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The Week's Links: November 8, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:   

  • Seven Tips From Ernest Hemingway on How to Write Fiction 
  • Public Libraries Make Digital Magazines Accessible to All 
  • Do We Want the World to End? Is Santa Like Wrestling? & Other Relevant Questions 
  • Mary Shelley’s Handwritten Manuscripts of Frankenstein Now Online for the First Time 
  • This Playful Robot Will Teach A 5-Year-Old To Code 
  • The 30-Hour Work Week Is Here (If You Want It) 
  • The Myth of 'I'm Bad at Math' 
  • So great: People Make New York City Subway Conductors’ Days With Silly Signs 
  • 11 Colors You've Probably Never Heard Of 
  • How the Egyptian Pyramids Were Built: A New Theory in 3D Animation 
  • Myth and Creativity: Stepping onto Platform 9 3/4 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of November 4, 2013 
  • 10 Figures of Speech Illustrated by Monty Python: Paradiastole, Epanorthosis, Syncatabasis & More 
  • Recommended: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life 
  • Where Have All the Geniuses Gone? 
  • The Power of Concentration & Mindfulness 
  • The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It 
  • Should live theatre be shown in cinemas? 
  • Can Art Teach Patience? 
  • Researchers report people are more likely to behave in a morality-minded manner earlier in the day. 
  • There’s one key difference between kids who excel at math and those who don’t 
  • Inside The Hunt For Dark Matter 
  • Phantom Phone Vibrations: So Common They've Changed Our Brains 
  • TEDx Talks on paper: Artists visualize the world's ideas in 5 fascinating drawings 
  • Royal Shakespeare Company: The Design of Richard II 
  • Silent & Sound Shakespeare: Watch the Very First Film Adaptations of the Bard (1899-1936) 
  • Recommended: The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together 
  • Social Connection Makes a Better Brain 
  • Useful Media vs. Entertaining Media 
  • Ex-Facebooker Gifts the Social Network's Data Platform to the World 
  • Bringing Videogames to Film Festivals, and Rich Storytelling to Games 
  • Neuroscientists Discover that Dendritic Spikes Enhance the Brain’s Computing Power 
  • Google Channels Pixar to Change Storytelling as We Know It 
  • The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: Why Paper Still Beats Screens 
  • 25 Amazing Food Infographics, Drawn From 49,733 Recipes 
  • The Unlikely Network at the Core of Your Brain's Internet 
  • The Science Of A Great Subway Map 
  • What Is the Exactly Perfect Time to Drink Your Coffee? 
  • Alain de Botton: Art for Life's Sake 
  • First Children Are Smarter—but Why? 
  • Terrifying: Pianist Maria João Pires panics as she realises the orchestra has started the wrong concerto… 
  • Recommended: The War of Art 
  • The Science Of Productivity 
  • The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think 
  • Study: Why We Evolved to Love Music 
  • The Personal Television Revolution Is Horrifying — And Brilliant 
  • Global forum of museum directors to meet at the Met in New York 
  • 8 Ways Television Is Influencing Theater 
  • Free: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Offer 474 Free Art Books Online 
  • 12 Female CTOs You Should Know - and Follow on Twitter! 
  • 15 years ago, Congress kept Mickey Mouse out of the public domain. Will they do it again? 
  • Oxford University Press and the Making of a Book 
  • Recommended: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative 
  • Top 400 fundraisers: 13 arts and culture groups make the list 
  • A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 9 - A 50th Birthday 
  • Important New Theory Explains Where Old Memories Go 
  • Brains Sweep Themselves Clean Of Toxins During Sleep 
  • Is it fair to review first night ballets? 
  • The Battle of Ideas: are we still able to listen to music properly? 
  • Developing new operas is an art in itself 
  • A History of Genius 
  • Ten thousand costumes and counting: Australia's theatrical wardrobe king 
  • You're Not As Open As You Think You Are: A New Perspective for Possibility 
  • Why Are Hundreds of Harvard Students Studying Ancient Chinese Philosophy 
  • How The Economy Works According To The World’s Best Investor, And What It Means For You 
  • Interactive article- NSA files decoded: Edward Snowden's surveillance revelations explained, theguardian 
  • Which is More Important, the Question or the Answer? 
  • Why We Make Bad Decisions 
  • 5 Surprising, Science-Backed Ways To Get Smarter Today 
  • We’re all creative until we learn — or are taught — how not to be. 
  • Brilliant: Annotation Tuesday! Gay Talese and “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” – Nieman Storyboard 
  • Is This the Opera of the Future? 
  • The 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since the Wheel 
  • Taxis: Who decided they should be yellow? 
  • What the Best Decision Makers Do - Harvard Business Review 
  • A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 9 - A 50th Birthday 
  • Infecting An Audience: Why Great Stories Spread 
  • An "All You Can Eat" College Degree Could Be The Future Of Higher Education