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The Week's Links: 8/5/12

All the links shared on Twitter and Facebook this week:

  • Chef Eric Ripert on How to Build a Classic Brand owl.li/cH5Lr
  • The Creative And Business Lessons Of The Mars Rover owl.li/cJEPi
  • A Week In The Life Of Chef Adam Keough, Preparing For A James Beard Foundation Dinner owl.li/cH4rZ
  • Bill would force patent trolls to pay defendants’ legal bills owl.li/cH3f1
  • Japan and the fax: A love affair. In Japan, a country with a hi-tech reputation, the fax is thriving. owl.li/cGYeA
  • Dare Mighty Things: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror owl.li/1lOttL
  • The History (And Artistic De-Evolution) of Patent Drawings owl.li/cGY08
  • JK Rowling novel withheld from foreign publishers over piracy fears owl.li/cGXvj
  • Why You Should Care About Jonah Lehrer’s Great Fall owl.li/1lOqrH
  • Oxford University launched an appeal to make the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays available online. owl.li/cGXet
  • 35 Modern Words Recently Added to the Dictionary owl.li/cGRYW
  • Does Helping Others Hurt Your Creativity? The Cost of Interruption owl.li/cDwXh
  • Introducing Ad Age's YouTube Original Channel Tracker owl.li/cHvun
  • paidContent 50: The world’s most successful digital media companies owl.li/cDuL7
  • Patton Oswalt’s Letters to Both Sides: Brilliant advice for comics, creatives. And the gatekeepers. owl.li/cD4D5
  • We are getting to a point when data can predict who will love a song owl.li/cD2pV
  • Original Creators: The Father Of Public-Access Television, George C. Stoney owl.li/cCif4
  • 25 Twitter Accounts That Will Make You Smarter owl.li/cChPc
  • The History Of English In 10 Minutes. Delightful. owl.li/cChFA
  • 11 Notable Medalists in the Olympic Art Competitions owl.li/cCgHQ
  • How I hacked my brain with Adderall: a cautionary tale owl.li/cCfYD
  • Three Minute Manifesto: Cindy Gallop on what advertising needs right now owl.li/cA2Nu
  • Grid Failure In India Cuts Power To 370 Millionowl.li/cCfOd
  • Marguerite Perret on Art, Science & Collaboration owl.li/cCeLI
  • The First Company To Build Your Identity Into Your Phone Wins The Next Decadeowl.li/cCeza
  • First map of the human brain reveals a simple, grid-like structure between neuronsowl.li/cCep1
  • Monocle interviews Alain de Botton about The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. owl.li/cCelK
  • Financial Times digital subscriptions surpass print circulation globally owl.li/cCea5
  • The Strawberry Fields Forever Demos: The Making of a Beatles Classic (1966) Fantasticowl.li/cCe0t
  • Laura Lang Rethinks Magazines for Time Inc.’s Digital Audience owl.li/cCdQK
  • An early religious painting by Goya is to be sold in Zurich next month after hanging for 80 years unrecognisedowl.li/cEyxt
  • Tiffany & Co. Commissions Street Artists To Update Their NYC Storefront owl.li/cEyqe
  • Jonathan Ive: Apple's goal isn't to make moneyowl.li/cCdzQ
  • Frida Kahlo on display in the ‘Gallery of Lost Art’ owl.li/cCcWs
  • Love this poster of currencies around the world. owl.li/cCcSp
  • The Lost Scripts, Part III: Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods owl.li/cCbLY
  • Rare books discovered in hidden cupboard in a Scottish library. owl.li/cAyyO
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Frets About Information Overload ... in 1821 owl.li/cAy3O
  • In Search of Haruki Murakami, Japan’s Great Postmodernist Novelist owl.li/cA6Sc
  • Sleepless in America: A $32.4 Billion Businessowl.li/cA5Dg
  • Serious Play: Century of the Child - a conversation between children and toy designers. owl.li/cA5wf
  • Study: People who engage in cultural events are less stressed owl.li/cA2Ma
  • Ursula K. Le Guin: Still Battling the Powers That Be owl.li/cA5aV
  • How to improve teaching: New evidence that poor teachers can learn to be good ones.owl.li/cA58V
  • ​What Is the Nocebo Effect? owl.li/cA56R
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson: Columbus Landing in America Was the Most Important Event in Human History owl.li/cA4Lu
  • Rare 1933 Film: The Great Storyteller Rudyard Kipling on Truth in Writing owl.li/cA4EP
  • "Discovering Dad" aka delving into Terry Gilliam's personal archive (by his daughter @hollydubois) So, so good. owl.li/cA4x6
  • How Language Shapes Your Organization - Kevin Allen owl.li/cA3X7
  • Great collection of design quotes compiled by LukeWowl.li/cA3AS
  • Martin Scorsese's Film School: The 85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Film owl.li/cA3tn
  • The New York Times Is Now Supported by Readers, Not Advertisers owl.li/cA2V1
  • Why Thinking of Others Improves Our Creativity owl.li/cA2U8
  • PopSpots - The exact Spots where famous events of Pop culture took place. Cool.owl.li/cA1KJ
  • Does Money Make Us Write Better? by Tim Parks owl.li/cA1xg

Recommended this week:

  • The Buying Brain: Secrets for Selling to the Subconscious Mind By A.K. Pradeep owl.li/cA2Ez
  • The Branded Mind: What Neuroscience Really Tells Us about the Puzzle of the Brain and the Brand By Erik Du Plessis owl.li/cA2C5
  • Brand Atlas: Branding Intelligence Made Visible By Alina Wheeler, Joel Katzhttp://owl.li/cA2yZ
  • The Age of Persuasion: How Marketing Ate Our Culture By Terry O'Reilly, Mike Tennant owl.li/cA2wM