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The Week's Links: November 28, 2014

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Watch A 5-Part Series On The History Of Video Game Graphics owl.li/ECHSs
  • How Designers Recreated Alan Turing's Code-Breaking Computer for Imitation Game owl.li/EGDdL
  • Apple’s iCloud Photo Library: A Quick How-To Guide owl.li/EGLtw
  • MIT Media Lab Maps History's Biggest Celebrities owl.li/EGs3U
  • Here’s some remarkable new data on the power of chat apps like WhatsApp for sharing news stories owl.li/ECGQu
  • Google launches Contributor, a crowdfunding tool for publishers owl.li/ECGpU
  • 75+ tools for investigative journalists owl.li/ECyQW
  • See Hemingway's Novels Condensed Into 15-Second Animations on Instagram owl.li/ECCtE
  • The Shockingly Old Origin of the Fax Machine owl.li/ECmKL
  • A Kindle Designer's Touching Online Memorial To The Marginalia Scribbled In Books  owl.li/ECCg1
  • The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science owl.li/EyOt5
  • Don't change a thing: 8 inventions that never needed updating owl.li/ECBXF
  • License Plates From The 50 States, Redesigned owl.li/ECHKG
  • The XKCD Guide to the Universe's Most Bizarre Physics owl.li/ECB3N
  • You Can Now Search for Every Tweet Ever Sent in the Twitter App owl.li/EyMC5
  • Why Pentagram's Michael Bierut Is Obsessed With Black And White owl.li/EyLYi
  • Amazing: Incredible Photos Taken at Exact Opposite Ends of the Earth owl.li/EyrEE
  • Want: This Tiny Cardboard Battery Is Like A Vitamin For Your Smartphone owl.li/EyJ8b
  • How People's Political Passions Distort Their Sense of Reality owl.li/Eyrsy
  • Designers Of Android And Dropbox On The Smartphone Of 2020 owl.li/EyIBa
  • An Astronaut Reveals What Life in Space Is Really Like owl.li/Eyrmz
  • ◉ Instead of futurists, let’s be now-ists: Joi Ito at TED2014 owl.li/EGQHU
  • "The best work advice I ever got" owl.li/EyHKf
  • 20 Self-Deprecating Notes Found on Vintage Photographs owl.li/Eys9P
  • Your Job May Affect How Your Brain Ages owl.li/EyNrW
  • The givers and the takers owl.li/EyqYH
  • 10 Facts About the Internet's Undersea Cables owl.li/Eykzt
  • Why Humans Can Solve Some Problems Better Than Computers, with Luis von Ahn owl.li/EyeU2
  • The Science Of Simplicity: Why Successful People Wear The Same Thing Every Day owl.li/Eyks7
  • Interesting: Night Time Eiffel Tower Photos Are a Copyright Violation owl.li/EyaBt
  • Thanksgiving Recipes Across the United States. We’ve scoured the nation for recipes that evoke each of the 50 states (and D.C. and Puerto...
  • ◉ How “Lion King” Regained Its Crown As Broadway’s Top-Selling Show: An Algorithm owl.li/EGQz2
  • The 10 Most Watched Ads on YouTube in October owl.li/EuFPS
  • How music education influenced Google CEO Larry Page owl.li/EyjyF
  • Searching For a Better Battery, with Brad Templeton owl.li/EyjqR
  • Ad of the Day: New York City Ballet Shows PlayStation Gamers a Proper Victory Dance owl.li/EyreO
  • How America’s Oldest Magazines Are Modernizing (And Monetizing) Their Archives owl.li/Eqrmx
  • Why I’m teaching Serial instead of Shakespeare owl.li/EqigV
  • Interactive graphic: Every active satellite orbiting earth owl.li/EpPL0
  • Why Wearables Should Be Free owl.li/Eq1ui
  • Big Data and Bigger Breaches With Alex Pentland owl.li/EpPAZ
  • David Grady: How to save the world (or at least yourself) from bad meetings owl.li/EpXOm
  • Kandinsky on the Spiritual Element in Art and the Three Responsibilities of Artists owl.li/EpPkq
  • ◉ Parsing Is Such Sweet Sorrow: Shakespeare through the lens of statistics owl.li/EGQrr
  • Facebook is making 'Facebook at Work,' so you can Facebook at work owl.li/EpS0s
  • Which reads faster, Chinese or English? owl.li/Es5mn
  • It’s small touches that can make a difference in New York’s online layouts owl.li/EpR0o
  • It’s small touches that can make a difference in New York’s online layouts owl.li/EpK2A
  • The Composer Of Serial's Soundtrack Comes Clean About Its "Ambiguous" Score owl.li/EpCzL
  • The world’s biggest chocolate-maker says we’re running out of chocolate - The Washington Post owl.li/EmmAg
  • Norman Lear On The Nature Of Belly Laughs, The Stories All Around You, And Shaping TV As We Know It owl.li/EpC3R
  • The Disease of Being Busy owl.li/Em1Go
  • It's A Neil Gaiman Universe; We Just Live In It owl.li/EmICm
  • The most extraordinary photos you've never seen. owl.li/ElPXe
  • David Foster Wallace’s mind-blowing creative nonfiction syllabus owl.li/EmFXJ
  • Fitbit Data Now Being Used In The Courtroom owl.li/EpOZI
  • Tech Time Warp of the Week: Before Apple Pay, There Was That Thing Called RFID owl.li/EmFtt
  • Batteries Nearly Drained and Vital Science Done, Philae Has Gone to Sleep owl.li/El0Ly
  • 4 Simple Remedies For Burnout Backed By Science owl.li/El0Cd
  • Playing With Perceptions : TED Radio Hour owl.li/EkOwS
  • Earth's Most Stunning Natural Fractal Patterns owl.li/El0Ab
  • More dinosaur species have been found in China than anywhere else owl.li/EkOvj
  • 6 ideas from creative thinkers to shake up your work routine owl.li/EkODr
  • Pigeons appear to use gravity to set a course back to their lofts owl.li/EkOtK
  • PBS Food, The History Kitchen: How Lincoln Transformed Thanksgiving owl.li/EkOBs
  • Erin McKean: The joy of lexicography owl.li/EkOye
  • Posters for imagined movie sequels owl.li/El0N5
  • Google's Larry Page: The most ambitious CEO in the universe owl.li/EkLQp
  • Fallen Arches: Can McDonald's get its mojo back? owl.li/EkLOh
  • The Man Who Made the UK Say “I’m Sorry For What We Did To Turing.” owl.li/EkEXG
  • The Invention of Sliced Bread owl.li/EkLvS
  • ◉ The #Art of the Hashtag owl.li/EkNav
  • The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science owl.li/EkEU6
  • In the sleepy world of podcasts, ‘Serial’ has emerged as a global phenomenon owl.li/EkKPf