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The Week's Links: November 20, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • The Vision of Charles and Ray Eames owl.li/UOhP3
  • The Subtle Art of Being a Designer at a Massive Company owl.li/UOaR0
  • Pac-Man’s Siren Call. The story of a most unusual bug on a most unusual day owl.li/ULbFq
  • I Turned Off JavaScript in My Web Browser for a Whole Week and It Was Glorious owl.li/UO46x
  • Like it or not, encryption's going to be a major issue in the presidential campaign owl.li/UL8gW
  • ◉ Legendary Massimo Vignelli on The Art of Timeless Design owl.li/UFG83
  • Michael Bierut on Tough Design Assignments + What it’s Like to be Publicly Scrutinized owl.li/UFSsk
  • Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is…  owl.li/UL7Fv
  • The twisted history of high heels: How a man’s shoe became a divisive symbol of sex and power -... owl.li/UFNLb
  • A Free Man's Letter to A Former Slaveowner in 1865 owl.li/UIZZC
  • Web Poets’ Society: New Breed Succeeds in Taking Verse Viral owl.li/UFKTf
  • Drink To Your Health: Study Links Daily Coffee Habit To Longevity owl.li/UL8Ov
  • The Future of Sesame Street Is Kinder and Gentler, With Fewer Puppets owl.li/UIeOp
  • Lessons from the PC video game industry owl.li/UIc9B
  • How the language you speak changes your view of the world owl.li/UFKpi
  • ◉ Nature by Numbers Beautifully Visualized owl.li/UFG5e
  • J.J. Abrams, Star Wars Superfan, on Directing The Force Awakens owl.li/UFGkY
  • The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades owl.li/UFIMI
  • 7 Hand Gestures That Make You Look Like a Real Intellectual owl.li/UFGjF
  • Problems of output are problems of input owl.li/UFHeg
  • ◉ The Brain, The Faulty Walnut - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/11/1…
  • TensorFlow and Monetizing Intellectual Property - Stratechery by Ben Thompson owl.li/UFGid
  • Unseen Charlotte Brontë story and poem discovered owl.li/UFHar
  • Meet Jean Jullien, the artist behind the "Peace for Paris" symbol owl.li/UFKqQ
  • Classic: The Definitive Mr. Rogers Profile owl.li/UFGKo
  • Google Just Open Sourced TensorFlow, Its Artificial Intelligence Engine owl.li/UFGhb
  • Can digital technology make the Herculaneum scrolls legible after two thousand years? owl.li/UF2Ev
  • ◉ Honda Power of Dreams - Campaign Magazine "Campaign of the Decade" owl.li/UFG1T
  • Documentary Films Are Changing In A Big Way. Finally The Oscars Have To Deal With It owl.li/UF2uT
  • British Museum opens to whole world after 262 years as it invites Street View indoors owl.li/UF2DQ
  • If 'Fantasia' Hadn't Flopped 75 Years Ago, What Would Feature Animation Look Like Today? owl.li/UEJ6s
  • Mapped: All the world's 1,031 World Heritage Sites owl.li/UF2zc
  • College Students Can Now Get The New York Times for $1 a Week owl.li/UCEAi
  • ◉ The Internet Lives in a Huge Hotel in Manhattan - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/11/1…
  • Study: Music Lessons Change Students’ Behavior owl.li/UF2wH
  • 3 Reasons Why You Are Always Mishearing Song Lyrics owl.li/UF2vh
  • 7 Hidden Art Secrets That Were Uncovered With Technology owl.li/UzuzU
  • Why Do Humans Cry? owl.li/Uzukq
  • ◉ Spinning Songs from Movies owl.li/UFFZp
  • Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost NYU Lecture on What It Takes to Be a Writer, Animated owl.li/UwwCe
  • Ray Bradbury on the Possibility of Science Fiction owl.li/Uwxfw
  • Star Wars characters as Greek statues owl.li/UwwoS
  • The Beautiful Network of Ancient Roman Roads owl.li/Uwx3L
  • ◉ How the Metaphor of “the Cloud” Changed Our Attitude Toward the Internet - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/11/1…
  • MIT's Weird Snake Bot Could Be The Future Of UI owl.li/UwsSO
  • smartercreativeNov 16, 10:55am via Hootsuite
  • From Middle Earth to Hundred Acre Wood: putting fiction on the map owl.li/UwwJK
  • smartercreativeNov 16, 10:20am via Hootsuite
  • 9 Fascinating Facts About The Microbiome, The Trillions Of Microbes Hidden Inside Us owl.li/UzVud
  • New Dinosaur Species Probably Endured Snow and Darkness for Months on End owl.li/UwwHw
  • ◉ Recommended: A Prehistory of the Cloud - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Manhattan Project sites get National Park status owl.li/UuxS2
  • This Surveillance Drone Never Needs to Land owl.li/Uubxv
  • The Science Behind How Pay Affects Productivity owl.li/Uu43w
  • Robot Toddler Learns to Stand by “Imagining” How to Do It owl.li/UubqT
  • The Way We Experience Art Is Changing--And Brands Can Capitalize On The Disruption owl.li/Uu40q
  • To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife owl.li/UubkR
  • How to start planning when you’d really rather not owl.li/Uu3W0
  • 50 Brilliant Science Fiction Movies That Everyone Should See At Least Once owl.li/Uu80C
  • A History Of Insane Art Prices owl.li/UwsOj
  • What designers need to know about copyright ownership owl.li/Uu6OA
  • Gorgeous: Ed Fairborn's map portraits. owl.li/UtySt
  • Comic Sans, Helvetica & Times New Roman: A Brief History of 6 Iconic Fonts owl.li/UtwUg
  • The Gene Hackers: A powerful new technology enables us to manipulate our DNA more easily than ever before. owl.li/UqFxO
  • Highlights from Google's Design Conference owl.li/UtwJj
  • The Genetic Reason Why Some People Are Born To Travel All Over The World owl.li/UnVn3
  • How Is Paper Made? Take a Factory Tour owl.li/UtwwX
  • Researcher Misses Out on Grant Because of Calibri/Arial Font Dustup owl.li/UnS1T
  • Idea Sex: How New Yorker Cartoonists Generate 500 Ideas a Week owl.li/UtvZB
  • Google Cardboard: Novelty or Useful? | Poynter. owl.li/UtVOd
  • UK gov’t promises all homes will have legal right to 10Mbps broadband by 2020 owl.li/UqRt4
  • Find Out What The ‘Most Popular Colors Of 2015’ Are - DesignTAXI.com owl.li/UnS1h
  • According to This 1919 Writing Guide, There Are Only 37 Possible Stories smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/191…
  • ◉ The new economics of entertainment owl.li/UicJs
  • The Importance of Face-to-Face Conversation | The Art of Manliness owl.li/Un82b
  • The Real-World Locations of 14 Sci-Fi Dystopias owl.li/UnRWT
  • David Foster Wallace on Why You Should Use a Dictionary, How to Write a Great Opener, and the... owl.li/Un819
  • This Library-Themed Tokyo Hotel Lets You Sleep Next to 1,700 Books owl.li/UnRVY
  • Science Tackles Very Important Question: What’s The Best Cheese For A Gooey Grilled Cheese Sandwich? owl.li/Ulabn
  • Paper bird sculptures by artist Diana Beltran Herrera owl.li/UnRTi
  • Photo Essay: Your Cup Of Coffee Is Ready For Its Closeup owl.li/UnRRQ