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The Week's Links: August 2, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:   

  • Watch 25 Alfred Hitchcock Trailers, Exciting Films in Their Own Right 
  • Design Staff guide to research 
  • Lessons In Creative Productivity From 24-Hour Plays 
  • Amazing: Delicate Cut Leaf Images 
  • Train of Thought Derailed: How an Accident Can Affect Your Brain 
  • Wait, Have I Been Here Before? The Curious Case of Déjà Vu 
  • Why Living in a City Makes You More Innovative 
  • Would you like to be inspired? Here’s what you should do: 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of July 29, 2013 
  • A Brief History of the Baseball 
  • The Origin of the Pilcrow. Better Known as the Strange Paragraph Symbol 
  • 100 Ideas that Changed Fashion 
  • The Story of the First Postage Stamp 
  • What the Handwriting Says About the Artist 
  • Crayola Has At Least 16 Different Names For What Most of Us Would Call ‘Orange’ 
  • Choir Members’ Hearts Beat in Time With Each Other 
  • A New Language Is Being Born in This Remote Australian Village 
  • Entrepreneurs Are Using Instagram to Sell Everything From Sweaters to Sheep 
  • Who Invented The Internet? We Did. 
  • Can You Spot the Mars Rover in This Gorgeous Photo? 
  • The test of first-rate intelligence 
  • The Intended Audience 
  • 100 Ideas that Changed Architecture 
  • A New Surgical Knife Identifies Cancerous Tissue As Doctors Are Cutting It Out 
  • Eric William Carroll's art based on Grand Unified Theories 
  • The National Endowment for the Arts 2012 Annual Report is now online. 
  • Disney's Crazy Invention Lets You Feel Phantom Objects Floating In Air 
  • Ten Things You Need to Know About the Publicis-Omnicom Merger 
  • New York Times elevates comments from below the line 
  • How to Build a Better Marketing Budget 
  • Design Wants to Be Free 
  • Millions of words and only six emotions 
  • Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe 
  • 100 Ideas that Changed Photography 
  • What Are Neuromarketers Really Selling? 
  • Brilliant take by The New Yorker: Gary Shteyngart- Confessions of a Google Glass Explorer 
  • Joss Whedon on The Nerdist. Enough said. 
  • NASA has a great collection of ebooks about space, science, aeronautics, and the history of science. 
  • BBC launches User Experience Research Partnership 
  • Data.gov redesign preview modernizes public data delivery 
  • So You Want To Write A Digital Strategy? 
  • How to Travel: 21 Contrarian Rules 
  • Anil Dash's 10 Rules of Internet 
  • Proving the skeptics wrong 
  • Visualizing the Infinite Beauty of Pi 
  • The making of a Steinway grand piano 
  • Even J. K. Rowling Has To Deal With Fear And Change 
  • The History of Western Architecture: From Ancient Greece to Rococo (A Free Online Course) 
  • Magazines of Stuff: Embracing the Physical in the Digital Age 
  • And Answers 
  • Troubleshooting CSS 
  • Revolutionary discovery: Colonists’ 1767 petition uncovered in a Harvard library foreshadows the split with Britain 
  • 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design 
  • Understanding and marketing to the first global generation 
  • Doctors: Where pagers haven't gone extinct yet 
  • Lovely: Redesigned ‘Harry Potter’ Posters Give Movie Franchise New Look 
  • Super useful tools for CSS coding 
  • The Rise of UX Leadership - Robert Fabricant 
  • Diane von Furstenberg and Jack Dorsey talk influences, parents, and whether or not they'd make good employees 
  • Publicis And Omnicom To Merge, Creating World's Biggest Advertising Company 
  • 12 Famous Writers on Literary Rejection 
  • Leonardo da Vinci the Foodie? 
  • Imagineer Rolly Crump on Designing Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland 
  • Day in the Life at Dropbox: Rasmus Andersson 
  • The New Multi-Screen World Study – Think Insights – Google 
  • About Face: Emotions and Facial Expressions May Not Be Directly Related 
  • Questionable: Shakespeare's canon to be reworked by authors in "cover" novels. 
  • Dark UX: The Elements of The Video Gambling Experience, Used To Fool You 
  • Interesting: Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People 
  • We Need a Better Symbol for the Concept of Saving Stuff 
  • Whole human brain mapped in 3D 
  • Yes, Kickstarter raises more money for artists than the NEA. Here’s why that’s not really surprising: 
  • Do You Know What You’re Good At? (with Sir Ken Robinson) 
  • Marshall McLuhan's Four Innovation Fundamentals 
  • Really enjoying the design of the newly launched Nautilus online magazine. 
  • One Thing I Know: hard-earned insights from creative leaders 
  • So great: Sketching Out of My Comfort Zone: A Type Design Experiment 
  • The Greatest American Novel? 9 Experts Share Their Opinions 
  • Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought 
  • Banished Words 
  • Six people tell the NYTimes why they work in dance. 
  • Herman Miller is working on reinventing your workplace with something they call the Living Office. 
  • Yes! Sandman author Neil Gaiman ventures into gaming with Wayward Manor 

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