All the links posted on social networks this week and at the end of last year:

• What People (Mistakenly) Believe About How Memory Works ➞
• Amazing what you can learn from a pickpocket: The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins, Pickpocket ➞
• Ray Kurzweil's Top 5 Reasons to Be Optimistic for 2013 ➞
• Innovation Is About Arguing, Not Brainstorming. Here's How To Argue Productively ➞
• The Top Five Career Regrets - Daniel Gulati ➞
• What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web? ➞
• Big Data Is Great, but Don’t Forget Intuition ➞
• Karen May of Google, on Conquering Fears of Giving Feedback ➞
• Sydney Opera House and YouTube to live stream events ➞
• Tiredness ◉
• How Joe Biden Accidentally Helped Us All E-Mail in Private ➞
• NY Times Culture Editor Jonathan Landman to Leave Paper ➞
• Progressive jpegs: a new best practice ➞
• Must read: How We Made Snow Fall. A behind the scenes look at that great work of journalism and web development. ➞
• Creativity Top 5: Most Creative Advertisers Of 2012 ◉
• 99% Invisible: The Brief and Tumultuous Life of the New UC Logo ➞
• Music therapy offers hope for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s ➞
• Alain de Botton On Envy ◉
• The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time - Tony Schwartz ➞
• The Genius Who Invented Brunch ➞
• 28 Brilliant Tips for Living Life ➞
• Alfred Hitchcock Recalls Working with Salvador Dali on Spellbound ➞
• How We’ll Learn in 2013 ➞
• Why Do We Blink So Frequently? ➞
• Six Innovators to Watch in 2013 ➞
• Adomania ◉
• A History of Sequins from King Tut to the King of Pop ➞
• 52 weeks, 52 places to visit on 2013 ➞
• Architecture to Watch in 2013 ➞
• Seven Must-See Art and Science Exhibitions of 2013 ➞
• There Are Roughly Roughly 2 Million Bubbles in 1 Glass of Champagne ➞
• This Nostalgic Private Collection Has 1,713 Photos of Old-Fashioned Cans, Jars and Clippings ➞
• Letters of Note: Best of 2012 ➞
• A Cheat Sheet for All You New Kindle (And Other Ereader) Owners ➞
• Life's Work 2012: HBR Interviews 10 Intriguing People ➞
• 2012: Science Fiction Dreams That Came True ➞
• Is This Hans Christian Andersen’s First Fairy Tale? ➞
• One of the World’s Oldest Bibles Is Now Online ➞
• Even NASA Doesn’t Know Exactly What Causes Motion Sickness (But There Is a Way to Avoid It) ➞
• 36 Bizarre Things Ceremonially Dropped on New Year’s Eve ➞
• The worst ideas of 2012 ➞
• The Amazing Things You Can Build With a $25 Computer ➞
• The 10 Tech Terms to Know in 2013 ➞
• China Passes Law Requiring People Identify Selves Online ➞
• The Best of Brain Pickings 2012 ➞
• 2012: The Year In Graphics - NYTimes.com ➞
• Linus Torvalds: The King of Geeks (And Dad of 3) ➞
• Are We Born With a Sense of Fairness? ➞
• Breakdown Graphic: How the Kindle Paperwhite Works ➞
• Watch Portrait of an Artist: Jackson Pollock, the 1987 Documentary Narrated by Melvyn Bragg ➞
• Birds may get emotional over birdsong ➞
• Bumblebees Aren’t Picky Eaters, But They Do Like Variety ➞
• Liftoff, like you’ve never seen it before. ➞
• Ray Kurzweil: Memorization is For Robots. People Learn By Doing. ➞
• MIT discovers a new state of matter, a new kind of magnetism ➞
• Inside the Mind of Google's Greatest Idea Man You've Never Heard Of, John Hanke ➞
• Big Idea 2013: Charging More for Good Ideas than Bad Ones ➞
• Exercise and the Ever-Smarter Human Brain ➞
• Ballet isn’t rocket science, but the two aren’t mutually exclusive, either ➞
• The best of TED-Ed: The art of the metaphor ➞
• Why Legos Are So Expensive — And So Popular : Planet Money ➞
• Game Theory: Considering Video Games as Ballet ➞
• Game Theory: Challenging the Industry ➞
• Game Theory: A Playwright on the Art of Video Games ➞
• Hisham Matar reads "Shakespeare's Memory" by Jorge Luis Borges ➞
• A Simple Guide To 4 Complex Learning Theories ➞
• Ballet isn’t rocket science, but the two aren’t mutually exclusive, either ➞
• 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills ➞
• Just in case you missed it: The Requisite End-Of-Year Lists 2012 ➞
• Which Computer Is Smarter, Watson Or Deep Blue? ➞
• Asparagus Prevents Hangovers, Incredibly Useful Study Finds ➞
• From ‘Anna Karenina,’ lessons for the ballet world ➞
• The Recycled Orchestra: Paraguayan Youth Play Mozart with Instruments Cleverly Made Out of Trash ➞
• Overcoming Procrastination, Money Problems, Self-Doubt & Other Creative Distractions ➞
• The Requisite End-Of-Year Lists 2012 ◉
• Asteroid Miners Prepare For A Lucrative Future ➞
• Beautiful: Wood Animals, Sculptures Made Out of Discarded Furniture ➞
• The One Conversational Tool That Will Make You Better At Absolutely Everything ➞
• The Science of Creativity in 2013: Looking Back to Look Forward ➞
• Improv 101: The Key to Thinking Fearlessly ➞
• 20 Free Must-Have Scripts for InDesign Users ➞
• CSS Baseline: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly ➞
• A List Of The Best Annual Tech Startup Events In Europe In 2013 ➞
• How To Get Paid What You're Worth & Other Negotiation Tips ➞
• Is Perfectionism Holding You Back? ➞
• The Rhythms of Work vs The Rhythms of Creative Labor ➞
• Honey bees trained to stick out their tongues for science ➞
• Derek Powazek - I’m Not The Product, But I Play One On The Internet ➞
• The best of TED-Ed: Rethinking thinking ➞
• Seth's Blog: Doing what you love (but maybe you can't get paid for it) ➞
• Common Misconceptions About Intelligence III: IQ Tests Are Unreliable ➞
• The Last Newsweek Cover Has a Hashtag on It ➞
• The Neuroscience Lessons of Freestyle Rap ➞
• HTML5 Inches Closer to the Finish Line | Webmonkey ➞
• Epic: James Bond: 50 Years of Main Title Design — Art of the Title ➞
• Honey bees trained to stick out their tongues for science ➞
• Encyclopedia of Life: A primer in primary colors ➞
• Seth's Blog: Ridiculous is the new remarkable ➞
• The Grateful Brain ➞
• Original Creators: Filmmaking Genius Orson Welles ➞
• Who Made That Subway Signage? ➞
• Celebrity Statistician Nate Silver Fields Questions from Data Wizards at Google ➞
• 18 Animations of Classic Literary Works: From Plato and Shakespeare, to Kafka, Hemingway and Gaiman ➞
• So great: What To Do When The Bus Doesn't Come And You Want To Scream. An Experiment ➞
• Trend alert: small internet publications ➞
• The New York Times Compendium ➞
• Hacking the Human Brain: The Next Domain of Warfare ➞
• This Man Makes Data Look Beautiful ➞
• The Macintosh That Saved Apple ➞
• Researchers show that memories reside in specific brain cells - MIT ➞
• 6 Simple Rituals To Reach Your Potential Every Day ➞