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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 
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  • 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 

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