The Week's Links: November 4, 2012
/All the links posted on social networks this week:
- Hurricane Sandy, A Drenching Reminder That Tough Times Inspire Remarkable Innovation ➞
- Creativity Top 5: Post Sandy - ◉
- Hurricane Sandy: How You Can Help - ◉
- Kurt Vonnegut’s Eight Tips on How to Write a Good Short Story ➞
- A dash of algebra on wireless networks promises to boost bandwidth tenfold, without new infrastructure. ➞
- The Pew Internet Report On Younger Americans’ Reading and Library Habits ➞
- Listen to Your Intuition, Because Your Body Can Predict Future Events Without Conscious Clues ➞
- Science Confirms The Obvious: Rejection Can Make You More Creative ➞
- Exposing Kids To 10 Hours Of Science A Year Makes Them Smarter ➞
- DNA has a 521-year half-life ➞
- White whale mimics human speech ➞
- 30 gifts to 30 strangers in Sydney, a must-see end-of-week treat ◉
- A Look At The World's Most Amazing Kitchens, Restaurants, And Food, Courtesy The Selby ➞
- How a Google Headhunter's E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole ➞
- Neal Stephenson talks REAMDE with lawyers, security experts ➞
- The Immersive Web And Design Writing ➞
- The Rhythms of Work vs The Rhythms of Creative Labor ➞
- Is Windows 8 The New Modernism? ➞
- A New Gates-Funded College Offers Higher Ed To Those With Grit, Not Test Scores ➞
- How to Focus Mind Map ◉
- Paying Tribute To Artists Who Hand-Paint Signs In A Digital Age ➞
- Seriously Amazing: The Smithsonian's Q&A site. ➞
- ASME's Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years ➞
- Why Do We Say “Pardon My French” When We Curse? ➞
- How Slight Sleep Deprivation Could Add Extra Pounds ➞
- 25 Fun Size Facts About Classic Halloween Candy ➞
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Explores Photo Manipulation ➞
- Can too much caffeine kill you? ➞
- Comedians@Google Eddie Izzard: Sometimes you have to kill your creative babies ◉
- 5 Reasons Michael Faraday Is as Cool as Tesla ➞
- Why Do We Get Shivers Up Our Spines? ➞
- Cybercrime: Mobile Changes Everything — And No One's Safe ➞
- Love this: Ballet dancers in Wonderland. ➞
- It’s Always Done This Way ➞
- Dance Is Like Thought: Helen Keller Visits Martha Graham's Studio ➞
- The anticipation of giving: Rare video of Frank Oz eulogizing Jim Henson ◉
- Powerful: Scenes From World War II Photoshopped Onto Today's Streets ➞
- At What Age Will Your Creativity Peak? ➞
- Neal Stephenson on the Future of Books and the Ubiquity of Gadgets ➞
- Check out the gorgeous site for NBR New Zealand Opera ➞
- Peekaboo! Cambridge scientists discover why children think they are invisible when they hide their eyes ➞
- Custom Built Orchestra Uses Instruments Made From Fallen Tree Branches And Pierced Light Bulbs ➞
- America's Facebook Generation Is Reading Strong And Going To Libraries ➞
- No one ever bought anything on an elevator - ◉
- Starbucks Builds a Library-Themed Pop-Up Store in Tokyo ➞
- Mapping the Twitter Languages of London ➞
- David Attenborough's collection of Edward Lear's ornithological prints ➞
- Linda Rottenberg: If no one is calling you "crazy," you're probably not thinking big enough. ◉
- What are your Top 10 Favorite Words? ➞
- Fact-checking at The New Yorker ➞
- The Thinking Mindset vs. The Doing Mindset: Pick One (And Only One) ➞
- The NYTimes Magazine Body Issue is fantastic. Case in point: The Island Where People Forget to Die ➞
- 40 Things To Say Before You Die ➞
- 12 Guidelines for Deciding When to Persist, When to Quit ➞
- The psychology of Tetris ➞