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The Week's Links: July 25, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Ancient Tooth Plaque Shows Our Ancestors Used to Feast on Weeds owl.li/zm0xf
  • What If You Could Choose Between the Fastest Route and the Most Beautiful? owl.li/zk6BW
  • How to Be a Better Traveler - Scientific Americanowl.li/zm0r7
  • Take An Electrifying Look Inside The World's First Light Art Museum owl.li/zk6wW
  • ◉ LOUD owl.li/zm8m4
  • 8 Places for Thrifty Bookworms to Download Free E-Books owl.li/zm0p9
  • 6 Design Concepts From IDEO That Rethink Agingowl.li/zisON
  • ◉ Recommended: The Creative Process Illustrated: How Advertising's Big Ideas Are Born owl.li/zm7Yj
  • Starbucks Has Bigger Plans in Mobile Payments Than Most People Realize owl.li/zm0n5
  • Amazing: Restaurants in Cool and Unexpected Placesowl.li/zisLe
  • Why do we have blood types? We still don’t really know what blood types are for. Do they really matter?owl.li/zm0iZ
  • Amazing: 36 Realistically Colorized Historical Photos Make the Past Seem Incredibly Alive owl.li/zlZq2
  • Google Analytics gets its own official dedicated iPhone app so you can view your data on the go owl.li/zisKl
  • While critics sneer, scientists try to make sense of our love of weepy books and movies. owl.li/zi5Lk
  • How Google’s New Font Tries to Anticipate the Futureowl.li/zisGj
  • ◉ The Arecibo Observatory: Beyond The Big Dreamsowl.li/zm8j1
  • How The Average American Work Week Compares To The Rest Of The World owl.li/zi5w1
  • 10 tips on how to make slides that really communicate your idea owl.li/zisES
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of July 21, 2014 owl.li/zvds7
  • ◉ Joi Ito: Want to innovate? Deploy or die. -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/7/20…
  • 50 Excellent Fabulist Books Everyone Should Readowl.li/zi5ax
  • ◉ Recommended: Where the Suckers Moon: The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign owl.li/zm7Vk
  • How Side Projects Improve Our Performance at Everything owl.li/ziszb
  • Thirty Things I’ve Learned — Nick Crockerowl.li/zi2uO
  • The Big Mystery Behind the Great Train Robbery May Finally Have Been Solved owl.li/zi6dc
  • Italy Turns To Corporate Sponsors To Maintain Its Monuments - NYTimes.com owl.li/zi5Y6
  • Darwin’s complete Galapagos library posted onlineowl.li/zhKbo
  • How to use Siri for iPhone and iPad: The ultimate guide owl.li/zfuwi
  • The Future of Marketing, as Seen at Cannes Lions - John Winsor - Harvard Business Review owl.li/zhJGI
  • ◉ Making Magic with Pixar: Maker Camp Field Trip 2013 owl.li/zm8gB
  • The Brilliant Machine That Could Finally Fix Airport Security owl.li/zfurg
  • Essential: Longform's 25 Favorite Unlocked New Yorker Articles owl.li/zsyvs
  • Humans Already Use Way, Way More Than 10 Percent of Their Brains owl.li/zhJtV
  • We need this: A maps app that algorithmically finds you the scenic route owl.li/zfugb
  • ◉ Being Digital: Nicholas Negroponte: A 30-year history of the future -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/7/20…
  • ◉ Recommended: Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Advertising owl.li/zm7NM
  • What happens when Shakespeare is translated? Is it still Shakespeare? owl.li/zhdP9
  • Chocolate? Pfft, MIT students are 3D printing with ice cream owl.li/zfp0A
  • Take a 3D tour of London with Google's latest Maps update owl.li/zgSat
  • MIT researchers want to power your cellphone with dew owl.li/zgS3A
  • Out in the Open: A Tool That Will Make It Easier to Abolish Email Entirely owl.li/zfdpC
  • Kara Swisher Is Silicon Valley’s Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist. How Does That Work?owl.li/zdNg8
  • Facebook Users Can Now DVR Content, Including Ads owl.li/zpZFe
  • Trivia App Tests Your Design Nerdiness owl.li/zfcum
  • Batman at 75: Lisa Granshaw on why pop culture can’t let the Dark Knight go owl.li/zdL3U
  • ◉ 10 Reasons To Love Science with Neil deGrasse Tyson owl.li/zm8eq
  • MoMA Design Curator Paola Antonelli On The Dark Side Of Design owl.li/zfbAt
  • Facebook to track users' TV habits - LA Timesowl.li/zcRK9
  • ◉ Recommended: Confessions of an Advertising Manowl.li/zm7J3
  • Is Music The Easiest Way On Earth To Learn Programming? owl.li/zfbk5
  • ◉ Nick Crocker: Thirty Things I've Learned -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/7/20…
  • Inside the Teenage Brain: Psychology Todayowl.li/zcRpj
  • For This Author, 10,000 Wikipedia Articles Is a Good Day's Work owl.li/zfaP6
  • One man and his robot are responsible for 8.5 percent of Wikipedia owl.li/zfaq6
  • Stress-Busting Diet: 8 Foods That May Boost Resilience owl.li/zcRjv
  • Classical musicians and the terror of the auditionowl.li/zbyDv
  • MIT's flying robot keeps moving photo subjects bathed in light owl.li/zbWb1
  • How to keep the audience laughing at a sitcom taping—even on take 10 owl.li/zby0S
  • 50 Fascinating Nonprofit Statistics owl.li/zbMYg
  • What Happens When Digital Cities Are Abandoned?owl.li/zbxk9
  • Mobile Technology Fact Sheet- Pew Researchowl.li/zbA7r
  • Atlantic City Ballet moves to the boardwalkowl.li/zbwV8
  • Here are the apps teens actually love, in 5 chartsowl.li/zbzHm
  • Five things about Gen Y that charities need to knowowl.li/zbzmi
  • The Science Of Cool owl.li/zbsqo
  • 11 Frida Kahlo Quotes That Will Inspire Any Young Creative owl.li/zbcj5
  • David Chalmers: How do you explain consciousness?owl.li/zbkZe
  • Meet ‘Project Zero,’ Google’s Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers owl.li/zbc7Q
  • Uniqlo Designs New Uniforms For MoMA's Security Guards owl.li/zbkU2
  • The Secret History Behind The Science Of Stressowl.li/z9Oec
  • Fantastic: David Bowie Answers the Famous Proust Questionnaire owl.li/zbkhG
  • The Power of the Behind The Scenes Workerowl.li/z9NU3
  • Bill Gates's Favorite Business Tales, in The New Yorker owl.li/zbjZr
  • NASA's Next Giant Leap: Mars owl.li/zbj8W
  • 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