The Week's Links: April 18,2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • Can You Identify These Cities From Their Light Signatures? http://owl.li/vEP3W
  • Is That Someone's House? What Astronauts Can See Looking Down http://owl.li/vEPf4
  • The Problem with Being Too Nice http://owl.li/vzELD
  • What It's Like To Design A Font From Scratch http://owl.li/vF9nv
  • 101-year-old bottle message found http://owl.li/vzG39
  • In memory of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who died today at 87, a look back at Jon Lee Anderson’s Profile of the writer: nyr.kr/QrWkWW
  • Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87 - NYTimes.com owl.li/vUqav
  • The Guilt of the Video-Game Millionaires: The New Yorker owl.li/vyTro
  • The Purpose of Philosophy is to Ask the Right Questions (Video) owl.li/vzED9
  • ◉Simplicity and Innovation owl.li/vaDwK
  • The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies Ever owl.li/vyTem
  • The Key to Lasting Behavioral Change: Think Goal, Not Tactic owl.li/vyX2P
  • The resurgence of ballet in opera. owl.li/vySMO
  • Fantastic resource: Introducing Typekit Practice owl.li/vTnG9
  • ◉ The Surprising Science Behind Why and When We Yawn - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/16…
  • Where Does The Internet Get Its Energy? Tech Companies' Power Sources, Visualized owl.li/vyUuh
  • 7 Priceless Items People Sold on eBay owl.li/vyP9c
  • Greed Is Good: A 300-Year History of a Dangerous Idea owl.li/vyUma
  • A Visual Tour Of America's Most Fascinating Public Libraries owl.li/vyU2V
  • Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum owl.li/vxuqb
  • 101 Kick-Ass Music Magazine Covers owl.li/vyJDy
  • ◉ Seth Godin on Revolutions owl.li/vaDw5
  • 10 Things Highly Intuitive People Do Differently owl.li/vxuoQ
  • ◉ How Disruptive Innovations Happen At The Edges - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/16…
  • How advertising cookies let observers follow you across the web owl.li/vxAi8
  • ◉ Wally Olins, a tribute - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/16…
  • Free Online Shakespeare Courses: Primers on the Bard from Oxford, Harvard, Berkeley & More owl.li/vxueH
  • John Hegarty's 5 Most Provocative Thoughts About Creativity owl.li/vxxYN
  • On the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination, read the Sacramento Daily Union’s account of the night. 4/16/1865 owl.li/vQW3Y
  • Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend owl.li/vxubq
  • TED Playlist: The future of medicine owl.li/vxxQz
  • Can You Read People's Emotions? owl.li/vxus0
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/vPGgI
  • Using The Science Behind Habits To Sell Better owl.li/vtlz2
  • The Ultimate Guide to Solving iOS Battery Drain owl.li/vul1L
  • ◉ Take Up Computer Games, Not Crosswords, As You Age owl.li/vaDvp
  • First Time Nationwide: Portland Presents All Of Shakespeare’s Works In Two Years owl.li/vtlxN
  • Bronze Sculptures of Five Extinct Birds Land in Smithsonian Gardens owl.li/vuds0
  • 11 Of The World's Most Beautiful Libraries owl.li/vtltc
  • One big reason we lack Internet competition: Starting an ISP is really hard owl.li/vudr2
  • ◉ Michael Wolff: Never Stop Asking "Why?" - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/13…
  • Scientists Create an Unprecedented Map of the Developing Human Brain owl.li/vtlqC
  • Focus is like a muscle: It needs exercise owl.li/vudpW
  • Museums urged to think a little like Ben & Jerry's owl.li/vtlRu
  • Pulitzer Prizes 2014: Winners announced owl.li/vMWv5
  • How to do software like Nasa, by Nasa owl.li/vtkJD
  • Can animals really dance? Study reveals which animals can, and which can't owl.li/vtlpj
