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The Week's Links: April 4, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • The Fascinating Neuroscience Of Color http://owl.li/v6dSl
  • ◉ The Design That Conquered Google http://owl.li/vaDei
  • The 24-Hour Trap: Rethinking Daily Habits http://owl.li/v8xDJ
  • Writers on How They Deal With Criticism http://owl.li/v6ecf
  • Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” explained using music theory. http://owl.li/v8Hrh
  • Monty Python's Gilliam on Reddit: I'm Terry Gilliam. I don't care what you ask me. : IAmA http://owl.li/vaAny
  • Your 5-Minute Guide To UX From Squarespace and MailChimp http://owl.li/vaAFU
  • Teleporter: Teleports you to a random location on the planet each time you click the Teleport button. http://owl.li/vaA3r
  • Beautiful: Holi 2014- The Festival of Colors http://owl.li/vaAHG
  • 25 Iconic Historical Documents for Sale- The Raab Collection http://owl.li/vaA7C
  • Terrifying tale about automation and the web: The Afterlife of Pia Farrenkopf http://owl.li/vaBdR
  • Harvard's Free Computer Science Course Teaches You to Code in 12 Weeks owl.li/v8byO
  • ◉ Recommended: Make Good Art By Neil Gaiman owl.li/vbwrp
  • ◉ Creating a Culture of Quality - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/1/…
  • Neurosurgeons successfully implant 3D printed skull (Wired UK) owl.li/v6dJa
  • Books that traveled the world via interlibrary loan in the 20th century are safeguarded locally in the Internet age. owl.li/volh9
  • Wikipedia To Redesign Across More Than 32 Million Pages owl.li/v8bmZ
  • History of the hashtag owl.li/v6dGb
  • Charities? Not in Manhattan: Non-profits Disappear from the City owl.li/v8b4Z
  • Don’t Use “Pants” for “Pantaloons”: 19 Surprising Rules Copyeditors Used to Enforce owl.li/v8axQ
  • Scientists Use Artistic Sunsets as Time Capsules of Climate Change owl.li/v6bXp
  • The Curiosity Gap Is Closing, Says Upworthy owl.li/v61tk
  • A Toothpaste Tube That Gets Every Last Bit Out owl.li/v6bWF
  • ◉ How to Spot a Weak Argument owl.li/vaDdi
  • Sleep Your Way to Creativity And 9 More Proven Methods For More Ideas owl.li/v61nU
  • Here’s What It Was Like to Discover Laughing Gas owl.li/v6bUb
  • ◉ Recommended: Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind owl.li/vbwo9
  • ◉ Allison Johnson: On Apple & The Difference Between Marketing And Selling - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/1/…
  • This 5-Step Mental Workout Will Make You Smarter owl.li/v5ZHD
  • So great: Cataloging Creativity- Ferran Adrià Showcases 7 Years Of Culinary Art And Science owl.li/v65VX
  • Productivity 101: A Primer to the Getting Things Done (GTD) Philosophy owl.li/v5Zbg
  • An Amazing Poster Of The Empire State Building Made Using Bike Tire Tracks owl.li/v657N
  • Self-Promotion for Professionals from Countries Where Bragging Is Bad owl.li/v64Do
  • Big Data handling: how to make a giant oil spill map the hard way owl.li/v5Ysj
  • Writing and the Creative Life: 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently owl.li/v1o8s
  • Inside the algorithms that are predicting the future owl.li/v2WaG
  • ◉ It Is in Our Nature to Need Stories owl.li/vaDck
  • Watch Six TED-Style Lectures from Top Harvard Profs Presented at Harvard Thinks Big 5 owl.li/v1o49
  • How Researchers Are Using Fiction to Make Their Reports Accessible to the Public owl.li/v1rUR
  • ◉ Recommended: Daily Rituals: How Artists Work owl.li/vbwjQ
  • ◉ The Metaness Of "This Is A Generic Video" - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/3/30…
  • Urban Gardner: A Choreographer's Palette - The Process Behind Creating a Dance owl.li/uWXZW
  • How Gmail Happened: The Inside Story of Its Launch 10 Years Ago Today owl.li/vhJet
  • Pixar: The math behind the movies - Tony DeRose owl.li/v1rSt
  • Slide Rule is a free resource to find online courses owl.li/vhIov
  • United Nations uses iBeacons to simulate a minefield & raise awareness at NY museum owl.li/vhIVR
  • Does The Death Of An Instrument Break Your Heart? owl.li/uWWrl
  • Building The Next Pixar owl.li/v1rpM
  • What Does a $45 Million Viola Sound Like? Violinist David Aaron Carpenter Gives You a Preview owl.li/v1ooy
  • Students learning English benefit more in two-language instructional programs than English immersion, Stanford research finds...
