All the links posted on social networks this week:

• The Making of XOXO, plus all the session videos. ➞
• The Pleasures of Imperfection ➞
• Love Of Spicy Food Is Built Into Your Personality ➞
• 30 Great Moments In The History Of Robots ➞
• What Schools Can Learn From Google, IDEO, and Pixar ➞
• TED's Ads Worth Spreading Report (PDF) ➞
• The Top 10 Smartest Cities In North America ➞
• How to Train an Animator, by Walt Disney ➞
• What storytelling does to our brains ➞
• The sad, surprising story of Google Reader. ➞ 
• Gift Ideas For Smarter Creativity ◉
• The Design of a Site Meant to be Read ➞
• Gestures as a New Dimension in Mobile Design ➞
• Behind The App: The Making of Twitterrific 5 ➞
• Why your computer is getting cheaper but your broadband bill isn’t ➞
• A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 9 - A 50th Birthday ◉
• PBS series 'Shakespeare Uncovered' to dig deep into Bard's plays ➞
• Researchers Create the Most Complex Virtual Brain So Far ➞
• Listen to the BBC's radio version of Asimov's 'Foundation' trilogy online ➞
• It's Your Life: The Holstee Manifesto Lifecycle Video ◉
• Start your day with Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's Object of the Day. ➞
• Start your day with History.com's What Happened Today in History ➞
• Woody Allen answers 12 unusual questions ➞
• A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 8 - The corps de ballet ◉
• Amazing: Birds of a Feather ➞
• Remarkable Macro Photographs of Ice Structures and Snowflakes ➞
• Aaron Dignan: How to Use Games to Excel at Life and Work ◉
• Ten things you never knew about Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol ➞
• Why Leaders Should Constantly Reiterate What's Important ➞
• Loren Brichter: Designs on the future of iOS apps ➞
• How To Win At Self-Distribution If You're Not Louis C.K.: A Case Study For Creators And Marketers ➞
• The Orchestra ◉
• Have the Courage to Be Direct - Anthony Tjan ➞
• MIT Media Lab's Leah Buechley on falling in love with technology ◉
• Cavemen Were Much Better At Illustrating Animals Than Artists Today ➞
• Collecting the World's Collections of Small Oddities One Day at a Time ➞
• Why Do We Hiccup? And Other Scientific Mysteries—Seen Through the Eyes of Artists ➞
• The Insane Amount of Biodiversity in One Cubic Foot ➞
• Ambient Noise Spurs Creativity ➞
• Bacterial Life Abounds in Antarctic Lake, Cut Off From the World for 2,800 Years ➞
• The First Use of OMG Was in a 1917 Letter to Winston Churchill ➞
• For Adults, TV Can Serve the Same Role as an Imaginary Friend ➞
• Understand Music ◉
• Creativity Top 5 ◉
• Made By Hand: The Knife Maker ◉
• Amazing Modernist Sandcastles Sculpted by Calvin Seibert ➞
• There Are More Brainteasers About Crossing Rivers Than You Ever Imagined ➞
• 20 Game-Changing Technology Trends That Will Create Both Disruption and Opportunity on a Global Level ➞
• The Paper That Changed Type Design ➞
• Beautiful: 20 Inspiring Typography Posters ➞
• Kafka’s Nightmare Tale, ‘A Country Doctor,’ Told in Award-Winning Japanese Animation ➞
• The Four Fears Blocking You from Great Ideas ➞
• World's Largest Brain Simulation Has 2.5 Million Neurons ➞
• A great new tumblr: Photoshop Secrets ➞
• New research suggests specially selected nocturnal odors can inspire creativity. ➞
• Give A Damn, Damn It: Reddit Co-founder Alexis Ohanian ◉
• Learning by Design: It's Not What You Know, But How You Think ➞
• What Neuroscience Really Teaches Us, and What It Doesn't ➞
• The Neuroscience of Creativity ➞
• Made By Hand: The Distiller. A short-film series on hand-made things. ◉
• Raymond Chandler, "The Simple Art of Murder"(1950) ➞
• New Cadbury chocolate doesn't melt, even at 104 degrees ➞
• The Code Side Of Color ➞
• 7 Basic Types of Stories: Which One Is Your Brand Telling? ➞
• The Best Ads And Creative Talent Of The Last 50 Years, According to Britain's D&AD ➞
• How encryption works in your web browser. ➞

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