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The Week's Links: January 24, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • Russell Foster: Why do we sleep? http://owl.li/sJrdZ
  • Do what you love, love what you do: An omnipresent mantra that’s bad for work and workers. http://owl.li/sJwsY
  • The Brian Lehrer Show: A Running List of What We Know the NSA Can Do. So Far. http://owl.li/sJEcB
  • An Illustrated Account of the Great Maple Syrup Heist http://owl.li/sJEA2
  • What Makes a 'Super Successful' Company? owl.li/sJraP
  • The Untold Tale of Pow!, the Fourth Rice Krispies Elf owl.li/sJqXz
  • What Reviewers Said About the First Mac When It Debuted 30 Years Ago owl.li/sUw7m
  • '1984' 30 Years Later: A brief history of Apple's instantly iconic Super Bowl spot. owl.li/sTCZm
  • An Eyeful of Sound: Top Five Multisensory Performances owl.li/sJqUq
  • The Fascinating Origins of 10 Everyday Color Words owl.li/sJqR2
  • ◉ Oliver Sacks On Rediscovery, Memory And Autoplagiarism owl.li/sLD76
  • There Really Is a Conference Where Nerds Study Videogame Music owl.li/sJqOk
  • Watch: A 2-Minute Animation Of Stephen Hawking's Big Ideas owl.li/sJqG6
  • What scientific idea is ready for retirement? | Edge.org owl.li/sIIlz
  • David Lynch interviewed by Mike Figgis owl.li/sIIdJ
  • Read this: Jonathan Harris Navigating Stuckness owl.li/sHLXy
  • How to Check If Your Accounts Have Been Hacked owl.li/sHLKT
  • 11 Simple Ways to Improve Your Memory owl.li/sHLn3
  • Can You Answer These 10 Oddball Job Interview Questions Asked at America’s Top Tech Companies? owl.li/sHLfP
  • What High Schoolers Should Be Reading owl.li/sHL9d
  • 12 Easy Ways to Make Life Simple Again owl.li/sHL3v
  • Target Got Hacked Hard in 2005. Here's Why They Let It Happen Again - Threat Level - Wired.com owl.li/sHKQ7
  • 4 Fundraising Goals for 2014 - Fundraising Fundamentals - The Chronicle of Philanthropy owl.li/sHKMt
  • ◉ How Can We Alleviate The Feeling Of Running Out Of Time? Experience Awe owl.li/sLD1p
  • The Verge takes a look at the smartphone "wars": Inside the mind of a fanboy. owl.li/sQhlT
  • ◉ Is Classical Music Culturally Relevant? - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/1/20…
  • Disturbing: Requirements for DRM in HTML5 are a secret owl.li/sGTdb
  • The Experiment That Forever Changed How We Think About Reality owl.li/sGLkY
  • How to Motivate a Young Musician owl.li/sGLcO
  • The History of Popular Music, According to Google owl.li/sGK2n
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos' reboot hits FOX on March 9th owl.li/sGwJh
  • The art therapy secret is out: doodling is good for you. owl.li/sFkEt
  • ◉ Goals And Plans owl.li/sLCSk
  • In Memory Of Colby, The L.A. Print Shop That Made Posters For Jimi Hendrix, The Sex Pistols, And Ed Ruscha owl.li/sFkBA
  • Smithsonian's Bee Man Delivers Up Some Advice for Dealing with Colony Collapse Disorder owl.li/sFkrb
  • 11 Inscriptions on Old Buildings That Tell It Like It Is owl.li/sFkpn
  • ◉ Great Work - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/1/21…
  • How "Fuzzy-Trace Theory" Impacts Your Finances owl.li/sFjYa
  • Grant Study Reveals What Makes Us Happy owl.li/sFjQi
  • No more needles? 7 ways scientists are attempting to move beyond shots owl.li/sFjpS
  • Salman Khan doubles down on building the school of the future owl.li/sFjkY
  • Moving to An Area With More Green Space Can Improve Your Mental Health for Years owl.li/sFjfA
