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The Week's Links: February 22, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Great: Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda's original NYC Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual now online. 
  • Your Immune System 'Remembers' Microbes It's Never Fought Before, New Study Says 
  • This Is Your Brain On Music [Infographic] 
  • Musicians Are Probably Smarter Than The Rest Of Us 
  • Nike CEO Mark Parker On His Company's Digital Future: Body-Controlled Music, Color-Coded Heart Rates 
  • Chromatophobia: Michael Bierut's Fear of Color 
  • Submarine Channel: Top 5 of our Favorite Things: Projection Mappings (2012) 
  • Mosh Pits Teach Us About the Physics of Collective Behavior 
  • Ha! The Elephants of Typography 
  • Responsive Typography: The Basics by Information Architects 
  • Neuroscientists determine famous trick's surprising ability to manipulate audiences. 
  • Fifty Years After Sylvia Plath’s Death, Critics Are Just Starting to Understand Her Life 
  • Vulnerability (A Mini TED Remix) 
  • Experts Are Weeding Out Impostor Portraits of Mozart 
  • How to Revive a Lost Language 
  • The Rise and Fall of Nikola Tesla and his Tower 
  • British Library publishes da Vinci's notebooks online. 
  • TED Playlists: Quirky, fascinating talks about the design of practical things we all need, whether we know it or not. 
  • The Connection Between Shakespeare and Maurice Sendak 
  • Must Read: What Data Can’t Do -NYTimes.com 
  • TED Playlists: Maestros bring you into the world of writing and conducting music 
  • 9 Very Specific Rules From Real Libraries 
  • The Three Little Pigs As Breaking News 
  • What is a book in the age of the iPad? An interview with Craig Mod 
  • The Epic List of Content Strategy Resources 
  • Why Would You Ever Give Money Through Kickstarter? 
  • Meet the Creator: The Director Under Pixar's "Blue Umbrella" 
  • How a Charming Doodling App Arose From the Web's Wildest West 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of February 18 
  • Modern Etiquette: Social Media Do’s & Don’ts 
  • A great look at a fantastic series: Black Mirror decodes our modern dread of technology 
  • Mathemusician Vi Hart Explains the Space-Time Continuum With a Music Box, Bach, and a Möbius Strip 
  • How Do I Improve My Memory? Forget More 
  • Virtues of Cognitive Workout 
  • Storytelling Across Platforms: J.J. Abrams And Gabe Newell 
  • 5 Principles of Creativity 
  • Made by Hand: The Beekeeper 
  • The Value of Taking a Productive Pause 
  • This Is Your Brain in the Cloud 
  • Lessons in Conveying Complex Ideas with Simple Graphics from the World's Best Information Designers 
  • Why did Joss Whedon choose to make a film of Much Ado About Nothing? 
  • The Value of Taking a Productive Pause 
  • What's in a name? Just about everything 
  • Read 12 new Neil Gaiman mini-stories online, then help illustrate them 
  • Ice Age Art at the British Museum: 'Not even Leonardo surpassed this' 
  • Shakespeare's Globe to stage history plays on original battle sites 
  • Inside the GIF-Industrial Complex: How the animated image file took over the internet. 
  • Meet Adweek's Young Influentials 20 superstars from media, marketing and tech 
  • New theatre to rise at site of Shakespeare playhouse 
  • Why We Love Beautiful Things 
  • Calvin And Hobbes Having Adventures In Real Photographs Will Make You Smile 
  • Creativity 2012 Production Company of the Year and A-List 
  • 9 Little Translation Mistakes That Caused Big Problems 
  • Four, A Beautiful Animated Short About The Seasons 
  • Video: Orchestra Brings Together Israelis and Arabs For Common Goal 
  • Are You Out of Sync With Your Values? 
  • Brain Connections Contribute to Our Unique Personalities 
  • How Thomas Jefferson Pioneered the Tomato, Championed Urban Farming, and Taught Americans to Make Coffee 
  • Howard Gardner’s seminal Theory of Multiple Intelligences 
  • Why Sci-Fi Author William Gibson Loves Japan 
  • Eight Designers Awarded the AIGA Medal for 2013 
  • True Innovation 
  • Aphrodisiac Scent Guides Visitors Through Shakespearean Maze 
  • Amazing: The 2013 Sony World Photography Awards 
  • How Photography Changed Painting (and Vice Versa) 
  • A Guide to Understanding Nothing 
  • 18 Complicated Scientific Ideas Explained Simply 
  • StackExchange Founder Vows to Reinvent Online Discourse 
  • This Is Why Your Kickstarter Project Is Late 
  • 20 Optical Illusions That Might Break Your Mind 
  • The Lab Accident That Led to the Discovery of Supertasters 
  • Clever: BLOKK font gives you a nice fill text for mock-ups and wireframing without the lorem ipsum. 
  • Another Google Chrome Experiment, this one to promote Disney's Oz The Great and Powerful 
  • The next chapter: storytelling embarks on an interactive adventure 
  • What Makes Muscles Twitch? 
  • Bill Gates: Education Is The One Issue That's Key To America's Future 
  • Singing the ABCs in 8 Different Languages 
  • The Podcast History of Our World Will Take You From Creation Myths to (Eventually) the Present Day 
  • Criterion cancels your weekend plans, makes its Hulu collection available for free 
  • Active Story System – a design methodology for participatory transmedia storytelling 
  • Pentagram Names Most Influential Design Firm of the Past 50 Years 
  • Interaction design lessons from sci-fi: Visual interfaces 

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