The Week's Links: July 26, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:  

  • Clay Johnson on creative technologists, designing with empathy and news as a community service 
  • Love the environmental graphics for the lobby of the newly renovated Public theater created by Pentagram 
  • Magna Carta copies to be united to mark 800th anniversary 
  • Scientists solve a 14,000-year-old ocean mystery 
  • The most abandoned literary classics 
  • Japanese Orchestra Prescribes Classical Music As Medication 
  • Tale Of A Top-10 App, Part 2: Marketing And Launch 
  • Reinventing the School 
  • Rethinking Sleep 
  • Explore. Create. Repeat. – An online magazine for the creative community 
  • Often we confuse small talk with collaboration. Check out TED Radio Hour: Why We Collaborate 
  • Photoshop's Filters In Two Minutes 
  • Shakespeare: did he get his history right? 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of July 22, 2013 
  • Recommended: To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others 
  • RSC to tweet Voltaire’s Candide ahead of new play by Mark Ravenhill 
  • Lessons from Pixar: Why Software Developers should be Story Tellers 
  • Great resource: hidden OS X features or tips and tricks 
  • Director Saschka Unseld discusses Pixar, photorealism, and the making of 'The Blue Umbrella' 
  • What to test your regular expression skills? Play Regex Crossword 
  • Love this: Your Favorite Movies Laid Out as Vintage Treasure Maps 
  • The Gut-Wrenching Science Behind the World’s Hottest Peppers 
  • Great profile: With His New Film, Elysium, Director Neil Blomkamp Delivers A Hellish Vision of Paradise 
  • Simon Schama: Why I write 
  • Designer News + Hacker News = The News 
  • How and Why to Be a Leader 
  • Music Decreases Perceived Pain For Kids In Pediatric Emergency Room 
  • Recommended: Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now 
  • The NYTimes shares 7 stories of why people work in classical music. 
  • The NYTimes wants to know: What Inspired You to Work in Dance? 
  • Increase Your Team's Curiosity - Roger Schwarz 
  • 50 Places Every Literary Fan Should Visit 
  • Change the culture, change the world 
  • Do You Know Where You’ll Be 285 Days From Now At 2 P.M.? These Data-Masters Do 
  • How Gmail’s New Inbox Is Affecting Email Marketing Open Rates 
  • Creativity Researcher Teresa Amabile Explains The Unexpected Benefits Of Tracking Daily Progress 
  • Can a tonal language make you more musical? 
  • Handy YouTube Playlist of The Joyce Theater Fall '13/Winter '14 Season 
  • The Unspoken Key To Finding Meaningful Work 
  • AIGA | Aquent Survey of Design Salaries 
  • Why Productive People Take Better Notes 
  • Why Citizen Developers Are The Future Of Programming 
  • Entrepreneur Mike Sellers Advice For New Startups 
  • 8 ways to deal with change (based on the habits of successful changemakers) 
  • Recommended: Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits 
  • 10 Lifehacks from 100 Years Ago 
  • Stunning Maps of 3 Billion Tweets Reveal iPhone vs. Android Neighborhoods 
  • Interesting Facts About 10 National Anthems
  • Meditation In Action: A 10-Step Mindfulness Practice For Better Sleep 
  • Sleep Critically Affects Childhood Brain Development 
  • In Argentina, Coca-Cola Tests Market For 'Green' Coke 
  • 10 of the Most Cryptic Texts in the World 
  • Made by Hand: The Cigar Shop 
  • Odd Facts About Twitter Hashtags During Major World Events 
  • When You've Done Enough, Do More 
  • Cosmos: Science, curiosity and wonder have a new host 
  • A non-tech guide to launching your website 
  • Design Boom interviews Paula Scher 
  • Recommended: Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work 
  • Interactive Infographic: World's Biggest Data Breaches & Hacks - Information Is Beautiful 
  • 22 Odd Ads From National Geographic Magazine in the 1910s 
  • 7 Ways The Utensils You Use Change The Taste Of Food 
  • The Globe takes Shakespeare's war plays to their real-life locations. 
  • Amazon launches comic-book imprint with adaptations of George R. R. Martin, Neal Stephenson 
  • Ignorance & intolerance destroyed Alan Turing despite all that we owed him. Finally to be given posthumous pardon 
  • 8 Things You Didn't Know About Nikola Tesla 
  • Does Art Help the Economy? 
  • Never Be Bored on a Business Trip Again 
  • The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE 
  • Scientists Get Best View Yet of the Structure of Glass 
  • Stolen Picasso 'burned in stove' in Romania 
  • 'The Cuckoo’s Calling': The Science That Uncovered J.K. Rowling's Literary Hocus-Pocus 
  • 5 Tips For Creatives From Lee Clow And George Lois 
  • My friends I urge you to read and share this: Thoughts For The Young Oddballs We Need So Badly 
  • 8 Things You Didn't Know About Nikola Tesla 
  • What Makes You Put Down a Book? 
  • The 7-Word Autobiographies of Famous Writers, Artists, Musicians, and Philosophers 
  • Why Do Babies Twitch in Their Sleep? (Adorable Video Edition) 
  • Set Aside 5% of Your Time For Your “Slow-Cooked” Ideas 
  • How Reading Makes Us More Human 
  • Artists Reinventing the Museum, A Google Art Talk with Sam Durant 
  • The Large Hadron Collider in pictures: using big technology to investigate tiny things 
  • Similar to NYT, The Guardian releases a fantastic interactive article. Brilliant journalism & development: Firestorm 
  • What kind of procrastinator are you? 
  • Gregory Beyer: 'Thou Common Whore of Mankind,' & Other Shakespeare Lines About our Messed-Up Relationship with Money 
  • What happens when old school games go face to face with new school characters? 
  • Becoming a Better Judge of People 
  • The Non-Designer's Essential Glossary of Web Design Terms 
  • How To Prepare For A Salary Negotiation: A Check List 
  • Recommended: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative By Austin Kleon 
  • Yes, Kickstarter raises more money for artists than the NEA. Here’s why that’s not really surprising 

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.