The Week's Links: February 8, 2013
/All the links posted on social networks this week:
- 20 Words We Owe to William Shakespeare ➞
- Billboards to Advertise the Awesomeness of Science Pop Up in Vancouver ➞
- Scientists Discover Dung Beetles Use The Milky Way For GPS ➞
- 15 Colorful Entries From Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words ➞
- The big list of 100 tools, tips and tricks to work more efficiently online ➞
- What would a New York Times for the youngs look like? ➞
- Curious about this: Design lessons for programmers, curated by top designers ➞
- Eight UX Design Trends for 2013 ➞
- Metamorphosis: How a poster becomes a stamp ➞
- Can you identify a brand by their buttons: The Button Test ➞
- As Pride and Prejudice Turns 200, Read Jane Austen’s Manuscripts Online ➞
- Tony Kushner: Does Theater Still Matter? ◉
- MIT Learning Creative Learning: A course for designers, technologists, and educators interested in creative learning ➞
- Neil Gaiman Launches New Crowdsourced Storytelling Project (Sponsored by the New BlackBerry) ➞
- Brain Tricks: This Is How Your Brain Works ➞
- Etch a Sketch: Andre Cassagnes 1926-2013 ➞
- Critical Thinking: A Field Guide In 6 Short Films ◉
- Interesting: The best places across the U.S. ranked by Foursquare ➞
- Amazing: 102 Spectacular Nonfiction Stories from 2012 ➞
- How Does a Researcher's Idea Become an Innovation? ➞
- VIDEO: See a Thought Move Through a Living Fish's Brain ➞
- Beatboxing, as Seen Through Scientific Images ➞
- On Reporting Annually ◉
- Some Microbes Are So Resilient They Can Ride Hurricanes ➞
- Room For Literature ◉
- The four key features that characterize Flow, or what 10000 hours of practice gets you ◉
- New X-Ray Technology To Reveal Secrets Beneath a Rembrandt Masterpiece ➞
- Tim Burton’s The World of Stainboy: Watch the Complete Animated Series ➞
- One of my favorite writers: Neil Gaiman Drops Knowledge ➞
- 10 words invented by authors ➞
- Case study for the fantastic transmedia experience Hunted's 'Byzantium Tests' ➞
- Maira Kalman On The Power Of Lists, Maps And Organizing ◉
- PBS Arts: Off Book, Exploring Cutting Edge Art - The Complete First Series ◉
- A Tasty Slice of Geek History: PBS's "Silicon Valley" Premieres Tonight ➞
- A thrilling look at 'Shakespeare Uncovered' ➞
- The Practical Effect of Making Arts Education a National Priority ➞
- Kids should learn programming as well as reading and writing ➞
- Eight Brilliant Minds on the Future of Online Education ➞
- Essays from High Schoolers Who Know Nothing About Richard III Except for the Thing About His Bones ➞
- Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Version of ‘Rhapsody in Blue,’ 1925 ➞
- Indus civilization food: How scientists are figuring out what curry was like 4,500 years ago. ➞
- Creativity Top 5: Super Bowl Edition ◉
- 10 places where anyone can learn to code ➞
- 10 goals that could change your life ➞
- What Twitter Really Looks Like, In Real Time ➞
- Jad Abumrad: How Did Radiolab Happen? Gut Churn ◉
- 51 Inspiring Quotes About Design ➞
- How to Deal with Crushing Feedback on Your Creative Work ➞
- 7 Common Words With Little-Known Relatives➞
- Henry Miller's Productivity Commandments ◉
- The White House Reveals A Redesigned Electronic Medical Record ➞
- How Oreo Got That Twitter Ad Up So Fast ➞
- Meet “Father Philanthropy”: America’s Most Prolific and Unlikely Master Art Forger ➞
- The Best Fictional Libraries in Pop Culture ➞
- The Greatest Dance Number Ever Filmed ➞
- Why did men stop wearing high heels? ➞
- Lessons from the Facebook Mobile Website Team ➞
- 3 Subtle Ways To Shift Your Attitude From Can't-Do To Can-Do ➞
- 'Pride And Prejudice' Turns 200 ➞
- The History of Rocket Science ➞
- Open university: Joi Ito plans a radical reinvention of MIT's Media Lab ➞
- How Memory Works: 10 Things Most People Get Wrong ➞
- Too hot, too cold? What Does It Mean to Be Comfortable? ➞
- Etch A Sketch creator André Cassagnes dies ➞
- How To Develop Strong Time-Management Habits, Even If You've Failed In The Past ➞
- Top 10 Good Tech Habits Everyone Should Have ➞
- Love this spot: The Grammys: The World is Listening ➞
- Nate Silver Picks the Super Bowl! ➞
- Tim Ferriss: 11 Tricks for Perfect Sleep ➞
- Are discount ticket buyers more discriminating? Enjoying themselves more? ➞
- Report finds fundamental flaws in many nonprofits' fundraising ➞
- Beware of Reactionary Workflow ➞
- You Can Already Code - You Just Don’t Know It Yet ➞
- Look At This Musician's Brain In An MRI Scanner ➞
- The Artist Who Made a Career Out of Forgery - Dressed as a Priest ➞
- Bad Writing Advice From Famous Authors ➞
- John Hodgman’s Advice for Writers: The Competition is Insane, and Persistence Trumps Talent ➞
- Flag Secrets: 5 International Flags with Surprising Stories ➞
- Jose Mujica: The world's 'poorest' president ➞
- Are the arts trading in happiness? If so, what kind? ➞
- The secrets of Grand Central Terminal train station - interactive ➞
- The Architectural League of New York: A Centennial Sketchbook for Grand Central Terminal ➞