The Week's Links: December 26, 2014

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ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • ‘Know Before You Fly’, An Animation by the FAA About Drone Safety for People Who Receive Unpiloted Aircraft as Gifts owl.li/GpCGt
  • A decade from now, will our offices commute to us? owl.li/GpCJu
  • The science of setting goals owl.li/Gqx8K
  • Watch Art on Ancient Greek Vases Come to Life with 21st Century Animation owl.li/GpCIQ
  • The chemistry of cookies - Stephanie Warren owl.li/GpC4I
  • How Facebook and Candy Crush Got You Hooked owl.li/GpBYo
  • The mythology of Middle-earth explained in four short minutes owl.li/GpmWG
  • The “motion microscope,” a video-processing tool plays tiny changes in motion impossible to see with the naked eye owl.li/GpBXy
  • 5 Bizarre Christmas Traditions From Around the World ... owl.li/GqD2G
  • Sony Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Tweets Containing Leaked Emails owl.li/GmYUd
  • A Christmas Feast, Experienced With Dishes From Around the World owl.li/GpnaQ
  • Coca-Cola Disconnects Voice Mail at Headquarters owl.li/GmRKt
  • The Eggnog Riot: Jefferson Davis throws a holiday rager. owl.li/Gpn6Z
  • Daily chart: Which miser makes the most? owl.li/GpCEw
  • A 2014 Timeline of When Brands Did Superb Things in Social Media owl.li/Gpn2T
  • The Daily Habits of Highly Productive Philosophers: Nietzsche, Marx & Immanuel Kant owl.li/GfSmZ
  • Design Legend Louise Fili Photographs The Gorgeous Typography Of Italy owl.li/GfSg6
  • NASA Just Emailed A Wrench Into Space for 3D Printing owl.li/Gc2Jn
  • These Companies Own All the Food Brands owl.li/GfP1N
  • Inside the Business of Serial owl.li/G8piY
  • TED Playlist: Talks to restore your faith in humanity owl.li/GfOZp
  • Miles Davis's Illustrious Jazz Career Visualized Like A Record owl.li/G8nH8
  • 700 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices owl.li/GfOSe
  • Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery About Prime Numbers owl.li/GiHvq
  • 12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted owl.li/GfO4i
  • Inside the secret lab where Amazon is designing the future of reading owl.li/G88jl
  • Building the Bakery of Every Kid's Dreams owl.li/G82r2
  • Seeing blue where there is none. owl.li/G7FVF
  • McSweeney’s: Serial’s Sarah Koenig On Santa’s Alleged Hit-and-Run Murder of Grandma. owl.li/G81Cc
  • Meet the Guy Who Designed the Elegant Branding for Serial owl.li/G7DWk
  • Why Schools Should Lower The Bar For Teaching Programming To Kids owl.li/G7L36
  • Tech Toys to Make Children Smarter owl.li/G7wvz
  • The Most Popular Toys Of The Holidays, According To Shipping Containers owl.li/G7KRi
  • From Saturn's Moons To The Hoover Dam: The Greatest Landscape Photos Of All Time owl.li/G8nCV
  • The science of "hangry" — how low blood sugar makes you a monster owl.li/G7HhS
  • 10 Words Shakespeare Used With Unclear Meanings owl.li/G6bXW
  • A Secret Ballroom Built In The 1800s Lies Under A Lake, Guarded By Neptune owl.li/G6bOS
  • The 23 Best Countries for Work-Life Balance owl.li/G67lc
  • Fascinating Photos of NASA's Abandoned Launch Sites owl.li/G6brA
  • What It's Like To Design A Font From Scratch owl.li/G66Gj
  • What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs - NYTimes.comowl.li/G6bgE
  • Science Shows Art Is Doing Something Amazing to Our Health owl.li/G4HnK
  • How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood owl.li/G6bcV
  • The Secret World of Stolen Smartphones, Where Business Is Booming owl.li/G74A1
  • The Surprising Ways Your Breath Connects You to the Entire Planet owl.li/G6aZK
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/G4H4z
  • Student Doodles from the Middle Ages owl.li/G0JiP
  • 10 Everyday Technologies We Owe to NASA owl.li/G0nqa
  • Where Did Times New Roman Come From? owl.li/G0HdE
  • What Is The Oldest Known Song? owl.li/FWre5
  • Sage advice from designers: What’s the one thing you wish you’d been told? owl.li/G0GHh
  • Inside an internet addiction treatment centre in China owl.li/FVXrf
  • Why learning Spanish, not Mandarin, is the best way to globalize your ideas owl.li/G4HhU
  • The Urban Dictionary Of Design Slang owl.li/G0tbY
  • Ayse Birsel: The designs I love most owl.li/FSaS9
  • Beautiful, old stuff is still really cool: A look inside the new Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum owl.li/FSaOI
  • Nicholas Negroponte on Biotechnology and Future Learning owl.li/FRUEc
