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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 

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