The Week's Links (4/29/12)

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

• Improv (What I Learned This Week)owl.li/1jdMgT
• A Closer Look At Font Rendering by Smashing Magazine owl.li/auz18
• The Story Behind “Caine’s Arcade” owl.li/axYYC Wonderful, MIT & UCLA getting involved in his education.
• Typography Explained owl.li/9hZKp
• Want them all » 10 Beautiful Literary Box Setsowl.li/ausUK
• Flip this lesson! A new way to teach with video from TED-Ed owl.li/axWWe
• Christina Tosi: NY’s baking superstar on her very sweet tooth, David Chang, and successowl.li/ausCE Also this: owl.li/ausCF
• Procrastination Continued owl.li/1ja1wC
• Harvard is making public the data on more than 12M books, videos, audio, images, and more inside its 73 libraries. owl.li/axDAf
• Today: #TEDRadioHour premieres on @NPRand online. Listen to Ep. 1, “Our Buggy Brain”:N.pr/TEDradiohour /via @tedtalks
• How the Power of Positive Thinking Won Scientific Credibility owl.li/auqCR
• How Did Kraftwerk End Up at MOMA?owl.li/aus8y
• All’s Well that Ends Well may be a collaboration between Shakespeare & Thomas Middleton, say Oxford University academics…
• Alfred Hitchcock Explains McGuffinsowl.li/9hZAS
• The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future owl.li/aurZC
• Why We Shouldn’t Make Separate Mobile Websites owl.li/auq6R
• Joss Whedon On Worthy Work owl.li/1j7Jif
• Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 In memoriam: After years of health problems, Facts has finally died.owl.li/ax9ZF
• The Difference Between UX and UI: Subtleties Explained in Cereal owl.li/au5N3
• Just love this. Twitter’s first animated commercial for smart Argentina (@smartArg), press J to play. owl.li/ax789
• Creativity Top 5: April 25, 2012 owl.li/1j6DnA
• Is streaming of live opera actually helping the art form? owl.li/aupNX
• Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man owl.li/9hZzO An old one worth watching again.
• The New Yorker launches twitter-based game. First winners on eliminating words from the english language. #tnyquestion owl.li/avhsT
• Check out the NEA Arts Magazine owl.li/auiGq
• Never-before-seen photos from 100 years ago tell vivid story of gritty New York City owl.li/avhl8
• Lovely » The Most Beautiful Train Stations in the World owl.li/augvR
• The Roller Coaster Up and Downs of Selling an Orchestra owl.li/1j5Eh6
• D&AD Professional Awards Winnersowl.li/aute2
• The brain: a user’s guide owl.li/avhfj
• Six degrees of aggregation: How The Huffington Post ate the Internet owl.li/arw1P
• Did Humans Invent Music? owl.li/aruYh
• The story of the legendary CalArts in a video produced by Walt Disney Productionsowl.li/9hZyB
• White House Announces Arts Education Planowl.li/auqs9
• Better thinking through caffeine. owl.li/aruKz
• Email Is Not Broken; We Are owl.li/artOE
• Artist Damien Hirst Looks Back On His Life In Artowl.li/1j3mjd
• MIT Media Lab is live streaming some great talks today. Currently a presentation on Design & Experience owl.li/au3Zu
• The 100 best games of all time owl.li/arobh
• From the Ad Age Archives: Dick Clark on Youth Ad Market owl.li/arnfk
• Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts owl.li/arnaq
• The Pomodoro Technique by Greg Headowl.li/9hZuA
• The Evolution of TV Credits, from Smash to Six Feet Under owl.li/armm2 And this:owl.li/armm3
• This is great: Valve’s new employee handbook.owl.li/arm4J
• A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 2owl.li/1j18QU
• Can You Make Yourself Smarter? owl.li/arsUZ
• To Compute or Not to Compute—Wolfram|Alpha Analyzes Shakespeare’s Plays owl.li/affeF
• Adobe Officially Unveils CS6 And Its $49/Month All-Inclusive Creative Cloud Subscription Service owl.li/arYZ3