The Week's Links: October 23, 2015
/ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:
- Top 50 most popular non-fiction podcasts in 2015: The Best Factual Podcasts owl.li/TEvoj
- What Every Young Designer Should Know, From Legendary Apple Designer Susan Kare owl.li/TEvvX
- The Typographical Street Art of Michael Pederson owl.li/TG7de
- This Giant Van Gogh Painting Is Made of Pumpkins, Watermelons and Squash owl.li/TEvhG
- ◉ J.K. Rowling And The Benefits of Failure owl.li/Tyl92
- The writing system is 6,000 years old, but its influence is still felt today, What the Heck is Cuneiform, Anyway? smithsonianmag.com/history/what-h…
- The Future of Doodling - The New Yorker owl.li/TDJTz
- How Nobel Prize Economist Angus Deaton Changed Our Thinking About World Progress owl.li/TDmz4
- Engaging Storytelling's Future Banks on a Balance Between New Tech and the Analog owl.li/TDJPZ
- The Times Partners With Google on Virtual Reality Project owl.li/TDmwy
- Teen Who Hacked CIA Director’s Email Tells How He Did It owl.li/TDmt1
- ◉ Who translates your ideas? owl.li/TykEx
- Will We Recognize Alien Life When We See It? owl.li/TDcJZ
- First Gene-Edited Dogs Reported in China: An extra-muscular beagle has been created through genome engineering. owl.li/TDmeY
- How Emojis Find Their Way to Phones owl.li/TDb1o
- Microsoft Research Debuts Autocomplete For Animation, And It’s Incredible owl.li/TDm8W
- What The Most Successful People Understand About Creative Work owl.li/TAmWo
- Why are placebos getting more effective? - BBC News owl.li/TDk8M
- What Are The Web's Most Played Out Fonts? owl.li/TDdfI
- How The Most Productive People Procrastinate owl.li/Typ1W
- Another great Radiolab episode, this one on colors. owl.li/Tykae
- ◉ The Meaning of Life (A TED Remix) owl.li/Tykyw
- How fantasy sports went from nerdy bar game to gambling giant - Timeline.comowl.li/TydKd
- iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch owl.li/Tyi3S
- Elizabeth Stokoe can control a conversation with a single word (Wired UK) owl.li/TydCI
- History Lovers Reconstruct a Roman Empire Display Entirely Out of LEGOs owl.li/Tyi0o
- Viewpoint: Why do fictional universes matter? - BBC News owl.li/Tx0op
- Bridge » Women in design share keys to creative confidence owl.li/TyhZr
- The electric car’s road from glorified golf cart to $100,000 Tesla - Timeline.comowl.li/TydWU
- How the U.S. Government Lost the Smithsonian Fortune owl.li/TwZMa
- NY Public Library: Our Favorite New York Stories owl.li/TwZLC
- ◉ Mystery (A TED Remix) owl.li/Tykwg
- The Origins of the King James Bible owl.li/TwZmX
- Using Legos as a Legitimate Urban Planning Tool owl.li/TwZFY
- Has NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovered an Alien Megastructure? — Discovery News owl.li/TuTDu
- Kate Winslet and the little Australian anti-bullying film that took on the world owl.li/TwZxQ
- A Map Of Every Superman Villain Ever owl.li/TuDKr
- This is Your Brain on Dreams, with Michio Kaku | Big Think owl.li/TwZt9
- How the Making of ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Was Different From Other Pixar Movies owl.li/TwZWB
- See at a Bee’s Eye Level With 9 Award-Wining Microscopic Photos smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/get…
- Outer-space anomaly gets ET experts' attention - CNN.com owl.li/TuoGG
- Britain’s Antarctic Research Station Looks Like a Spaceship owl.li/TuoDt
- Monty Python Fans, It's Your Holy Grail: 14 Minutes Of Lost Terry Gilliam Animation owl.li/TpzlA
- More Than 8,400 Never-Before-Seen Photos from NASA's Apollo Moon Landings owl.li/TuoxM
- The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy - The Atlantic owl.li/TmocO
- Hunter-Gatherers Sleep Little and Get Up Early owl.li/Tub5A
- The Fader Celebrates 100 Issues by Posting Them All Free on BitTorrent owl.li/TlLvD
- People Without Electricity Don’t Get 8 Hours’ Sleep Either owl.li/Tso21
- The Billion View Club: YouTube's 10 Most Watched Videos owl.li/Tupk5
- Every type of tech product has gotten cheaper over the last two decades — except for one owl.li/TpQLv
- Watch: Boeing On How They Developed The World's Lightest Material owl.li/Tjg8C
- How to Travel Like Anthony Bourdain owl.li/Tjfss
- The Man Who Designed Manhattan owl.li/Thbyv
- Secrets From 11 Of The Most Productive People From Oprah To Aziz Ansari owl.li/TjamL
- Disney's Crazy New Tech Brings Coloring Books To Life owl.li/ThbjW
- 6 Sleep Habits Of Productive People owl.li/Tja3E
- How Background Noise Affects The Way You Work owl.li/ThbiG
- Functional connectome fingerprinting: identifying individuals using patterns of brain connectivity : Nature... owl.li/TjwS4
- Five Leadership Lessons From Malala Yousafzai owl.li/Tj9SF
- “Tomato” versus “#FF6347”—the tragicomic history of CSS color names owl.li/Tj9NP
- Perfecting Pixar’s Movies Takes a Crazy Amount of Research owl.li/Thb0a
- California Now Has the Nation’s Best Digital Privacy Law owl.li/ThaVv
- ◉ How do you create? (A TED Remix) owl.li/TfYuQ
- 1968: Elton John's first photo shoot owl.li/TgF1X
- How the hoodie became more than a garment - Timeline.com owl.li/TgZpr
- 16 Crisp, Colorful Photos from the Apollo Missions owl.li/TgEKb
- Apple and The World's Most Public Privacy Policy | DuetsBlog owl.li/TgNCn
- Will You Ever Be Able to Upload Your Brain? owl.li/TgEGz
- How Tom Wolfe Became … Tom Wolfe owl.li/TgFu5
- The Cellphone Imperative: If I Can’t Text, I’m Moving owl.li/TgFst