The Week's Links: April 12, 2013
/All the links posted on social networks this week:
- An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay ➞
- Procrastination Continued ◉
- A game when games were new ➞
- Isaac Asimov on Curiosity, Taking Risk, and the Value of Space Exploration in Muppets Magazine, 1983 ➞
- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Comma From Which My Heart Hangs. ➞
- How the Science of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer and Predict the Future ➞
- Documentary about actor and magician Ricky Jay ➞
- Scientists Figure Out What You See While You're Dreaming ➞
- Backed By NEA, 500 Startups, Felicis & Others, Tynker Launches Its Visual “Learn To Code” Platform For Children ➞
- Microbes Buried Deep in Ocean Crust May Form World's Largest Ecosystem ➞
- Hand In Hand: Advice For Writers ◉
- What Makes Rain Smell So Good? ➞
- 10 New Things We Know About Food and Diets ➞
- Henry Rollins Advice For Young People ◉
- Love this: The Architectural Origins of the Chess Set ➞
- What Major World Cities Look Like at Night, Minus the Light Pollution ➞
- Michael Benson's Awe-Inspiring Views of the Solar System ➞
- Photos: Rarely Seen Central American Ceramics Dating from 1,000 Years Ago ➞
- How IMAX Pulled Spaceflight Down to Earth ➞
- Photos: Scenes From Life Under the Sea ➞
- The Secret to Olive Oil’s Anti-Alzheimer’s Powers ➞
- Subscribing to Smarter Creativity ◉
- Five-Year-Old Girl Discovers Fossil of Previously Unknown Pterosaur ➞
- Do you worship the tools of your trade as much as ballerinas worship their pointe shoes? ◉
- Creativity Top 5: Week of April 8, 2013 ◉
- With Music, What You See Affects What You Hear ➞
- Can A Brain Scan Predict Your Future Criminality? ➞
- Astronomers Discover Baby Supernovae ➞
- Public for the First Time: A Last Letter from Dying Antarctic Explorer Captain Scott ➞
- This Microbe Isn’t Either Male or Female, It Has Seven Options to Choose Between ➞
- How Your Brain Reassures You That You’re Better Than Other People ➞
- Musicians: How Many Hours a Day Should You Practice? ➞
- Cool: NBC releases Bryan Fuller's illustrated pilot script for 'Hannibal' ➞
- "Just a Theory": 7 Misused Science Words ➞
- The Unstoppable Ballerina: Michaela Deprince’s Journey, from Sierra Leone to the heights of American ballet. ➞
- Love these images: Signs of Spring ➞
- Caitlin Freeman's 'Modern Art Desserts' cookbook shows how to make treats inspired by artworks ➞
- 8 Guys, 6 Weeks: How the Cell Phone Was (Finally) Invented ➞
- First there was the recent radio play and now, on stage: 'Neverwhere' Conjures a Dank, Fantastical Netherworld ➞
- Second Sleep ◉
- So great: Fascinating Behind-The-Scenes Photographs Of Popular Movies ➞
- How to Tour the World's Greatest Science Labs ➞
- ‘100 Years of Flamenco in New York,’ at Public Library ➞
- Remains of poet Pablo Neruda exhumed to determine if he was executed by Pinochet regime ➞
- What Are You Tweeting For? ◉
- 7 great reads: this year’s ASME finalists in feature/profile writing ➞
- Exciting news: Dance Theater of Harlem Starts New Life ➞
- How Much Does a Cloud Weigh? ➞
- Meet Harry Beck, the genius behind London's iconic subway map ➞
- How To Run Your Meetings Like Apple and Google ➞
- The History of the World in 46 Lectures From Columbia University ➞
- The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in China ➞
- IBM On Brand ◉
- Why The Inventor Of Pong Says We're More Creative Now ➞
- When Simplicity Is the Solution ➞
- Game designer Jason Rohrer designs a game meant to be played 2,000 years from now, hides it in desert ➞
- A Videogame That Teaches Kids To Code ➞
- Joss Whedon On Worthy Work ◉
- Love this: Beautiful Paper-Cut, Pop-Up Cards Of London’s Famous Landmarks ➞
- 6 Ballet Directors Discuss Current Evolution of Form ➞
- The 5 Most Dangerous Creativity Killers ➞
- How JWT broadcast live ads from Afghanistan ➞
- How Climate Change Could Eventually End Coffee. Taking climate change seriously now? ➞
- Brené Brown: Life Lessons We All Need to Learn ➞
- My Year of TED: How 54 talks changed a life ➞
- Expecting the Best— And Getting It ➞
- 26 Free Charlie Chaplin Films Online ➞
- So clever: Book Jackets Transform Into Parcel Packaging ➞
- George Bernard Shaw: The playwright used this postcard to respond to unsolicited mail. ➞
- Brand New: 2012 Brand New Awards: Winners ➞
- Dennis Hopper Reads From Rainer Maria Rilke’s Timeless Guide to Creativity, Letters to a Young Poet ➞
- Dance despite war: Season of Cambodia Dance Festival in New York ➞
- Amazing: Images from on top of the Great Pyramid ➞
- TED Playlists: What does the future look like? ➞
- Primatologist Frans de Waal on memory-champ chimps, tool-using elephants and rats capable of empathy ➞
- Time: The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2013 ➞
- Murdered By Google: What Happens When The Internet Kills You? ➞
- IBM's Long-Form Content Shows Its Technology in Action ➞
- Digitized Materials From The Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room, Library of Congress ➞
- Check out this collection of interviews: On Creativity ➞
- What Should I Read Next? Book recommendations from readers like you ➞
- Let Yourself Go: Classic Dance Routines ➞
- New Oscar Wilde letter found with advice for writers. ➞
- Ten Reasons a Pessimist Can be Optimistic About the Future of the Book ➞
- Fear factor increases, emotions decrease in books written in last 50 years ➞
- The Making Of Descender: Andrew Wyatt On Creativity, Violin Repair Stores, And Discontent Orchestras ➞
- Love this: Sound Recordings from Around the World ➞
- Ebert on Twitter ➞