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The Week's Links: January 25, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • John Maeda: Why STEM Education Needs the Arts, Too 
  • Trailblazing Storytellers: Meet Sundance New Frontier Story Lab 
  • Remarkable interview with H. P. Lovecraft, conducted in handwriting on a single postcard found in a used book 
  • First Grader Becomes Youngest Person to Ever Develop a Mobile Game 
  • Psychologists and anthropologists debate how different cultures answer the question, “What time is it?”  
  • 20 Great Writers on the Art of Revision 
  • Fantastic: The Birth of Grand Central Terminal 
  • An architectural blueprint of Brooklyn Bridge elevations from Old Blueprints. 
  • Shakespeare in Six Parts 
  • Internet 2012 by the numbers 
  • Failing Productively 
  • Thinking 
  • Ideas 
  • Is What You Are Doing Interesting? 
  • Gorgeous: 60 insane cloud formations from around the world 
  • How Smart Should TVs Be? 
  • Can a Buzzing Fork Help You Lose Weight? 
  • The Hot Condiment of 2013? Barrel-Aged Hot Sauce 
  • How Kraft Uses Patents to Dominate the Mac and Cheese Wars 
  • Designing Scent: An Olfactory Exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design 
  • Jicky, the First Modern Perfume 
  • Can You Make Tea Out of Coffee? 
  • Why Are Chimpanzees Stronger Than Humans? 
  • To Understand the Largest Structure Ever Found, We Need to Rethink the Basic Principles of the Universe 
  • The Up-Goer Five Thing, Where Learned People Explain Hard Stuff With Easy Words 
  • Five New Lessons From Salman Khan On Reinventing Education 
  • Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph 
  • Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture - An exhibition at The American Museum of Natural History  /via @kottke
  • Two People You Might Need In Your Professional Life 
  • Astronaut Chris Hadfield is photo-tweeting Earth, from space - 
  • Preparing Websites For The Unexpected 
  • Understanding The Difference Between Type And Lettering 
  • Think Again: Assumptions About Mobile To Reconsider 
  • 15 Awesome Chemistry GIFs 
  • Out Of India, A Social Network For Creative Expression 
  • Creativity Top 5: January 22, 2013 
  • 20 Eye-Popping Interactive Experiences That Show Off What HTML5 Can Do 
  • Disney’s Mega Video Game To End All Disney Video Games 
  • Study Shows How Classroom Design Affects Student Learning 
  • How Forks Gave Us Overbites and Pots Saved the Toothless 
  • A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 10 - Finale 
  • Shakespeare Uncovered: Which Shakespeare Character are You? 
  • A Memorized Poem 'Lives With You Forever,' So Choose Carefully 
  • Read 30 2012 Oscar Hopeful Screenplays 
  • Forget the Placebo Effect: It's the 'Care Effect' That Matters 
  • Visualizing The Costs And Rewards Of Education 
  • So Great: Child Rules Book Returned to Young Authors 
  • A Look At The Growing Adoption of Creative Commons Textbooks 
  • How Marketing Will Change In 2013: The Strategic Forecast 
  • Every Business Is (Or Should Be) a Social Business 
  • Ideo's Albert Lee On Innovating Ideas 
  • MoMA PS1 Joined Tumblr 
  • Winds Of Change 
  • Between A Rumba And A Roll: Dissecting A Bartender's Beat 
  • Design Thinking for Educators V.2.0 
  • Remembering Aaron Swartz: David Foster Wallace on the Meaning of Life 
  • The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains 
  • How Do Arts Organizations Use the Internet? 
  • How I Gave up Email and Reclaimed 3 Hours a Day 
  • The Year Ahead For...Technology 
  • How I Made Sleep a Priority—And Got More Productive 
  • What We Should Fear: The New Yorker 
  • Abraham Lincoln: The Power of the Negative By Douglas L. Wilson 
  • The Most Creative Women In Advertising 
  • Fantastic: Teach with Portals » Webinar on Portal 2 in Classroom 
  • Who Needs Drugs When You've Got Music? 
  • The Longform Guide to Internet Hoaxes 
  • The iconic London Underground typeface turns 100 
  • For Amusement Only: the life and death of the American arcade 
  • Designing Scent: An Olfactory Exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design 
  • Top 100 Design Blogs To Follow In 2013 [Infographic] 
  • Not adding value is the same as taking it away. 
  • What Aristotle and Joshua Bell can teach us about persuasion - Conor Neill 
  • US Postal Service pushes the digital envelope in battle for its future 
  • I've Heard That Somewhere: 'Glee' Covers 'Baby Got Back,' And It Sounds ... Familiar 
  • 2 of my favorite things: The Beatles Perform Shakespeare in Color, 1964 
  • 2013's essential design events 
  • The 50 Most Iconic Artworks of the Past Five Years 
  • The iOS Design Cheat Sheet Volume 2 
  • The Edge.org question for the year: What should we be worried about? 
  • The Best 100 Opening Lines From Books 
  • The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational