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The Week's Links (10.2.11)

All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@) this week: 

  • The 100 Most Important Japanese Words You Should Know owl.li/6CpLj
  • More about teenage brains. owl.li/6BUse
  • A brief history of the brain owl.li/6INbl
  • Virtual Monkeys Are Working On Producing The Complete Works Of Shakespeare owl.li/6J4KF Already done 3 plays!
  • Time on the Brain: How You Are Always Living In the Past, and Other Quirks of Perception owl.li/6BUhk
  • What is magical? Etienne Mineur, the inventor of cool owl.li/1eUTYO
  • Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: Don’t Tangle Two Lines of Thoughtowl.li/6BSTI
  • Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: Paying Attention to What Isn’t Thereowl.li/6BTbG
  • Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: Perspective Is Everything, Details Alone Are Nothing owl.li/6BT17
  • Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: Cultivate What You Know to Optimize How You Decide owl.li/6BT6T
  • Don’t Just See, Observe: What Sherlock Holmes Can Teach Us About Mindful Decisions owl.li/6BTeW
  • The Ropes at Disney: 1943 Walt Disney Employee Handbook owl.li/6IuWb Love this.
  • Understanding The Mysterious Teenage Brain : NPR owl.li/6BMNK
  • Own a colour, save a life owl.li/6IXZm
  • Wired Magazine Goes Inside Google Plus owl.li/6IOHG
  • DonorsChoose.org: An online charity connecting you to classrooms in needowl.li/6Cpmd
  • Launching Today Google Analytics Premium, paid accounts with extra functionality. owl.li/6IOQt
  • Google Analytics Starts Real Time Reports owl.li/6IOsS
  • MIT Media Lab: Ganging Up on Cyberbullying owl.li/6Eg9P Using applied natural language processing to find and fight bullying.
  • Volkswagen Beetle owl.li/6GNCl Great website, just scroll. /via @daringfireball
  • The transformation of the book industry: Disappearing ink owl.li/6BRsb
  • Google digitises Dead Sea Scrolls owl.li/6Gnls
  • The new issue of Think Quarterly by Google is now out. The People Issueowl.li/6IGOS Richard Branson’s article is great.
  • Happy National Coffee Day owl.li/6IGz3
  • How the World Uses Social Networks owl.li/1eTROO
  • Why’d It Take So Long To Invent The Wheel? owl.li/6BQO3
  • The Secret To Apple’s Long-Term Success? It Always Prepares You For The Future owl.li/6IuvV
  • The Four Hallmarks of Bad Strategy owl.li/6BO4e
  • Daring Fireball: Amazon’s New Kindles owl.li/6HWlT Fantastic insight.
  • How Americans Spend Their Day owl.li/6CpOC
  • Scratch-and-Sniff New York Guide Tells the City’s Story Through Scentowl.li/6CoJY
  • Creativity Top 5: September 26, 2011 owl.li/1eSP4A
  • 150 Years of Elegance A historic look at Italy’s fashion industry curated by two of its most prominent visionaries. owl.li/6xEtN
  • The Hollywood Reporter announces the nominees for Key Art Awards, honoring the best entertainment industry advertising. owl.li/6Ejsa
  • ‘Vogue’ Covers by Salvador Dali owl.li/6tAHD
  • Artistic legacy: the tricky task of preserving an artist’s life and work.owl.li/6BNMs
  • Frank Oz: ‘I still lie when cab drivers ask me what I do’ owl.li/6BNEe
  • Google Plus API Deep Dive for Developers with Chris Chabot owl.li/1eROGN
  • Libraries: Know Thine Audience - Inside Higher Ed owl.li/6BNzy
  • Letters of Note: Frank Sinatra on Crossword Puzzles owl.li/6BN2k
  • Italy’s 40K Books: No Paper, No Attention Span, No Problem owl.li/6xMym
  • Evolution of Narcissism: Why We’re Overconfident, and Why It Worksowl.li/6xMtY
  • A look at IBM’s ‘Think’ at Lincoln Center owl.li/6Eg6l
  • John Rauser: What is a Career in Big Data? owl.li/1eQHQS
  • Electronic education: Flipping the classroom owl.li/6zEuh
  • “What Font Should I Use?”: Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces owl.li/6xBdm
  • IDEO: Big Innovation Lives Right on the Edge of Ridiculous Ideasowl.li/6vR0B