The Week's Links (4/15/12)

All the links posted to Twitter, Facebook and Google+ this week: 

• What NYC and Beijing Would Look Like, Without All The People. Fascinating video.owl.li/acfZg
• The Age Of Insight owl.li/a91Ix
• The Past and Future Histories of Books: An Interview with Ted Striphas owl.li/a91QC
• Just Do It & Make It Count owl.li/1iL4zs
• CultureLab: The matter of your brainowl.li/a8Zax
• 10 Crazy and Unusual Book Designsowl.li/ac6A9
• How We Will Read: Exploring the Future of Books with Clay Shirky owl.li/acels
• Carol Dweck’s Attitude About Intelligenceowl.li/9hZ6p
• Ten reasons why you shouldn’t text during a live performance. Culture City: WSJ.comowl.li/abJwU
• Is “Texts From Hillary” Art? owl.li/1iJpGp
• The most inspiring new art is visualized information: The Art of Data Visualizationowl.li/abIXF
• Savant Daniel Tammet on plasticity, Autism, Asperger’s syndrome, and popular myths.owl.li/abF4m
• James Fowler - 10 points on the science of spreading the word owl.li/abDoi
• 360° Color: A Peek Inside Pantone owl.li/9hZ5c
• Instagram, Facebook, and China : The New Yorker owl.li/abBOf
• Tiny Billboards Made Of Blocks Advertise Legoland Vacations owl.li/a95tT More lego goodness.
• On Conducting, Motion Capture And The Maestro’s Mojo owl.li/1iHMcH
• Are movie trailers better than the movies they sell? owl.li/acJZ9
• Your Words Determine your Perspectiveowl.li/a91iG
• What we learnt from prototyping ITV Newsowl.li/a91uH
• Paula Scher on Failure owl.li/9hZ3R
• N.E.A. Is Said to Cut Aid to PBS Arts Shows:owl.li/abJkz If you like Downton Abbey support PBS.
• Education requires persuasion: Fantastic insight from Neil deGrasse Tyson owl.li/a91t8
• Creative Time: On Making Art Happen and Pushing Culture Forward owl.li/a91k1
• The next book from A Book Apart is out. Mike Monteiro (@Mike_FTW) “Design Is A Job”. Looking forward to reading it. owl.li/abunD
• Start With The Supposition That People Don’t Make Sense: David Chang on The Paul Holdengraber owl.li/1iH4Rm
• Creativity and Human Reasoning During Decision-Making owl.li/a91ei
• Creativity Top 5: April 9, 2012 owl.li/1iGF9u
• An Invocation for Beginnings. Turning the dial from 0 to 1. Ze Frank Is Back! owl.li/1iGF9z
• Richard Dare: Paradise Lost: Can We Keep Nonprofits From Failing? owl.li/a93yt
• A timely identity for Grand Central’s 100th yearowl.li/a914F
• Test Your Creativity: 5 Classic Creative Challenges owl.li/a91lX
• Great Designers Steal by Jeff Veen owl.li/9hZ3a
• Immersion 101: How Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More Turns Theater on Its Ear owl.li/a8Zob
• Ze Frank: The Shift From 0 To 1, What Is Creativity? owl.li/1iGkz5
• Jonathan Harris’ Cowbird: A Wikipedia for life’s meaningful moments owl.li/a8Z8J
• What Scientists Can Learn From Balletowl.li/a91fz
• Setting Boundaries & Saying No… Nicelyowl.li/a8Z4G