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The Week's Links: February 12, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Movie references in The Simpsons owl.li/Yehtu
  • ◉ Typography Explained owl.li/Y5ePe
  • PBS Doc "Memory Hackers" Shows The Future Of Memory Manipulation owl.li/Yefi2
  • NASA vs Amtrak vs the National Park Service owl.li/Yehpt
  • Insights From a Scientist Who Implants Fake Memories in People’s Minds owl.li/Ye7Bm
  • The Facebook Primary: Where 2016 presidential candidates are winning the battle for likes. owl.li/Yehip
  • “Happy Birthday” is public domain, former owner Warner/Chapell to pay $14M owl.li/Ye7zo
  • Harry Potter and Cursed Child owl.li/YehFC
  • From Einstein to LIGO, a terrific NYT video primer owl.li/Yeh3Z
  • With an interface that looks like a chat platform, Quartz wants to text you the news in its new app owl.li/Yefw1
  • Misty Copeland Recreates Iconic Edgar Degas Artwork for Harper's Bazaar owl.li/YbUjJ
  • ◉ Prolific Writer Martin Mayer Interviewed in 1987 owl.li/Y5eGi
  • The National Archives Has Released a Coloring Book of Retro Patents owl.li/Y8CUx
  • Andy Rubin Unleashed Android on the World. Now Watch Him Do the Same With AI owl.li/Y8NVU
  • There's a Secret Chess Game in Facebook Messenger owl.li/Y8CqQ
  • You can train your body into thinking it’s had medicine owl.li/Y8MFw
  • Daring Fireball: Comparing Tech Companies by Revenue and Profit Per Employee, 2015 owl.li/Ydsee
  • Artur Fischer, Inventor With More Patents Than Edison, Dies at 96 owl.li/Y8AYA
  • What it's like to wait tables at Manchester's most popular photo op owl.li/Y8Mq2
  • France Is Paving Its Future with Solar | Big Think owl.li/Y8D1P
  • Wired Is Launching an Ad-Free Website to Appease Ad Blockers owl.li/Y879m
  • ◉ Alfred Hitchcock Explains McGuffins owl.li/Y5ev6
  • How One Man Accidentally Killed the Oldest Tree Ever owl.li/Y66fo
  • The Case For Teaching Your Kids To Code owl.li/Y86zf
  • New Ways Into the Brain’s ‘Music Room’ owl.li/Y66dB
  • How Gaming Director Keith Arem Developed His First "Transmedia" Film owl.li/Y86sS
  • ◉ 24 Maxims from Werner Herzog - smartercreativity.com/blog/2016/1/5/…
  • New Game Firewatch Is a Beautiful, Emotional Gut Punch owl.li/Y669j
  • How Polling Station Design Could Influence Elections owl.li/Y86gm
  • How Tristram Shandy Became a Best-Seller Thanks to a Celebrity Blurb owl.li/Y8qtS
  • Virtual Pop Star Hatsune Miku Performs "Live" in Berlin | The Creators Project owl.li/Y66h1
  • It’s been 20 years since John Perry Barlow declared cyberspace independence owl.li/Y635k
  • ◉ Super Mario Bros Unleashed owl.li/Y5cYG
  • The Power of Creative Cross Training: How Experimentation Creates Possibility owl.li/Y5V2g
  • NASA’s Front-Line Defense Against Killer Rocks From Space owl.li/Y632O
  • Ad Age's 2015 Magazine A-List: See All the Winners owl.li/Y5Sgo
  • 44 Of The Most Breathtaking Shots In Michael Mann Movies owl.li/Y62FM
  • The NYTimes goes Flash Free Video owl.li/Y5See
  • A sigh's not just a sigh - it's a fundamental life-sustaining reflex owl.li/Y61Ua
  • 5 TED-Ed Lessons on Chinese history owl.li/Y65IT
  • We Have the Technology to Destroy All Zika Mosquitoes owl.li/Y5ZC2
  • Madrid Is Covering Itself In Plants To Help Fight Rising Temperatures owl.li/Y3vXl
