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The Week's Links: October 27, 2012

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Making the right typographic choices 
  • “The Power of Storytelling,” Part 2: Jacqui Banaszynski on the future of stories 
  • “The Power of Storytelling,” Part 1: A bunch of American storytellers go to Romania… 
  • Musical tweets to save an orchestra 
  • In Brief: 2014 Winter Olympic Games Pictograms 
  • A Brief Wondrous Interview with Junot Díaz 
  • Fact-checking at The New Yorker 
  • All Hallow’s Read: A Parents’ Guide to Scary Books for Young Readers 
  • And consider gifting a book this Halloween for All Hallow's Read 
  • Get a new scary audiobook by Neil Gaiman for free and his publisher makes a donation to charity, until Halloween. Go: 
  • Joe Queenan: My 6,128 Favorite Books- Looking at the lifelong obsession with reading. 
  • The Making Of Beyoncé's "I Was Here" Performance For World Humanitarian Day 2012 
  • Original Creators: Tech-Thriller Author And Director Michael Crichton 
  • L.A. Public Library inherits treasure of maps saved from dumpster 
  • Why Great Ideas Get Rejected 
  • 5 Educational Videos you should not Miss 
  • David Allen on How to Fix Your Life 
  • 20 of Tech's Most Underrated Founders 
  • Designer Kitchens and the People Who Don't Cook in Them 
  • Steven Spielberg, Doris Kearns Goodwin & Tony Kushner talk about what it takes to wrestle an epic presidency into a film... 
  • Teaching Physics with a Massive Game of Mouse Trap 
  • Should All Students Be Forced to Learn Computer Science? 
  • What Makes Temple Grandin’s Brain Special? 
  • What Do Nic Cage, William Gibson, Doctor Who & Justin Bieber Have In Common? 
  • Teenage Brains Are Like Soft, Impressionable Play-Doh 
  • The History of Trick Or Treating Is Weirder Than You Thought 
  • Dolphins Sleep With Only Half Their Brain at a Time 
  • A chicken and egg thing 
  • Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Stolen Painting? 
  • The Smallest Nonprofits Should Have The Most Powerful Brands 
  • MIT Technology Review Relaunches 'Digital-First' 
  • 10 Essential Books for Book Nerds 
  • Worth a revisit: How do our favorite tech companies make money? 
  • Turn Your Career into a Work of Art 
  • The ArtReview Power 100 2012 
  • Books Change How a Child's Brain Grows 
  • My Walletless Month: Happier, Healthier and Ready to Ditch Cash Forever 
  • PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 4: Steampunk 
  • Rejection bolsters creativity, researchers find 
  • Robert Atwan, the founder of The Best American Essays series, picks the 10 best essays of the postwar period. 
  • Video of Samuel Beckett Directing His Absurdist Play Waiting for Godot (1985) 
  • Book Design at Pentagram: A Symposium, Saturday, October 27 
  • An Intimate Portrait Of Innovation, Risk, And Failure Through Hipstamatic's Lens 
  • Responsive Comping: Obtaining Signoff with Mockups 
  • The Effect of Color
  • Hitchcock’s Storyboards from 13 Classic Films 
  • Mapping The Entertainment Ecosystems of Apple, Microsoft, Google & Amazon 
  • Paola Antonelli on Design as the Interface Between Progress and Humanity 
  • World Shakespeare Festival Presents 37 Plays by the Bard in 37 Languages: Watch Them Online 
  • Announcing 'Source': Where Journalism and Coding Collide 
  • Spectacular: National Geographic Photo Contest 2012 
  • Teaching Writing for the 21st Century · A great Storify collection. 
  • AOL May Have Invented Email's Next UI Paradigm 
  • Creativity Top 5: October 23, 2012
  • Training the brain to stress less 
  • Great Resource: Datavisualization.ch Selected Tools 
  • Craig Mod on Intertwingularity and the "User Experience" of Printed Publications 
  • Why Are Elections On Tuesdays? 
  • In Praise of Slow Mastery: 10 Great Achievements That Took Time 
  • Why College May Be Totally Free Within 10 Years 
  • Behind The Scenes Of Dishonored: An Interview With The Creators Of The Epic Dystopian Game 
  • A Collection of Printable Web Browser Sketching and Wireframe Templates 
  • A Real-time Dance Performance Interacting With Intricate Projection Mapping 
  • The New Tao of Leadership (with John Maeda) 
  • How To Work Better 
  • Disney Research Aims To Revolutionize Design By Merging Optics With 3D Printing 
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Delivers the Greatest Science Sermon Ever 
  • The 101 Most Useful Websites on the Internet 
  • From the TED Blog 10 talks on making schools great 
  • Grin and Bear It: How to Tackle Your Tougher Tasks 
  • code {poems} Is An Anthology Of Thoughtful And Moving Expressions Of Programming Language 
  • 10 Inventions You Haven't Heard About 
  • What Is It About People That Are Right A Lot
  • Becoming Human: The Origin of Stone Tools 
  • The Top Ten Human Evolution Discoveries from Ethiopia 
  • World Shakespeare Festival Presents 37 Plays by the Bard in 37 Languages: Watch Them Online 
  • PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 3: Visual Culture Online 
  • How Did Dinosaurs Sleep? 
  • The Traumatic Birth of the Modern (and Vicious) Political Campaign 
  • The Anti-Skyscraper Law That Shaped Sydney, Australia 
  • Predictions From The Father of Science Fiction 
  • How the Football Field Was Designed, from Hash Marks to Goal Posts 

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