The Week's Links: October 7, 2012
/All the links posted on social networks this week:
- Coca-Cola creates ad that can be used as an iPhone dock for music listening. ➞
- 12 TED Talks on understanding the brain ➞
- You Already Know How To Use It: On pattern recognition. ➞
- Marvel Comics and the movies: The business story behind the Avengers. ➞
- How Do You Decaffeinate Coffee Beans? ➞
- How the brain understands art ➞
- How to Make Better Decisions, a Thought-Provoking Documentary by the BBC ➞
- The essential documentaries about David Lynch... ➞
- These are so good: Chalk art by David Zinn ➞
- Writers' Favorite Punctuation Marks ➞
- Bots Make Up Ten Percent of Online Traffic, Study Says ➞
- From an OK Go video to a great advertising spot: The Incomparable Rube Goldberg ➞
- Want to study Einstein's brain? There's an app for that. ➞
- Science Confirms the Obvious: Literature is Good for Your Brain ➞
- Pentagram And New York City Attempt To Redesign Pedestrian Behavior ➞
- Innovation is an illusion ➞
- A Brooklyn Nets Style Guide - NYT breaks down the identity. ➞
- A Conversation on Transmedia with Henry Jenkins and Lance Weiler ◉
- F. Scott Fitzgerald Reads From Shakespeare’s Othello and John Masefield’s “On Growing Old” (c.1940) ➞
- Impressive Crowdfunded Sci-Fi Short Created Using Open Source Software ➞
- A Visual History of Punk ➞
- Frank Chimero: Do Things The Long, Hard Stupid Way ◉
- The Information is Beautiful Awards: Celebrating Excellence in Data Visualization and Information Design ➞
- Paula Scher’s Favorite Designed Spaces in NYC ➞
- How Smart People Think ◉
- What's One Thing You Wish You Had Learned in School? ➞
- Studies Challenge Theory that Internet Is Making People Dumber ➞
- Famous Authors’ Funniest Responses to Their Books Being Banned ➞
- The Writing Revolution: How teaching the basics of analytic writing turned a troubled school around. ➞
- You're Not Listening ◉
- MIT Research: How Better Typography Could Reduce Car Crashes ➞
- Great TED-Ed Lesson - Jane Hirshfield: The art of the metaphor ➞
- Designed To Move - A physical activity agenda to fuel the future. Great campaign. ➞
- So great: Norwich Cathedral's brand bible ➞
- 50 Memorable Covers From the Last Four Years ➞ /via @Coudal
- Neuroscientists are trying to work out why the brain does so much when it seems to be doing nothing at all. ➞
- Beyond Fashion: The Met's "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" ◉
- Frank Moss shares what he learned about innovation during his "sabbatical" at MIT Media Lab. ➞
- Nuance is working with chipmakers on technology that would enable "persistent listening" apps. ➞
- The State Of The Internet [SLIDE DECK] - Business Insider ➞
- A Startup Tries to Make a Better Artificial Brain ➞
- Love this: Barcelona's Most Famous Building, Sagrada Familia, Gets Spectacularly Illuminated by @Moment_Factory ➞
- Show Your Work! A new series by Austin Kleon ◉
- Guilt-Free Creativity: Stop Kicking Yourself & Start Producing ➞
- Reader recommendations a growing business in the book world ➞
- Location-Based Music App Brings Bob Dylan's New Album To Life In 100+ Locations Around The World ➞
- Manila's Reading Club 2000 lets anyone borrow and then bring back or keep any of its thousands of books ➞
- The Surprisingly Colorful Homes of 10 Famous Architects ➞
- The player IS the story: why the big gaming publishers don't get transmedia ◉
- Stillpower: The True Path to Flow, Clarity, and Responsiveness ➞
- This Is Responsive: Tips, Resources and Patterns for Responsive Web Design ➞
- The 2012 MacArthur Genius Grants Awarded. Full list here: ➞
- Fear can be erased from the brain, research shows ➞
- The Marketplace in Your Brain ◉
- What happens during the brain’s ‘resting state’? ➞
- Creativity Top 5: October 1, 2012 ◉
- OpenStand: Principles for The Modern Standard Paradigm ➞
- 10 Inventions You Haven't Heard About ➞
- This African Fruit Produces the World's Most Intense Natural Color ➞
- Move, Eat, Learn - A Philosophy for Life in 3 Short Films ◉
- What Makes Chocolate So Irresistible? A New Study Hints at an Answer ➞
- Why Do Students Give Teachers Apples and More from the Fruit's Juicy Past ➞
- Tour Smithsonian Gardens' Fall Flowers ➞
- Five simple steps to better typography ➞
- Would you like to be inspired? Here’s what you should do: ◉
- You know you've wondered, how do our favorite tech companies make money? ➞
- TinyPNG – Compress PNG images while preserving transparency ➞
- How does the Internet work? See how a continent gets plugged in ➞
- Typography Carved In Stone ➞
- The Best Ads And Creative Talent Of The Last 50 Years, According to Britain's D&AD ➞
- Playing Now: A Stunning Production Of A Philip Glass Masterpiece ➞
- Robert Krulwich & Vincent Liota: On Speed. ➞
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- Proof: What I Learned This Week ◉
- Fascinating: WSJ looks at how Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix say sorry ➞