  • Fascinating maps of how people connect in Istanbul, Baltimore, Barcelona and more owl.li/FSaLk
  • Working hours: Proof that you should get a life. With higher working hours, labor output per hour fell. owl.li/FRQiC
  • David Kelley: The designs I love most owl.li/FSaJ6
  • Eastern Philosophy Explained with Three Animated Videos by Alain de Botton's School of Life owl.li/FRMz7
  • How Busy People Make Time To Read--And You Can Too owl.li/FS3Bs
  • On visual web, a photo is worth more than a 1000 words owl.li/FVNYk
  • Watch All of Terry Gilliam's Monty Python Animations in a Row owl.li/FRVrw
  • Why your brain loves procrastination owl.li/FRLQc
  • A brief history of web design for designers. Explained with animations owl.li/FRLCc
  • ‘Locked in the Ether’, Eerie Photos of Flowers Frozen in Ice owl.li/FQP1F
  • Instagram Is Getting So Good at News, It Should Scare Twitter owl.li/FRGKl
  • ◉ Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Did you notice? Today Obama only called on women, all of them print reporters, during his press conference. owl.li/Gc4DH
  • ◉ Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career owl.li/FQU97
  • A lost Disney cartoon from 1927 has been found owl.li/FQHkk
  • The Backfire Effect: The Psychology of Why We Have a Hard Time Changing Our Minds owl.li/FQTi4
  • Amazing: Historic Photos From the NYC Municipal Archives owl.li/FQHhK
  • A Stroll Through New York’s Gorgeous, and Occasionally Trippy, Holiday Windows owl.li/FQT8b
  • The Economic History of the Last 2,000 Years in 1 Little Graph owl.li/FQT5M
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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 19, 2014

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ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Sleep Scientists Want Workdays to Start Later http://owl.li/FO5QS
  • ◉ The Surprising Science Behind Why and When We Yawn http://owl.li/FQTWg
  • Of Course You Hear What I Hear — Christmas Music Season Is Totally Data-Driven http://owl.li/FPUch
  • Time capsule buried by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams unearthed in Boston http://owl.li/FO65y
  • Gorgeous: Danny Lyon's Unseen Photos Of NYC Subway Riders In The '60s http://owl.li/FPUvN
  • What Really Happened to the MTA's 60 Million Leftover Subway Tokens http://owl.li/FPUQa
  • The Economic History of the Last 2,000 Years in 1 Little Graph http://owl.li/FQT5M
  • A Stroll Through New York’s Gorgeous, and Occasionally Trippy, Holiday Windows http://owl.li/FQT8b
  • Amazing: Historic Photos From the NYC Municipal Archives http://owl.li/FQHhK
  • Bill Gates Notes: China used more cement in the last 3 years than the US used in the entire 20th century. owl.li/FPTMG
  • ◉ The Smithsonian Design Museum Tells the Story of User-Centered Design Through 120 Beautiful Products - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/12/1…
  • New Aluminum 'Foam' Makes Trains Stronger, Lighter, and Safer owl.li/FO5LE
  • 10 National Geographic Photographers Give Thanks for the Photos That Changed Them owl.li/FOu1s
  • Fall Through A Wormhole Into This Stunning Wikipedia Galaxy owl.li/FOkOD
  • Confirmed: He Who Sits the Most Dies the Soonest owl.li/FQHf6
  • The Evolving Face of Santa, As Seen in the Smithsonian's Vast Collections owl.li/FLBGx
  • Facebook Envisions AI That Keeps You From Uploading Embarrassing Pics owl.li/FKAwa
  • Embrace your stress. A visual idea owl.li/FKf0K
  • ◉ The Man Who Loved Books Too Much - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Let's go crazy: Inside the making of Purple Rain owl.li/FKAqg
  • ◉ How Disruptive Innovations Happen At The Edges owl.li/FQTD2
  • Could Your Language Affect Your Ability To Save Money? owl.li/FJZKo
  • Get your head around the 13 boldest ideas in science owl.li/FKfwr
  • The Fastest Stars in the Universe May Approach Light Speed owl.li/FJYWF
  • ◉ Shantanu Starick: How I Went Two Years Without Spending Any Money - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/12/1…
  • What I can’t live without, by John Maeda owl.li/FKffR
  • The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Makes Its Grand Re-Opening in New York City owl.li/FNZJ4
  • Let’s kickstart science funding in America owl.li/FKf5b
  • Vote for the Best Ads of the 21st Century owl.li/FJQ7Z
  • Comet Data Clears Up Debate on Earth’s Water owl.li/FHQK9
  • Everybody Scrolls: ongoing research into usability best practices regarding scrolling. owl.li/FCmR9