  • Andrea Tsurumi: You'll Never Have "Enough Time" owl.li/Y2QHY
  • ◉ Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man owl.li/Y5cvN
  • The World's Longest-Running Experiment is Buried in a Secret Spot in Michigan owl.li/Y26iA
  • Can you solve these 5 TED-Ed riddles? owl.li/Y27uW
  • ◉ Attention Residue Is Ruining Your Concentration - smartercreativity.com/blog/2016/1/21…
  • We got 10 CEOs to tell us their one killer interview question for new hires owl.li/Y0ATi
  • The Secret Jokes Hidden in Alice in Wonderland owl.li/Y27ua
  • NASA About To Put Finishing Touches On The Most Powerful Telescope Ever owl.li/Y0xth
  • What Makes Great Detective Fiction, According to T. S. Eliot - The New Yorker owl.li/Y27sv
  • Security News This Week: The White House Bans Its Own Security Researcher owl.li/Y26lX
  • Information Overload? Embrace "Intentional Ignorance" owl.li/Y0v1R
  • Otherworldly Photos From Inside One of the World's Largest River Caves owl.li/Y0mKR
  • The Story Of Mark Zuckerberg's TheFacebook.com, As Told By The Harvard Crimson In 2004 owl.li/XZVaw
  • What Nationality is a Baby Born Mid-Flight? owl.li/Y0l7n
  • Absurd Creature of the Week: The Mystery of Solenodon, the Mammal That Bites Like a Snake owl.li/XZV7n
  • The Noma Way owl.li/Y0l0a
  • Microsoft’s new way of cooling its data centers: Throw them in the sea | Ars Technica owl.li/XZV3T
  • 17 Scenes from 'The Revenant' Through the Eyes of Tarkovsky | The Creators Project owl.li/XZVjI
  • What's it like in space? owl.li/Y0wJl
  • Fantastic: A history of Japan owl.li/XZVfG
  • Infants Can See Things That Adults Cannot owl.li/XZUps
  • ‘The Force Awakens’ Reimagined As Calvin and Hobbes Will Make Your Heart Melt owl.li/XZLBP
  • Here's how Twitter's new algorithmic timeline is going to work owl.li/Y22IK
  • NSA Hacking Chief: Internet of Things Security Keeps Me Up at Night owl.li/XXPqY
  • Beautiful and Bizarre Vintage Valentines From the New York Public Library's Digital Collection owl.li/XZKv6
  • Papercraft Wigs and Gowns from Asya Kozina owl.li/XXP4L
  • The Scientific Secret to Perfect Nachos owl.li/XY5MX
  • AI Is Transforming Google Search. The Rest of the Web Is Next owl.li/XXGD2
  • Facebook: “each person in the world” is separated from every other by “an average of three and a half other people." owl.li/XY5ob
  • French law forbids food waste by supermarkets owl.li/XZUBW
  • How Stanley Kubrick Became Stanley Kubrick: A Short Documentary Narrated by the Filmmaker owl.li/XXPBz
  • From Berlin's warehouses to London's estates: how cities shape music scenes | Cities | The Guardian owl.li/XXbwd
  • Tattoo artist asserts copyright over customers' bodies owl.li/XXb0j
  • Elon Musk to unveil Mars plans this year, wants to go to space by 2020 owl.li/XWznx
  • The Lives of 10 Famous Painters, Visualized as Minimalist Infographic Biographies owl.li/XXaWj
  • The Science Behind Why You Can Make Snow—Even When It's Above Freezing owl.li/XUP9C
  • The Lost History Of The U.S. Nuclear Program, As Told By Its Business Cards owl.li/XX7uN
  • Shakespeare's Globe theatre takes Hamlet to Jungle - BBC News owl.li/XUKN6
  • Why The 21st-Century Economy Needs More Polymaths owl.li/XX7ec
  • The Life and Death and Life of Magazines owl.li/XXt5t
  • The Search For Alien Life Is Getting Bigger, Weirder, And More Contentious owl.li/XX56E