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The Week's Links: October 30, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • ◉ Recommended: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Brian Eno on why he doesn't tour (via @ austinkleon) owl.li/TRniS
  • Red Meat Just Joined the 478 Other Things That Might Give You Cancer owl.li/TRIAJ
  • What gets lost from the internet: If a Pulitzer-nominated 34-part series of investigative journalism can vanish... owl.li/TRn0o
  • We Brought Together the Major Players in the Ad Blocker War, and Here's What They Told Each Other owl.li/TRE8t
  • 8 Things That Actually Make You A Chef — Personal Growth owl.li/TRvRZ
  • A 4,000-year history of black pepper, the spice that got global trade rolling - Timeline.com owl.li/TQW7G
  • Long-concealed chemistry lab reveals early roots of a new science - Timeline.comowl.li/TQVIY
  • The Most Beautiful Video Not Of This World owl.li/TQYnh
  • Turning Iceland's Transmission Towers into Frozen Giants | The Creators Project owl.li/TP4xw
  • The Neuroscience of Bass: New Study Explains Why Bass Instruments Are Fundamental to Music owl.li/TQTGp
  • Animal Study Points to Drug Duo that Might Aid Injured Brains to Bounce Back owl.li/TP4vR
  • London's Cabbies Say 'The Knowledge' Is Better Than Uber And A GPS owl.li/TQRjo
  • These Are the Oldest Known Flowers in the World owl.li/TP4tL
  • ◉ Rohan Gunatillake: You Are Not Your Work -  smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/10/2…
  • 6 Volumes, 60K Words, 60 Years in the Making: Dictionary of American Regional English owl.li/TQPFX
  • 100 Years After Breaking Ground, Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia Enters Final Stage owl.li/TQP37
  • The New York City Subway Map Redesigned owl.li/TP4nD
  • MIT discovers the location of memories: Individual neurons | ExtremeTech owl.li/TP4jN
  • ◉ In Theory Frequently Means Inaction. owl.li/TQXHD
  • This Is the Largest Photo of Space Ever Taken owl.li/TP3Xu
  • Four Scientifically Proven Ways To Spark An "Aha Moment" owl.li/TP4eC
  • The XKCD Guide to the Universe’s Most Bizarre Physics owl.li/TP3QZ
  • ◉ Recommended: The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • The Man Without a Brain owl.li/TP4do
  • ◉ Michael Bierut On Learning Graphic Design - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/10/2…
  • The Alan Lomax Sound Archive Now Online: Features 17,000 Blues & Folk Recordings owl.li/TP3MV
  • Half-and-half male-female Great Mormon butterfly emerges - BBC News owl.li/TP47S
  • This 11-year-old is selling cryptographically secure passwords for $2 each | Ars Technica owl.li/TP4qN
  • How Long-Necked Dinosaurs Pumped Blood to Their Brains smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…
  • The Little-Known Story Behind Britain’s Road Signs owl.li/TP3Kg
  • Why It’s So Hard to Design Arabic Typefaces owl.li/TOs9u
  • ◉ Jason Randal On Developing Expertise owl.li/TQXul
  • A recent Saturday night in NYC owl.li/TNSbE
  • The man who digitizes newspapers owl.li/TNStM
  • Walking every block in NYC owl.li/TNS56
  • The most mysterious star in the Milky Way owl.li/TNSrd
  • Study: quantum entanglement is real owl.li/TNRDn
  • Super recognizers owl.li/TNSqe
  • Tattoos Transform into Moving Images with Ink Mapping | The Creators Project owl.li/TP3LH
  • What makes a Miyazaki film a Miyazaki film? owl.li/TNSdp
