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

All the links posted to TwitterFacebook 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