The Week's Links: January 17, 2014

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All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • Conference Calendar - A simple calendar for web and digital conferences http://owl.li/svilm
  • Read 700 Free eBooks Made Available by the University of California Press http://owl.li/sviQX
  • Bruce Springsteen, Woody Allen, and the Long Tradition of Hating Your Own Work http://owl.li/svjG7
  • Sleep, it turns out, may play a crucial role in our brain’s physiological maintenance. http://owl.li/svk1h
  • How Is Wind Chill Calculated? http://owl.li/svlqf
  • Evgeny Morozov: Hackers, Makers, and the Next Industrial Revolution- The New Yorker http://owl.li/svlwW
  • It is time to redesign tickets. owl.li/svihT
  • Timeline of the far future owl.li/svfUw
  • AMA: How a Weird Internet Thing Became a Mainstream Delight owl.li/svftf
  • Netflix Earns First Oscar Nomination owl.li/sFcL0
  • Your Brain Can Only Handle a Limited Number of Close Friends owl.li/svflq
  • The More Fires Firefighters Are Exposed to, the More Heat Resistant They Become owl.li/sveVY
  • "The perfect crime is far easier to pull off when nobody is watching." Burglars Who Took On FBI Abandon Shadows owl.li/sveU0
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson and Neil Gaiman on the Secret of Genius owl.li/svbBF
  • Hacking the Concept of Time owl.li/svbdd
  • Vint Cerf goes inside the online revolution in education. owl.li/svb9P
  • This Interactive Map Shows How Far You Could Travel In 24 Hours owl.li/svb0T
  • The Best of Brain Pickings 2013 owl.li/sv5hn
  • The Secret Life of the Radio owl.li/sv5bo
  • 10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World owl.li/suOaC
  • Net neutrality is half-dead: Court strikes down FCC’s anti-blocking rules owl.li/sAR34
  • The Woman Who Could Write, But Couldn't Read owl.li/suNYp
  • Is Quantitative Analysis the Secret to Understanding Culture? owl.li/suNx0
  • Why Anvils are Shaped as They Are owl.li/suNtg
  • A Modest Proposal: Better Criticism, More Art owl.li/suNmo
  • The strange science of how names shape careers owl.li/suNjc
  • A Makeover for Maps owl.li/suNa0
  • Typeface Designer Creates Book That Teaches Toddlers About Typography owl.li/suN3J
  • ◉ A Tap Cover of Beyoncé's "End of Time" by Syncopated Ladies - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/1/14…
  • 4 Ways That IBM’s Watson Could Transform How Humans Think And Make Decisions owl.li/suMT2
  • To Stop Procrastinating, Look to Science of Mood Repair owl.li/suML4
  • Tech we’re looking forward to in 2014: a realist’s guide to CES owl.li/suMiB
  • Half Of A Drug's Power Comes From Thinking It Will Work owl.li/suMhK
  • Benjamin Franklin, Social Media Pioneer owl.li/suM9w
  • Bill Gates: Teachers need real feedback owl.li/suLA3
  • The Unleashed Mind: Why Creative People Are Eccentric owl.li/suLyA
  • The Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark owl.li/suLvl
  • ◉ A brief introduction to 4D printing - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/1/9/…
  • Ultramarathoners Get Better With Age owl.li/suJhw
  • One Year Later, Web Legends Honor Aaron Swartz owl.li/suJgL
  • Astronomers Find What May Be a Star Within a Star owl.li/suJg8
  • Paola Antonelli: Why I brought Pac-Man to MoMA owl.li/suJeO
  • The Science of Motivation: Your Brain on Dopamine owl.li/suJbY
  • Redesigning The Modern Egg Carton owl.li/suJ7j
  • Shaolin Monks in A Stunning Dance on Boxes owl.li/suIWr
  • Interesting story from designer Antony Buonomo on how the “12 Years a Slave” main titles were created. owl.li/suIKD
  • Salvador Dalí’s 100 Illustrations of Dante’s The Divine Comedy owl.li/suHqa
  • A Dance Performance That Features One Dancer and Many Plastic Bags owl.li/suHp0
  • Against All Odds: A Gentle Introduction to Statistics Hosted by Harvard Geneticist Pardis Sabeti (Free Online Course) owl.li/suH0z
  • A Board Game Designed For Classical Music Buffs owl.li/suFWc
  • 11 Things to Re-Think in 2014 owl.li/srhzQ
  • The Keys to Leadership: Your Brain and My Grandmother owl.li/srhgw
  • BBC: Timeline of the far future owl.li/srgYh
  • Websites of the Fortune 100 owl.li/srgJj
  • 35 Perfect Examples of the Art of the Short Story owl.li/srgep
  • The Anthropology Of Walking owl.li/sqVPN
  • At Home In Fantasy's Nerd-Built Worlds owl.li/sqGyX
  • TED-Ed: How to build a fictional world - Kate Messner owl.li/sqGpS
  • Study Shows How Classroom Design Affects Student Learning owl.li/sqEIP
  • Brainteaser: Can an iPad Game Detect Alzheimer’s? owl.li/sqEsG
  • How To Train Your Brain To Master Uncharted Terrain owl.li/sqBSo
  • 12 New Words Added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013 owl.li/sqBCr
  • 100 Years of Rock in Less Than a Minute: From Gospel to Grunge owl.li/spdZc
  • Gorgeous, the best of package design: The Dieline's Top 100 of 2013 owl.li/spdWK
  • Why You Should Learn to Run a Server Before You Learn to Code owl.li/spdRu
  • Migraine Headaches and the Remarkable Power of Placebos owl.li/spdP1
  • ◉ Great Brands And Sci-Fi owl.li/smn6v
  • How I Reconciled My Love for Art and Science owl.li/spcTg
  • Spectacular Shots of Golden Hour Across the World owl.li/spcL9
  • 15 Tech Trends That Will Define 2014, Selected By Frog owl.li/spcId
  • The Bogus Bard: 5 Stories About Shakespeare We Wish Were True owl.li/spcFC
  • People Don’t Make More Friends, They Just Replace Their Old Ones owl.li/smIl0
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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.