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The Week's Links: March 8, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Snakes in a Frame: Mark Laita's Stunning Photographs of Slithering Beasts 
  • Biodesign: When Life is Not Only the Subject of Art, But the Medium Too 
  • The Year's Most Outstanding Science Visualizations 
  • Say Goodbye To Video Stores, Mailmen, Pennies... 
  • 10 Vintage Menus That Are a Feast for the Eyes, If Not the Stomach 
  • No Salt, No Problem: One Woman's Life-or-Death Quest to Make "Bland" Food Delicious 
  • The PBS Renaissance, Mario Bros. and Surrealist Art 
  • How Does McCormick Pick the Top Flavors of the Year? 
  • Ockham Never Really Had a Razor 
  • Opera Fans Have an Advantage in Chemistry Class 
  • What Rock-Paper-Scissors Can Tell Us About Decision Making 
  • UNICEF and Droga5 Launch 2013 'Tap Project' With a Facebook Push 
  • Amazing Astrophotography Lets You See Nebulae in 3D 
  • Too Little Sleep Can Really Mess Our Bodies Up 
  • This Is Your Brain on Movies 
  • Geneticists Try to Figure Out When the Illiad Was Published 
  • With News Feed Overhaul, Facebook Delivers Your 'Personalized Newspaper' 
  • Paola Antonelli Teaches Stephen Colbert A Thing Or Two About Applied Design 
  • Why Are Our Brains Wrinkly? 
  • MIT Technology Review performs an Autopsy of a Dead Social Network, Friendster 
  • Superb chart on the legal trade-mark-ability of a name. From 1950. 
  • Brand New: Logo Reductions for Screen Use 
  • Your Brain On Fiction 
  • The Power of Structured Procrastination 
  • Facebook’s Redesign Hopes to Keep Users Engaged - NYTimes.com 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of March 4 
  • Respect Yourself and Take Back Control of Your Calendar 
  • How to Keep the Ideas Flowing When You’re Put in Charge 
  • My 10 Essential Email Habits: zenhabits 
  • Classic worth revisiting: 50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind 
  • How To Use Google Like Sherlock Holmes 
  • The Wildly Ambitious Quest to Build a Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton by 2014 
  • The Real Work Of Writing: Elizabeth Gilbert Takes On Philip Roth 
  • Why a one-room West Virginia library runs a $20,000 Cisco router 
  • TIME Turns 90: All You Need to Know About Modern History in 90 Cover Stories 
  • The Annotated Wisdom of Louis C.K. 
  • Why Bilinguals Are Smarter 
  • Artificial intelligence: Can we teach computers what “truth” means? 
  • New research suggests some of our aesthetic preferences emerge by the time we’re eight months old. 
  • 50 unseen Rudyard Kipling poems discovered 
  • McSweeneys: Nate Silver Offers Up a Statistical Analysis of Your Failing Relationship. 
  • Study: Volunteering May Improve Cardiovascular Health 
  • From Mat Honan, who suffered a devastating hack last year: What To Do After You've Been Hacked 
  • A Simple Trick for Tripling People's Charitable Donations 
  • Why is Coffee Good For You? Here Are 7 Reasons 
  • "'Smart' simply means you're ready to learn." and other quotes from TED 2013 
  • Vulnerability (A Mini TED Remix) [Update] 
  • Google launches Art Talks on Google+ starting tomorrow at MoMA and then the National Gallery later this month. 
  • Why Great Ideas Get Rejected: From TEDxOU 
  • Break Your Addiction to Meetings - Elizabeth Grace Saunders 
  • Why are digital textbooks not taking off? 
  • Where would we be without Pantone? 
  • What 15 Years Of Computer Screen Evolution Looks Like 
  • Is the arts subscription model dying, or are we selling subscriptions the wrong way? 
  • PBS 2013 Online Film Festival Starts Today 
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The author's taciturn responses to an 1899 version of the Proust questionnaire. 
  • Beautiful: Intricate Miniature Tape, Thread, and Toothbrush Sculptures 
  • More Insights on Sharpening Your Creative Mind 
  • Ballet In Advertising 
  • 4 surprising lessons about education from data collected around the world 
  • What We Talk About When We Talk About "Social" - Nilofer Merchant 
  • When Brain Damage Unlocks The Genius Within 
  • What did the 16th century minds of Shakespeare and Galileo have in common, and what set them apart? 
  • Iconic Artists at Work: Watch Rare Videos of Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky, Renoir, Monet and More 
  • The End Of 9-5 Made Life More Complicated; Here's How To Take Control Again 
  • Five Inspired Ideas Emerging From TED2013 
  • Debug Yourself: Rethinking Mistakes And How They Affect Your Work 
  • Write E-Mails That People Won't Ignore - Bryan A. Garner 
  • The Hunt for a New, Copyright-Free Happy Birthday Song 
  • The Holodeck Is Real: How does fiction get us to treat fake things as real? 
  • Greater Thoughts About Writing 
  • The Most Beautiful Nature GIFs on the Web 
  • Time to change passwords: Evernote hacked - SlashGear 
  • Fresh From TED: A Mind-Blowing App That Could Remake Mobile Retail: Try Things On, Virtually 
  • Respect Yourself and Take Back Control of Your Calendar 
  • Death To Core Competency: Lessons From Nike, Apple, Netflix 
  • Teachers As "Persuaders": An Interview With Daniel Pink - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo 
  • Amy Sherman-Palladino on Making "Bunheads" The Most Accurate Ballet Show Ever 
  • Study: Hearing Music as Beautiful Is a Learned Trait 
  • 10 Essential Quotes for Writers 
  • Margrét Pála on teaching kids to be resilient 
  • Researchers Find That Dolphins Call Each Other By 'Name' 
  • Helicopter Branding: Why It’s Bad And How To Avoid It 

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