The Week's Links: August 7, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

• Good Libations: A Brief Visual History of Booze owl.li/QoAza
• The Next Librarian of Congress — The Message owl.li/Qlkhj
• 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
• 3 Typography Tips For A More Comfortable Read owl.li/QiFpA
• A Neuroscientist Argues That Everybody Is Misunderstanding Fear and Anxiety owl.li/QiEOG
• Dance Network Steps Up 2 Screens This Fall; Initial Programming Announced owl.li/QiEGE
• On 70th anniversary of Hiroshima, read John Hersey’s 1946, issue-long story at NewYorker.com owl.li/QAuH0
• You call that a pirouette? Football players learn ballet owl.li/QiCuG
• Stolen Rodin sculpture recovered through lucky breaks, persistent chipping owl.li/QiDgx
• Stunning Sim Shows How Far Hit Songs Have Traveled in Space owl.li/QiIbm
• Explaining graphic design to four-year-olds owl.li/QiC6L
• I run a university. I’m also an Uber driver. owl.li/QiBek
• Facebook now used by half of world's online users - BBC News owl.li/QiAOo
• The Counterintuitive Art of Leading by Letting Go owl.li/QhNqx
• TV Legend Norman Lear Tells A Story About How He Beat Writer's Block owl.li/Qi5so
• The 4 Types of Productivity Styles owl.li/QhNbI
• “Modern” homepage design increases pageviews and reader comprehension, study finds owl.li/QhURH
• Inside the 13 Books on the Man Booker Longlist owl.li/QhHbF
• Why we're drawn to fizzy drinks owl.li/QiBMM
• How brand-new words are spreading across America owl.li/QhPjJ
• Why we're drawn to fizzy drinks owl.li/Qhrys
• BBC Micro:bit—a free single-board PC for every Year 7 kid in the UK owl.li/Qhrtt
• The White House’s Alpha Geeks — Backchannel owl.li/Qf6qX
• Watch: 5 Classical Music Gems from Massive New YouTube Archive owl.li/Qenlj
• Infamously Altered Photos, Before and After Their Edits owl.li/QftJo
• ◉ Recommended: So You've Been Publicly Shamed - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
• Welcome to the Quietest Square Inch in the U.S. owl.li/QcCOs
• The Story Behind New York Magazine's Powerful Cosby Cover owl.li/QfbKU
• Edison's Files Reveal the Only Known Voice Recording of Someone Born in the 18th Century - The Atlantic owl.li/QhH5T
• ◉ The Acceptance of Change owl.li/QlH8r
• An Introvert’s Guide to Eating and Drinking Out — Human Parts owl.li/Qf6uS
• Amazing Stanley Kubrick Narrates a Promo Reel for Dr. Strangelove: Features Unused Takes owl.li/Qcbmf
• History of Icons - a visual brief on icon history by FUTURAMO owl.li/Qbxxf
• ◉ Ink - Written by Hand - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/8/3/…
• The Plan to Beam the Web to 3 Billion Unconnected Humans owl.li/Q8HDr
• Filmmakers fighting “Happy Birthday” copyright find their “smoking gun” owl.li/Qbxc5
• ◉ Recommended: The Story of Art - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
• Thirteen new spider species discovered in Australia's north owl.li/Q8GTM
• Haruki Murakami: the moment I knew I would be a novelist owl.li/Q9i8z
• Study: People read more on sites with modern designs. They also remember more. | Poynter. owl.li/QcbPA
• Andy Warhol’s Celebrity Polaroids Are Like Retro Instagrams⁰ owl.li/Q8FCM
• The Full-Throttle Campaign to Keep Ballet Kicking owl.li/Q9gxd
• Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone owl.li/Q9dxx
• Ad Age's 2015 Small Agency Awards: See the Winners owl.li/QqjKS
• ◉ The School of Life: Nigella Lawson on Food and Philosophy owl.li/QlH0Y
• This Wooden Computer Chip Could Make Recycling Electronics A Lot Easier owl.li/Q7ZuQ
• Dream Job Of The Week: Culinary Diplomat owl.li/Q7Zfa
• President Obama will host the first-ever White House Demo Day on August 4th owl.li/Q62TJ
• The decline of TV viewing in the USA. This Chart Shows Why Comcast Would Be Interested in Vice Media and BuzzFeed owl.li/Q7Tdm
• Inside the Secret World of Russia’s Cold War Mapmakers owl.li/Q61Cm
• 25 Lost Cities owl.li/Q6tTy
• 2-Hour Single-Take Heist Thriller Watch the Trailer for the Single-Take Film that Rocked Darren Aronofsky's World owl.li/Q5NPN
• Do Fewer Things, More Often owl.li/Q8Cyy
• Websites, Please Stop Blocking Password Managers. It’s 2015 owl.li/Q6kw8
• Behind the Lens: Photographing the President in 50 Countries owl.li/Q62XH
• Tony Fadell: What will Google's $3.2bn guru do next? - BBC News owl.li/Q5fFH
• My Life as a Magnolia Bakery Cupcake Bouncer owl.li/Q5fAH
• What Do You Do to Feel More Creative? owl.li/Q5fsP
• Portuguese scientists discover why pendulum clocks swing together owl.li/Q5fyZ
• The origin of sci-fi movie sounds owl.li/Q3Sta
• You Might Not Know Kenny Ortega, But You Probably Know His Choreography owl.li/Q5fyk
• 28 Important Philosophers List the Books That Influenced Them Most During Their College Days owl.li/Q3Soq
• The nerd's guide to learning everything online owl.li/Q5fVk
• What Music Does to Your Brain While You Work owl.li/Q5fwV
• Being Neurotic Makes It Harder for You to Remember Things smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…
• Rain is sizzling bacon, cars are lions roaring: the art of sound in movies | Jordan Kisner owl.li/Q0D2Q
• The Secret Agents Who Protect Obama on the Internet owl.li/Q0ChO
• How blood pressure works - Wilfred Manzano owl.li/Q02mE
• Johnnie Walker Introduces High End Whisky Tasting Via Tablet owl.li/Q0Br5
• How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain owl.li/Q01PP
• The Art of Video Game Photography owl.li/Q0zsM
• The world’s most charismatic mathematician | Siobhan Roberts owl.li/Q00rT
• The origin of sci-fi movie sounds owl.li/Q3MTA
• ◉ On digital luxury and digital intimacy, Jony Ive and Marc Newson with Suzy Menkes owl.li/Q6bu3
• Extendable Robot Arms and Exoskeletons Could Benefit from Super-Stretchy Wires | MIT Technology... owl.li/Q0yNb
• Some of my favorite accounts. NASA’s Social Media Strategy Is Genius—And Kinda Maddening owl.li/Q0eLg