The Week's Links: January 2, 2016

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

• 13 Brilliant Outdoor Ads That Dazzled the Real World in 2015 owl.li/WrxYs
• Looking Back At The World Changing Ideas Of 2015 owl.li/WrxXt
• What percentage of your brain do you use? - Richard E. Cytowic owl.li/WrwK9
• Your Must-Listen Podcast Playlist For 2016 owl.li/WrxWS
• Maps of the Earth's Most Cursed Destinations owl.li/WrwGS
• Research-Based Ways to Win at Work in 2016 owl.li/WrxRJ
• From Google to Hillary to Snoop Dogg's pot candies, we look back on some of the year's best branding owl.li/WrwCm
• The Smartest Fashion Designs Of 2015 owl.li/WrxZm
• Year in Review: The Best and Worst Ads of 2015 - WSJ owl.li/WrxPK
• Researchers: Dance Helps Mitigate Symptoms Of Parkinson’s owl.li/WrxOt
• Quiz: Can You Match the Brand With Its Original Logo? owl.li/WrwwY
• 2015 Year in Pictures: Part I - The Boston Globe owl.li/Wrwsy
• The next Stage of Machine Learning: Teach Robots to Think Like Humans | Big Think owl.li/Wrwgs
• What's the difference between accuracy and precision? - Matt Anticole owl.li/Wrwke
• A Tantalizingly Simple Theory of Brain Disease owl.li/Wqqet
• Here’s How Nintendo Transformed Itself in Just a Year owl.li/WrwjP
• Brand New: The Best and Worst Identities of 2015, Part 1: The Most Notable Reviewed owl.li/Wqqc7
• Welcome to the Deserted Island Vacation Directory owl.li/Wrwj3
• The Best WIRED Photo Stories of the Year owl.li/Wrwz8
• China Is Teaching Kids to Code Much, Much Earlier than the U.S. | Big Think owl.li/Wrwha
• How Long Before You Can Use Your 2015 Calendar Again? owl.li/Wqq30
• NYPL's Most Popular Check Outs of 2015 owl.li/Wqq0p
• In the Future, Brain Scans Might Be Able to Predict Who Will Benefit From Cognitive Behavioral... owl.li/WqpM2
• Adweek's 10 Most Read Technology Stories of 2015 owl.li/WqpX8
• A Giant Squid Visits a Japanese Harbor owl.li/WqpJO
• DJ Earworm's Year-End Mashup Hits A Nostalgic Groove owl.li/WqpSQ
• 2015: The Year in Charts owl.li/WqpvR
• Working At A Cookie Factory Ruined Cookies For Me Forever owl.li/WqpQc
• How Well Do You Handle Uncertainty? Take This Quiz to Find Out owl.li/Wqq5h
• Top 10 Title Sequences of 2015 owl.li/WqpOb
• Here are the Winning Images of National Geographic's 2015 Photo Contest owl.li/WqprF
• How to Trick Yourself Into Cleaning owl.li/WqoVf
• The 22 Best Photo Essays Of 2015 owl.li/WnzQC
• The Scientific Case for Low Expectations on New Year’s Eve owl.li/WqoQ3
• 13 Media and Advertising ‘Trends’ in 2015 That Never Happened owl.li/Wnz2T
• Peek Inside The Gorgeous Notebooks Of Professional Soccer Broadcasters owl.li/WnBw4
• The Six Most Interesting Psychology Papers of 2015 - The New Yorker owl.li/Wny7W
• NASA Releases Photos Of Mysterious "Geoglyphs" In Kazakhstan owl.li/WnBtS
• How memories form and how we lose them - Catharine Young owl.li/WqptP
• Ten Brand Ideas Creativity Loved in 2015 owl.li/WnBs3
• From Kit Kat to Coca-Cola: The 10 Best Holiday Ads of 2015 owl.li/WnxT1
• Co.Create's Best of 2015 (And Most Anticipated of 2016) owl.li/WnxPW
• A tech resolution for the new year: Better tech literacy for all. owl.li/Wmqws
• Four Key Things to Keep an Eye On in Virtual Reality in 2016 | MIT Technology Review owl.li/Wnwm2
• You Can Now Explore 360-Degree Videos On Apple TV, No VR Headset Required owl.li/Wmqdz
• The Best Biomedicine Stories of 2015 | MIT Technology Review owl.li/Wnwjp
• TSA threatens to stop accepting driver's licenses from nine states as of Jan 10 owl.li/Wqpiq
• Inside the Making of Serial Season Two owl.li/Wmq19
• Beethoven composition discovered in Greenwich owl.li/WmqG1
• The Wisdom of the Aged owl.li/WnxZh
• Cord Cutting Survey: 19% of Young Adults Have Dropped Cable or Satellite TV Service owl.li/WmqCN
• When a master class with ballerina Misty Copeland becomes a San Pedro homecoming owl.li/WmpUY
• The Toughest of 2015 owl.li/WmpIn
• IBM's Watson Can Figure Out A Lot About You--Just By Looking At Your Social Media owl.li/WmpdR
