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 ➞
  

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