The Week's Links: February 13, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

• The juice bottle that brought down an art thief owl.li/IEPH9
• ◉ Dancing Shadow Sculptures owl.li/IyDvp
• How Star Wars Made $27 Billion owl.li/IEomj
• Down the Wikipedia Rabbit Hole: The Game! owl.li/IEnLU
• A Map Of Every Patent Steve Jobs Touched owl.li/IEokj
• The high schooler who created a test for pancreatic cancer: A Q&A owl.li/IEnHT
• ◉ Recommended: A History of the World in 100 Objects - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
• MacArthur Honors 9 Nonprofits for Their Creativity owl.li/IEnRL
• TED Playlist: How language changes over time owl.li/IFtnv
• Hot Cocoa Mix Has the Same Stuff Your iPhone's Screen Is Made Of owl.li/IEnQX
• Finally, random admissions: How one Yale class chooses its students owl.li/IEntv
• Brian Dettmer: Old books reborn as intricate art owl.li/IEnnl
• ◉ Dan Gilbert: "Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished." owl.li/IyDiN
• Best Advice: Want to Achieve Excellence? Compare Ideas to Reality owl.li/IEluf
• How Languages and Genes Evolve Together owl.li/IE6MJ
• Northeastern, Esquire Reimagine the Future of Magazine Journalism owl.li/IEkMv
• Smithsonian American Art Museum launches effort to create national art database owl.li/IE6IQ
• ◉ "Old/New" - Narrated by Patton Oswalt - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/2/8/…
• Lewis Carroll and The Hunting of the Snark owl.li/IE8bD
• Enter the Sun Without Burning Alive in New NASA Installation owl.li/IE6WA
• Japan Announces Plans for the First Hotel Run by Robots owl.li/IEnBZ
• The Importance Of Sound Effects In Tarantino's Movies owl.li/IE6nv
• Among New York Subway’s Millions of Riders, a Study Finds Many Mystery Microbes owl.li/IE6fQ
• ◉ The CIA's first tweet owl.li/IyD1i
• Slate’s podcast audience has tripled in a year, and its bet on audio over video continues to pay off owl.li/IE65h
• How RadioShack Helped Build Silicon Valley owl.li/IE5rQ
• Highlights From A Never-Before-Published Interview With Henri Matisse owl.li/IE60e
• ◉ What is a good brand? - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/2/8/…
• Why Is Nearsightedness Skyrocketing Among Chinese Youth? owl.li/IE5pC
• ◉ Recommended: A Little History of the World: Illustrated Edition - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
• The Billionaires at Burning Man owl.li/IE5Cb
• The App Economy Is Now 'Bigger Than Hollywood' owl.li/IE6Bw
• An Exclusive Look at Sony’s Hacking Saga, as it happened owl.li/IE5ym
• Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx: Kubricks' 2001: One Mans Incredible Odyssey owl.li/IE4zR
• Recovering the Doves Type owl.li/IE4ux
• ◉ Why You Hate Work owl.li/IyCMn
• The World’s Most-Visited Castles and Palaces owl.li/IDeXh
• ◉ Neil Gaiman presents lifetime achievement award to Ursula K. Le Guin at 2014 National Book Awards - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/2/8/…
• Turkish Artist Creates Delightful Anamorphic Calligraphy That Appears to Pop Out of the Page owl.li/ICdzC
• Getting Out Of Afghanistan (with all your gear) owl.li/IDeQX
• ▶ Why do we have museums? - J. V. Maranto owl.li/ICc6O
• TED Playlist: Talks to make you feel good about getting older owl.li/IDezw
• Harvard Lures a Record 37,000 Applicants By Milking Social Media owl.li/IE5nU
• Improv Everywhere: Grand Central Lights owl.li/IDebZ
• Bill Carter on Covering 'SNL' and Lorne Michaels: "Many Lost Their Minds in Pursuit" of His Approval owl.li/IBUZw
• I Will Not Post This — The Coming Age of Self Censorship owl.li/Izsxr
• ◉ How We Got To Now with Steven Johnson owl.li/IyCsk
• Why Google Glass Broke owl.li/IzqoH
• ◉ Kurt Vonnegut on how to write a short story - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/2/6/…
• No one in control: The algorithms that run our lives owl.li/IyWLN
• Fantastically Wrong: The Weird, Kinda Perverted History of the Unicorn owl.li/Iz6Wo
• The Semiotics of Brand Building owl.li/IyNWr
• NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Pledges to Create Artists' Housing owl.li/Iz3OF
• ◉ Recommended: Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
• Obama budget proposal calls for slight increase in NEA funding owl.li/Iz3Jj
• Big Data and Bacteria: Mapping the New York Subway’s DNA - WSJ owl.li/ICbYe
• A Typeface Designer’s Illustrated Tour of How to Create a Font owl.li/IyMQl
• James Nachtwey on the Power Photography Has to Change Our World owl.li/IyMEF
• The Mysterious, Murky Story Behind Soy-Sauce Packets owl.li/IvHKK
• Should you call that meeting? owl.li/IyDSq
• Can Neuroscience Determine Guilt or Innocence? owl.li/IvG8V
• Making Talent: 4 Lessons from the Front Lines Of Digital Education owl.li/IyBP8
• 11 Questions For Richard Branson In A Place Called "The Shag Room" owl.li/Iuwih
• Credit For Actually Learning--Not Time In Class--Is Shaking Up Higher Education owl.li/Iwg9I
• Sonic branding owl.li/IyNhk
• Andrew Keen and the Original Sin of the Internet owl.li/IvHRx
• 10 Of Frank Lloyd Wright's Greatest Buildings owl.li/IunY6
• Solving an Unsolvable Math Problem - The New Yorker owl.li/Iseqk
• The Hidden Psychology of Wearing Glasses owl.li/IrYBw
• Why Are You So Smart? Thank Your Mom & Your Difficult Birth owl.li/Isene
• Net Neutrality: How the Government Finally Got It Right - The New Yorker owl.li/IFGEs
• The Psychological Difference Between $12.00 and $11.67 owl.li/IrYba
• Ray Kurzweil’s Mind-Boggling Predictions for the Next 25 Years owl.li/Isei2
• A Glimpse at How Apple Is Localizing Its Message in China owl.li/IrXX3
• To Heighten Creativity, Take a Good Look at Your Selves owl.li/IrYKa
• Optimize Your Downtime: The Complete Guide to Learning via Podcast owl.li/Iuv7E
• How Japan became a pop culture superpower owl.li/IrYHd
• How Technicolor Changed Storytelling owl.li/IrXLv
• Beloved Japanese Author Answers Questions At 'Mr. Murakami's Place' owl.li/IrXHH
• ◉ Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time owl.li/Im7o5
• Michelangelo's bronze panther-riders revealed after 'Renaissance whodunnit' owl.li/IrXFe
• Harper Lee's Novel Achievement- Smithsonian owl.li/IqJqJ
• The Chipotle effect: Why America is obsessed with fast casual food owl.li/IrWmd
• Economists Say Millennials Should Consider Careers In Trades owl.li/IqI5g
• Combining The Nation's Digitized Libraries, All In One Place owl.li/IrVuJ
• Super Bowl halftime show review: A professional dance critic defends “Bad Left Shark” owl.li/IrXTJ
• When Does Freezing Rain Become Sleet? owl.li/IqJzY