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The Week's Links: August 16, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • 50 Designers’ Desks: Part 1 
  • Intel, Apple and Others Rethink How We Watch TV 
  • Infographic: The Amount Of Online Activity That Goes On Every 60 Seconds 
  • The Very Concrete Place Where The Cloud Lives 
  • The Secret To Forming Super Productive Habits 
  • First Principles of Interaction Design 
  • A collection of resources for wireframes 
  • Hands-on with Disney Research's AIREAL haptic feedback technology (video) 
  • US telecom agency issues draft mobile app code of conduct with guidelines for user data collection 
  • Most Of The Things You Worry About Never Happen 
  • 10 Reasons To Love Science with Neil deGrasse Tyson 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of August 12, 2013 
  • Recommended: Where Good Ideas Come From 
  • When a thing you just found out about suddenly seems to crop up everywhere. There's a Name for That: 
  • Great interview: Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 211, William Gibson 
  • What It's Like To Drop 150,000 Feet Straight Down 
  • The Best Books on Writing, NYC, Animals, and More: A Papercraft Diorama in Collaboration with the NY Public Library 
  • The Perfect Workspace (According to Science) 
  • Not Even Silicon Valley Escapes History 
  • CSS Typography cheat sheet 
  • Meditation & Resisting Urges 
  • Jane ni Dhulchaointigh: The Magic Is in The Process 
  • Mass. girl, 9, becomes youngest US chess master 
  • A List of Movie Poster Clichés 
  • Recommended: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative 
  • Fantastic conversation: MIT Media Lab Conversations Series - IDEO's David and Tom Kelley 
  • Theatre Artists Now Kickstarting Their Projects 
  • Spike Lee Shares His NYU Teaching List of 87 Essential Films Every Aspiring Director Should See 
  • TED-Ed: How to take a great picture - Carolina Molinari 
  • The "Best" TV Commercials of the 50s and 60s 
  • These Kindergarten Kids Aren’t Just Playing With Colored Blocks—They’re Coding 
  • How Stories Change Your Brain 
  • A Harvard Economist's Surprisingly Simple Productivity Secret 
  • 8 iOS Developers Who Revolutionized The App Store 
  • Royal Shakespeare Company: Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2 
  • Recommended: Creators on Creating: Awakening and Cultivating the Imaginative Mind 
  • The Art of Silence 
  • Top 10 Iconic Data Graphics 
  • Famous Directors and Their Famous Music Video Muses 
  • Top 10 Websites to Learn Coding (Interactively) Online 
  • The Creativity of Web Design, Indie Video Games and Fans 
  • City of London calls halt to smartphone tracking bins 
  • 'This Did Something Powerful to Me': Authors' Favorite First Lines of Books 
  • The best games of the year so far 
  • Happy Podcasting 
  • Howard Goodall's Story of Music, A Six-Part Series 
  • Recommended: The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World 
  • At the intersection of journalism, data science, and digital media: How can j-schools prep students for the world? 
  • Feel a "Phantom Vibration" of Your Phone? You're Probably Stressed. 
  • The Mistake Smart People Make: Being In Motion vs. Taking Action 
  • In the World of Ideas, Place Matters 
  • Make Your Side Projects Wildly Successful: Treat Them Like Experiments 
  • Alexandre Dumas on the 3 Types of Appetites, 3 Types of Gluttony, and Perfect Number of Dinner Guests 
  • Diagnosing (And Curing) Your Communication Issues 
  • A Logaritmical Spiral Appears Around a Wet Tennis Ball Photographed by Arvin Rahimzadeh 
  • Humans tame light, stop it from moving for a full minute 
  • Rare 1960s Audio: Stanley Kubrick’s Big Interview with The New Yorker 
  • The History of Philosophy, from 600 B.C.E. to 1935, Visualized in Two Massive, 44-Foot High Diagrams 
  • How to make a newly learned word 'stick' 
  • The Science Behind How We Learn New Skills 
  • 'Friend,' as a Verb, Is 800 Years Old - Technology 
  • How to Destroy Priceless Works of Art (and how to save them) 
  • 62 of the World's Most Beautiful Libraries 
  • Young children are spending more and more time with digital technology. What will it mean for their development? 
  • Toy Place, A Documentary About the Vintage Toy Collection of the Vermont Toy Museum 
  • The Happiest People Pursue the Most Difficult Problems 
  • Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work? 
  • Why You Like What You Like 
  • Inside Google's Secret Lab 
  • Revisiting Oliver Burkeman on why everything takes longer than you think 
  • What Makes a Risk-Taker: New Research Shows Often-Cautious People Become Daredevils in Right Context 
  • The 20 Most Beautiful Libraries on Film and TV 
  • The Origin of Tweet