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The Week's Links: August 23, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • Why Elmore Leonard matters 
  • Turn Your Career into a Work of Art 
  • Every Second on the Internet 
  • 50 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novels That Everyone Should Read 
  • Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia' at Twenty : The New Yorker 
  • 50 Great Director Cameos in Other Directors’ Movies 
  • How Chocolate Keeps Your Brain Healthy 
  • Making Magic with Pixar: Maker Camp Field Trip 2013 
  • Well played Belize, well played: Belize Reacts to Unflattering Mention on Breaking Bad 
  • Nike Tests Your Limits as It Redefines 'Just Do It' at 25 
  • MIT Algorithm Cuts ER Wait by 40 Minutes 
  • Recommended: Smart Thinking: Three Essential Keys to Solve Problems, Innovate, and Get Things Done 
  • Radiolab: A Cultural History of Giving Blood 
  • Brand New: Fall 2013 Best and Worst College Logos 
  • This Is How Your Brain Becomes Addicted to Caffeine 
  • 11 Strange Science Lessons We Learned This Summer 
  • The Science of Champagne, the Bubbling Wine Created By Accident 
  • The Story of the First Postage Stamp 
  • The Secret to National Geographic's Maps Is an 80-Year-Old Font 
  • These Ocean Waves Look Like Liquid Sculptures 
  • The Effect of Color 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of August 19, 2013 
  • Leonardo Da Vinci's Studies on the Science of Flight Come to the Air and Space Museum 
  • Recommended: Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire  
  • What Happens When You Test the Prisoner’s Dilemma on Prisoners 
  • These Kindergarten Kids Aren’t Just Playing With Colored Blocks—They’re Coding 
  • This Artist Wants to Print Out the Internet 
  • Take a Tour Through the Computer Museum of 1983 
  • When Life Knocks You Down, It Takes About Two Years to Get Back Up 
  • WRITERS ON WRITING; Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle by Elmore Leonard 
  • Talking Robot to Keep Japanese Astronaut Company at the ISS 
  • These 1,397 Asteroids Are Pretty Darn Close to Earth, But NASA’s Not Worried 
  • Kids Trust Nice People Over Smart People 
  • Rarely Seen Maps From San Francisco's Quirkiest Hidden Library 
  • Craig Mod on Intertwingularity and the "User Experience" of Printed Publications 
  • What You Need to Be an Innovative Educator 
  • Making Magic with Pixar: Maker Camp Field Trip 2013 
  • Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany 
  • How to Break the Habits that Get You Stuck 
  • Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 - NYTimes.com 
  • Recommended: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are 
  • Study: Why We Evolved to Love Music 
  • 10 tools to create or break habits 
  • 6 Secrets Of Super Productive To-Do Lists 
  • Pixar's John Lasseter on Steve Jobs, Creativity, and Disney Infinity 
  • The 25 Best Websites for Literature Lovers 
  • Yale University Press Releases App Version of 'Interaction of Color' 
  • What Is It About People That Are Right A Lot 
  • Happy Podcasting 
  • Free: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Offer 474 Free Art Catalogues Online 
  • Recommended: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead 
  • Is There A Connection Between Dancing And Vocal Learning? 
  • The History of the World in 46 Lectures From Columbia University 
  • WATCH: The Surprising Reason We Find Babies Cute 
  • 5 forgotten Grimm's fairytales 
  • 12 Amazing Staircases Around the World 
  • Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead 
  • Pay It Forward: Why Generosity Is The Key To Success 
  • This Fun Tool Teaches Kids To Program With Pictures 
  • Stanley Kubrick's fave films 
  • 100 And Single: How The Hot 100 Became America's Hit Barometer 
  • Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche: Three Philosophers in Three Hours 
  • Making Time for the Arts 
  • The art of hand lettering 
  • 3-Step Approach to Simplifying Your Life 
  • Subscriptions: Kickstarter Before Kickstarter 
  • 2013 Summer HD Festival, ten days of free Live in HD presentations at Lincoln Center starting 8/24 
  • Kindergarten coders can program before they can read 
  • A collection of resources for wireframes 
  • First Principles of Interaction Design 
  • The Secret To Forming Super Productive Habits 
  • The Very Concrete Place Where The Cloud Lives 
  • Infographic: The Amount Of Online Activity That Goes On Every 60 Seconds 
  • Intel, Apple and Others Rethink How We Watch TV