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The Week's Links: November 1, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:   

  • The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It | MIT Technology Review 
  • One Year Later, The Most Promising iPad Magazine Looks Back (And Forward) 
  • Why An Arts Nonprofit Is Developing Web Dashboards 
  • 50 Books to Inspire Artists of All Kinds 
  • A Brief History Of Coffeemakers, 1600-Present 
  • How Do You Know What You Think You Know? 
  • The value of zero-priced software 
  • Automate Your Responsive Images With Mobify.js 
  • Is Ad Avoidance a Problem?: The New Yorker 
  • The Psychology of Online Comments: The New Yorker 
  • A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 8 - The corps de ballet 
  • Bento - Learn how to code 
  • These Proto-GIFs of the 19th Century Put Today's GIFs to Shame 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of October 28, 2013 
  • 101 Objects that Made America: Smithsonian Magazine 
  • Recommended: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel 
  • The History of Halloween Snacks and Foods 
  • Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker on a Culture of Communication 
  • Revisit Orson Welles’ Iconic ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast That Aired 75 Years Ago Today 
  • How Calvin and Hobbes Inspired a Generation 
  • Top 10 Clever Google Search Tricks 
  • The Orchestra 
  • The Power of Personal Time Off 
  • A Day of Grace with Boston Ballet 
  • Recommended: Company 
  • Carving Culture: Sculptural Masterpieces Made from Old Books 
  • We Might Soon Know What Ancient Greek Music Actually Sounded Like 
  • 7 Data Viz Sites to Inspire Your Creative Eye 
  • If the Web Preceded Print: The New Golden Age of Book Design and Creativity on Paper 
  • Aging Well: Keeping Blood Sugar Low May Protect Memory 
  • Understand Music 
  • Chris Jones: Storytelling is magic 
  • Recommended: Machine Man 
  • 5 Unanswered Questions That Will Keep Physicists Awake at Night 
  • Multitalented Creative People: Developing Multiple Talents 
  • An epilogue: 21 Things I learnt from Midsummer Night’s Dreaming with the RSC 
  • Why French Kids Don't have ADHD 
  • How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses 
  • New Seamus Heaney poem published 
  • Google Unveils Tools to Access Web From Repressive Countries 
  • 8 Big Lessons From 30 Years Of Breakthrough Consumer Innovation 
  • Knowledge is a Polyglot: The Future of Global Language 
  • Give A Damn, Damn It: Reddit Co-founder Alexis Ohanian 
  • The Neuroscience Behind How Sleep Cleans Your Brain 
  • George Balanchine and NYC Ballet 
  • Recommended: Jennifer Government 
  • How Superstition Works 
  • Why People Mistake Good Deals for Rip-Offs 
  • What Are the 10 Greatest Inventions of Our Time?: Scientific American 
  • Fantastic behind the scenes look at a busy restaurant: 22 Hours in Balthazar -NYTimes.com 
  • Why Q was illegal in Turkey until last month 
  • How much can an extra hour's sleep change you? 
  • The Best Illustrations From All Your Favorite Children's Books 
  • 5 Surprising, Science-Backed Ways To Get Smarter Today 
  • The Genius Who Invented Brunch 
  • The New, Old Way to Tell Stories: With Input From the Audience 
  • The Met's youngest composer takes us behind the scenes of the first internet-era opera: Nico Muhly 
  • The National Theatre at 50: Michael Billington's view from the stalls 
  • The National Theatre: A standing ovation for a great British institution on its 50th 
  • How Silk Road, the eBay of Illegal Drugs, Came Undone : The New Yorker 
  • This Audio-Only Video Game Has Nothing “Video” About It 
  • This Artist Learned To Code By Building A Website Every Day For 180 Days 
  • Watch: A 2-Minute Animation Of Stephen Hawking's Big Ideas 
  • Coding Is An Art--Software People Should Learn "Art Thinking" 
  • Now More Than Ever, You Need This Illustrated Guide To Bad Arguments, Faulty Logic, And Silly Rhetoric 
  • Decade In Design: The Biggest Events Of 2004 
  • BBC News - Disney develops way to 'feel' touchscreen images 
  • The 5 Common Characteristics of Ideas That Spread 
  • The Winners Of Fast Company's 2013 Innovation By Design Awards 
  • The 50 Scariest Books of All Time 
  • Douglas Coupland: A possibly unsexy date with yourself