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The Week's Links: December 19, 2014

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Sleep Scientists Want Workdays to Start Later http://owl.li/FO5QS
  • ◉ The Surprising Science Behind Why and When We Yawn http://owl.li/FQTWg
  • Of Course You Hear What I Hear — Christmas Music Season Is Totally Data-Driven http://owl.li/FPUch
  • Time capsule buried by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams unearthed in Boston http://owl.li/FO65y
  • Gorgeous: Danny Lyon's Unseen Photos Of NYC Subway Riders In The '60s http://owl.li/FPUvN
  • What Really Happened to the MTA's 60 Million Leftover Subway Tokens http://owl.li/FPUQa
  • The Economic History of the Last 2,000 Years in 1 Little Graph http://owl.li/FQT5M
  • A Stroll Through New York’s Gorgeous, and Occasionally Trippy, Holiday Windows http://owl.li/FQT8b
  • Amazing: Historic Photos From the NYC Municipal Archives http://owl.li/FQHhK
  • Bill Gates Notes: China used more cement in the last 3 years than the US used in the entire 20th century. owl.li/FPTMG
  • ◉ The Smithsonian Design Museum Tells the Story of User-Centered Design Through 120 Beautiful Products - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/12/1…
  • New Aluminum 'Foam' Makes Trains Stronger, Lighter, and Safer owl.li/FO5LE
  • 10 National Geographic Photographers Give Thanks for the Photos That Changed Them owl.li/FOu1s
  • Fall Through A Wormhole Into This Stunning Wikipedia Galaxy owl.li/FOkOD
  • Confirmed: He Who Sits the Most Dies the Soonest owl.li/FQHf6
  • The Evolving Face of Santa, As Seen in the Smithsonian's Vast Collections owl.li/FLBGx
  • Facebook Envisions AI That Keeps You From Uploading Embarrassing Pics owl.li/FKAwa
  • Embrace your stress. A visual idea owl.li/FKf0K
  • ◉ The Man Who Loved Books Too Much - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Let's go crazy: Inside the making of Purple Rain owl.li/FKAqg
  • ◉ How Disruptive Innovations Happen At The Edges owl.li/FQTD2
  • Could Your Language Affect Your Ability To Save Money? owl.li/FJZKo
  • Get your head around the 13 boldest ideas in science owl.li/FKfwr
  • The Fastest Stars in the Universe May Approach Light Speed owl.li/FJYWF
  • ◉ Shantanu Starick: How I Went Two Years Without Spending Any Money - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/12/1…
  • What I can’t live without, by John Maeda owl.li/FKffR
  • The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Makes Its Grand Re-Opening in New York City owl.li/FNZJ4
  • Let’s kickstart science funding in America owl.li/FKf5b
  • Vote for the Best Ads of the 21st Century owl.li/FJQ7Z
  • Comet Data Clears Up Debate on Earth’s Water owl.li/FHQK9
  • Everybody Scrolls: ongoing research into usability best practices regarding scrolling. owl.li/FCmR9
  • Exciting: The 5 Coolest Things About The Revamped Smithsonian Design Museum owl.li/FHmPP
  • ◉ Wally Olins, a tribute  owl.li/FQTzv
  • The Internet of Anything: A Social Network for the World's Online Sensors owl.li/FC1YR
  • ◉ Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Advertising - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Your Brain Peforms Better When It Slows Down owl.li/FGOzG
  • Quantum mechanics 101: Demystifying tough physics in 4 easy lessons owl.li/FC1to
  • ◉ People Who Go to Bed Late Spend More Time Worrying About Stuff - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/12/1…
  • We're One Step Closer To Superfast Computers That Run On Light Instead Of Electricity owl.li/FDkiL
  • Harry Potter Series Reimagined As Glow-In-The-Dark Pop-Up Books owl.li/FJU59
  • The New York Times R&D Lab releases Hive, an open-source crowdsourcing tool owl.li/FDhRx
  • What's Up With That: Why Running Hurts Every Part of Your Body owl.li/FBZM7
  • Obama Becomes First President to Write a Computer Program owl.li/FzVPS
  • Einstein's advice to Marie Curie on dealing with trolls: "Don't read that hogwash" - Vox owl.li/FyfRC
  • Netflix Wants to Debut New Shows, Seasons Every Three Weeks owl.li/FzkSF
  • ◉ Michael Wolff: Never Stop Asking "Why?" owl.li/FQTws
  • ◉ Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • 10 Cautionary Tales For Children from an 1831 Book owl.li/FyfKq
  • Sleep deprivation is killing your career owl.li/FyZ5u
  • ◉ Neil Gaiman reads Jabberwocky - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/12/1…
  • Inside BBC Pop Up, an Experimental Mobile News Bureau owl.li/FyfcG
  • Design Fail, 19th-Century Edition: 18 Patents That Didn’t Change The World owl.li/FyqeD
  • Long Exposure Photos Show the Elegant Hidden Patterns in Sports owl.li/FC1lk
  • New York Public Library Expands Free Wi-Fi Program owl.li/Fygv2
  • The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google Maps owl.li/Fybss
  • Creep Through Albert Einstein’s Love Letters- Smithsonian owl.li/FvKcl
  • 4 animations that show what's really going on with our climate owl.li/Fv1HH
  • 15 Delightfully Quirky Airports and Airstrips owl.li/FvK9O
  • Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s Plan to Wire the World owl.li/Fv1DD
  • How Game Theory Helped Improve New York City’s High School Application Process - NYTimes.com owl.li/Fv2lv
  • Why Our Memory Fails Us - NYTimes.comowl.li/FuZAN
  • TED Playlist: The complexity of memory owl.li/Fv2bK
  • The 100 greatest console video games, 1977-1987 owl.li/FydMQ
  • Joe Landolina: This gel can make you stop bleeding instantly owl.li/Fv1JU
  • Aliens in the Valley: The complete history of Reddit, the Internet's front page owl.li/FuYbK
  • The History Of Web Design Explained In 9 GIFs owl.li/FrF5I
  • Amazing libraries from around the world in the book, Reflections: Libraries. owl.li/Fr8Rg
  • Russell Foster: Why do we sleep? owl.li/FrEj3
  • Future Shock: Orson Welles Narrates a 1972 Film About the Perils of Technological Change owl.li/Fr3j3
  • Math 101: A reading list for lifelong learners owl.li/FrCzU
  • The 10 greatest changes of the past 1,000 years owl.li/Fo2gb
  • A complete guide to every person in the Serial podcast owl.li/Frs36
  • What Maslow’s Hierarchy Won’t Tell You About Motivation owl.li/FuYkQ
  • The Invention of the Slinky owl.li/Frf59
  • Half of online Americans don’t know what a privacy policy is- Pew Research Center owl.li/Fnh89
  • 85 Years, 85 Ideas. The most disruptive ideas: Businessweek owl.li/FnfWh
  • Disneyland: The Most Instagramed Place on Earth owl.li/FltML
  • French Official Campaigns to Make 'Right to be Forgotten' Global owl.li/Fne41
  • ◉ Michael Wolff: Never Stop Asking "Why?" owl.li/FjuSL
  • How Top Designers Tell Clients That Their Taste Sucks owl.li/FmqDb
  • The 25 most admired typefaces by typographers, type designers and letterers. owl.li/FjwAQ
  • Facebook Design Director: The 5 Most Common Design Mistakes owl.li/Fmpuh
  • The "power tower feeding frenzy" and hyper-large numbers owl.li/FnYHf
  • The Mysterious Vanishing Brains owl.li/FlwUg