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The Week's Links: October 14, 2012

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Unexpected: What I Learned This Week 
  • The Power of Negative Thinking 
  • Algorithm turns computers into art experts 
  • With The Oatmeal’s help, nonprofit buys property to build a Tesla Museum 
  • So good: 15 Brilliant, Spooky, Hilarious and Creative Cinemagrams 
  • Every great writer has a strong voice. Helping students find their own is key to any "writing revolution." 
  • Code Monster and teaching programming to kids 
  • Salman Khan: The Rise of the Tech-Powered Teacher 
  • What's invisible? More than you think 
  • Honey bee brains could soon be helping robots act more independently. 
  • These are beautiful: High-Speed Photography Turns Water Droplets Into Liquid Sculptures 
  • The design thinking behind the newDisney.com 
  • Making Advanced Analytics Work for You 
  • Why James Dyson Invested $8,000,000 In A Student Incubator 
  • Why School Should Focus on Engagement Instead of Lectures 
  • 10 Books to Restore Your Faith in Print 
  • Two huge state-run museums open in Shanghai 
  • A mission to photograph all 210,000 oil paintings in public ownership in the UK is completed 
  • The Hollywood Reporter's Top 50 Showrunners 2012 - 
  • Kickstarting: A 3-D Printer For Designers, By Designers 
  • Who invented fire? When did people start cooking? 
  • The Music Industry's New Math: Pop’s old metrics don’t matter. 
  • Chanel Creates Interactive Digital Timeline For Coco And The Company 
  • InsideOut Episode 1 by Photographer & TED Prize winner JR 
  • I love the interrobang: 13 Little-Known Punctuation Marks We Should Be Using 
  • An anthology of Tim Burton clips. 
  • Your creative thinking performance can be primed with certain images and pictures.
  • How close are we to fully digitised libraries? Rachel Coldicutt scanned her book collection to find out. 
  • The 10 Most Mentioned Songs in Books 
  • How Stories Change Your Brain 
  • Best Rest Practices for Optimal Productivity & Creativity 
  • Hacking Habits: How To Make New Behaviors Last For Good 
  • Publisher releases interactive iPad editions of Shakespeare's most famous plays. 
  • FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver Explains Why We Suck At Predictions (And How To Improve) 
  • Joshua Foer: OK-ness is the enemy of greatness 
  • A behind-the-scenes look at LinkedIn’s mobile engineering 
  • AIGA | Aquent Survey of Design Salaries 2012 Results Now Available 
  • Futures of Entertainment 6 is taking place November 9-10, 2012 at MIT 
  • No Filter: Inside Hipstamatic’s Lost Year Searching For The Next Killer Social App 
  • The Millions: 2012 National Book Award Finalists Announced (With Excerpts and Bonus Links) 
  • Learn How To Become A Successful Entrepreneur From Stanford Professors, For Free. 
  • 3D-Print Your Own Ancient Art at Museum Scanathon 
  • Picasso Play to Get a Reading at the Guggenheim 
  • 10 Must-See Documentaries for Entrepreneurs 
  • Why We Are So Rude on Facebook and Other Social Media 
  • Website pagination: Stories should load into a single page every time. 
  • Want Your Message To Stick? Tell A Story 
  • Hacking Habits: How To Make New Behaviors Last For Good 
  • Well done is better than well sued 
  • Popular Mechanics Selects The 10 World-Changing Innovators for 2012 
  • In Artificial Intelligence Competition, Two Bots Pass for Human 
  • N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős, the Most Prolific Mathematician of the 20th Century 
  • The Creativity of Web Design, Indie Video Games and Fans 
  • Those are so cool: Playing with pencil shavings 
  • Almost a quarter of U.S. adults own a tablet, PEW survey finds 
  • Terry Gilliam Shows You How to Make Your Own Cutout Animation 
  • Forget Revolution: What would really happen if the lights went out. 
  • W3C teams with Apple, Google, Mozilla on WebPlatform, a guide to building the open web (video)
  • I wouldn't mind commuting in a train like this: Trains evoking the palace of Versailles 
  • Seeking to expand your education? This one is for you:  /via @DisneyPixar
  • New Goya and Rembrandt Databases Now Online | Open Culture 
  • Gary Panter's drawing tips 
  • How old is your brain? 
  • The 10 Best Narrators in Literature 
  • Operas and orgasms, a look at English National Opera's provocative 'Don Giovanni' ad  
  • Musical Creativity and the Brain 
  • Want Your Message To Stick? Tell A Story 
  • Creativity Top 5: October 8, 2012 
  • CultureLab: Top 10 most influential popular science books 
  • How It's Made: Instant Film for Polaroid Cameras 
  • These are brilliant: Murakami covers by Noma Bar 
  • Revisiting Oliver Burkeman on why everything takes longer than you think 
  • Paradox of Hoaxes: How Errors Persist, Even When Corrected 
  • Writing Rules! Advice From The Times on Writing Well 
  • Branded for Life. A look at the performers that become permanently associated with a brand. 
  • The Art of Fiction No. 203: In Interview with Ray Bradbury 
  • Who Made That Escape Key? 
  • The Role of Suspense in Stories and Music 
  • The complicated history of simple scientific facts 
  • Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.
  • How do we get people to understand programming? 
  • Researchers identify brain region that generates optimism bias 
  • African mouse regenerates lost skin, cartilage and hair without scarring 
  • Coca-Cola creates ad that can be used as an iPhone dock for music listening. 

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