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The Week's Links: May 17, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • These Stunning Photos Show Miraculous Plane Crashes Where No One Died 
  • This 17-Year-Old Coder Is Saving Twitter From TV Spoilers (Spoiler: She's a Girl) 
  • The 10-Year-Old Inventor and the World's Cutest Patent Drawing 
  • Shakespeare 'first great writer entrepreneur' 
  • BBC: The arts get less than .1% of public spending but deliver four times that in gross domestic product, report says. 
  • Is Massively Open Online Education A Threat Or A Blessing? 
  • 50 Jaw-Dropping Examples Of Street Art From Around The World 
  • Richard Branson Wants You To Be Good 
  • Creative Review names Bloomberg Businessweek Design Studio of the Year 
  • Ballet students from 18 international schools perform together via livestream at Toronto conference 
  • A Focus on Distraction 
  • Masterpiece In A Mug: Japanese Latte Art Will Perk You Up 
  • The robots speak! Daft Punk On 'The Soul That A Musician Can Bring' : NPR  
  • Lessons in Creativity. 
  • Two Dozen 15,000-Year-Old Words We Still Use Today 
  • Apple : Lincoln Center :: Google : Broadway 
  • 5 Lessons From Warren Buffett's Office Hours 
  • If you want to see which kids will grow up to be the most successful adults, visit their second-grade classroom. 
  • Steven Heller: Do Good Logos Need to Actually, You Know, Look Good? 
  • The Design That Conquered Google 
  • A brief history of admission tickets. 
  • The true value of a live performance audience. 
  • Artists behind iconic Houston sculpture sue Honda over ad claiming the ad stole design. 
  • The Most Important Details From Google I/O So Far 
  • A year inside The Australian Ballet: Boys' Day, Episode 4 
  • Adobe Explores the Future of Responsive Digital Layout with National Geographic Content 
  • Lost Lands Found by Scientists 
  • Street Art Across The Globe: The Best Cities In The World For Graffiti And Urban Art 
  • Ha: 38 Signs You’ve Been in Advertising Agencies Too Long 
  • Amazing: National Geographic Traveler Magazine 2013 Photo Contest 
  • How to Spot a Weak Argument 
  • YouTube Launches Trend Map To Show Who's Watching What Where 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of May 13, 2013 
  • Games Before Bed Will Help Kids Sleep Better 
  • Elephants Communicate in Sophisticated Sign Language, Researchers Say 
  • How to Listen When Someone Is Venting 
  • Project Re:Brief, the documentary 
  • Mario Batali on digital strategy: How a Restaurant Menu Is Like a Website 
  • Rock’n’roll + Typography = Rock That Font 
  • Cheap Nanotech Filter Clears Hazardous Microbes and Chemicals from Drinking Water 
  • The Story Behind 'This Is Water'. Without permission, video agency created an amazing homage to David Foster Wallace 
  • A Few Rare People Hallucinate Musical Scores 
  • Eight New Things We've Learned About Music 
  • What Countries Around The World Eat For Breakfast 
  • Joi Ito’s Trends to Watch in 2013 
  • The Scientific 7-Minute Workout 
  • Businessweek has a fantastic profile of Reed Hastings and the Netflix turnaround from a year ago. 
  • It Is in Our Nature to Need Stories 
  • Space Is Now a Reality TV Show. A very good reality show. 
  • 10 Great Quotes From The Great Gatsby 
  • Oreo's New "Wonderfilled" Campaign Wants to Sap the Cynicism Out of Your Day 
  • Fast Company's The 100 Most Creative People 2013. Topping the list, Nate Silver. 
  • Charlie Rose interviews 'Bill Gates 2.0' on 60 Minutes: the man after Microsoft 
  • Fmr. Frog Design Strategist: What We Need For Wearable Computing To Work 
  • The Quest For Perfection 
  • Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’ 
  • The Invention of David Bowie by Ian Buruma: The New York Review of Books 
  • Around the World in 80 Instagrams 
  • The illusion of simplicity: photographer Peter Belanger on shooting for Apple 
  • Two.js is a two-dimensional drawing api geared towards modern web browsers. 
  • Molecules in the brain trigger aging. Activity in the hypothalamus affects cognitive and physical decline. 
  • Creative People Say No 
  • The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI 
  • What Is Nothing? A Mind-Bending Debate about the Universe Moderated by Neil deGrasse Tyson 
  • The 100 Most Creative People In Business 
  • Merlin Mann: Broken Meetings (And How You'll Fix Them) 
  • Sir Ken Robinson: 10 talks on education 
  • Our Very Normal Solar System Isn't Normal Anymore 
  • Theater's Expiring Subscription Model 
  • Watch ABC app: First live stream by broadcaster 
  • Merrill Brockway, Producer of TV’s ‘Dance in America,’ Dies at 90 
  • iPad apps for young coders 
  • Infographic: Majority Of Earth’s Population Resides In This One Relatively Small Circle 
  • The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI 
  • Five overlooked abilities of the Finder's Path Bar 
  • Why Is Facebook Blue? The Science Behind Colors In Marketing 
  • A Clever iPad App Gets Kids Drawing On Paper Again 
  • Better way to add Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and any other external scripts 
  • Colours: The colors of the web. 
  • MIT Can Put A Digital Interface On Any Object 
  • Type design inspiration: Inside the evolution of typography at Monotype 
  • Behind The Scenes Shots From Popular Movies 
  • How I Work: IDEO's Duane Bray On Creating Great Digital Experiences 
  • 27 Bits of Wisdom from 2012 Commencement Addresses 
  • The coming era of ‘on-demand’ marketing 
  • How to Really Understand Someone Else's Point of View - Mark Goulston and John Ullmen 
  • José Luis Antúnez: What is Design? 
  • Can you tell a four-word story? 
  • The Economist explains: How does China censor the internet? 
  • The 12 Trends That Will Rule Products In 2013 
  • What happens to our brains when we have stage fright: The science of public speaking 
  • 25 Gorgeous Typographic Experiments 
  • 10 Display Faces that Digital Forgot 
  • Study: Teenagers Feel More Entitled Than Ever. Teens are less willing than ever to work hard 
  • Bringing Backstage Onstage with Social Media 
  • Are you scaring your customers with how you talk about your art? 
  • Steven Soderbergh on the state of cinema. 
  • Meet A Modern-Day Master Of The Classic Neon Sign 
  • Why "The Great Gatsby" Endures: The New Yorker 
  • Carl Sagan’s Undergrad Reading List: 40 Essential Texts for a Well-Rounded Thinker 
  • Google teams up with the RSC to create Shakespeare for the internet age 
  • What makes The Great Gatsby great? 
  • So clever: An Ingenious Cookbook Uses Infographics Instead Of Words 
  • Scientists Figure Out What You See While You're Dreaming 

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