Smarter Creativity

View Original

The Week's Links: April 25, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • How to Set Goals Like Google http://owl.li/vTegz
  • 40 maps that explain the world http://owl.li/vThT1
  • The Great Facebook Unbundling- Om Malik http://owl.li/vSbbe
  • David Ogilvy’s advice to his nephew on whether to pursue education or get a job. http://owl.li/vTizv
  • Lost Andy Warhol artworks discovered on Amiga floppies from the '80s owl.li/w8KYU
  • Joss Whedon's new film In Your Eyes premieres online (Wired UK) owl.li/w8HYw
  • The List Of Animals Who Can Truly, Really Dance Is Very Short. Who's On It? owl.li/vUz04
  • Why ‘Side Projects’ matter? owl.li/vUAgz
  • ◉ 2,131 books fell over... owl.li/vaDJe
  • Two Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Talk to Each Other & Get Into a Deep Philosophical Conversation owl.li/vS9jV
  • How Japan copied American culture and made it better owl.li/vUzMf
  • ◉ Sandy Pentland: Social Physics, How Good Ideas Spread The Lessons From A New Science - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/24…
  • Highlights From Innovation Uncensored New York 2014 owl.li/vS97u
  • The Oldest Living Things in the World owl.li/vUzGZ
  • 2 interactive music projects you have to check out (if you haven’t already) georgeandjonathan.com/#1 & tether.plaid.co.uk
  • Neuroscientists Conduct the Most Frustrating Brain Scanning Study Ever owl.li/vS8Zw
  • The top 100 animated movies owl.li/vUzBw
  • Does Thinking Fast Mean You’re Thinking Smarter? owl.li/vUzwj
  • 10 Crucial Lessons From History's Greatest Graphic Designers owl.li/vPIlH
  • How to Make Hiring Less of a Headache owl.li/vT9LG
  • ◉ Design In A Nutshell owl.li/vaDI7
  • Heartbleed, the Branding of a Bug, and the Internet of Things owl.li/vPI5Q
  • Do Pulitzers Help Newspapers Keep Readers? owl.li/vT8r5
  • There Is No Such Thing As Silence- Fantastic episode of TLDR podcast. owl.li/vPHSh
  • How It Works: Audio Compression owl.li/vT7VU
  • ◉ Joi Ito & Tim Brown on The Future of Making - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/22…
  • Take Free Online Courses at Hogwarts: Charms, Potions, Defense Against the Dark Arts owl.li/vPHhf
  • MIT designs a floating, tsunami-proof nuclear plant owl.li/vT6JN
  • Why We Misplace Our Keys, Phones, Wallets owl.li/vQSFh
  • New Banksy Art Explores the Role of Technology in Our Lives owl.li/vMUGv
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/w3eZj
  • Top 10 Learnings from Designs of the Year 2014- Jonathan Hall owl.li/vPGAJ
  • ◉ How to Write a Better Case Study owl.li/vaDGc
  • Trust and attention, the endless dance owl.li/vMUtz
  • This 1981 Computer Magazine Cover Explains Why We’re So Bad at Tech Predictions owl.li/vPGtC
  • 3D-printed tumour formed for drug trials owl.li/vKc9f
  • ◉ Magic in Service of Truth: Rushdie pays tribute to Gabriel García Márquez - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/21…
  • The Guardian's robot newspaper comes to the U.S. owl.li/vPG0s
  • Tobias Frere-Jones: typography and New York City’s history owl.li/vK6F8
  • We Remember People We Met as Babies, Even If We Don't Remember Being Babies owl.li/vMYMm
  • A Day in the Life of New York City Wall Advertisement Painters owl.li/vMUXE
  • What Makes The Best Logos So Good owl.li/vJ4PZ
  • How Sleep Protects the Brain owl.li/vK6At
  • ◉ Theater Business Models: The Next Frontier owl.li/vaDE3
  • 5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think owl.li/vJ4pA
  • Agency. Or Why We Love Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings. Complexity and the Future of Story Telling. owl.li/vK6iO
  • W.H. Auden’s 1941 Literature Syllabus Asks Students to Read 32 Great Works, Covering 6000 Pages owl.li/vJ2FO
  • ◉ Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/16…
  • The Crossroads of Should and Must owl.li/vK6dl
  • Download 35,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More owl.li/vIm1A
  • Stunning drone footage of Sydney, Australia owl.li/vJw2I
  • 10 viewing trends for 2014 that will change the way we watch TV owl.li/vJ4SW
  • Microsoft’s Big-Data Angle: Office as a Friendly Front-End owl.li/vRumm
  • The Future of WordPress owl.li/vRn9W
  • Steven Pinker’s Mind Games: A “Psychological Science" quiz owl.li/vRtqF
  • Science & Cooking: Harvard's Free Course on Making Cakes, Paella & Other Delicious Food owl.li/vRl5q
  • The Original Selfies: The Triumph of the Self-Portrait owl.li/vRt3U
  • Google Wants to Make ‘Science Fiction’ a Reality—And That’s Limiting Their Imagination owl.li/vQUVW
  • Beautifully Intricate Food Illustrations by Anna Keville Joyce owl.li/vRoiw
  • The Truth About Google X: An Exclusive Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors owl.li/vQURE
  • Amazing: Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller: a year in their lives- in pictures owl.li/vRnHa
  • Fantastic: Video Games If They Were Medieval Religious Paintings owl.li/vRnvu
  • Oldest Fossilized Heart Found…It Belonged to A Shrimp owl.li/vK2ZI
  • On Keeping It Simple owl.li/vJAHC
  • Forget Wristbands, Health Trackers of the Future Will Be Skin Patches owl.li/vK2YJ
  • Email Inbox Management Tips owl.li/vJAEj
  • Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world owl.li/vJLwm
  • The Most Underrated Skill for Creatives? Empathy. owl.li/vJAy2
  • Susan Jean Robertson amazing compilation of Style guide links owl.li/vJLuL
  • The New And The Next: Making Math And Microscopes More Accessible owl.li/vJx8J
  • The Risk Behind Netflix’s Original Programming Leap owl.li/vJLfB
  • Inside The New Yorker's digital strategy owl.li/vJKOP
  • Fantastic podcast: Title TK | 99% Invisible on the art, science and challenges of naming things. owl.li/vEDpw
  • Charles Limb: Your brain on improv owl.li/vIm03
  • ◉ When Patents Attack And Their Collateral Damage owl.li/vaDxQ
  • Smithsonian: Announcing Our 11th Annual Photo Contest Finalists owl.li/vAOEm
  • 4 Amazing Things NASA Invented, and 4 You Think It Did owl.li/vFasH
  • 101-year-old bottle message found owl.li/vzG39
  • What It's Like To Design A Font From Scratch owl.li/vF9nv