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The Week's Links: September 20, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:   

  • Disney Created A Microphone That Turns Your Body Into A Walkie-Talkie 
  • Alexis Madrigal: Why Startups Need To Solve Real Problems Again 
  • Marketing Your Arts Organization on Social Media: 7 Thought-Starters for Creating an Effective Strategy 
  • Broadway Woos Audiences With New Mobile Ticketing Options 
  • How the Color Red Changes Our Brains 
  • “How can they be so good?”: The strange story of Skype 
  • Hello art world: Smithsonian acquires first piece of code for design collection 
  • The Feynman Lectures on Physics 
  • Drone Gives Campus Tours To MIT Students 
  • Google Translate Has Ambitious Goals for Machine Translation 
  • Despite a decade of improvements, visual effects in film remain a less than perfect deception 
  • How to never forget the name of someone you just met: The science of memory 
  • How Zynga went from social gaming powerhouse to has-been 
  • Recommended: What the Great Ate: A Curious History of Food and Fame 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of September 16, 2013 
  • Inside The Mind Of A Chef - It's now available on Netflix 
  • 10 Big Lessons from HackFwd 
  • The Five Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done  More on Schumpeter 
  • Monty Hall problem: The probability puzzle that makes your head melt 
  • Keep Your Social Networking Out Of My Book 
  • The Real Problem With Neuroscience Today 
  • Recommended: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much 
  • When Memorization Gets in the Way of Learning 
  • Nuance: A Dance Battle 
  • 10 Surprising Facts About How Our Brains Work 
  • How Did Our Brains Get So Brilliant? 
  • The Middle Finger: A Brief History 
  • Margaret Atwood on books: “Push comes to shove, they’re great insulating material” 
  • Tuition Aid From a Zombie Elf 
  • How Three Non-Designers Made The Most Beautiful Weather App We've Ever Seen 
  • What's the Status of Your Relationship With Innovation? 
  • René Magritte’s Early Art Deco Advertising Posters, 1924-1927 
  • Can Emotional Intelligence Be Taught? 
  • Smithsonian Magazine: Vote for the Winner of the 2013 People's Design Award - People's Design Award 
  • Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend 
  • Bad Robot Meets MIT Media Lab: In Conversation With JJ Abrams 
  • Recommended: The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession 
  • What's the Point of Creativity? 
  • A short history of the Pixar logo animation 
  • Storytelling Ads May Be Journalism’s New Peril 
  • The Chronicle of Philanthropy: September Is Boom Time for Donors, Google Says 
  • A Brief History of the Hashtag, and Other Unusual Punctuation Marks 
  • Mary Beard 'Confronts' The Classics With Wit And Style 
  • Airbnb Debuts First-ever Film Created On Vine via Mullen and B-Reel 
  • Pantone Unveils 2014 Fashion Color Report 
  • Elephants in the Room of Creativity and Innovation Talk 
  • Elmore Leonard: 10 Rules 
  • Games That Teach Programming: A Brief Overview 
  • Recommended: Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! 
  • Microsoft Donates Office 365 To Charitable Nonprofits 
  • The Evolution of the Modern Day Calendar 
  • The magic of a clear specification 
  • A Brief History of Data Revolutions in Economics 
  • iconic logo designers - an inspiring collection of graphic design talent 
  • The History and Psychology of Clowns Being Scary 
  • UIBox - Curated HTML, CSS, JS UI Component Library 
  • Nike Knits A Giant Sneaker Billboard In Real-Time To Show Off New Shoe Material 
  • Murder on the dancefloor: what I learned about marketing from being a bad DJ 
  • Please Stop Complaining About How Busy You Are 
  • Zen And The Art Of Constructive Conversations 
  • 8 Epic Photographs Showing the Same Tiny House 
  • Julie Taymor and other creative minds on how they work 
  • Julie Taymor: Spider-Man, The Lion King and life on the creative edge 
  • Bach’s Musical Offering forwards and backwards. 
  • The brains behind research on the brain 
  • A Brief History Of Modern Architecture Through Movies 
  • 50 Creative Ideas To Make Better Cities, Presented On Gorgeously Designed Posters 
  • Reasons You Need A Nap : NPR 
  • Met Museum Concert Series Expands into Galleries for 2013-14 Season 
  • Understanding Our Gut Microbes Could Lead to New Medicines 
  • Brilliant: Fiona Apple and Chipotle channel Willy Wonka to slam factory farming 
  • 20 Directors to Watch - NYTimes.com 
  • A Lone Bandit and the Mystery of France's Greatest Diamond Heist 
  • Transmedia LA Launches Transmedia U 
  • The Last Words of 20 Cultural Icons 
  • How To Read Way More Books (And, Thus, Know Way More Stuff) 
  • 10 Theatre Productions to Look Forward to This Fall 
  • So You Think You're Creative? 
  • Recommended: The Idea Writers: Copywriting in a New Media and Marketing Era 
  • When Work Is Challenging, Economies Thrive - Justin Fox 
  • Wait, What's That? The Science Behind Why Your Mind Keeps Wandering