
  • More Quirky iPhone Photos of Everyday Objects by Brock Davis owl.li/shEV9
  • 9 Child Prodigies (Who Actually Ended Up Doing Something) owl.li/shELY
  • A Mom And Her Son Blow Bubbles In The Freezing Cold. They Never Expected It To Look So Amazing owl.li/shEIY
  • ◉ New Year's Resolutions Are A Lousy Substitute To Caring owl.li/shLcZ
  • Lovely, Intricate Illustrations Of Coffee Culture Created On Coffee Filters owl.li/shzCv
  • Apple Engineer Creates Elaborate Drawing Machine, Using Legos owl.li/shzxC
  • The Art of Living: A Free Stanford Course Explores Timeless Questions owl.li/shzhp
  • ◉ This year, will you: create or consume? -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/1/6/…
  • Designing Packaging Isn't Easy. Here's All The Innovation You Don't See owl.li/shzal
  • The future arrives over and over and over again, photos from the CES vault: 1967 to 2013owl.li/shytN
  • Day Made: Neil Gaiman Reads Charles Dickens’s Original Performance Script for “A Christmas Carol” owl.li/siFbm
  • CBS Films Takes Out Full-Page 'NYT' Ad Featuring a Single Tweet owl.li/siE5d
  • Tim Berners-Lee Speaks Out Against Unchecked Government Surveillanceowl.li/sg5wK
  • Openness to experience is the personality trait most consistently associated with creativity.owl.li/sg53d
  • These Scientists Studied Why Internet Stories Go Viral. You Won't Believe What They Foundowl.li/sg0TE
  • Zappos is going holacratic: no job titles, no managers, no hierarchy owl.li/sg0Jd
  • To change attitudes and behaviors, it helps to first change the vernacular. owl.li/shO3B
  • The blog is dead, long live the blog: Nieman Journalism Lab owl.li/sfZSf
  • “No story should depend upon interactive design elements; a story should remain readable and compelling on its own.”owl.li/sfZFY
  • Amazing: Capturing images of bystanders by zooming in on pictures of corneas owl.li/sfZfT
  • Facebook’s Cutesy Annual Report To Partners Reveals First Country-By-Country Mobile Statsowl.li/sfZcV
  • 10 unsolved mysteries in classical musicowl.li/sfYDH
  • How the Simpsons Have Secretly Been Teaching You Math owl.li/sfYgG
  • 11 Expert Tips To Help You Be More Productive In 2014 owl.li/sfWXo
  • How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywoodowl.li/sfWB0
  • Why You Should Read More Novelsowl.li/sfWaK
  • Five Reasons Why You Should Probably Stop Using Antibacterial Soap owl.li/sfVOr
  • Famous Resolution Lists: Jonathan Swift, Susan Sontag, Marilyn Monroe, Woody Guthrieowl.li/sfUVX
  • How Does Heart Rate Change with Exercise?- Scientific American owl.li/sfqEx
  • The One Simple Thing That Can Make You Much More Impressive owl.li/sfqy4
  • Maps give us perspective. Here are some amazing ones: owl.li/sfq8c
  • What Drives Us to Do the Right Thing? A Look at New Brain Research owl.li/sfpRq
  • The 15 Most Memorable Profiles Of 2013owl.li/rRmUF
  • Polynesians May Have Invented Binary Mathowl.li/rRmSF
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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: December 20, 2013

