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The Week's Links: January 11, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • What's inside Play-Doh 
  • What is a Higgs Boson? 
  • 5 Strategies for Tackling Tough Conversations 
  • The Dieline's Top 100 Posts of 2012. The best in packaging. 
  • Why are we so content with umbrellas? They desperately need redesigning 
  • Study: people consistently believe that they're never going to change 
  • New Year's Resolutions Are A Lousy Substitute To Caring 
  • 10 TED Talks that involve unusual instruments 
  • Next Draft is one of my favorite daily things, this is how @davepell curates the news. 
  • 8 TED Talks about the making of movie magic 
  • Starting An Open-Source Project 
  • Why You Don't Like Donating To Charities That Offer Thank You Gifts 
  • Seth Godin's Blog: Decisions 
  • Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Albert Einstein 
  • Tony Schwartz: The Myths of the Overworked Creative 
  • 7 Stunning Mineral Formations 
  • A Selection of 19-Year-Old Isaac Newton’s Secret Sins 
  • The Value Of Culture
  • The Surprisingly Manly History of Hot Cocoa 
  • How I Got My EGOT: 12 Lessons Mel Brooks Learned Making TV, Albums, Movies, and Theater 
  • Ha! Rational Or Ridiculous? A Book Of 100 Brilliantly Absurd Inventions 
  • 3.2 Million Ink Dots + 210 Hours = Hero 
  • New Series: Wired's Weekly Picks of Stunning Architecture 
  • Louis Vuitton Promotes New Collection With Paper Dolls 
  • What entrepreneurs can learn from artists 
  • Saul Bass’ Advice for Designers: Learn to Draw, and Create Beauty Even If Nobody Else Cares 
  • On Reading Weird Books in Public 
  • Michael Chabon On Entertainment 
  • Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Film Tribute to America’s Great Musical Tradition 
  • Creativity Top 5 
  • Could video simulcasts at your local theater save the arts, or sink them? 
  • On Stephen Hawking's Birthday, Vader and Being More Machine Than Human 
  • Big Hair, No Sitting, Velcroed To Your Pillow: What It's Like To Live Weightlessly 
  • The Title Design of Saul Bass ( A Visual History Lesson ) 
  • Introducing the First Search Engine for Math And Science Equations 
  • National Endowment for the Arts Announces Funding Guidelines Available for Fiscal Year 2014 Grants for Arts Projects 
  • We Used To Actually Set Food on Fire to Figure Out How Many Calories It Had 
  • Babies Start Learning Language in the Womb 
  • Do Humans Have a Biological Stopwatch? 
  • Keith Yamashita: Greatness And Creativity 
  • Physicists Find That “Absolute Zero” May Not Be Quite So Absolute 
  • The future arrives over and over and over again, CES from 1967 to 2012 
  • Christoph Niemann Illustrates A Talk With Maurice Sendak 
  • Cindy Gallop: 10 Women I'll Be Watching in Adland in 2013 
  • Address Is Approximate: Storytelling & Technology in wonderful animation 
  • How Twitter Gets In The Way Of Knowledge 
  • Gorgeous: The Mississippi Delta seen from 700km above the surface of the Earth. 
  • So Good: Brand new covers for five of George Orwell's works feature in a new series published today by Penguin 
  • James Brown Gives You Dancing Lessons: From The Funky Chicken to The Boogaloo 
  • Iamus: Is this the 21st century's answer to Mozart? 
  • Seven publishing trends that will define 2013 
  • Top 20 Thinkers in Social TV and Second Screen 
  • H.P. Lovecraft’s Advice to Young Writers 
  • True: What We Learned In 2012 - Rob Schwartz 
  • Chronicling Ballet’s Pain and Passion 
  • The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Arduino 
  • 5 Strategies for Tackling Tough Conversations 
  • The top 10 classic fears in literature 
  • Fascinating: The Mysterious Disappearance Of The Russian Crown Jewels 
  • Essential Creative Advice From Joss Whedon, Carrie Brownstein, Jim Stengel And 13 Others 
  • 3 Principles For The Future Of Gaming, From A Google Game Designer 
  • So good: Maurice Sendak’s Emotional Last Interview with NPR’s Terry Gross, Animated by Cristoph Niemann 
  • The Quest For A Copyright-Free Happy Birthday Song 
  • Biggest intelligence test exposes the limits of IQ 
  • 2012 In Review: 50 Wonderful Things From The Year In Pop Culture 
  • 12 Historical Speeches Nobody Ever Heard 
  • How the Calorie Content of Food is Determined 
  • Ray Kurzweil's Top 5 Reasons to Be Optimistic for 2013 
  • Amazing what you can learn from a pickpocket: The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins, Pickpocket 

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