The Week's Links: September 13, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

• Metropolis Restored: Watch a New Version of Fritz Lang’s Masterpiece ➞
• Performing Shakespeare’s plays with their original English accent ➞
  
• The Learning Dead: AMC's Zombie Show Spins Off Online Survival Course ➞
  
• How Video Games Can Stop Cognitive Decline ➞
  
• Wait, What's That? The Science Behind Why Your Mind Keeps Wandering ➞
  
• Penguin Gives New Looks To Books That Influenced J.R.R. Tolkien ➞
  
• Will Shortz, NYT's Crosswords Editor, on How a Crossword is Made ◉
  
• Recommended: The Creative Process Illustrated: How Advertising's Big Ideas Are Born ◉
  
• Psychology Today: New research suggests that American schoolchildren are becoming less creative. ➞
  
• Creativity Top 5: Week of September 9, 2013 ◉
  
• A History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in 100 Riffs ➞
  
• Can The "GitHub For Science" Convince Researchers To Open-Source Their Data? ➞
  
• To Preserve Digital Design, The Smithsonian Begins Collecting Apps ➞
  
• Useful: Just Delete Me | A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services. ➞
  
• Your Brain by the Numbers ◉
  
• Hear the Isolated Vocal Tracks for The Beatles’ Climactic 16-Minute Medley on Abbey Road ➞
  
• Recommended: Where the Suckers Moon: The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign ◉
  
• Worthwhile Stories ◉
  
• The 10 Greatest Films of All Time According to 846 Film Critics ➞
  
• Why Do Our Best Ideas Come to Us in the Shower? ➞
  
• Videogame May Help Rejuvenate Elderly Brains ➞
  
• Design Fail: Why Isn't There A Standard Way To Swipe A Credit Card? ➞
  
• How Do You Raise a Prodigy? ◉
  
• Disney Brainstorming Method: Dreamer, Realist, and Spoiler ➞
  
• Recommended: Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Advertising ◉
  
• Worthwhile Stories ◉
  
• Creative Destruction ◉
  
• Taking Control of Contracts: What Every Creative Should Know ➞
  
• Why is the 'new' Van Gogh painting significant? ➞
  
• The Evolutionary Case for Great Fiction ➞
  
• Watch The Amazing 1912 Animation of Stop-Motion Pioneer Ladislas Starevich, Starring Dead Bugs ➞
  
• The Perfect Nap: Sleeping Is a Mix of Art and Science ➞
  
• The Icon in the Costume Shop: Valentino at NYC Ballet ◉
  
• Recommended: Confessions of an Advertising Man ◉
  
• Google had an M&M problem. This is how they dealt with it. ➞
  
• In praise of laziness ◉
  
• Five Incredible—and Real—Mind Control Applications ➞
  
• MACH - A computer that teaches people how to be social. ➞
  
• In historic vote, New Zealand bans software patents ➞
  
• How news spread - BREAKING: American Colonies Declare Independence ➞
  
• Chemical weapons and the scientists who make them ➞
  
• Van Gogh’s own words after cutting his ear recorded in Paris newspaper ➞
  
• Study: Artists Report Higher Than Usual Job Satisfaction ➞
  
• Brian De Palma's use of dance in film. ➞
  
• Classical Music Leadership for the 21st Century: Marin Alsop's speech at the Last Night of the Proms *APPLAUSE* ➞
  
• Fantastic: New Old Stock - VINTAGE PHOTOS FROM THE PUBLIC ARCHIVES FREE OF KNOWN COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS. ➞
• Useful resource: jsPDF - A HTML5 client-side solution for generating PDFs. ➞
• Mobile in museums: tips and advice from the experts ➞
• The CRM Of The Future Will Recommend New Customers To You Automatically ➞
• The More Things Change, the More Our Objections to Change Stay the Same - Bill Taylor ➞
• Could Google Be an Economic Magic 8-Ball? ➞
• Why We Lose Our Days To Unproductive Tasks ➞
• 10 Fascinating Facts About The Hidden Industry That Touches 90% Of What You Own ➞
• An Oral History Of Apple Design: 2001 ➞
• Art of the Title: Designer Saul Bass collaborates with Director Otto Preminger. ➞
• Tips for Applicants to the NEA’s Research: Art Works Program ➞
• How Much Sleep Do You Need? Sleep Cycles & Stages, Lack of Sleep, and How to Get the Hours You Need ➞
• 18 (Free) Books Ernest Hemingway Wished He Could Read Again for the First Time ➞
• The Internet Explained By Prisoners Who Have Never Seen It ➞
• 7 Storytelling Reasons Why Innovation Fails ➞
• Netflix for books: Oyster - A Gorgeous New App Offering Unlimited Books for $9.95 a Month ➞
• A couple of these surprised me: 10 Famous Books With Lesser-Known Subtitles ➞
• Get To Know NYC Ballet ◉
• Should We Teach Literature Students How To Analyze Texts Algorithmically? ➞
• Australian archive says 1996 pop art-inspired version of Shakespeare was first movie created for the internet ➞
• Recommended: Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries ◉
• The New York Times (quietly) drops the F-bomb ➞