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The Week's Links (4/22/12)

All the links posted to TwitterFacebook and Google+ this week: 

  • The Next Draft (What I Learned This Week)owl.li/1iZL0u
  • Hillman Curtis, a Pioneer in Web Design, Dies at 51 owl.li/arfIV
  • Remembering Hillman Curtis: idsgn (a design blog) owl.li/aqjXb
  • Best evidence yet that a single gene can affect IQ owl.li/ajM7n
  • How “Eureka!” Affects the Brain owl.li/9hZl8
  • Four-year-old Heidi Hankins joins Mensa with 159 IQ owl.li/ajLYb
  • Researchers test the idea that we hunt for memories in our minds the same way some animals search for food. owl.li/ajFje
  • Chop Chop, A Dramatic Rescue Is In Progress
  • 2012 TIME 100: The Most Influential People in the World owl.li/aoLE6 Perfect weekend reading.
  • planning, creativity & planning for creative campaigns owl.li/ajEQY
  • Introducing Wired Design owl.li/aoNeP
  • Parsing Primates: Baboons Learn to Recognize the Difference between Real and Fake English Words owl.li/ak58d
  • The Curators - A MoOMumentary in 3 Partsowl.li/9hZfU
  • Cirque du Soleil: 100-Watt Egos, Disintegrating Costumes & Big Top Dreams owl.li/ak3SG
  • Longreads has a collection of 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners. owl.li/ak3ut
  • Worth a revisit given recent events. Flash Hits Food: The Road To Instagram. Kevin Rose Interviews Kevin Systrom owl.li/anicx
  • Netflix lets its staff take as much holiday as they want, whenever they want – and it works.owl.li/ajMoX
  • Startup Lessons From The Food Truck Revolution owl.li/ajMAR
  • The Difficulty of Estimating Time and the Planning Fallacy owl.li/9hZen
  • Op-Ed: Confidence vs Shyness owl.li/ajMuj
  • John Cleese On Creativity owl.li/1iS9K4
  • Teller of Penn & Teller Breaks Silence To Sue Over Magic Trick owl.li/ajMhw
  • Want Breakthrough Ideas? First, Listen To The Freaks And Geeks owl.li/ak5oL
  • Pulitzer Fiction Snub Has Book Publishers Fuming owl.li/alKsE
  • Don’t work. Be hated. Love someone.owl.li/ajLSH Inspiring commencement speech.
  • From paralysis to performance: the amazing recovery of teenage ballet star Jack Widdowsonowl.li/akxEK
  • Creativity Top 5: April 17, 2012 owl.li/1iQBNr
  • Battle for the internet: The Guardian’s in-depth series looking at the future of the internetowl.li/ajF5g
  • ‘Silent Night’ by Kevin Puts wins Pulitzer for music owl.li/akxvG
  • Stephen Fry: What I Wish I Had Known When I Was 18 owl.li/9hZdo
  • Can ‘Genius’ be Detected in Infancy?owl.li/ajB8o
  • The Effects Of Sound owl.li/1iQges
  • How Sony Fell Behind in the Tech Paradeowl.li/ajkps Don’t rest on your laurels.
  • Businessweek’s How To Issue: Advice on everything from twitter, negotiations, managing creative people and more. owl.li/ak4YJ
  • Strategic Questions for an Accelerating Worldowl.li/aigz6
  • Google Creative Lab Gets ‘Old Spice’ Creative Director Iain Tait From Wieden + Kennedyowl.li/akxVY
  • The Stanford Education Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever owl.li/aigoR
  • Remember the volcano that stopped everything? Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010 Timelapse Video owl.li/9hZb8
  • Geneticists Solve Van Gogh’s Mutant Sunflowers After 125 Years owl.li/aigmi
  • Potentially Useful Answers to Typography Questions - Quora owl.li/ai0ny
  • Colum McCann On The Radical Act Of Storytelling owl.li/1iOAJh
  • Nickelodeon iOS App Case Study owl.li/aff5k