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All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • Why the 9-to-5 Day Is So Tough on Creative Workers http://owl.li/rPvZT
  • Online publications see a future in printhttp://owl.li/rPw36
  • Famous Writers’ Sleep Habits vs. Literary Productivity, Visualized http://owl.li/rPw6e
  • The Most Crucial Games of 2013: The New Yorker http://owl.li/rPw7N
  • Dickens, Darwin, Dr. Johnson: Millions of Images From the British Library Now Available Online http://owl.li/rPwjM
  • What You Look Like to a Social Network: The New Yorker http://owl.li/rPwoN
  • The Most Important Economic Stories of 2013—in 44 Graphs http://owl.li/rPzgH
  • 12 Tools For More Mindful Livinghttp://owl.li/rPzit
  • Why Good Programming Projects Go Badhttp://owl.li/rPEtg
  • Where Are They Now? Fast Company checks in with last year's Most Innovative Companies to see how their big ideas fared in 2012...
  • ◉ Maira Kalman On The Power Of Lists, Maps And Organizing http://owl.li/rkfcf
  • The surprising reason we have a 40-hour work week (and why we should re-think it)http://owl.li/rQTOq
  • Music holds key to providing a quality education system owl.li/rPud3
  • ◉ Recommended: Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries -smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • ◉ Jad Abumrad: How Did Radiolab Happen? Gut Churn owl.li/rkfbD
  • 19 Awesomely Designed Books From 2013 That Prove Print Isn’t Dead owl.li/rPrjS
  • Top physicists gather at Stanford to discuss the value of fundamental research owl.li/rPqa7
  • 5 Unsung Heroes Who Shaped Modern Lifeowl.li/rMMG3
  • 10 Things We've Learned About Tasteowl.li/rM4vT
  • Is the Future of the Internet in Iceland?owl.li/rM4sv
  • What is the Trick to Making the Most Waterproof Stuff on Earth? owl.li/rM4nz
  • Have Scientists Found a Way to Pop the Filter Bubble? owl.li/rM4iP
  • Can Bees Be Trained to Sniff Out Cancer?owl.li/rM4hy
  • ◉ Alain de Botton's Healing Arts -smartercreativity.com/blog/2013/11/2…
  • ◉ Recommended: The Design of Everyday Things -smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • How Are Stores Tracking the Way That We Shop? owl.li/rM4fg
  • ◉ The Making Of A Groundbreaking Animation: Paperman owl.li/rkf8s
  • The Art and Science of Growing Snowflakes in a Lab owl.li/rM46a
  • This is What Happens When You Ask Scientists to Explain Their PhDs in Dance owl.li/rM44V
  • How Are Stores Tracking the Way That We Shop? owl.li/rM42F
  • A New Education Lab Called Q?rius Aims to be the Mother of All Curiosity owl.li/rM41A
  • Siberian Musicians Used the Frozen Surface of the World’s Largest Lake as a Drumowl.li/rM3Xy
  • Benjamin Franklin Invented a Glass Harpowl.li/rM3VX
  • This Camera Capture Images in the Dark, Using Just a Few Particles of Lightowl.li/rM3TG
  • You Can Be Really Good at Certain Skills Without Having Any Idea How They Workowl.li/rM3MX
  • The NYC Subways Will Give You a Late Slip If Your Train Is Delayed owl.li/rM3HV
  • ◉ The Code of Life -smartercreativity.com/blog/2013/12/1…
  • ◉ The School of Life: Mark Earls on Copying and Originality owl.li/rkf1q
  • Mindlessly Snapping Photos at Museums Keeps People From Remembering the Actual Visit owl.li/rM3EG
  • Facebook’s Most Popular Check-In Spots This Year Include Places in Iceland, Argentina and Nigeria owl.li/rM3zX
  • Some Animals Don’t Get Weaker With Ageowl.li/rM3vU
  • This River And Medieval Bridge, Paved Over for 100 Years, Will Soon Return to the Lightowl.li/rM3so
  • ◉ Everything is a Remix, Case Study: The iPhone -smartercreativity.com/blog/2013/12/1…
  • How One Chinese Corporate Spy Dodged the FBI to Steal Inbred Corn Seeds from Iowaowl.li/rM3lM
  • ◉ Recommended: Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality -smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • It’s Not That Hard to Make People Do Bad Things owl.li/rM3e7
  • How Are Stores Tracking the Way That We Shop? owl.li/rM367
  • ◉ It's Okay To Be Smart: The PBS Renaissance Continues owl.li/rkf0l
  • Creative Ways to Bring Music to Students — Every Day! owl.li/rM34U
  • 5 Historical Attempts to Ban Coffee owl.li/rM32f
  • Kierkegaard on Anxiety & Creativityowl.li/rM2Or
  • Making the "Twin Peaks" Love Themeowl.li/rM2N0
  • MIT's 3D motion-tracking tech can see you through walls, no camera needed owl.li/rLXyz
  • British Library uploads one million public domain images to the net for remix and reuseowl.li/rLXrg
  • Google acquires Boston Dynamics, makers of robots as cool as they are terrifying owl.li/rLXq7
  • The Art of Rube Goldberg: (A) Inventive (B) Cartoon (C) Genius, A Book About the Famed Cartoonist & Inventor owl.li/rLX9k
  • Harnessing Collective Creativity To Develop An IQ Test owl.li/rLX8B
  • The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix owl.li/rLX7y
  • 20 Ways Sitting in Silence Can Completely Transform Your Life owl.li/rLX2S
  • In 1900, Ladies’ Home Journal Publishes 28 Predictions for the Year 2000 owl.li/rLX1H
  • Science & Cooking: Harvard Profs Meet World-Class Chefs in Unique Online Courseowl.li/rLWZI
  • Jawbone Tracked Hundreds Of Thousands Of Up Users To Find The Most Sleep-Deprived States owl.li/rIH6b
  • Oxford University Presents the 550-Year-Old Gutenberg Bible in Spectacular, High-Res Detail owl.li/rIy3R
  • Stephen Fry Profiles Six Russian Writers in the New Documentary Russia’s Open Bookowl.li/rImVU
  • Hephaestus and How Brokenness Contributes to Creativity owl.li/rImJR
  • 4 Reasons Why Apple's iBeacon Is About to Disrupt Interaction Design owl.li/rI6jS
  • Free: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Offer 474 Free Art Books Onlineowl.li/rETTD
  • Brain Stimulation May Induce the Human Will to Persevere owl.li/rEkAK
  • Street artists go to court to protect their work - A New York legal case is challenging traditional views of graffiti owl.li/rEkz6
  • The Guardian's responsive design team share some code to help make old browsers work with media queries owl.li/rEkhr
  • If a Story Is Viral, Truth May Be Taking a Beating owl.li/rEjuG
  • Incredible Photos From An Urban Explorer's Journeys To The Forbidden Parts Of The Cityowl.li/rEjfn
  • The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry: An Oral History owl.li/rEj5g
  • Can You Really Learn a Skill in A Week? The Secrets Inside Tim Ferriss' Insanely Fast Learning Strategy owl.li/rEiZJ
  • How The Fourth Dimension Of Sound Is Being Used For Live Concerts owl.li/rEiHQ
  • New MIT Media Lab Tool Lets Anyone Visualize Unwieldy Government Data owl.li/rEiG5
  • The Revolutionary New Music Apps You Missed In 2013 owl.li/rEiio
  • ◉ The Week's Links: December 13, 2013 -smartercreativity.com/blog/2013/12/1…
  • 8 Beautiful Snow Scenes from Literatureowl.li/rD9Ih
  • ◉ Recommended: Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career -smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • ◉ Are You A Hipster? Do You Think Video Games Are Art? And Other Important Questions owl.li/rkeZP
  • In a petition to the UN, a group of authors agree that democratic rights must apply in virtual as in real space owl.li/rD9ne
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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: December 13, 2013

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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 Week's Links: December 6, 2013

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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 Week's Links: November 15, 2013

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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.