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The Week's Links: September 6, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • Remembering the Spark That Ignited a Creative Fire 
  • From Collaborative Coding to Wedding Invitations: GitHub Is Going Mainstream 
  • 10 Simple Postures That Boost Performance 
  • An Oral History Of Apple Design: 1992 
  • 3 inspiring TEDx Talks on happiness at work 
  • FBI’s “Vault” Web Site Reveals Declassified Files on Hemingway, Einstein, Marilyn & Other Icons 
  • 5,000-Year-Old Gaming Pieces Found In Turkey 
  • Top 10 Fastest Supercomputers In The World 
  • The New York Times (quietly) drops the F-bomb 
  • Australian archive says 1996 pop art-inspired version of Shakespeare was first movie created for the internet 
  • Should We Teach Literature Students How To Analyze Texts Algorithmically? 
  • Inside The Mind Of A Chef 
  • Pumpkin Spice Latte, the Drink That Almost Wasn’t 
  • Marissa Mayer's notes on the new Yahoo logo: Geeking Out on the Logo 
  • A New App Tells A Neverending Bedtime Story, Of A Kid's Own Design 
  • Very cool: Concert Master - A new way to choose a classical concert 
  • Big Think: The 7 Most Popular Ideas of Summer 2013 
  • A Big Bach Download: The Complete Organ Works for Free 
  • LOUD 
  • Recommended: Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager 
  • Study: To The Human Brain, Me Is We 
  • Interesting: E-Books Could Be The Future Of Social Media 
  • The future of handwriting 
  • Ancient Pottery Fragments Show That Prehistoric Humans Used Spices Too 
  • The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life 
  • 10 Things We've Learned About Learning 
  • Think You're Doing a Good Job? Not If the Algorithms Say You're Not 
  • A WWII Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark 
  • Slurred Lines: Great Cocktail Moments in Famous Literature 
  • How the Coffee Cup Sleeve Was Invented 
  • These Ocean Waves Look Like Liquid Sculptures 
  • What Digitization Will Do for the Future of Museums 
  • A Little Music Training In Childhood Goes A Long Way 
  • See the Greatest Architecture in 36 Different European Cities in This One, Gorgeous Time-Lapse 
  • Kids Trust Nice People Over Smart People 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of September 2, 2013 
  • Recommended: The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance 
  • Getty Just Made 4,600 Incredible Images Free to Download and Use 
  • Hide And Seek Might Be Good for Kids’ Brains 
  • These Complex, Beautiful Board Game Pieces Are 5,000 Years Old 
  • To Exercise More, Sleep More First 
  • Computer Programmer Creates Beautiful Watercolor Paintings With Code 
  • Boston Children’s Hospital Once Relied on the Opera to Power X-Rays 
  • Just A Little Meditation Causes Brain-Wave Changes 
  • Haters May Have a Natural Disposition to Hate 
  • The Arecibo Observatory: Beyond The Big Dreams 
  • Recommended: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action 
  • New Element 115 May Finally Be Added to the Periodic Table 
  • Guilt Is Contagious 
  • Why Do We Cry When We’re Happy? 
  • Museum Day Live! 9/28/13 Download a ticket for free admission to over 1,500 museums nationwide 
  • The Insane and Exciting Future of the Bionic Body 
  • What Your Favorite Book Looks Like in Colors 
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Seven-Minute Editing Master Class 
  • How An Arcane Coding Method From 1970s Banking Software Could Save The Sanity Of Web Developers Everywhere 
  • How To Find Inspiration In The Age Of Information Overload 
  • Give Yourself Vertigo Plunging Into Hitchcock's Cinematic Obsessions 
  • The 60-Second Guide To How Flashcards Actually Work 
  • What Causes Nightmares? 
  • 10 Things We've Learned About Learning 
  • How Do You Rebrand a Country? A look at Japan’s attempt to call itself “cool” 
  • Vladimir Nabokov Creates a Hand-Drawn Map of James Joyce’s Ulysses 
  • Fantastic: Every Movie Poster that Saul Bass Ever Made 
  • How To Build a High-Performing Digital Team - Perry Hewitt 
  • Unblocked: A Guide To Making Things People Love (Part 1) 
  • A Look at How Agency Compensation Has Changed 
  • Stunning Paper Birds from Diana Beltrán Herrera 
  • Airborne: Jose the Amazing photos by Chris Arnade 
  • Engine: The History of a Concept, From 14th-Century Poetry to Google 
  • 40 maps that explain the world 
  • Here's What Really Happens When You Extend a Deadline - Heidi Grant Halvorson 
  • Amazing: Incredibly Detailed Close-Ups of Van Gogh’s Masterpieces 
  • Ha!: Scientists determine the formula for perfect melted cheese on toast 
  • Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators 
  • 50 Science Fiction/Fantasy Films That Everyone Should See 
  • The Writing Tools of 20 Famous Authors 
  • 10 Hollywood Hits Inspired By Magazine and Newspaper Articles 
  • How This Brain Scientist Used Video Game Tech To Break New Ground 
  • Digital magazines: how popular are they? 
  • Edinburgh international book festival sees rise of author-as-performer 
  • Just A Little Meditation Causes Brain-Wave Changes 
  • Pre-Raphaelite mural discovered in William Morris's Red House 
  • Communicating Across Species: Jonathon Keats' Honeybee Ballet 
  • The Plight of the Honeybee 
  • For the Met, Opera History Lives in a Newark Parking Lot 
  • Design Better And Faster With Rapid Prototyping 
  • The Surprising Complexity of Lobster Prices