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The Week's Links: December 20, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • Why the 9-to-5 Day Is So Tough on Creative Workers http://owl.li/rPvZT
  • Online publications see a future in printhttp://owl.li/rPw36
  • Famous Writers’ Sleep Habits vs. Literary Productivity, Visualized http://owl.li/rPw6e
  • The Most Crucial Games of 2013: The New Yorker http://owl.li/rPw7N
  • Dickens, Darwin, Dr. Johnson: Millions of Images From the British Library Now Available Online http://owl.li/rPwjM
  • What You Look Like to a Social Network: The New Yorker http://owl.li/rPwoN
  • The Most Important Economic Stories of 2013—in 44 Graphs http://owl.li/rPzgH
  • 12 Tools For More Mindful Livinghttp://owl.li/rPzit
  • Why Good Programming Projects Go Badhttp://owl.li/rPEtg
  • Where Are They Now? Fast Company checks in with last year's Most Innovative Companies to see how their big ideas fared in 2012...
  • ◉ Maira Kalman On The Power Of Lists, Maps And Organizing http://owl.li/rkfcf
  • The surprising reason we have a 40-hour work week (and why we should re-think it)http://owl.li/rQTOq
  • Music holds key to providing a quality education system owl.li/rPud3
  • ◉ Recommended: Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries -smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • ◉ Jad Abumrad: How Did Radiolab Happen? Gut Churn owl.li/rkfbD
  • 19 Awesomely Designed Books From 2013 That Prove Print Isn’t Dead owl.li/rPrjS
  • Top physicists gather at Stanford to discuss the value of fundamental research owl.li/rPqa7
  • 5 Unsung Heroes Who Shaped Modern Lifeowl.li/rMMG3
  • 10 Things We've Learned About Tasteowl.li/rM4vT
  • Is the Future of the Internet in Iceland?owl.li/rM4sv
  • What is the Trick to Making the Most Waterproof Stuff on Earth? owl.li/rM4nz
  • Have Scientists Found a Way to Pop the Filter Bubble? owl.li/rM4iP
  • Can Bees Be Trained to Sniff Out Cancer?owl.li/rM4hy
  • ◉ Alain de Botton's Healing Arts -smartercreativity.com/blog/2013/11/2…
  • ◉ Recommended: The Design of Everyday Things -smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • How Are Stores Tracking the Way That We Shop? owl.li/rM4fg
  • ◉ The Making Of A Groundbreaking Animation: Paperman owl.li/rkf8s
  • The Art and Science of Growing Snowflakes in a Lab owl.li/rM46a
  • This is What Happens When You Ask Scientists to Explain Their PhDs in Dance owl.li/rM44V
  • How Are Stores Tracking the Way That We Shop? owl.li/rM42F
  • A New Education Lab Called Q?rius Aims to be the Mother of All Curiosity owl.li/rM41A
  • Siberian Musicians Used the Frozen Surface of the World’s Largest Lake as a Drumowl.li/rM3Xy
  • Benjamin Franklin Invented a Glass Harpowl.li/rM3VX
  • This Camera Capture Images in the Dark, Using Just a Few Particles of Lightowl.li/rM3TG
  • You Can Be Really Good at Certain Skills Without Having Any Idea How They Workowl.li/rM3MX
  • The NYC Subways Will Give You a Late Slip If Your Train Is Delayed owl.li/rM3HV
  • ◉ The Code of Life -smartercreativity.com/blog/2013/12/1…
  • ◉ The School of Life: Mark Earls on Copying and Originality owl.li/rkf1q
  • Mindlessly Snapping Photos at Museums Keeps People From Remembering the Actual Visit owl.li/rM3EG
  • Facebook’s Most Popular Check-In Spots This Year Include Places in Iceland, Argentina and Nigeria owl.li/rM3zX
  • Some Animals Don’t Get Weaker With Ageowl.li/rM3vU
  • This River And Medieval Bridge, Paved Over for 100 Years, Will Soon Return to the Lightowl.li/rM3so
