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The Week's Links: February 1, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • How to write a good bio 
  • New Project Maps the Wiring of the Mind 
  • Why We Need Theater Now More Than Ever 
  • Escaping The Cult Of The Average & The Happy Secret To Better Work 
  • A Board Game Designed For Classical Music Buffs 
  • The Future of Work: Quantified Employees, Pop-Up Workplaces, And More Telepresence 
  • Are the arts trading in happiness? If so, what kind? 
  • Jose Mujica: The world's 'poorest' president 
  • The WWF app for iPad is amazing, beautiful and free: 
  • Twitter middle finger: Logo sketches show designs other than blue bird. 
  • Nature Has A Formula That Tells Us When It's Time To Die 
  • Crossword author uses puzzle to reveal he's dying 
  • Please don't help my kids 
  • The Making Of A Groundbreaking Animation: Paperman 
  • Arthur Miller on writing The Crucible 
  • Programmer Interrupted 
  • Working overtime doesn't increase your output. It makes you stupid. 
  • If You Think You're Good At Multitasking, You Probably Aren't 
  • Gorgeous vintage record sleeves for classical music. 
  • Shakespeare’s Sonnets and MLK’s Speech Stored in DNA Speck 
  • Richard, A Documentary about a London Piano Tuner Who Chooses to be Homeless 
  • Second TEDx conference on the Great White Way asks 'What is the best Broadway can be?' 
  • The School of Life: Mark Earls on Copying and Originality 
  • A hotel room changed Matisse's art. This is how: 
  • Leo Burnett's classic speech "When to take my name off the door" animated 
  • Did Shakespeare Have Syphilis? 
  • Very useful: Exporting Images With Usuable Names From Evernote 
  • Stocking Up: Uncovering the Secrets to the Best Broth 
  • Origami: A Blend of Sculpture and Mathematics 
  • Beautiful: Orchids of Latin America 
  • This Is What Being a Google Maps Editor Is Like 
  • The First Canned Beer Went on Sale 78 Years Ago 
  • The Story Behind Banksy 
  • The Psychology Behind Superhero Origin Stories 
  • It's Okay To Be Smart: The PBS Renaissance Continues 
  • This Explains Everything: 192 Thinkers Each Select the Most Elegant Explanation of How the World Works 
  • Popular Lies About Graphic Design 
  • Are You A Hipster? Do You Think Video Games Are Art? And Other Important Questions 
  • PBS Off Book: The Art of Creative Coding, Graphic Design & Other Explorations 
  • Ira Glass on the strange life of the producer 
  • Inventors: The First Software Patent & The Digital Camera 
  • Cassandre: Gorgeous Vintage Posters by One of History's Greatest Graphic Designers 
  • We Need Technology to Help Us Remember the Future 
  • Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses 
  • The Never-Before-Told Story of the World's First Computer Art (It's a Sexy Dame) 
  • Why Living Cells Are The Future Of Data Processing 
  • Introducing Courier Prime, commissioned by screenwriter John August, it's Courier, just better: 
  • Understanding How to Frame Your Creative Expertise 
  • Happy Two-Hundredth Birthday, "Pride and Prejudice" 
  • Creativity Top 5: January 28, 2013 
  • Popular Lies About Graphic Design 
  • If You Think You're Good At Multitasking, You Probably Aren't 
  • Cicero on Dance 
  • NASA Sends Image of the Mona Lisa to the Moon and Back 
  • Great Clients 
  • Why Subtraction Is the Hardest Math in Product Design 
  • TED Playlists: The artist is in. 
  • Your Storytelling Brain 
  • Cleverness 
  • 37 Hitchcock Cameos over 50 Years: All in One Video 
  • The Surprising Health Benefits of Anger 
  • Who Designed the Seal of the President of the United States? 
  • If you missed Shakespeare Uncovered last Friday night you can catch the first two episodes online: 
  • This Explains Everything: 192 Thinkers Each Select the Most Elegant Explanation of How the World Works 
  • Join Cartoonist Lynda Barry for a University-Level Course on Doodling and Neuroscience 
  • Original Creators: Synthesizer Pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey 
  • Seth's Blog: Eleven things organizations can learn from airports 
  • Meet Ad Age's 40 Under 40 
  • What happens when we build things for free? 
  • So Good: The challenges of conversational journalism 
  • Margaret Atwood's writing tools are as forward-looking as her books 
  • The Fascinating Business Cards of 20 Famous People 
  • Social Workflow - A Future Of Work Trend - PSFK 
  • Day of Light: A Crowdsourced Film by Multimedia Genius Brian Eno 
  • Underground Kingdom, Interactive Choose Your Own Adventure Style Gamebook Released As iOS App 
  • ATTENTION folks, there is currently an astronaut posting to Tumblr from space. 
  • The Data of Death – A Visualization 
  • Love this, watch full screen: London 360 Panorama  /via @Coudal
  • An architectural blueprint of Brooklyn Bridge elevations from Old Blueprints. 
  • Fantastic: The Birth of Grand Central Terminal 
  • 20 Great Writers on the Art of Revision 

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