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The Week's Links: July 18, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • 10 Brands That Will Disappear This Year- TIMEowl.li/z9NQ9
  • Ricky Gervais Shares His Secrets for Success: Be a "Cocky Little Nobody" owl.li/z9Agk
  • Why Are Songs on the Radio About the Same Length? owl.li/z9JDF
  • BBC News - The costs and benefits of publishing your own books owl.li/z9A9n
  • Can Memes Exist Outside of the Internet?owl.li/z9Jmx
  • Inside Disney's Virtual Playground for Fantasies: Video - Bloomberg owl.li/z9A1A
  • Cult Novels: An Essential List owl.li/z9HtL
  • How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Talent -NYTimes.com owl.li/z9wL1
  • Facebook’s algorithm — why our assumptions are wrong, and our concerns are rightowl.li/z9Biv
  • Contemplative practices boost creativity in problem-solving owl.li/z9B2x
  • Dungeons & Dragons Has Influenced a Generation of Writers - NYTimes.com owl.li/z9wkU
  • Relevance Is The New Remarkableowl.li/z94SK
  • It’s Time for Boards to Cross the Digital Divide - Didier Bonnet owl.li/z9weK
  • The software design trends that we love to hateowl.li/z8Z2e
  • Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook) - Michael Schrage owl.li/z9waa
  • Does Anyone Even Want a Smartwatch?owl.li/z8WBN
  • Advice From 10 Creative Technologists We Love owl.li/z9vZy
  • Lessons From The Man Who Managed Reddit's Community Of Millions owl.li/z8MhV
  • 10 Tech Trends That Are Too Big To Seeowl.li/z9vVg
  • MIT's new material opens the door to squishable, shape-shifting robots owl.li/z9usZ
  • Pondering Platform Monopolies – AVCowl.li/z8M9Q
  • How to be more confident, according to scienceowl.li/z8rGC
  • Why I’m so negative about positivity — Paul Jarvis owl.li/z8Kbp
  • 4 Surprising Things Facebook Has Learned From Your Relationship Status owl.li/z8mLj
  • The secretive billionaire who built Silicon Valleyowl.li/z8sEp
  • Nescafé Unveils New Logo and Global Branding owl.li/z8inp
  • Cutting the High Cost of Digital Living -NYTimes.com owl.li/z8skH
  • Down but Not Out: The Uncertain Future of the Crossword Puzzle owl.li/z813W
  • FontShop Joins Monotype owl.li/zdNyi
  • Unexpected: Apple, IBM in Deal to Create Apps, Sell Phones - WSJ owl.li/zdLz9
  • Digitizing the Family History - NYTimes.comowl.li/z8s7b
  • How to Take Your Cellphone Abroad (and Not Come Home Broke) owl.li/z8rWs
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of July 14, 2014owl.li/zcRbK
  • Ikea Gets Into Your Dreams With Trippy, Shakespearean New Ad owl.li/z5FfU
  • Discover the Music Vault: A Massive YouTube Archive of 13,000 Live Concert Videosowl.li/z5DdB
  • The Best And Worst Design Of The 2014 World Cup owl.li/z5FaZ
  • The Power of Maps, Past and Presentowl.li/z5Da1
  • 100 Famous Directors’ Filmmaking Adviceowl.li/z5F7p
  • 15 Music Videos Filmed In One Shotowl.li/z5D8I
  • The CIA's Style Manual & Writer's Guide: 185 Pages of Tips for Writing Like a Spyowl.li/z5Dpm
  • Apple launches developer blog for new Swift programming language owl.li/z5keY
  • When Your Skin Smells Sandalwood Oil, It Heals Itself owl.li/z5Dol
  • Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum owl.li/z5Df0
  • 11 Grammar Lessons From the Leaked CIA Style Book owl.li/z2kCj
  • Trust Us: The Ethics of Our Automated Futureowl.li/yYQcu
  • Secrets From The Brains Of 13 Creative Geniuses owl.li/z1AZc
  • Amazing: Museum of Natural History Announces First Adult-Only Sleepoverowl.li/yYQa3
  • The 20 most popular talks of all time: TED.comowl.li/z1jZ0
  • 10 Fashion and Beauty Items That Are Older Than You Think owl.li/yYQ6F
  • The 10 Most Viral Ads of 2014 (So Far)owl.li/z1jTZ
  • How to thrive in a world where change is constant owl.li/yW99b
  • TED Playlist: Kickstart your creativityowl.li/z13A0
  • The Best And Worst Design Of The 2014 World Cup owl.li/yYQrL
  • Do People Only Use 10% of Their Brains?owl.li/yW952
  • English Is The World's Top Borrower And Lender Of Words owl.li/yTdf1
  • Praise the artist who dances on the edgeowl.li/yVzEB
  • Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio Explains Emotions | MIT Technology Review owl.li/yTd15
  • Listen to the Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Agoowl.li/yVzg5
  • Never-Before-Seen Photos Show How Gone With The Wind Was Made. owl.li/yTczs
  • What Will Happen To English As More And More People Worldwide Speak It? owl.li/yUfjv
  • Creativity: It’s not what we make, it’s how we live. owl.li/yTc0W
  • Disney Picks 11 Tech and Media Firms for Startup-Accelerator Program owl.li/yTdvF
  • A Billionaire Mathematician’s Life of Ferocious Curiosity - NYTimes.com owl.li/yTdpB
  • Milton Glaser on Making Miracles on Vimeoowl.li/yTbiN
  • Ikea Built Something New: An Instagram Website owl.li/yPHMr
  • In 1938, the New York Times Thought Disney Toys Would Save the U.S. Economy owl.li/yTajk
  • 6 Surprising Things That Can Influence Your Dreams owl.li/yPHL0
  • The Ultra-Simple App That Lets Anyone Encrypt Anything owl.li/yTa5V
  • Jake Scott Directs Jude Law in Stylish New Johnnie Walker Film To Be Shown at Venice Film Festival owl.li/yPHEj
  • Meet the game that shows us the future of storytelling owl.li/yT9Yg
  • 11 Photographs of Mysterious Megalithsowl.li/yPHAJ
  • New York Police Department's Facebook page now includes posts that read like newspaper articles - WSJ owl.li/yPWP7
  • The World's 17 Best Print Campaigns of 2013-14 owl.li/yPS8j
  • Norman Mailer's 1191-Page Harlot's Ghost Outlined in One Handwritten Sheetowl.li/yPHy0
  • Debate: Are We Trying To Save Arts Or Organizations? (Why Some Arts Organizations Should Die) owl.li/yONZw
  • Winners of the 2014 Apple Design Awardsowl.li/yOP8O
  • Wolf Trap to unveil supertitles on your smartphone for opera performancesowl.li/yONTm
  • Meet Del Harvey, Twitter’s VP of Trust and Safety owl.li/yOOSD
  • Why the Research on Viewing TV Is Best Ignored - NYTimes.com owl.li/yONSh
  • Want to Brainstorm New Ideas? Then Limit Your Online Connections owl.li/yOOOE
  • Box-Office Data on New Met Productions Illustrate the Company's Struggle - WSJowl.li/yONRx