• The Commercial Zen of Muji - The New Yorker owl.li/Wmptm
• Graphic Design Trends 2016: 40+ Predictions - HOW Design owl.li/Wmp4L
• Traditional Toys May Beat Gadgets in Language Development owl.li/Wmppq
• Check out The Verge's best longform stories from 2015 owl.li/Wmp1r
• Who Is The Next Bob Fosse? Iconic Dancers Weigh In On The Future of Musical Theatre Dance owl.li/WmpWa
• Argentina's Outgoing President Won’t Let Go of Social Media Accounts owl.li/WmpmQ
• 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2015: Where Are They Now? owl.li/Wmpj8
• 10 Maps That Will Change How You View The World owl.li/WjOzW
• Inside Deep Dreams: How Google Made Its Computers Go Crazy — Backchannel owl.li/WjNzK
• A Master Algorithm Lets Robots Teach Themselves to Perform Complex Tasks owl.li/WjEXM
• How Rogue Techies Armed the Predator, Almost Stopped 9/11, and Accidentally Invented Remote War owl.li/WjNy8
• 6 Important Moments in Virtual Reality in 2015 | MIT Technology Review owl.li/WjEWM
• The Science to Look Out for in 2016 owl.li/WjLY5
• All the sounds you never knew you wanted to hear owl.li/WjEHZ
• Tube Benders owl.li/WjKqn
• Ideas That Moved Us in 2015 — The Story owl.li/WjPcV
• A Look at the Numbers Behind Some of 2015’s Biggest Tech Stories | MIT Technology Review owl.li/WjEYq
• Inside the Hamilton Type Museum, Where You’re the Printer owl.li/WjEmS
• A Tiny Icelandic Town 42 Years After a Devastating Volcanic Eruption owl.li/WjEi8
• IBM's Watson Can Figure Out A Lot About You--Just By Looking At Your Social Media owl.li/WiNWI
• Some objects are more clever than others. See our picks for 2015's most smartly designed products. owl.li/WjEe3
• MIT's New Blockchain Project Enigma Wants To Let You Share Your Data On Your Terms owl.li/WiNW6
• The cameras in our smartphones are already awesome. How can they get better? owl.li/WjE67
• 7 Of The Most Interesting Maps Of 2015 owl.li/WiJ6y
• The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2015 - The New Yorker owl.li/WjAHj
• Information is Beautiful’s Most Popular Dataviz of 2015 | Information is Beautiful owl.li/WjEE1
• The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2015 - The New Yorker owl.li/WjAAW
• The sculpture gallery at the bottom of the sea owl.li/WhsG3
• John Cleese’s Advice to Young Artists: “Steal Anything You Think Is Really Good” owl.li/Whrjx
• A Cultural History of Rock-Paper-Scissors owl.li/Wh1KF
• Let's deconstruct the logos of this year's presidential hopefuls owl.li/WhlM0
• Paramount Now Streaming 175 Free Movies Online, Including Westerns, Thrillers & Crime Pictures owl.li/Wh1He
• Facebook users solve mystery of 'ancient' relic unearthed in Jerusalem | World news | The Guardian owl.li/Wh8cW
• Japanese bookshop stocks only one book at a time owl.li/Wh1F2
• Lovely Rainy Day Photos That Look Like Oil Paintings owl.li/Wh80g
• Our 14 Best Design Longreads Of 2015 owl.li/WiJ1Q
• 5 ways to listen better owl.li/Wh1LZ
• New York Public Library Gets Ready For Its Next Chapter owl.li/Wh1Aw
• Scientific American's Top 10 Science Stories of 2015 owl.li/Wh1yT
• These Are Co.Create's Top 10 Most Creative Ads Of 2015 owl.li/WgK3y
• Why I taught myself 20 languages -- and what I learned about myself in the process owl.li/Wh1rG
• Here's The Best Creative Advice We Received In 2015 owl.li/WgK0G
• The ‘10 Commandments’ Of Typography That Every Good Designer Should Know - DesignTAXI.com owl.li/Wh1jP
• The Most Pivotal Social Media Moments Of 2015 owl.li/WgJU8
• How Many Megabytes of Data Can the Human Brain Hold? owl.li/Wh1gT
• Photographs From the '50s Show a Very Different Penn Station owl.li/Wh1D8
• 2015: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics owl.li/WgRwL
• Pete Souza, Chief Official White House Photographer Year in Instagram owl.li/Wgz9y
• The First Woman to Publish a Book in English Lived in One Room, Walled Off From Society owl.li/Wgyea
• The 50 Best Podcast Episodes of 2015 owl.li/Weu3K
• The Best of 2015 - Dance Magazine owl.li/Wgy2R
