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The Week's Links: December 26, 2014

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • ‘Know Before You Fly’, An Animation by the FAA About Drone Safety for People Who Receive Unpiloted Aircraft as Gifts owl.li/GpCGt
  • A decade from now, will our offices commute to us? owl.li/GpCJu
  • The science of setting goals owl.li/Gqx8K
  • Watch Art on Ancient Greek Vases Come to Life with 21st Century Animation owl.li/GpCIQ
  • The chemistry of cookies - Stephanie Warren owl.li/GpC4I
  • How Facebook and Candy Crush Got You Hooked owl.li/GpBYo
  • The mythology of Middle-earth explained in four short minutes owl.li/GpmWG
  • The “motion microscope,” a video-processing tool plays tiny changes in motion impossible to see with the naked eye owl.li/GpBXy
  • 5 Bizarre Christmas Traditions From Around the World ... owl.li/GqD2G
  • Sony Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Tweets Containing Leaked Emails owl.li/GmYUd
  • A Christmas Feast, Experienced With Dishes From Around the World owl.li/GpnaQ
  • Coca-Cola Disconnects Voice Mail at Headquarters owl.li/GmRKt
  • The Eggnog Riot: Jefferson Davis throws a holiday rager. owl.li/Gpn6Z
  • Daily chart: Which miser makes the most? owl.li/GpCEw
  • A 2014 Timeline of When Brands Did Superb Things in Social Media owl.li/Gpn2T
  • The Daily Habits of Highly Productive Philosophers: Nietzsche, Marx & Immanuel Kant owl.li/GfSmZ
  • Design Legend Louise Fili Photographs The Gorgeous Typography Of Italy owl.li/GfSg6
  • NASA Just Emailed A Wrench Into Space for 3D Printing owl.li/Gc2Jn
  • These Companies Own All the Food Brands owl.li/GfP1N
  • Inside the Business of Serial owl.li/G8piY
  • TED Playlist: Talks to restore your faith in humanity owl.li/GfOZp
  • Miles Davis's Illustrious Jazz Career Visualized Like A Record owl.li/G8nH8
  • 700 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices owl.li/GfOSe
  • Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery About Prime Numbers owl.li/GiHvq
  • 12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted owl.li/GfO4i
  • Inside the secret lab where Amazon is designing the future of reading owl.li/G88jl
  • Building the Bakery of Every Kid's Dreams owl.li/G82r2
  • Seeing blue where there is none. owl.li/G7FVF
  • McSweeney’s: Serial’s Sarah Koenig On Santa’s Alleged Hit-and-Run Murder of Grandma. owl.li/G81Cc
  • Meet the Guy Who Designed the Elegant Branding for Serial owl.li/G7DWk
  • Why Schools Should Lower The Bar For Teaching Programming To Kids owl.li/G7L36
  • Tech Toys to Make Children Smarter owl.li/G7wvz
  • The Most Popular Toys Of The Holidays, According To Shipping Containers owl.li/G7KRi
  • From Saturn's Moons To The Hoover Dam: The Greatest Landscape Photos Of All Time owl.li/G8nCV
  • The science of "hangry" — how low blood sugar makes you a monster owl.li/G7HhS
  • 10 Words Shakespeare Used With Unclear Meanings owl.li/G6bXW
  • A Secret Ballroom Built In The 1800s Lies Under A Lake, Guarded By Neptune owl.li/G6bOS
  • The 23 Best Countries for Work-Life Balance owl.li/G67lc
  • Fascinating Photos of NASA's Abandoned Launch Sites owl.li/G6brA
  • What It's Like To Design A Font From Scratch owl.li/G66Gj
  • What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs - NYTimes.comowl.li/G6bgE
  • Science Shows Art Is Doing Something Amazing to Our Health owl.li/G4HnK
  • How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood owl.li/G6bcV
  • The Secret World of Stolen Smartphones, Where Business Is Booming owl.li/G74A1
  • The Surprising Ways Your Breath Connects You to the Entire Planet owl.li/G6aZK
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/G4H4z
  • Student Doodles from the Middle Ages owl.li/G0JiP
  • 10 Everyday Technologies We Owe to NASA owl.li/G0nqa
  • Where Did Times New Roman Come From? owl.li/G0HdE
  • What Is The Oldest Known Song? owl.li/FWre5
  • Sage advice from designers: What’s the one thing you wish you’d been told? owl.li/G0GHh
  • Inside an internet addiction treatment centre in China owl.li/FVXrf
  • Why learning Spanish, not Mandarin, is the best way to globalize your ideas owl.li/G4HhU
  • The Urban Dictionary Of Design Slang owl.li/G0tbY
  • Ayse Birsel: The designs I love most owl.li/FSaS9
  • Beautiful, old stuff is still really cool: A look inside the new Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum owl.li/FSaOI
  • Nicholas Negroponte on Biotechnology and Future Learning owl.li/FRUEc
  • Fascinating maps of how people connect in Istanbul, Baltimore, Barcelona and more owl.li/FSaLk
  • Working hours: Proof that you should get a life. With higher working hours, labor output per hour fell. owl.li/FRQiC
  • David Kelley: The designs I love most owl.li/FSaJ6
  • Eastern Philosophy Explained with Three Animated Videos by Alain de Botton's School of Life owl.li/FRMz7
  • How Busy People Make Time To Read--And You Can Too owl.li/FS3Bs
  • On visual web, a photo is worth more than a 1000 words owl.li/FVNYk
  • Watch All of Terry Gilliam's Monty Python Animations in a Row owl.li/FRVrw
  • Why your brain loves procrastination owl.li/FRLQc
  • A brief history of web design for designers. Explained with animations owl.li/FRLCc
  • ‘Locked in the Ether’, Eerie Photos of Flowers Frozen in Ice owl.li/FQP1F
  • Instagram Is Getting So Good at News, It Should Scare Twitter owl.li/FRGKl
  • ◉ Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Did you notice? Today Obama only called on women, all of them print reporters, during his press conference. owl.li/Gc4DH
  • ◉ Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career owl.li/FQU97
  • A lost Disney cartoon from 1927 has been found owl.li/FQHkk
  • The Backfire Effect: The Psychology of Why We Have a Hard Time Changing Our Minds owl.li/FQTi4
  • Amazing: Historic Photos From the NYC Municipal Archives owl.li/FQHhK
  • A Stroll Through New York’s Gorgeous, and Occasionally Trippy, Holiday Windows owl.li/FQT8b
  • The Economic History of the Last 2,000 Years in 1 Little Graph owl.li/FQT5M