The Week's Links: May 3, 2013
/All the links posted on social networks this week:
- Muddy Colors: How I Make a Picture Book ➞
- 10 Practices from the Most Innovative Organizations ➞
- Digital Public Library of America Launches with 2 Million Items ➞
- Neuroscience Explores Why Humans Feel Empathy for Robots ➞
- Best of Fluent 2012: /Reg(exp){2}lained/: Demystifying Regular Expressions ➞
- Sleep: Everything You Need To Know ➞
- Daily Rituals: A Guided Tour of Writers' and Artists' Creative Habits ➞
- "This Is Coffee" A Vintage Film For Coffee Lovers ◉
- Scientists Identify Neurons That Register Itch ➞
- A Night at the Museum with the Smithsonian's Laser Cowboys ➞
- Why Hewlett-Packard is hiring dancers ➞
- Chili Peppers Do To Your Skin What Migraines Do To Your Brain ➞
- The Film before The Film ◉
- Read the book in one go, great intro to it here: How to Find Fulfilling Work ➞
- Paul Miller: back online after a year without the internet ➞
- Coffee: From Balzac to Beethoven, it has fueled artistic endeavor for centuries. ➞
- The Mathematics of Planet Earth ➞
- Ken Burns: A Great Story is 1+1=3 ◉
- Gorgeous timelapse: MIDNIGHT BARCELONA ➞
- Top 14 World Albums, Spring 2013 ➞
- TED Playlists: How to tell a story ➞
- When Will We See A Macklemore Or 50 Shades-Style Blockbuster--In Movies? ➞
- Will we ever… understand why music makes us feel good? ➞
- Sketchnoting 101: How To Create Awesome Visual Notes ➞
- The Digital Public Library of America: a hub for books, made an API so anyone can build a reading room. ➞
- How Pixar Used Moore's Law to Predict the Future ➞
- Creativity Top 5: Week of April 29, 2013 ◉
- The Harvard Classics: A Free, Digital Collection ➞
- A sperm whale’s head is actually an oversized nose ➞
- 10 Incredible Repurposed Train Stations ➞
- Jonathan Harris On Reshaping Culture In The Digital Age ◉
- A Brief History of the High Five ➞
- Say It Out Loud: How David Sedaris Makes His Writing Better ➞
- The 10 Fastest Growing Megacities In The World ➞
- This Art Is Made From Food, But It's More Than Just Playing ➞
- This Art Is All Made From A Newly Invented Kind Of Wood ➞
- What Job Candidates Really Want: Meaningful Work ➞
- Brain Puzzle: What is Perception? ➞
- 10 Inspiring Type Designers From A New Generation ➞
- Get that tune out of your head ◉
- The Future Of Opera Is An FX Extravaganza ➞
- The Company That's Buying Up All the Key Pieces of the Online-News Ecosystem - Technology ➞
- The Digital Public Library of America Opens its Doors ➞
- Have Headphones Changed Your World? ◉
- 20 Things You Didn't Know About... Hair ➞
- The Story Of Superstorm Sandy Through The Eyes Of NYC's Digital First Responders ➞
- Hopscotch: Coding for Kids ➞
- How to Work with Creative People ➞
- An important reminder that the universe has three spatial dimensions and is best appreciated with all three engaged. ➞
- Click a few dots, and this program will try to guess your age. ➞
- Amazing: Insects Caught Mid-Air With Laserbeam HD Camera Rig ➞
- How Pixar Used Moore's Law to Predict the Future ◉
- Infographic: Plotting Comic Books' Rapid Takeover of Hollywood ➞
- Intuition as the Basis for Creativity ➞
- From Love To Bingo In 873 Images ◉
- Michael Bierut: Typography, Modern Applications, and Timeless Communication Challenges ➞
- Illustrations from a Victorian book on Magic (1897) ➞ /via @Coudal
- How Sriracha was introduced to the US. ➞ /via @Coudal
- More Than 50 Years Of Putting Kids' Creativity To The Test ➞
- What 15,000 Years Of Cooking Fish Tells Us About Humanity ➞
- Jill Bolte Taylor: 10 TED talks on human nature ➞
- How Google Creative Lab Links Product to Stellar Storytelling ➞
- TED-Ed: Who invented writing? - Matthew Winkler ➞
- Fantastic: Revisiting the Original 1992 WIRED Media Kit ➞
- Cool: Branding the Presidents of the United States ➞ /via @Coudal
- Was Shakespeare a Humble Schoolmaster During His ‘Lost Years’? ➞
- Andy Day: Documenting the high-flying world of parkour ➞
- Some of these are terrifying: 11 of the Most Unusual Elevators ➞
- The Writer's Technique in Thirteen Theses: Walter Benjamin's Timeless Advice on Writing ➞
- The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens: Scientific American ➞
- How an accountant created an entire RPG inside an Excel spreadsheet ➞
- Kickstarter for Surgery Lets You Help Those in Need ➞
- My Video Gamer Is Smarter Than Your Honor Roll Student ➞
- The greatness of the grilled cheese, explained. ➞
- How One Family Helped Change the Way We Eat Ham ➞
- Seven Counterintuitive Ways to Be Insanely Productive ➞
- E-Book Subscriptions Are Coming ➞
- Brain scans predict how much you'll pay for music ➞
- In A Fragmented Cultureverse, Can Pop References Still Pop? ➞
- CSS-Tricks: Slide In (as you scroll down) Boxes ➞
- Design/UX: Transitional Interfaces ➞