The Week's Links: 8/26/12
/All the items posted to Facebook and Twitter this week:
- How Biomimicry is Inspiring Human Innovationowl.li/dbT5o
- Why Do We Yawn? owl.li/dbSfM
- 8 Sounds That Are Trademarked owl.li/dbS5O
- Steven Pinker Explains the Neuroscience of Swearing (NSFW) owl.li/dbCcA
- Why We Keep Getting the Same Old Ideasowl.li/daPcv
- 6 Memorable Letters From Neil Armstrongowl.li/deo8v
- Facebook, Gehry Build Idea Factoryowl.li/delmA
- Awesome or Awful: A self-critique tool for young creatives. owl.li/daP0W
- Prince Harry, Lance Armstrong and the psychology of scandal owl.li/deg3L
- 5 Ideas Trapping The Advertising Industry Right Now owl.li/daOSE
- 35 Innovators Under 35 - Technology Reviewowl.li/dakdV
- Inside the World’s Largest Fact Checking Operation: A conversation with two staffers at Der Spiegel owl.li/dak0o
- Neal Stephenson on the State of Science Fiction owl.li/dajGD
- Test Your Creativity: 5 Classic Creative Challenges owl.li/d8ydK
- 26 Words You Really Wish Existed in Englishowl.li/d8ycc
- 8 diagnostic tests we could have at our disposal in the near future owl.li/d8xyr
- 8 Filmmaking Tips From Guillermo Del Toro and Nicholas Winding Refn owl.li/d8x0I
- What 20 Top Companies' Logos Looked Like Before They Were Famous owl.li/d8wFb
- What 20 Top Companies' Logos Looked Like Before They Were Famous owl.li/d8wye
- Coffee: The Greatest Addiction Everowl.li/d4GUL
- The 20 most-watched TED Talks to dateowl.li/d8wkD
- Beauty vs. Usability: Using Subway Maps to Explore Information Design owl.li/d8tzg
- Towards A Retina Web owl.li/d8ttX
- Great collection of images to give you a humbling sense of scale. owl.li/d8oDg
- The Art of Animation, Motion Graphics, Tech Gone Wrong & Why They Go Viralowl.li/1m7fFu
- Design Tip: Never Use Black by Ian Storm Taylor owl.li/d8ouS
- People Who Eat Breakfast Are Smarter And Skinnier owl.li/d8lMw
- Microsoft's First New Logo in 25 Years Is Pretty Damn Nice owl.li/dbC9r
- The World's 100 Most Powerful Women - Forbes owl.li/dbAsY
- Plot Device - inexpensive short film thats puts mega movies to shame owl.li/d4GMn
- Not only are you being tracked, you are ranked with a consumer e-score. owl.li/d8lqz
- Love this: Parisian Theaters. Also love: 5 things I learned today owl.li/d83Ez
- Humanities aren’t a science. Stop treating them like one. owl.li/d7UBj
- Futurist Stewart Brand Wants to Revive Extinct Species owl.li/d7Dss
- Love this: A Forum of Vintage Adsowl.li/d7CWm
- Facebook Rolls Out Studio Edge for Agencies. Education platform schools creatives on socialowl.li/dajdm
- Kickstarter's most successful projects suggest the creativity we value is interactive, rather than aesthetic. owl.li/d7wLb
- “I hate writing, I love having written.” Dorothy Parker’s Guide to Life, on her birthday.owl.li/dai5c
- Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire's Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth owl.li/d7wiR
- Coca-Cola’s Top Storyteller On Finding Truth From Within owl.li/d7pqz
- The Science of Expectation: Using Humor To Understand Creativity owl.li/d7pbA
- How Do We Create Cultures of Creativity: Festival of Ideas (Video) owl.li/d4GLc
- 7 Buildings That Defy The Laws of Physicsowl.li/d7jVk
- Be More Productive. Shorten the Workweek.owl.li/d7jAa
- 50 Years of Space Exploration owl.li/1m5mr6
- Why does the return journey feel quicker?owl.li/d5lyc
- A History of Book-Pulping. What happens when books are recycled. owl.li/d4WaD
- Great Minds Think Alike: Making the morning commute more humane owl.li/d4V5G
- Principles of User Interface Design. Concise and useful. owl.li/d4UPB
- Chile: making investment in science a national priority owl.li/d4UN3
- Game changer: AP Stylebook moves faster than Merriam-Webster as linguistic authorityowl.li/d4UJP
- Khan Academy Launches A Computer Science Course owl.li/d4UHM
- Transforming libraries into programming incubators. owl.li/d4UFb
- Does NYC water lead to better bagels?owl.li/d4UCH
- Smoon: Self-Transforming Spoon of the Future Is the Geekiest Cooking Gadget Everowl.li/d4UBp
- How Books Shaped The American National Identity owl.li/d4Upw
- Transmedia Hollywood 2: Visual Culture & Design Panel Videos owl.li/d4GJU
- One of my favorite newsletters, @davepell's Next Draft, is now an app for even easier access to fascinating news. owl.li/d7WXg
- Why It’s Good that the Internet Is Changing Our Brains owl.li/d4UnE
- They never forget: The strange gift of perfect memory owl.li/d7x91
- The Pros & Cons Of Waiting In Lineowl.li/1m4itX
- The Four Paradoxes of Great Performanceowl.li/d4IL9
- Creative processes we wish we’d witnessedowl.li/d4B3K
- Hindsight Project: A collection of career wisdom provided by experienced professionals across creative fields.owl.li/d4AHy
- Creativity Top 5: 8/20/12 owl.li/1m3RCY
- Nick Gill: 10 Things I’ve Learned That Might Help owl.li/d4Axe
- Scrabble cheating: The real story behind the stolen-blanks scandal at the National Scrabble Championship. owl.li/d4yfo
- Interesting Study On What Audiences Want From Storytelling owl.li/d4y3q
- The Next Web created a Tech Hall of Fame on Pinterest. owl.li/d4xIi
- How to run a problem-solving meetingowl.li/d3Xdt
- Liza Klaussmann (great-great-great-granddaughter of Melville): 'I reread Moby-Dick and thought: where was your editor?'owl.li/d3oJ8
- Introducing Bjork's Gameleste, a bespoke Gamelan Celeste Hybrid owl.li/d4GGU
- Generation Read: Millennials Buy More Books Than Everybody Else owl.li/d3oBP
- How I Got My Digital Life Back Again After An Epic Hacking. Following up with Mat Honan.owl.li/d3owv
- Trust your hunches, and write them down.owl.li/1m3gwD
- Tony Scott dies at 68; a film career in retrospective owl.li/d5m4H
- Great Illustrated Vintage Vogue Magazine Covers From The Early 20th Century -DesignTAXI.com owl.li/d2qLj
- Is Opera Ailing? A Conversation About The State Of The Art owl.li/d2kmo
- Amazing: The Colorful Rainbow Eucalyptusowl.li/d1YTZ
- "Misquotations are often stickier than actual quotes," Lincoln once joked. Why Misquotations Catch On owl.li/d1YKJ