  • Lack Of Sleep Kills Brain Cells, New Study Shows owl.li/uSlxn
  • 20 photos that define ‘American Cool’ owl.li/uTjn7
  • ◉ Creative People Say No owl.li/vaD8y
  • Archaeologists Had Forgotten About Nine of the Dead Sea Scrolls owl.li/uJcN2
  • Food obsessives: the people searching for the perfect cheese, bread and coffee owl.li/uTjhh
  • ◉ Recommended: Don't Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything By Kio Stark owl.li/vbweZ
  • Vocabulary.com Launches A Positively Addictive App For Aspiring Wordsmiths owl.li/uJ5lU
  • ◉ James Beard Foundation Launches JBF Kitchen Cam Tonight - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/3/30…
  • What Emotion Goes Viral the Fastest? owl.li/uSogr
  • This Former Salt Mine Is Now a Theme Park With a Ferris Wheel owl.li/uJ4hq
  • Upgrade your brain: Programming resources for coding newbies owl.li/uSodm
  • Sculpt Sound With Gestures, Using Imogen Heap's $2,000 Gloves owl.li/uSlAG
  • David Lynch Explains How Meditation Enhances Our Creativity owl.li/uWVz6
  • Zuckerberg, Musk and Kutcher Invest In Artificial Intelligence Firm owl.li/uVuS9
  • New Views of the Brain [Slide Show] - Scientific American owl.li/uWE05
  • IBM can find you using non-geotagged tweets (Wired UK) owl.li/uVuOB
  • Nasa reveals the clearest panorama of the Milky Way ever made owl.li/uVv36
  • Read 18 Short Stories From Nobel Prize-Winning Writer Alice Munro Free Online owl.li/uVuJO
  • Unearthed: Wieden+Kennedy's first ever TV ads for Nike owl.li/uVv2y
  • The New York Public Library will now recommend similar books when searching owl.li/uVut7
  • Ideo's Sandy Speicher Reimagines Education in Peru owl.li/uVuYz
  • 10 Questions for Elon Musk owl.li/uVuTE
  • ◉ Made by Hand: The Bike Maker owl.li/vaDlR
  • You’re Not As Busy As You Say You Are owl.li/uVurE
  • Watch Ford's Righteous Rejoinder To That Smug Cadillac Ad That Everyone Hates owl.li/varkY
  • 13 Ice Cream Secrets From Ben & Jerry's Flavor Gurus owl.li/uTlXs
  • Seth Godin on What Marketers Are Getting Wrong owl.li/uVuot
  • Marketing the Moon: How NASA Sold Space to Earth owl.li/uJ4eG
  • This Is What a Facial-Detection Algorithm Looks Like in 3D owl.li/uVugc
  • The Fantastical World Of A Legendary Disney Art Director owl.li/uJ48U
  • What The Inventor Of The Internet Hopes It Will Become owl.li/uVuaw
  • Imaginative Posters That Show Readers ‘Living’ A Double Life Through Books owl.li/uIAll
  • Massive Paper Installation Feels Like You're Walking Inside a 3D Painting owl.li/uVst1
  • When Vanilla Was Brown And How We Came To See It As White owl.li/uTm1z
  • Famous Bands Recreated in LEGO owl.li/uNB5v
  • What Engineers At Facebook, Pinterest, Snapchat, Airbnb, And Spotify Listen To While Coding owl.li/uSaxk
  • ◉ How To Be Gracious, And Why owl.li/ubJXH
  • Julia Child Shows How to Edit Videotape with a Meat Cleaver, and Cook Meat with a Blow Torch owl.li/v83P1
  • The Free Marketing Gravy Train Is Over on Facebook owl.li/uSacS
  • ◉ Recommended: Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • ◉ The Week's Links: March 28, 2014 - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/3/27…
  • Why You Need a Daily Prioritization Meeting owl.li/uIzzr
  • Drift: Rands in Repose "It's hard for me to focus because there is much interesting in the world to discover." owl.li/uS5EL
  • Telling stories about screens for screens owl.li/uIzqV
  • Listen to Orson Welles' Classic Radio Performance of 10 Shakespeare Plays owl.li/uS4HK
  • Read All of Shakespeare's Plays Free Online, Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library owl.li/uS24G