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The Week's Links: May 31, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • The Difference Between Linear and Exponential Thinking 
  • A Brief History of Robot Birds 
  • James Victore: In The Particular Lies The Universal 
  • Benjamin Franklin's Phonetic Alphabet 
  • 12 Exceptionally Long or Extremely Special Words 
  • Michael Benson's Awe-Inspiring Views of the Solar System 
  • Every Day a Different Dish: Klari Reis' Petri Paintings 
  • The Strange Beauty of David Maisel's Aerial Photographs 
  • The Art of Staying Focused in a Distracting World 
  • Macoto Murayama's Intricate Blueprints of Flowers 
  • Take Up Computer Games, Not Crosswords, As You Age 
  • Ali, Marilyn, Jackie and Mr. TIME: The cover artist who helped define a magazine 
  • Michael Bierut On The New Philbrook Museum of Art Brand 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of May 27, 2013 
  • 'Nanogardens' Sprout Up On The Surface Of A Penny 
  • “One can burn a diamond in air” 
  • How Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has shaped 100 years of music 
  • Qantas to Flyers: Ditch Your Kindles, Read Our Custom Books 
  • 2013 Logo Trends on LogoLounge.com 
  • Mary Meeker is Back With Her 2013 Internet Trends Report Slides 
  • The BBC unveils an experimental ‘Perceptive Radio’ that offers personalized content 
  • Meet the Man Who Sold a Month-Old App to Dropbox for $100M 
  • Kindle’s most-highlighted passages and the soul of the American reader 
  • Temple Grandin's Book Excerpt: How an Entirely New, Autistic Way of Thinking Powers Silicon Valley 
  • Bajofondo "Lluvia" 
  • The Curse of Reading and Forgetting 
  • Caro Emerald: Tangles, Transitions and Textures 
  • Transmedia Hollywood 3: Rethinking Creative Relations [Panel Videos] 
  • Scientists Just Recorded the Brightest Explosion We’ve Ever Seen 
  • How Much Do We Really Know About Your Tongue? 
  • Why Do We Laugh? 
  • Peeping in on the Process of Turning Caterpillar to Butterfly 
  • How Pixar and Psychology Helped Facebook Design Its Emoticons 
  • Should we put up with disruptive behavior at the theatre? 
  • Click Here If You Are You Missing Out 
  • A Bust of Richard III, 3D-Printed From a Scan of His Recently Exhumed Skull 
  • Old schooled: You never stop learning like a child 
  • The Life-Saving App That Sends Pictures of Your Heartbeat to Doctors 
  • Heart Attacks May Be Linked to Air Pollution 
  • You Actually Can Die of a Broken Heart 
  • Specially-Trained Honeybees Forage for Land Mines 
  • China Is Opening Around 100 Museums Every Year 
  • Heinrich Rohrer, Father of Nanotechnology, Dies at 79 
  • The Whitney Museum New Graphic Identity 
  • Dentists Discovered the Tooth-Saving Properties of Fluoride by Accident 
  • An Aging Mathematician Made a Major Dent in One of Math’s Oldest Problems 
  • Here's an idea, PBS Idea Channel is TED Talks from the fringe 
  • BBC abandons £100m digital project 
  • 15 of the Greatest Celebrity Commencement Speeches 
  • 24 Classic Books' Original Titles 
  • From Arrested Development to Dr. Who, How Binge Watching Is Changing Our Culture 
  • Insights From A Future Harvard Business School Case Study, Before It's Taught At Harvard 
  • Love this: Great Musicians on the Concerts That Inspired Them to Make Music 
  • Designing the new, fully responsive wired.co.uk article pages 
  • Reading List: 6 Stories for the Science-Fiction Newbie 
  • MIT TechTV: Communicating Science and Technology in the 21st Century 
  • Love this: Things Come Apart, 50 Disassembled Objects in 21,959 Individual Parts by Todd McLellan 
  • Amazing images: 2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest 
  • The three types of specialist 
  • The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 
  • The Economist explains: Why are your friends more popular than you? 
  • Are You Good In A Crisis? Test Your Lifesaving Skills With This New App 
  • Millennials Vs. 50+: The Brands They Love 
  • Big Corporations Are Buying Design Firms in Droves 
  • When Computer Games May Keep the Brain Nimble 
  • 15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy 
  • Mac OS graphic designer Susan Kare on icon design 
  • Responsive Tools For Web Designer & Developers 
  • Are smartphones ruining art? 
  • How Pixar and Psychology Helped Facebook Design Its Emoticons 
  • Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine to give $70 million to USC for new arts academy 
  • Tips and tricks for iPhoto for iOS 
  • Stephen King delays e-book in favor of print 

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