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. ➞
• The Week's Links: September 30, 2012 ◉
• Proof: What I Learned This Week ◉
• Fascinating: WSJ looks at how Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix say sorry ➞

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