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The Week's Links: August 14, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Puppies! Now that I’ve got your attention, complexity theory owl.li/QGiaT
  • 10 TED Talks from authors owl.li/QGiiE
  • Scientists Discover that Horses Are More Expressive Than Chimps — NOVA Next | PBS owl.li/QGicf
  • Love numbers? A reading list for math enthusiasts owl.li/QGiqy
  • Pokémon Reimagined As Corporate Logos owl.li/QGit7
  • The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance owl.li/QGigh
  • 12 Bizarre, Outrageous, But Cool Hotels From Around The World -  owl.li/QGi9x
  • The Spork, Redesigned owl.li/QHSNF
  • ◉ The surprisingly logical minds of babies owl.li/QG2mw
  • How Cats Took Over the Internet—And Became Art owl.li/QHRlk
  • 2015 is the year the old internet finally died owl.li/QFSMs
  • Has This Man Unlocked The Secret To Internet Anonymity? owl.li/QFNy6
  • ◉ Christoph Niemann: How to Overcome the 3 Fears Every Creative Faces - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/8/13…
  • Lonely People’s Brains Work Differently owl.li/QFiwY
  • 5 Crazy New Ideas Out Of Disney Research owl.li/QFNuA
  • 5 Things Everyone Should Know About Opera owl.li/QFiuD
  • Why Are We so Distracted All the Time? owl.li/QFMu2
  • The Evolutionary Mystery of Left-Handedness and What It Reveals About How the Brain Works owl.li/QRUT7
  • Are You an Introvert — Or Are You Maybe an Undercover Narcissist? owl.li/QFitF
  • Three Elements to Expressing Your Idea - Video HBR owl.li/QFSWV
  • Why I taught myself 20 languages -- and what I learned about myself in the process owl.li/QFiHB
  • ◉ A Tribute To Hermann Zapf, Legendary Font Designer owl.li/QG2jT
  • Fresh water scarcity: An introduction to the problem - Christiana Z. Peppard owl.li/QFiyj
  • The Parks Service Just Added Four New National Historic Landmarks owl.li/QFisx
  • Beautiful, if Disposable: Why Food Package Design Matters owl.li/QAqXj
  • Stolen Stradivarius is Recovered after 35 Years owl.li/QzzNO
  • Ralph Steadman’s Evolving Album Cover Designs: From Miles Davis & The Who, to Frank Zappa &... owl.li/QzQ75
  • The history of tattoos - Addison Anderson owl.li/QzzK9
  • What is Love? BBC Philosophy Animations Feature Sartre, Freud, Aristophanes, Dawkins & More owl.li/QzPT4
  • Roughly 100 Fantastic Magazine Articles from 2014 - The Atlantic owl.li/QxLoG
  • ◉ The Rabbit Hole owl.li/QG2ew
  • Salvador Dalí Goes to Hollywood & Creates Wild Dream Sequences for Hitchcock & Vincente Minnelli owl.li/QzPLe
  • The World's Most Valuable Brands 2015 owl.li/QFit6
  • Read Pablo Picasso’s Poetry: Modernist Meditations on Making Art, World War, Dogs & More owl.li/QzPs9
  • The movement to rid the world of the Flash Player plugin owl.li/QxxSs
  • Why Are We so Distracted All the Time? owl.li/Qxw5z
  • ◉ Time To Fix Patents - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/8/11…
  • Can we reverse the ageing process by putting young blood into older people? | Ian Sample owl.li/Quuvv
  • The Battle Over Scrabble’s Dictionaries - The New Yorker owl.li/QxhGM
  • Should prison sentences be based on crimes that haven’t been committed yet? owl.li/QuuiG
  • ◉ Recommended: The Genius of Design - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Doctoral Dissertation As Graphic Novel - Print Magazine owl.li/QwP8O
  • Living without a sense of smell owl.li/QutWg
  • ◉ Sophie Scott: Why we laugh owl.li/QG2aY
  • Where Does The Glass For The New Supertall Skyscrapers Come From? owl.li/QuvwY
  • How to Spend Time Alone owl.li/QxGaW
  • How a Chinese Billionaire Built Her Fortune owl.li/Quv0x
  • For Mobile Messaging, GIFs Prove to Be Worth at Least a Thousand Words owl.li/Qum9G
  • Self-Driving Cars Get a Code of Ethics | MIT Technology Review owl.li/QuazN
  • ◉ Teaching Machines to Understand Us - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/8/10…
  • Stunning Aerial Photos Reveal How Birds See Popular Destinations owl.li/Qu3Gd
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/QJuvs
  • Pixar: The Design of Story owl.li/Qu8Ef
  • ◉ Recommended: How to Lie with Statistics - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Free PDF book includes amazing satellite shots of protected places owl.li/QtQqV
  • The sounds of Voyager's Golden Record owl.li/Qu8sM
  • Philip Glass: Words Without Music owl.li/QtLRg
  • ◉ Are we viral yet? The Allusionist Podcast owl.li/QG27w
  • The Tim Ferriss Show: Interview of Kevin Kelly, Co-Founder of WIRED, Polymath, Most Interesting... owl.li/QupzV
  • Modernizing the NYC subway's ancient technologies owl.li/Qu7Vo
  • What Is Fire? owl.li/Qu760
  • Living Without A Sense Of Smell owl.li/Qtqif
  • Great Leaps Forward In Ice Cream History owl.li/QrBGL
  • The Top Tech Writer in the Caribbean owl.li/QqJbp
  • How to manage for collective creativity owl.li/QrAPT
  • 13 Sandwiches from all over the World owl.li/QqG6J
  • Winners of the 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest owl.li/QrvuC
  • Use These Two Words On Your College Essay To Get Into Harvard owl.li/QqhaK
  • How to speak so that people want to listen owl.li/QruHi
  • Gabriel García Márquez on His Unlikely Beginnings as a Writer owl.li/QtLq3
  • How Do Fireflies Glow? Mystery Solved After 60 Years owl.li/QroJk
  • Inside London’s Secret Tunnels for Drunks and Royals owl.li/QoTr3
  • This aquarium is 82 feet high and has an elevator inside it owl.li/QoTpE
  • What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? owl.li/QoJjy
  • The Friendships of Famous Authors We Love owl.li/QoTk6
  • Infographic: The Most Expensive Keywords On Google - DesignTAXI.com owl.li/QoJgp
  • 15 Things You Might Not Know About 'Nighthawks' owl.li/QoThs
  • In defense of pessimism - BrettTerpstra.comowl.li/QoBkf
  • Prize-Winning Animation Lets You Fly Through 17th Century London owl.li/QoTcl
  • New York Public Library's quirkiest inquries owl.li/QoTtv
  • What You Miss When You Take Notes on Your Laptop owl.li/QoK7n
  • Good Libations: A Brief Visual History of Booze owl.li/QoAza
  • How Medieval Scribes Fashioned Modern Writing
  • The Next Librarian of Congress — The Message owl.li/Qlkhj
  • Why Are So Many Companies Giving Away Their IP?
  • Which paintings were the most creative of their time? An algorithm may hold the answers owl.li/QkTIe
  • Free: Download Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Short Course, The Inexplicable Universe, in Audio or Video... owl.li/QlL4C
  • The Physics of Some Seriously Awesome MythBusters Stunts owl.li/Qj3hV
  • 8 Contemporary Designers Redefining Typography | The Creators Project owl.li/QlIj0
  • Neil Gaiman’s Philosophical Dream, in a Whimsical Animation Narrated by Amanda Palmer owl.li/QlDIK