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The Week's Links: April 26, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • 1930s Fashion Designers Imagine Year 2000 
  • MIT Technology Review: Moore's Law and the Origin of Life 
  • Say It Out Loud: How David Sedaris Makes His Writing Better 
  • Your Office's Fluorescent Lights Really Are Draining Your Will To Work 
  • Mindfulness: Observing Without Questioning 
  • What the Brain Can Tell Us About Art 
  • Clay Shirky On Pushing Creative Boundaries 
  • A shorthand for designing UI flows by Ryan of 37signals 
  • Design/UX: Transitional Interfaces 
  • 10 super-helpful mnemonic tricks 
  • Dieter Rams: Ten Principles For Good Design 
  • The Productivity Diet 
  • What motivates us at work? 7 fascinating studies that give insights 
  • The New $100 Note is, well, see for yourself: 
  • Powerful, Emotional: Boston Magazine's May cover, made from the runners shoes. 
  • The 55 TEDGlobal 2013 speakers who tweet 
  • A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: On The Road, Episode 3 
  • Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Predicts the Future of Streaming Video 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of April 22, 2013 
  • How a Gang of Pickpockets Shut Down the Louvre 
  • What's the Real Origin of "OK"? 
  • Great Big Ideas: Free Course Features Top Thinkers Tackling the World’s Most Important Ideas 
  • Everything we have to do 
  • Your Favorite Authors’ Favorite Musicians 
  • The Lavish Sets of Baz Lurhmann's The Great Gatsby 
  • Frank Chimero on Ideas 
  • The Killer Feature Every Cloud-Based App Should Have 
  • Street Artist JR Creates iPad App to Help You Track Down His Work 
  • HOW TO WRITE LIKE SHAKESPEARE - More Intelligent Life 
  • Work Mode: The Writer Behind "Dark Knight" And "Man of Steel" On Multitasking, Meditation, And Using Your Good Ideas 
  • How to Think Like Shakespeare: The Positive Value of Negative Capability 
  • 20 Words We Owe to William Shakespeare 
  • If you happen to be the first person to make contact with aliens, here’s a handy guide: 
  • A Wandering Brain Zips Around Toronto To Encourage Creativity 
  • Content or Objects: Neil Gaiman and the future of books 
  • Wow, just wow: 7 Billion World - 7 billion people on 1 page 
  • Forecast Makers: "It's now a web app. It's an app you install from the web." 
  • Cocktails with Stan Lee and Jane Espenson 
  • Earth Chorus: Dancing to the beat of Earth 
  • Globe launches indoor theatre with The Duchess of Malfi and opera 
  • Jorge Luis Borges’ 1967-8 Norton Lectures On Poetry (And Everything Else Literary) 
  • Lovely: Haunting Figure of a Woman Made with Wood and Bamboo 
  • When Dickens met Dostoevsky 
  • 10 Words That Will Win You Any Game of Scrabble 
  • World Book Night is tomorrow! 
  • The brand is a story. But it's a story about you, not about the brand. 
  • How To Make Your Websites Faster On Mobile Devices 
  • Check out the new and fully responsive Wired.co.uk 
  • Should we be suspicious of stories? 
  • How to win at poker: Sleight of hand 
  • This Is Your Brain on E-Books. When we read on dead trees, do we retain more? 
  • Audio Branding: Company Logos Expand Into The Sonic Realm 
  • The McKinsey Global Institute just released a fas­ci­nat­ing new iPad app, Urban World 
  • The Modern Data Nerd Isn't as Nerdy as You Think 
  • Massive Volunteer Collective Proofreads 25,000 Public-Domain Books 
  • Stop Doubting Yourself. Be Bold. 
  • How the Banner Ad Was Born  /via @daringfireball
  • How to Stimulate Curiosity 
  • What e-learning can teach us about journalism 
  • The 25 Books Every Kid Should Have on Their Bookshelf 
  • The Story of a Revolution: The best of Wired 1993-2013 
  • Revealed: The Part of Our Brain That Makes Us Like New Music 
  • Outsider Thinking: What Science Can Learn From Art 
  • Enjoy this New Yorker article while having a nice cup: In the Land of the Coffee Nerds 
  • Thousands of Roman Artifacts Have Just Been Sitting Under London’s Financial District 
  • Merlin Mann: On Chasing the Right "Zero" 
  • jQuery 2.0 Released 
  • Study: There Seems to Be a Universal Brain Response to Music 
  • How great plays are (eventually) made 
  • Great resournce: The Collective Legal Guide For Designers (Contract Samples) 
  • Art of the Title takes an in-depth look at the title sequence for Skyfall (2012) 
  • How To Raise Your Email Above Inbox Noise 
  • A field guide to the Meeting Troll 
  • TED-Ed and CERN unveil “The beginning of the universe” 
  • 5 Things to Know When Designing for iOS 
  • Redesigning the Save symbol. 
  • The Grammar of Interactivity 
  • Responsive Nav: A Simple JavaScript Plugin For Responsive Navigation 
  • One man's quest to build an AI that can create games 
  • David Byrne on bypassing waffling and his remote collaborations with Brian Eno. 
  • You're Distracted. This Professor Can Help. - The Chronicle of Higher Education 
  • Cool: Paper Sculptures That Defy Expectations 

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