  • ◉ We Are Internet: A Series Featuring 17 Visionaries & Their Perspectives On The Future Of Media & The Internet - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/10/2…
  • Signal vs. Noise: Color as a Wayfinding Tool | Viget owl.li/TNRgx
  • The Ultimate Beastie Boys Sample Source Collection owl.li/TNReG
  • ◉ What is transmedia? owl.li/TQXns
  • The Secret History of the Hashtag, Slash, and Interrobang owl.li/TNQHC
  • The electronic music map owl.li/TNRcX
  • ◉ Recommended: How to By Michael Bierut - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Fantastic: Saul Bass On His Approach To Designing Movie Title Sequences owl.li/TNQGM
  • Bridge » Women in design share keys to creative confidence owl.li/TNR1W
  • Fighting traffic, from the days of the Model T to the UberX - Timeline.com owl.li/TQW4E
  • A chemistry teacher's guide to the perfect cup of coffee owl.li/TNQF2
  • ◉ Have You Met Margaret Hamilton? Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/10/2…
  • Six Secrets of Highly Effective Graphic Design Marketers owl.li/TNQIs
  • John Berg, Art Director Who Made Album Covers Sing, Dies at 83 owl.li/TNRjq
  • You Wouldn’t Think It, But Typeface Piracy Is a Big Problem owl.li/TNQI7
  • The Science of Why We Sleep and What Happens Inside Our Brains When We Do owl.li/TNQuM
  • There’s an Elephant Buried Underneath the Vatican owl.li/TNQte
  • Review: A Lost Merce Cunningham Dance Solo, Found owl.li/TM8Vn
  • Unraveling the Many Mysteries of Tituba, the Star Witness of the Salem Witch Trials owl.li/TNQpY
  • The subtle ways in which Pulp Fiction visually inspired Breaking Bad owl.li/TM7Ag
  • How To Turn Anger Into Creative Energy owl.li/TNQnZ
  • Bronze Age Skeletons Were Earliest Plague Victims owl.li/TM7wQ
  • A Map of Middle-Earth Annotated by J.R.R. Tolkien Just Slipped Out of an Old Edition owl.li/TNQvk
  • Michael Bierut On How Graphic Design Can Accomplish Close To Anything owl.li/TN5UZ
  • The Business of Broadway: Where the money is flowing in New York’s $1.3 billion theater industry owl.li/TM8X1
  • Audible Builds A "Choose Your Own Adventure" Instagram Experience To Promo Locke & Key owl.li/TM4Ux
  • Charting 52 Years Of Lego Brick Colors owl.li/TGngx
  • Can the Woman Behind Halo 5 Save the Xbox? owl.li/TM4PT
  • Stanford’s Self-Driving DeLorean Drifts, Does Killer Donuts owl.li/TGfZl
  • A 4,000-year history of black pepper, the spice that got global trade rolling - Timeline.com owl.li/TJsjD
  • The Secret History of the Hashtag, Slash, and Interrobang owl.li/TG9Sp
  • Making the U.S. Government's Web Design Less Sucky owl.li/TGLsF
  • Winners of the 2015 Urban Photography Competition Shine a Light on Diverse Urban Life Around the... owl.li/TM6Zm
  • To Get Better Sleep, Maybe Try Staying Awake owl.li/TGnjU
  • Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up owl.li/TG9Ie
  • A TED-Ed Lesson That Explains How Memories Are Formed and Why People Lose Memories Over Time owl.li/TG7La
  • ◉ Storytelling (A TED Remix) owl.li/TylbO
  • Before Google, There Was the Patient, Long-Suffering Staff of the New York Public Library owl.li/TEvtX
  • A journey through the mind of an artist owl.li/TG7rB
  • A photographer edits out our smartphones to show our strange and lonely new world - Quartz owl.li/TEvsI
  • This new telescope might show us the beginning of the universe owl.li/TG7iB
  • Focus means saying 'no' owl.li/TEvp4
  • The Typographical Street Art of Michael Pederson owl.li/TG7de
  • What Every Young Designer Should Know, From Legendary Apple Designer Susan Kare owl.li/TEvvX