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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