  • Four Lessons In Innovation From The Inventor Of The Laser owl.li/sFj10
  • World map of vaccine-preventable outbreaks owl.li/sFiUi
  • Why Songs Get Stuck in Your Head owl.li/sFiNQ
  • Beautiful: Herb and spice brand Schwartz gets explosive in new ad owl.li/sFaF1
  • What Beatboxing Looks Like in Super Slow Motion owl.li/sFayh
  • ◉ Anxiety - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/1/20…
  • Amazing and mostly unnoticed: How Costume Design Became Central In 'Game Of Thrones' owl.li/sFawL
  • ◉ Why Sci-Fi Author William Gibson Loves Japan owl.li/sLDba
  • The Shape of Spectacular Speech: An Infographic Analysis of What Made MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Great owl.li/sLi2H
  • Pre-cog shopping: Amazon plans to ship your packages before you even buy them owl.li/sLgc6
  • Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Iconic images of Dr. King from the Smithsonian collection owl.li/sLb5A
  • Successful ‘Hour of Code’ computer tutorials prompts effort to change school policies owl.li/sFaas
  • Jack Dorsey Says The Receipt Is Untapped "Canvas" And "Publishing Medium" owl.li/sF9WK
  • Read David Foster Wallace’s Notes From a Tax Accounting Class, Taken to Help Him Write The Pale King owl.li/sF9OU
  • How to Look at Art owl.li/sF9Fm
  • Understanding Why We Dream owl.li/sF9sP
  • The Science Of The "Flying V" Formation owl.li/sF90U
  • The Literary Misery Index: What the Economy Has to Do With What You’re Reading owl.li/sF7GM
  • Read Beethoven’s Lengthy Love Letter to His Mysterious “Immortal Beloved” (1812) owl.li/sF7nO
  • The Ten Most Popular Web Fonts of 2013 owl.li/sF64K
  • Here Are the Countries That Drink the Most Coffee (The U.S. Isn't in the Top 10) owl.li/sE0Jl
  • 5 Lessons In Discipline From A Professional Ballerina That Will Change The Way You Lead Your Life owl.li/sDcfW
  • How Theaters Can Combat the Stay-at-Home Mindset owl.li/svuXp
  • The Coolest Science of 2013, in GIFs owl.li/svugT
  • The Police Car of the future owl.li/svuc6
  • The Ministry of Type: British Rail Identity owl.li/svu69
  • What Space Does To Our Bodies: An Interactive Guide owl.li/svu1K
  • What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2014? owl.li/svtYk
  • Terry Teachout: The Best Theatre I Saw This Year owl.li/svtRA
  • Over the Past 12 Years Bloomberg's Administration Has Acted As An Incubator for Cultural Institutions owl.li/svtIS
  • Is an 8pm curtain a thing of the past? owl.li/svsLN
  • How Netflix Reinvented HR- Harvard Business Review owl.li/svsc0
  • 5 Scientific Ways to Build Habits That Stick owl.li/svqGF
  • The Abstraction Method of Problem Solving owl.li/svpza
  • 6 Pieces of Advice From Successful Writers owl.li/svoH9
  • A Glimpse Into The Future Of NPR, From Its First-Ever Creative Director owl.li/svnMe
  • Want Perfect Pitch? You Might Be Able To Pop A Pill For That owl.li/svlFg
  • So shocking: Type legends Frere-Jones sues Hoefler owl.li/sHcui
  • Evgeny Morozov: Hackers, Makers, and the Next Industrial Revolution- The New Yorker owl.li/svlwW
  • How Is Wind Chill Calculated? owl.li/svlqf
  • Sleep, it turns out, may play a crucial role in our brain’s physiological maintenance. owl.li/svk1h
  • Bruce Springsteen, Woody Allen, and the Long Tradition of Hating Your Own Work owl.li/svjG7
  • Read 700 Free eBooks Made Available by the University of California Press owl.li/sviQX
  • Conference Calendar - A simple calendar for web and digital conferences owl.li/svilm