  • Exciting: The 5 Coolest Things About The Revamped Smithsonian Design Museum owl.li/FHmPP
  • ◉ Wally Olins, a tribute  owl.li/FQTzv
  • The Internet of Anything: A Social Network for the World's Online Sensors owl.li/FC1YR
  • ◉ Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Advertising - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Your Brain Peforms Better When It Slows Down owl.li/FGOzG
  • Quantum mechanics 101: Demystifying tough physics in 4 easy lessons owl.li/FC1to
  • ◉ People Who Go to Bed Late Spend More Time Worrying About Stuff - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/12/1…
  • We're One Step Closer To Superfast Computers That Run On Light Instead Of Electricity owl.li/FDkiL
  • Harry Potter Series Reimagined As Glow-In-The-Dark Pop-Up Books owl.li/FJU59
  • The New York Times R&D Lab releases Hive, an open-source crowdsourcing tool owl.li/FDhRx
  • What's Up With That: Why Running Hurts Every Part of Your Body owl.li/FBZM7
  • Obama Becomes First President to Write a Computer Program owl.li/FzVPS
  • Einstein's advice to Marie Curie on dealing with trolls: "Don't read that hogwash" - Vox owl.li/FyfRC
  • Netflix Wants to Debut New Shows, Seasons Every Three Weeks owl.li/FzkSF
  • ◉ Michael Wolff: Never Stop Asking "Why?" owl.li/FQTws
  • ◉ Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • 10 Cautionary Tales For Children from an 1831 Book owl.li/FyfKq
  • Sleep deprivation is killing your career owl.li/FyZ5u
  • ◉ Neil Gaiman reads Jabberwocky - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/12/1…
  • Inside BBC Pop Up, an Experimental Mobile News Bureau owl.li/FyfcG
  • Design Fail, 19th-Century Edition: 18 Patents That Didn’t Change The World owl.li/FyqeD
  • Long Exposure Photos Show the Elegant Hidden Patterns in Sports owl.li/FC1lk
  • New York Public Library Expands Free Wi-Fi Program owl.li/Fygv2
  • The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google Maps owl.li/Fybss
  • Creep Through Albert Einstein’s Love Letters- Smithsonian owl.li/FvKcl
  • 4 animations that show what's really going on with our climate owl.li/Fv1HH
  • 15 Delightfully Quirky Airports and Airstrips owl.li/FvK9O
  • Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s Plan to Wire the World owl.li/Fv1DD
  • How Game Theory Helped Improve New York City’s High School Application Process - NYTimes.com owl.li/Fv2lv
  • Why Our Memory Fails Us - NYTimes.comowl.li/FuZAN
  • TED Playlist: The complexity of memory owl.li/Fv2bK
  • The 100 greatest console video games, 1977-1987 owl.li/FydMQ
  • Joe Landolina: This gel can make you stop bleeding instantly owl.li/Fv1JU
  • Aliens in the Valley: The complete history of Reddit, the Internet's front page owl.li/FuYbK
  • The History Of Web Design Explained In 9 GIFs owl.li/FrF5I
  • Amazing libraries from around the world in the book, Reflections: Libraries. owl.li/Fr8Rg
  • Russell Foster: Why do we sleep? owl.li/FrEj3
  • Future Shock: Orson Welles Narrates a 1972 Film About the Perils of Technological Change owl.li/Fr3j3
  • Math 101: A reading list for lifelong learners owl.li/FrCzU
  • The 10 greatest changes of the past 1,000 years owl.li/Fo2gb
  • A complete guide to every person in the Serial podcast owl.li/Frs36
  • What Maslow’s Hierarchy Won’t Tell You About Motivation owl.li/FuYkQ
  • The Invention of the Slinky owl.li/Frf59
  • Half of online Americans don’t know what a privacy policy is- Pew Research Center owl.li/Fnh89
  • 85 Years, 85 Ideas. The most disruptive ideas: Businessweek owl.li/FnfWh
  • Disneyland: The Most Instagramed Place on Earth owl.li/FltML
  • French Official Campaigns to Make 'Right to be Forgotten' Global owl.li/Fne41
  • ◉ Michael Wolff: Never Stop Asking "Why?" owl.li/FjuSL
  • How Top Designers Tell Clients That Their Taste Sucks owl.li/FmqDb
  • The 25 most admired typefaces by typographers, type designers and letterers. owl.li/FjwAQ
  • Facebook Design Director: The 5 Most Common Design Mistakes owl.li/Fmpuh
  • The "power tower feeding frenzy" and hyper-large numbers owl.li/FnYHf
  • The Mysterious Vanishing Brains owl.li/FlwUg
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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 12, 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 Week's Links: December 5, 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 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.