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The Week's Links: May 1, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Lake Michigan is So Clear Right Now its Shipwrecks Are Visible From the Air http://owl.li/MeJ8T
  • 400 years after his death, Shakespeare's sonnets live on in your smartphone http://owl.li/MfqUp
  • Baudelaire, Balzac, Dumas, Delacroix & Hugo Get a Little Baked at Their Hash Club (1844-1849) owl.li/MfqS1
  • 7 Lessons in Storytelling, From Novelist, Screenwriter, And Filmmaker (Don't Call Him a Director) Alex Garland owl.li/MmarH
  • This journey was nearly 4 billion miles — and took 10 years owl.li/Mf334
  • How To Read The Mind Of A Supreme Court Justice, using algorithms owl.li/MeIzi
  • ◉ Working Podcast: The “How Does Stephen Colbert Work?” Edition owl.li/MaJVm
  • How The NY Times Is Sparking the VR Journalism Revolution owl.li/Medzm
  • Why can’t we read anymore? owl.li/MefGB
  • Location Is Your Most Critical Data, and Everyone's Watching owl.li/Mbv75
  • Could your brain repair itself? owl.li/MeewG
  • When Google is your librarian and Starbucks your WiFi, do we still need public libraries? owl.li/Mbkf1
  • What It Takes To Change Your Brain's Patterns After Age 25 owl.li/Mee3k
  • The Untold Story of Silk Road owl.li/MeIMj
  • The Rise and Fall of the Hotel Mini-Bar owl.li/MedJM
  • Terrifying 1906 Illustrations of H. G. Wells’ ‘The War of the Worlds’ owl.li/Mba9N
  • ◉ Walter Mischel, The Marshallow Test, and Self-Control owl.li/MaJCC
  • A Hiker Filming a Scenic Vista in Chile Captures the Moment Chile’s Calbuco Volcano Erupts owl.li/M8yrc
  • Turning Shakespeare's sonnets into short films owl.li/M8y7w
  • 6 of the Most Essential but Underused Camera Features owl.li/M8ynN
  • ◉ The School of Life: Nigella Lawson on Food and Philosophy - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/4/29…
  • Art exhibit lets vision-impaired visitors touch masterpieces at Madrid museum owl.li/M8y0e
  • The Oldest Known Footage of London (1890-1920) Shows the City's Great Landmarks owl.li/M8yhe
  • Fascinating Photos Take You Behind the Scenes of Hubble owl.li/M5gYi
  • Content in Context is King by Derek Featherstone – An Event Apart Video owl.li/M8yf5
  • Martin Scorsese Introduces Filmmaker Hong Sangsoo, "The Woody Allen of Korea" owl.li/M8ycz
  • 14 design podcasts to put in your ears owl.li/M50Ig
  • Silence in the Workplace owl.li/M50oO
  • ◉ Jordan "DJ Earworm" Roseman: Music from the Crowd owl.li/MaJt5
  • Inside the Hellscape Where Our Computers Go to Die owl.li/M2cLe
  • This Month in Typography — I Love Typography owl.li/M508c
  • ◉ All In a Word: 100 Delightful Excursions into the Uses and Abuses of Words - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • 101 Amazing Facts Everyone Should Know owl.li/M2cmL
  • Inside the world’s best kindergarten owl.li/M4JEE
  • The FBI faked an entire field of forensic science. owl.li/M2bJl
  • The History of Emojis, or Why That Brand Just Winked at You owl.li/M50XN
  • Experience: I am Big Bird owl.li/M4DOr
  • San Francisco Symphony Targets Younger Fans with Nightclub Events owl.li/M4DHt
  • A Brief History of the Ways Companies Compete owl.li/M1ZvM
  • ◉ Steven Pinker On Bad And Good Writing owl.li/MaJe2
  • Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines owl.li/M1YCR
  • Homeless Millennials Are Transforming Hobo Culture owl.li/LYSJp
  • If You’re Not Learning Something New, It’s Time to Move On owl.li/M1W54
  • ◉ Where the Suckers Moon: The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Janet Collins: The 1st black prima ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera owl.li/LYSoT
  • Tesla Isn't an Automaker. It's a Battery Company owl.li/M1wdB
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/MbuVf
  • ◉ On digital luxury and digital intimacy, Jony Ive and Marc Newson with Suzy Menkes - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/4/27…
  • A Ballet Dancer, Offstage, With a Camera owl.li/LYS0X
  • The Best Teams Act Like Musicians owl.li/M24Kw
  • Unforgettable Hubble Space Telescope Photos owl.li/M1mjt
  • The Unbelievable Power of Amazon Web Services, it runs Netflix, Instagram, and thousands of other services owl.li/M1g9s
  • Love Your Company. owl.li/LYh4t
  • Want To See A Sliver Of What Google Knows About You? owl.li/LYf4r
  • How Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO Affect Pictures Shown in a Chart owl.li/LVIx1
  • How Legendary Illustrator Maira Kalman Stays Creative owl.li/LY22J
  • Kermit the Frog Has a Real Life Long-Lost Brother owl.li/LVEwS
  • WIRED's Next List for 2015 owl.li/LVJQ8
  • The Big Question: Why Does Hair Grow in Some Places But Not Others? owl.li/LVDFi
  • Chimpanzees granted 'legal persons' status to defend their rights in court owl.li/LVJtS
  • Best American Poetry Books of the 2010s owl.li/LYQE6
  • A whole lot of ick: Darth Vader Mask Made of Bugs Is Terrifying and Gorgeous owl.li/LVIF2
  • Dear Data: Two women who switched continents get to know each other through the data they draw owl.li/LV9es
  • Habits Are Decisions You Only Need to Make Once owl.li/LV8ZI
  • Nice Downtowns: How Did They Get That Way? owl.li/LV130
  • I Visited the Tate Museum (in Minecraft) owl.li/LV3Kp
  • What 'Food Porn' Does to the Brain. What's the psychological appeal of looking at food that can't be tasted? owl.li/LV0TR
  • 11 images that capture the incredible vastness of space owl.li/LV3p0
  • The science behind how our brains process movies  owl.li/LUXPo
  • The Big Question: Why Does Hair Grow in Some Places But Not Others? owl.li/LVDiw
  • Surely you can’t be serious: An oral history of Airplane! owl.li/LV2zO
  • How Do Trees Know When It's Spring? A Horticulturalist Explains The Science Behind Seasonal Blooming. owl.li/LV1cT
  • Typewolf → A Comprehensive Guide to Smart Quotes, Dashes & Other Typographic Characters owl.li/LURbT
  • ◉ The Alarming New Research on Perfectionism owl.li/LVBFj
  • Amazing Software Turns Paper Into Computers owl.li/LUQQI
  • Love this tumblr: Library of Type Specimens owl.li/LUvK2
  • Instagram Becomes A Choose-Your-Own Adventure For The Toronto Silent Film Festival owl.li/LUNuK
  • Dutch Homes Get Free Heating If They Agree To Host A Computer Server owl.li/LSmiB
  • Mobilegeddon Checklist: How To Prepare For This Week's Google Mobile Friendly Update owl.li/LUMe0
  • The Future Of Museums Is Reaching Way Beyond Their Walls owl.li/LSme3
  • The state of storytelling in the internet age owl.li/LUSit
  • Astronomers discover largest known structure in the universe is ... a big hole owl.li/LULK7
  • 8 Habits of Curious People owl.li/LUJta