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The Week's Links: January 17, 2014

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