The Week's Links: August 30, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

• The Surprising Complexity of Lobster Prices ➞
• More Is More: Why the Paradox of Choice Might Be a Myth ➞
  
• Inside an orchestra's audition: Boston Magazine's The Audition ➞
  
• Does digital technology help theatre – or hinder it? ➞
  
• “Prequalifying Clients,” an article by Dan Mall ➞
  
• The Rad New Words Added to the Dictionary in the '90s: Where Are They Now? ➞
  
• Another article with a great layout: This Man Has a Train, an Army of Artists, and an Entire Nation for a Gallery ➞
  
• The Career-Advancing Secrets Of 3 People With Awesome Careers ➞
  
• An Ode To Creative Work, By Behance ◉
  
• Rebranding A NYC Bookstore To Evoke The Golden Age Of Travel ➞
  
• Become More Data-Driven by Breaking These Bad Habits - Thomas C. Redman ➞
  
• Ogilvy Chief Data Officer Role May Be Sign of Things to Come ➞
  
• Infographic: America's Strongest And Weakest Coffee Makers ➞
  
• The Art of the Dollar: Meticulous Currency Collages by Mark Wagner ➞
  
• Great Resource: Butterick’s Practical Typography ➞
  
• Love this: Type Hunting ➞
  
• Brown University creates first wireless, implanted brain-computer interface ➞
  
• A year inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 7 - The mid-year review ◉
  
• Welcome to the “Internet of Things,” where even lights aren’t hacker safe ➞
  
• App, Secret Sites Create The Immersive World Of Novel 'Night Film' ➞
  
• The Computer That Put Men on the Moon ➞
  
• 15 Companies That Originally Sold Something Else ➞
  
• A Curious Inspiration for the First Stethoscope ➞
  
• CoreBrand Names Top Ten Most And Least Respected Brands Of The Year ➞
  
• The danger of comparing ourselves to others — and how to stop ➞
  
• Backstage At The Metropolitan Opera ◉
  
• How to Track the Life of a Story With Twitter Analytics ➞
  
• Uncharted territory: amateur cartographers fight to put their communities on the map ➞
  
• How the Egyptian Pyramids Were Built: A New Theory in 3D Animation ➞
  
• Two Things Experts Do Differently Than Non-Experts When Practicing ➞
  
• The Real Neuroscience of Creativity ➞
  
• Adam Savage's Ten Rules for Success ➞
  
• The Rijksmuseum Puts 125,000 Dutch Masterpieces Online, and Lets You Remix Its Art ➞
  
• Watch Picasso Create Entire Paintings in Magnificent Time-Lapse Film (1956) ➞
  
• Fun: Ballet dancers in random situations ➞
  
• No one ever bought anything on an elevator ◉
  
• Free Philip K. Dick: Download 13 Great Science Fiction Stories ➞
  
• Every Child Is An Artist ➞
  
• The Human Body, An Educational App for Exploring a Working Model of Human Anatomy ➞
  
• Infographic: An Amazing Atlas of the World Wide Web ➞
  
• The Getty Puts 4600 Art Images Into the Public Domain (and There’s More to Come) ➞
  
• Lego Architecture Studio Brings Modernism to the Play Room ➞
  
• Why Mosquitoes Like You and Not Me ➞
  
• Release: Immersive and Interactive Digital Media Programs to Receive Emmys ➞
  
• Why do new plays feel like tv shows? ➞
  
• Alfred Hitchcock’s 50 Ways to Kill a Character (and Our Favorite Hitch Resources on the Web)  ➞
  
• WSJ's Wireless Savings Calculator ➞
  
• Type Hunting Offers a Look at Some Great Vintage Typography ➞
  
• TED-Ed: A brief history of video games (Part I) - Safwat Saleem ➞
  
• You Are Bad At Assessing People (But So Is Everybody Else) ➞
  
• Our Social Brains ➞
  
• The 11 Worst Sounds in the World ➞
  
• Beyond Sheer Brainpower ➞
  
• 10 Miniature Books We Covet ➞
  
• Shawn Blanc: How I Self-Published My Book - including the tools he used. ➞
  
• Making connections in the eye: Wiring diagram of retinal neurons is first step toward mapping the human brain. ➞
  
• The Science Behind the Netflix Algorithms That Decide What You'll Watch Next ➞
  
• IBM's Made A Programming Language Like The One Your Brain Would Use ➞