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 ➞
  

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