  • ◉ Bajofondo "Lluvia" owl.li/vaDuc
  • Harvard discovers three of its library books are bound in human flesh owl.li/vtkHR
  • Interview with Oscar Ramos Orozco, Chief Curator of Behance owl.li/vtkPD
  • This Is What It's Like To Watch A Holographic Musician owl.li/vtkCy
  • Google Maps and border disputes: How the service responds to disputed territory like Crimea. owl.li/vtkMP
  • ◉ Font War: Inside the Design World's $20 Million Divorce - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/13…
  • Watch Pixar's New Animation System Make Monsters In Real Time owl.li/vtkzF
  • Yelp Lets You Search With Emoji owl.li/vtkLB
  • Why Is Facebook Page Reach Decreasing? More Competition And Limited Attention owl.li/vtkKK
  • Data Point: Social Networking Is Moving on From the Desktop owl.li/vtky9
  • The Majority of Web Traffic Comes From Robots owl.li/vsbas
  • Why MIA and Janelle Monae's Hologram Collab Signals The Inevitable Future of Concerts owl.li/vsbkT
  • What’s Next in the World of Making owl.li/vs9j1
  • A Tumblr Blog That Archives Old & New IBM Graphics owl.li/vsbgt
  • ‘Shape’, A Fascinating Animated Short Film About How Design Can Be Used owl.li/vs9dx
  • One Thing Productive People Do Before Reaching for their Phones owl.li/vsben
  • Understanding Habit: How to Build a Product That Gets Used Daily owl.li/vs94S
  • Microsoft Is Suddenly a New Company. But Is It Too Late? owl.li/vsbcF
  • Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus May Have a Giant Liquid Water Lake owl.li/vsbbw
  • Why The Security Bug Heartbleed Has A Catchy Logo owl.li/vJ4JH
  • Discovery, Science to broadcast Google moon landing live owl.li/vs93t
  • Spontaneous ad recall is 28% higher when viewed using touch screen, study shows owl.li/voHiG
  • 10 Wonderful Illustrations from the Original Manuscript of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince owl.li/vs90O
  • "Grand Budapest Hotel" Spices Up Movie Posters With Spotify Playlists owl.li/voBke
  • The internet didn’t invent viral content or clickbait journalism — there’s just more of it now, and it happens faster owl.li/voWBQ
  • Fantastic: For the First Time Ever, Explore Angkor Wat With Google Street View owl.li/voBdC
  • TED2014 summarized in an infographic owl.li/voWpZ
  • "Poetry Is Like Pooping" And Other Writing Tips From A TED Superstar owl.li/vouDs
  • 5 Incredibly Effective Ways to Work Smarter, Not Harder owl.li/vIlWy
  • Why Website Speed is Important. Case studies from Amazon, Akamai, Google and others. owl.li/voW7L
  • Driven: how Zipcar's founders built and lost a car-sharing empire owl.li/voVD4
  • MIT Unveils The Shapeshifting Furniture Of The Future owl.li/vHUZY
  • 5 Unexpected Ways To Get More Done owl.li/vosL1
  • Actresses Lucy Lawless & Jaime Murray Perform Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit" for The Partially Examined Life Podcast owl.li/vouhK
  • ◉ Caro Emerald: Tangles, Transitions and Textures owl.li/vaDsz
  • Humanism and the meaning of stories - The Chronicle of Higher Education owl.li/vomup
  • ◉ Recommended: 100 Ideas That Changed Art owl.li/vtliH
  • Buzz Aldrin On Tinkering With The Bounds Of What's Possible owl.li/votTQ
  • What Books Should Every Intelligent Person Read?: Tell Us Your Picks; We'll Tell You Ours owl.li/vn3Qw
  • Elon Musk's Rule About Job Interviews owl.li/votGf
  • Great: Tools for the Classroom - 21st Century Literacy owl.li/vn3PC
  • Beautiful Equations: Documentary Explores the Beauty of Einstein & Newton's Great Equations owl.li/votsn
  • What Problem Are You Solving? owl.li/vothJ

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.