• Mister Rogers Message to his Neighbors owl.li/Wes5V
• Neil Gaiman Reads Charles Dickens’s Original Performance Script for “A Christmas Carol” owl.li/Wf4Rd
• Google News Lab: 5 Insights From Visualizing The News owl.li/WgJLH
• 42 Years Of Pentagram's Ingenious Holiday Cards owl.li/WecF5
• Our ten most popular explainers from 2015 owl.li/Wf3Jl
• Research Confirms a Link between Intelligence and Life Expectancy owl.li/WeV0Z
• The Best of 2015 - Dance Magazine owl.li/Wclq7
• This Pie Chart Takes a Tally of All the Deaths in Shakespeare's Plays owl.li/WclmB
• 17 Shakespeare Films Worth Watching owl.li/WbpXD
• The Year in Pictures 2015 owl.li/Wclh7
• Anatomy of a Hit owl.li/WbpIw
• Why America Needs A National Theatre — But It Might Look Different Than You Think owl.li/Wclfd
• 10 Pivotal Moments in 2015 for Opera and Classical owl.li/WerDA
• The Creativity 50 2015: The Most Creative People of the Year owl.li/Wbnin
• The Year's Boldest Ideas In User Interface Design owl.li/WebPz
• How Your Siblings Affect Your Success According to Science owl.li/WbOpZ
• Restoration Of A Frank Lloyd Wright Masterpiece Is An Exercise In Detective Work owl.li/WbG44
• Secret Code Found in Juniper’s Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors owl.li/W8YaC
• Cassini Bids Its Final Farewell to Saturn’s Moon Enceladus owl.li/W8Y8g
• Amazing: Software from Disney Research Seamlessly Blends Faces from Different Takes owl.li/W5Bnf
• How to change your genes by changing your lifestyle owl.li/W8Y4p
• You’ll Be Outraged at How Easy It Was to Get You to Click on This Headline owl.li/W5AQd
• 50 Posters that Rocked the World owl.li/W5GvM
• The Best And Worst Branding of 2015 owl.li/Wbl0v
• Longreads Best of 2015: Investigative Reporting owl.li/W5yib
• Absurd Creature of the Week: The Littlest, Most Adorable-est Seahorse Fits on Your Fingernail owl.li/W5DFF
• Magnetic Mystery of Earth's Early Core Explained owl.li/W5DAh
• The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2015 - The New Yorker owl.li/W5qac
• What Makes An Image Memorable? This MIT AI Might Hold The Key owl.li/W5oim
• TechTrends 2016 | frog owl.li/W2mC1
• Congress Slips CISA Into a Budget Bill That’s Sure to Pass owl.li/W5ogp
• Go behind the scenes at Bang & Olufsen, birthplace of some the world's most beautiful gadgets owl.li/W2fLE
• How Do Americans Spend Their Time in an Average Day? owl.li/W2IOC
• How to win at game theory owl.li/W23w5
• Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over Europe? owl.li/W2ILL
• How boredom is becoming anything but boring owl.li/W5tuE
• 9 Facts About People Who Remember Everything About Their Lives owl.li/W2IIs
• The 2015 Jealousy List: The 38 Best Stories We Didn't Write owl.li/W1XR3
• Illegal in Iceland: Quirky Bans From the Land of Fire and Ice owl.li/VZGcz
• Google’s Year in Search Is Back and Better Than Ever owl.li/VZ5Up
• How The World Looked When Jesus Was Born, According to Roman Geographers owl.li/VZGbc
• Pew Research Center on Gaming and Gamers owl.li/VYxDQ
• Longreads Best of 2015: Arts & Culture owl.li/VZuY1
• TED Talks: The Year in Ideas 2015 owl.li/VVlkr
• They’re Everywhere: The Five Guys Dominating New Ballet Choreography owl.li/VZt3O
• EFF Publishes "Pwning Tomorrow," a Speculative Fiction Anthology owl.li/W1Y2E
• Google’s Year in Search Is Back and Better Than Ever owl.li/VZgTl
• The best book cover designs for 2015 owl.li/VVl9T
• Top science stories of 2015 owl.li/VUTl1
• ◉ Animated Taylor Mali Poem owl.li/VSaPy
• Photos From The Lost Penn Station, Where Commuting Was Infinitely More Beautiful owl.li/VUqpR
• Gallery: How caves give astronauts a preview of life in space owl.li/VUMOk
• 22 Movies Roger Ebert Really Hated owl.li/VUqc4
• The typography of Star Wars. owl.li/VUK2b
• Tuned Mass Damper of Taipei 101 owl.li/VUpuF
• Researchers find the average number of swear words people can list in 60 seconds — and what it say about them. owl.li/VUqY7
• The Year in Creative: 24 Trends That Drove Some of the Best Advertising in 2015 owl.li/VUqtA