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The Week's Links: March 1, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Deliberate Practice: How Intentionally Overcoming Weaknesses Develops Expertise 
  • 3 Social Media Lessons From Young Adults And The Authors Who Speak To Them 
  • Berliner Philharmoniker: Instruments From The Inside 
  • Helicopter Branding: Why It’s Bad And How To Avoid It 
  • The Creative Process of Ansel Adams Revealed in 1958 Documentary 
  • Clever Kickstarter by design student to settle once and for all that black is The New Black. 
  • The 2000 Year Old Computer: The Antikythera Mechanism 
  • The significance of plot without conflict 
  • Make a Stranger Believe in You - Anne Kreamer 
  • 6 Strategy Lessons From A Former Chess Prodigy Who's Now A CEO 
  • Easy As Pie 
  • 2013 TED Prize: Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud 
  • Case study: The making of the Moscow Metro Map 2.0 
  • The Power of Habit Investments 
  • Food for thought: The Future of Advertising 2020 
  • The Power of Structured Procrastination 
  • When Winning An Oscar Means Bankruptcy: VFX Artists Protest The Academy Awards 
  • Using White Space For Readability In HTML And CSS 
  • Independent Work May Be Inevitable - Whitney Johnson 
  • New Nielsen Global Survey On Digital Influence: How the Internet Affects New Product Purchase Decisions 
  • Learning to code is learning to think. Kids should learn programming. 
  • Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium - PBS Arts: Off Book 
  • Want to improve education? Ask the kids 
  • The Case for Stealth Innovation 
  • Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks or Less 
  • Russia's massive meteorite: By the numbers 
  • Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing 
  • In case you missed it: 10 Tricks to Make Yourself a Dropbox Master 
  • The great details in "The Americans" Title Sequence 
  • Oscar-Nominated Director Benh Zeitlin on Not Waiting For Permission 
  • TED: Ads Worth Spreading 
  • Ad Age Presents the 2013 Digital A-List 
  • CultureLab: How to use art to help explore other minds 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of February 25, 2013 
  • Barry's Blog: Interview with NEA Chief of Staff Jamie Bennett 
  • The Seed Of Doubt 
  • az project: The stories and faces of graphic design 
  • Getting Started with Responsive Typography 
  • Constructal Law: A Design Theory of Everything 
  • We’re Marketers, Not Soldiers: How Combative Competition Is Killing Creativity 
  • How the Web Development Process Works 
  • Can You Feel Me Now? The Sensational Rise of Haptic Interfaces 
  • The Making Of A Groundbreaking Animation: Paperman, Now an Oscar winner. 
  • In China, a research project aims to find the roots of intelligence in our DNA; searching for the supersmart 
  • 5 quick(ish) fixes to get you re-inspired 
  • Seriously bored? Dig for purpose 
  • Jean-Luc Godard’s After-Shave Commercial for Schick 
  • Are You Hiding Behind Your Busy Schedule? 
  • Humble 
  • Why an App or a DVD Probably Won't Make You a Genius 
  • Elizabeth Gilbert on creativity and saying no: The Paul Holdengraber Show 
  • This is hilarious: YOU HAD ONE JOB! 
  • Welcome To The New Self-Service Economy 
  • Making a Business Case for Bedtime 
  • Frank Chimero: A Lesson from a Surgeon 
  • When Good Design Isn’t Enough 
  • Writers on Writing: Fear, Loathing, Desire—And The Self-Destructing Work of Art 
  • MIT Technology Review: The True Story of a 1967 “Contact” Incident 
  • Smithsonian Magazine: The Story Behind Banksy 
  • *Ahem* The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Mediocre People 
  • How Neuroscience Will Fight Five Age-Old Afflictions 
  • Engineering advances have architects striving for the mile-high skyscraper. 
  • 5 Evidence-Based Ways to Optimize Your Teamwork 
  • America's Hardest-Working Know-It-All 
  • Clay Christensen: First the media gets disrupted, then comes the education industry 
  • This Is How Your Brain Deals With Google And Facebook Ads 
  • Advertisers Should Act More Like Newsrooms 
  • Step back in time with the elegant source code for Photoshop 1.0 
  • What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking & Sacred Space 
  • Infographic: An Amazing, Invisible Truth About Wikipedia 
  • Designing the Packaging-Free Future 
  • Nate Silver Does Oscar Predictions, Election-Style - NYTimes.com 
  • TED Playlists: Re-imagining school 
  • Great: Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda's original NYC Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual now online. 
  • British Library publishes da Vinci's notebooks online. 

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