  • ◉ Everything is a Remix, Case Study: The iPhone -smartercreativity.com/blog/2013/12/1…
  • How One Chinese Corporate Spy Dodged the FBI to Steal Inbred Corn Seeds from Iowaowl.li/rM3lM
  • ◉ Recommended: Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality -smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • It’s Not That Hard to Make People Do Bad Things owl.li/rM3e7
  • How Are Stores Tracking the Way That We Shop? owl.li/rM367
  • ◉ It's Okay To Be Smart: The PBS Renaissance Continues owl.li/rkf0l
  • Creative Ways to Bring Music to Students — Every Day! owl.li/rM34U
  • 5 Historical Attempts to Ban Coffee owl.li/rM32f
  • Kierkegaard on Anxiety & Creativityowl.li/rM2Or
  • Making the "Twin Peaks" Love Themeowl.li/rM2N0
  • MIT's 3D motion-tracking tech can see you through walls, no camera needed owl.li/rLXyz
  • British Library uploads one million public domain images to the net for remix and reuseowl.li/rLXrg
  • Google acquires Boston Dynamics, makers of robots as cool as they are terrifying owl.li/rLXq7
  • The Art of Rube Goldberg: (A) Inventive (B) Cartoon (C) Genius, A Book About the Famed Cartoonist & Inventor owl.li/rLX9k
  • Harnessing Collective Creativity To Develop An IQ Test owl.li/rLX8B
  • The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix owl.li/rLX7y
  • 20 Ways Sitting in Silence Can Completely Transform Your Life owl.li/rLX2S
  • In 1900, Ladies’ Home Journal Publishes 28 Predictions for the Year 2000 owl.li/rLX1H
  • Science & Cooking: Harvard Profs Meet World-Class Chefs in Unique Online Courseowl.li/rLWZI
  • Jawbone Tracked Hundreds Of Thousands Of Up Users To Find The Most Sleep-Deprived States owl.li/rIH6b
  • Oxford University Presents the 550-Year-Old Gutenberg Bible in Spectacular, High-Res Detail owl.li/rIy3R
  • Stephen Fry Profiles Six Russian Writers in the New Documentary Russia’s Open Bookowl.li/rImVU
  • Hephaestus and How Brokenness Contributes to Creativity owl.li/rImJR
  • 4 Reasons Why Apple's iBeacon Is About to Disrupt Interaction Design owl.li/rI6jS
  • Free: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Offer 474 Free Art Books Onlineowl.li/rETTD
  • Brain Stimulation May Induce the Human Will to Persevere owl.li/rEkAK
  • Street artists go to court to protect their work - A New York legal case is challenging traditional views of graffiti owl.li/rEkz6
  • The Guardian's responsive design team share some code to help make old browsers work with media queries owl.li/rEkhr
  • If a Story Is Viral, Truth May Be Taking a Beating owl.li/rEjuG
  • Incredible Photos From An Urban Explorer's Journeys To The Forbidden Parts Of The Cityowl.li/rEjfn
  • The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry: An Oral History owl.li/rEj5g
  • Can You Really Learn a Skill in A Week? The Secrets Inside Tim Ferriss' Insanely Fast Learning Strategy owl.li/rEiZJ
  • How The Fourth Dimension Of Sound Is Being Used For Live Concerts owl.li/rEiHQ
  • New MIT Media Lab Tool Lets Anyone Visualize Unwieldy Government Data owl.li/rEiG5
  • The Revolutionary New Music Apps You Missed In 2013 owl.li/rEiio
  • ◉ The Week's Links: December 13, 2013 -smartercreativity.com/blog/2013/12/1…
  • 8 Beautiful Snow Scenes from Literatureowl.li/rD9Ih
  • ◉ Recommended: Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career -smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • ◉ Are You A Hipster? Do You Think Video Games Are Art? And Other Important Questions owl.li/rkeZP
  • In a petition to the UN, a group of authors agree that democratic rights must apply in virtual as in real space owl.li/rD9ne