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The Week's Links (7/15/12)

All the links posted to Twitter and Facebook this week: 

  • Location, Location, Location: What I Learned This Week owl.li/1lnzFl
  • Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld's obit, showcasing an extraordinary life. owl.li/c5XjE /via @davepell
  • Fresh Green Ads - Street ads that are only displayed when it rains owl.li/c5hXV
  • The Little-Known History of How the Modern Olympics Got Their Start | Smithsonian Magazine owl.li/c5XhB
  • Ernest Hemingway Interviewed by George Plimpton - Paris Review owl.li/c5TXL
  • The 100 Greatest Internet Memes of All Timeowl.li/c6sau
  • Julie Taymor tells former Disney CEO Michael Eisner why she agreed to take on The Lion King. owl.li/c5QF4
  • Russian Weaponmaker Hires Choreographer For Tank Ballet owl.li/c5Qrw
  • Debbie Millman: Top 10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Graduated College owl.li/c5hWT
  • 'The Next List': A look at 25 fascinating peopleowl.li/c5Qe9
  • Richard Branson Wants You To Be Goodowl.li/1liWqG
  • What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Weaker | Psychology Today owl.li/c5Qcr
  • Profile: Bill Gross, Idealab founder, says he has learned valuable lessons from the successes — and the flops. owl.li/c5Q0s
  • Love this.. Tate's Gallery of Lost Artowl.li/c5PEt
  • The Khan Academy Explains Corporations and Limited Liability owl.li/c5hSx
  • A Brief History of Money, Or, how we learned to stop worrying and embrace the abstractionowl.li/c5Pw6 /via @davepell
  • The 11 Ways That Consumers Are Hopeless at Math owl.li/c5Psw
  • Most Influential Advertising Blogs and Bloggers owl.li/c7SUi
  • A year inside The Australian Ballet: Boys' Day, Episode 4 owl.li/1lgZEf
  • 5 Psychological Studies on Pricing That You Absolutely MUST Read owl.li/c5Pq9
  • Internet 2011 in numbers owl.li/c7STo
  • Daily chart: Accounting for time, How Americans spend their days, The Economistowl.li/c5Pjh
  • TED Books launches iOS store, with subscriptions owl.li/c7SS0
  • Morning Dose of Kubrick owl.li/c5hOF
  • Creativity Top 5: July 10, 2012 owl.li/1lftnf
  • Bribery, Porn, and Spam Are the Path to Riches in the App World | Wired Businessowl.li/c5Pgw
  • MIT's New Battery-Free Chip Captures Energy From Light, Heat And Vibrations at the Same Time owl.li/c7SQs
  • If You Don't Prioritize Your Life, Someone Else Will - Greg McKeown owl.li/c5OnK
  • Project Re:Brief, the documentary owl.li/1lf8Vf
  • Meet the 2012 Creativity 50 - Creativity Onlineowl.li/c7NE3
  • How All 50 States Got Their Namesowl.li/c5Klv
  • Michael Bierut: Creating the logo for the Frank Gehry designed New World Symphonyowl.li/c5hNO
  • The Quest For Perfection owl.li/1ldmn3
  • How a Pronoun Shaped a Novel: Kurt Andersen owl.li/c5Gto
  • It's all in the timing: What I learned this weekowl.li/1lbTfu
  • Creativity Top 5: The Cannes Edition owl.li/1laQEp

Recommended This Week:

  • The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time By Jeff Deck, Benjamin D. Herson owl.li/c5hdZ
  • Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries By Peter Sims owl.li/c5h8J
  • Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness By Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein owl.li/c5h4y
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman owl.li/c5h1V
  • This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by John Brockman owl.li/c5gZU