The Week’s Links: January 29, 2016

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

• Marvin Minsky's Vision of the Future: Great NYer profile of the AI pioneer. owl.li/XDCFR
• Meet The Man Who Created Papyrus, The World's (Other) Most Hated Font owl.li/XDDgN
• An Oral History Of The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster owl.li/XF2Hb
• Exclusive: Inside Lucasfilm's "Star Wars" VR Project owl.li/XDDbs
• The Urban Design Lesson Hidden in Blizzard 2016 owl.li/XBZCe
• The Invention of Ambient Music owl.li/XBZug
• Why Are Some People Habitually Late? owl.li/XBSkX
• The Cameras That’ll Make the Super Bowl Way More Interesting This Year owl.li/XBWdm
• The Information Missing From Those Super-Long Privacy Policies That No One Reads owl.li/XBtHh
• Interactive timeline: listen to the #1 rap songs from 1989-2015 owl.li/XBTH1
• The Vinyl Record Factory That Makes Your Niche Music Dreams Come True owl.li/XBZI9
• Inside Facebook’s Decision to Blow Up the Like Button owl.li/XBtbe
• 100 Years Later, Beatrix Potter's Tale Of A Fanciful Feline To Be Published owl.li/XBTFf
• In Major AI Breakthrough, Google System Secretly Beats Top Player at the Ancient Game of Go owl.li/XBSMY
• Virtual Reality Is Exploding at Sundance, and Could Soon Be in Your News Feed owl.li/Xzbxv
• Next Big Test for AI: Making Sense of the World owl.li/Xzb0f
• You Can Now Wander the Guggenheim Right on Your Computer | WIRED owl.li/XySZr
• Next Big Test for AI: Making Sense of the World owl.li/XzaTr
• The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain—And Almost Lost His Mind owl.li/XyKqJ
• Meet the shadowy overlords who approve emojis owl.li/XyXW8
• Unseen Beatrix Potter story featuring an older Peter Rabbit to be published owl.li/XyJtc
• New Rapid Response Systems Blunt Cyberattacks owl.li/XzbAp
• This Is 40,000 Years of London’s History—Made Entirely of Paper owl.li/XyXEI
• After Nearly 50 Years, Niagara Falls Might Soon Run Dry Again owl.li/XyT2K
• 5 Ideas We Need To Steal From Megacities With Great Subways owl.li/XvQ1T
• This Fun Literature Project Replaces Google Ads With Short Stories owl.li/XvrNL
• See The Entire Observable Universe Beautifully Rendered On Your Computer Screen owl.li/XtlSm
• Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 - The New York Times owl.li/Xzd39
• Droga5 Is the Ad Age and Creativity 2016 Agency of the Year owl.li/XvrJ0
• To Make AI More Human, Teach It to Chitchat owl.li/XyJ7G
• Using Public Domain Materials in the Classroom owl.li/Xt7KS
• Creativity 2016 Innovators of the Year owl.li/Xvrzb
• Old music is outselling new music for the first time in history | Chart Attack owl.li/Xt7Iw
• Ad Age's 2016 Agency A-List owl.li/XvrsR
• 8 Classic Novels Reduced To Their Punctuation owl.li/Xtm0V
• What's the Difference Between a Street and a Road? owl.li/Xt7E3
• Amid a surge in demand for rechargeable batteries, companies are scrambling for supplies of lithium owl.li/Xt7Dt
• The strangest thing about Q-tips owl.li/XnzP9
• Watch this robot solve a Rubik's Cube in about a second owl.li/Xt7v6
• Discovery Of Ancient Massacre Suggests War Predated Settlements owl.li/XnzLV
• How Well Do You Handle Uncertainty? Take This Quiz to Find Out owl.li/Xt7rR
• The 20 Most Influential Academic Books of All Time: No Spoilers owl.li/XnzJd
• Tracing Sriracha's Origin to a Seaside Town in Thailand owl.li/Xt6XN
• Updated: Five Execs Leave Twitter owl.li/Xvcli
• Google Is Offering A Free Online Class About Deep Learning owl.li/Xt7EL
• How do they grow plants in space. owl.li/XswLb
• Read This: A guided tour through David Bowie’s personal record collection owl.li/Xnwg4
• When Concorde First Flew 40 Years Ago, It Was a Supersonic Sight to Behold owl.li/XmOvi
• 7 Million Hand-inked Dots by Artist Xavier Casalta owl.li/XmwzS
• The Fairy Tales That Predate Christianity owl.li/XmO56
• The top 10 opening shots in film owl.li/Xmwwg
• 130 Years of Coke Taglines owl.li/XmK3e
• What Branding Experts Think About Coca-Cola’s New Product-Centric Campaign owl.li/XkUcY
• New blood test can tell bacterial from viral respiratory infections (Wired UK) owl.li/XmCQG
• 15 fun things to type into Google owl.li/XnwjZ
• Could just two people repopulate Earth? owl.li/XmwHq
• Evidence Stacks Up for a Planet Beyond Pluto owl.li/XkU4F
• Can The Internet Predict The Oscars? owl.li/XkgIn
• Everything We Know About Ukraine’s Power Plant Hack owl.li/Xk47E
• Photographs of the Futuristic Antarctic Ice Station That Can Move On Skis owl.li/Xkger
• Scientists Find Hints Of A Giant, Hidden Planet In Our Solar System owl.li/XjYUs
• Go Inside The Work Of Salvador Dali With Surreal New Virtual Reality Experience owl.li/Xk9to
• Fairytales much older than previously thought, say researchers owl.li/XjYLm
• Jazz ‘Hot’: The Rare 1938 Short Film With Jazz Legend Django Reinhardt owl.li/XkU8f
• VFX Bake-Off: From "Fury Road" To "The Force Awakens," VFX Oscar Contenders Talk CGI Challenges owl.li/Xk8da
• You Don't Know as Much as You Think: False Expertise owl.li/Xk59w
• Fantastic 99pi podcast on credit card origins: The Fresno Drop owl.li/XjPVN
• Why Designers Love The Ampersand owl.li/XjDQJ
• How to Answer the 31 Most Common Interview Questions owl.li/XhN2S
• Look Up In The Sky To See Five Planets Align owl.li/XjDK7
• 20 years ago today, NYTimes.comdebuted “on-line” on the web owl.li/XpXwE
• A Brilliant MIT Invention Makes Incandescent Bulbs As Efficient As LEDs owl.li/XhFN9
• Motherboard's comprehensive series on sleep. owl.li/XhW1P
• Largest Prime Number Ever Found Is 22 Million Digits Long — NOVA Next | PBS owl.li/XhtWB
• Derek Zoolander Hits the Cover of Vogue -- for Real - Print (image) - Creativity Online owl.li/XhURT
• Japan’s Arcane Pictogram System Gets a Much-Needed Update owl.li/XjYIj
• How to use data to make a hit TV show owl.li/XhN9C
• New NYTimes site: Times Machine - Over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared. owl.li/Xp6oC