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The Week's Links: February 19, 2016

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • This flower, preserved in amber, may be 45 million years old owl.li/Ymdc3
  • Frogs Are Really Cool. Too Bad Humans Are Killing Them All owl.li/YlV7j
  • Headshot: A visual history of first-person shooters owl.li/Yjv2q
  • ◉ Textual Playlists owl.li/YixjK
  • 22 Handy Slack Hacks Everyone Should Know — ReadThink (by HubSpot) owl.li/YiYRp
  • Supreme Court Justices Have a Thing for Shakespeare owl.li/Yjv0N
  • The Future of Security: The Bottom Line — Backchannel owl.li/YiYCc
  • Can You Spot the Suspicious Behavior in These Photos? owl.li/YjmgL
  • How did the lightbulb become associated with a new idea? — Cultural Facts of the Day owl.li/YiYz3
  • The New Celebrity Power Move: Keeping Secrets owl.li/Yji8h
  • The Best Visualization Of The Gravitational Waves Discovery Yet owl.li/YjBx2
  • ◉ Kubrick In Color - smartercreativity.com/blog/2016/2/14…
  • Don’t create a sense of urgency, foster a sense of purpose. owl.li/YiYRZ
  • How an AI Algorithm Learned to Write Political Speeches owl.li/Yiz5z
  • ◉ Paola Antonelli Presentation At Creative Mornings owl.li/Yix5H
  • Spine of the South – The Andes in Timelapse owl.li/Yiyob
  • feltron — nevver: Inception ala Istanbul, Aydın Büyüktaş owl.li/YiyLz
  • New App Lets You Explore Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights” in Virtual Reality owl.li/Yiyad
  • Why walking is the ideal speed to see the world owl.li/Yiyv0
  • Download Hundreds of Van Gogh Paintings, Sketches & Letters in High Resolution owl.li/Yiy8U
  • The surprising stories behind clever inventions owl.li/Yiytx
  • Until 1950, U.S. Weathermen Were Forbidden From Talking About Tornados owl.li/YiY1C
  • ◉ The Struggle for Art in A World Obsessed with Popularity - smartercreativity.com/blog/2016/2/14…
  • Hong Kong At Night — Photos by Peter Stewart owl.li/YiyoY
  • Take a Free Online Course on Making Animations from Pixar & Khan Academy owl.li/Yiy7c
  • ◉ The Icons of 35 Iconic Films Animated in 35mm owl.li/YiwXP
  • Off Grid, An Instrumental Music Video Composed of Psychedelic Jazz Performances Found on YouTube owl.li/YivHc
  • Hear Gabriel García Márquez’s Extraordinary Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, “The Solitude Of... owl.li/Yiy2E
  • Why Do Mosquitoes Bite Some People More Than Others? owl.li/Yirbc
  • Music in the Brain: Scientists Finally Reveal the Parts of Our Brain That Are Dedicated to Music owl.li/YixJH
  • How 2 Sisters and 1 Murder Inspired 500 Songs owl.li/YiraA
  • The Princeton Bitcoin Textbook Is Now Free Online owl.li/Yiy7L
  • LIFE Magazine’s Guide to Kissing, Circa 1942 owl.li/YixIm
  • ◉ Chris Anderson: Follow the Money - smartercreativity.com/blog/2016/2/14…
  • What Gravitational Waves Sound Like: New Audio of Black Holes Colliding Confirms Predictions... owl.li/YixHa
  • Short story collection smuggled out of North Korea sparks global interest owl.li/Yir8l
  • ◉ The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams owl.li/YiwSN
  • Why the Best Film about Pablo Picasso Is a Graphic Novel | Big Think owl.li/YiqDA
  • The Interesting Story Behind the Famous Japanese Island That Houses Thousands of Feral Bunnies owl.li/Yij7i
  • The Transit Map Hall of Shame, An Online Collection of Some of the Worst Public Transit System Maps owl.li/Yijz9
  • This Designer Wants To Give Every City Its Own Free Typeface owl.li/YiiI9
  • Slow Motion Video Showing How a Bumble Bee Dislodges Pollen From a Flower owl.li/YijvZ
  • “Idea debt” is when you spend more time thinking about doing the work than actually doing the work. owl.li/YiiEW
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Significance of Gravitational Waves and How They Were Detected owl.li/YijlI
  • The Strange and Mysterious History of the Ouija Board owl.li/Yir9w
  • The Colorful History of the Bold But Often Misunderstood Umlaut owl.li/YijdW
  • ◉ Meet The Man Who Saved Apple - smartercreativity.com/blog/2016/1/18…
  • Homeland Security to amp up social media screening to stop terrorism, Johnson says owl.li/YihVG
  • Check Out This Long-Lost Video of Steve Jobs Unveiling NeXT owl.li/Yihao
  • Google is giving away 2GB of Drive space for completing its account security checkup owl.li/YhXJR
  • 50 Spellbinding Fairy Tales on Film owl.li/YiauO
  • Thomas Edison National Historical Park to be Featured in New Partnership with Google and the... owl.li/YhXIu
  • Michael Mann on Directing, Visual Motifs, and That Scene in 'Heat' owl.li/Yiatu
  • James Pindell is trying to bring The Boston Globe’s election coverage to everyone by being... owl.li/YiioP
  • Women considered better coders – but only if they hide their gender owl.li/YhKbc
  • A Secret Bedroom Was Discovered in a Berlin Subway Tunnel owl.li/Yi0mM
  • Archaeologists Unearth More—a Lot More—of a Massive Underground City owl.li/Yi06i
  • I don't know a thing about futbol but have wondered: The Unseen Tech Behind the NFL's Virtual 1st-and-10 Line owl.li/Yhp0C
  • 932 WPA posters from the online catalog of the Library of Congress owl.li/YhoVT
  • This Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors owl.li/YeiAi
  • Gorgeous: Space Tourism Posters owl.li/Yhj4M
  • Hearing a ripple in space-time owl.li/YeikZ
  • Shooting in Zero-G in a Single Take: Behind the Scenes of OK Go's New Music Video owl.li/YfrvG
  • Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them owl.li/Yeifd
  • A Chameleon Robot Quickly Changes Color to Blend in With Different Backgrounds owl.li/Yek0M
  • Map Shows How Many Calories You Would Burn If You Walked Between Subway Stops owl.li/Yhp8B
  • How to change someone’s mind, according to science owl.li/YejcR
  • 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