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The Week's Links: March 11, 2016

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Audience takes centre stage in pioneering virtual reality dance film owl.li/ZfsIe
  • Shakespeare's dad saved paintings from destruction by the King - BBC News owl.li/Zftzn
  • System loads Web pages 34 percent faster by fetching files more effectively owl.li/ZguA8
  • Play to explore alleged romance between Shakespeare and Earl of Southampton owl.li/Zfttb
  • America’s Highway Fonts Got More Drama Than The Bachelor owl.li/ZelHP
  • ◉ The fine dopamine line between creativity and schizophrenia owl.li/Z839P
  • The Boundary Stones: In Search of the Gravestones of Old DC owl.li/Zaz9Z
  • Syllabi as Cultural Artifacts: MIT’s Introduction to Media Studies (Part One) owl.li/Zdt6U
  • 1923 Photo of Claude Monet Colorized: See the Painter in the Same Color as His Paintings owl.li/Zaz60
  • Design is fine. History is mine. — “Do Not Disturb” Signs. More to see: collection of... owl.li/Zb7C1
  • IBM Watson lends its cognitive powers to the world of gaming owl.li/ZatD1
  • Seth Godin: What Makes An Idea Go Viral? owl.li/ZaFKP
  • The neuroscience of ADHD owl.li/ZeGd9
  • Optical illusions show how we see owl.li/ZaFCP
  • Elaborate Hand-Cut Paper Illustrations Filled with Breathtaking Detail owl.li/Z8FC5
  • ◉ Everything Is a Remix (Part One) owl.li/Z82OY
  • 33 thoughts on reading owl.li/Z87b2
  • The Epidemics That Have Defined Human History, In One Chart owl.li/Z8uuR
  • Log In to Your Phone with a Finger-Drawn Doodle Instead of a Password owl.li/Z7XNY
  • Cartoons Invade Classical Paintings owl.li/Z8b1j
  • ◉ Spielberg in 30 Shots - smartercreativity.com/blog/2016/3/9/…
  • Artists Turn Songs into 3D-Printed Sculptures | The Creators Project owl.li/Z7XMi
  • Unusual Clouds over Hong Kong owl.li/Z8aXK
  • Rev. Robert Palladino, Scribe Who Shaped Apple’s Fonts, Dies at 83 owl.li/Z8GLJ
  • The Next Amazon (Or Apple, Or GE) Is Probably Failing Right Now owl.li/Z8aKb
  • Seven Women Conductors Who Deserve Attention owl.li/Z7XCR
  • NYC's newest transit hub is an Instagram lover's dream owl.li/Z7XA4
  • ◉ Ben Cameron: The true power of the performing arts owl.li/Z82IR
  • 8 TED Talks for the thoughtful traveler owl.li/Z7ceO
  • What Train Stations Mean to Cities, According to Santiago Calatrava owl.li/Z7XyI
  • 9 Interesting Digital Marketing Stats From the Past Week owl.li/Z7cdN
  • Are You Ready to Know the Truth About Banksy's Identity? owl.li/Z7QmE
  • ◉ Robots and Babies Both Use Curiosity to Learn -  smartercreativity.com/blog/2016/3/6/…
  • This Animated Movie About Van Gogh Is Made Entirely of Oil Paintings owl.li/Z7bUr
  • Study: Netflix is a major reason people don’t watch network TV owl.li/Z7Q55
  • War Nurse, Now 100, Saw It All - The New York Times owl.li/Z7XKM
  • A 10,000-Year-Old Forest Has Been Discovered, And It's Under Water owl.li/Z7PXB
  • Greg Armfield, Nairobi National Park, 19 November 2015 owl.li/Z7bRf
  • How Amazon’s Algorithm Gets You to Spend Money owl.li/Z7bOS
  • ◉ It Turns Out There Is Accounting for Taste owl.li/Z82tB
  • A Scotch Shortage Is Coming—And It Could Last for More Than a Decade owl.li/Z6J2v
  • How the Grimm Brothers Saved the Fairy Tale | Humanities owl.li/Z7bKB
  • A Plagiarism Scandal Is Unfolding In The Crossword World owl.li/Z6z5S
  • Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming:Genetic engineering will one day create the smartest humans who have ever lived. owl.li/Z70HA
  • Psychologists Discovered a Simple Thing You Can Do When You Run Out of Ideas owl.li/Z7bSU
  • ◉ Saying No - smartercreativity.com/blog/2016/3/5/…
  • 80004005: Why Error Messages Are Still So *&%$#! Indecipherable owl.li/Z5CgO
  • Google Ventures On How Sketching Can Unlock Big Ideas owl.li/Z70y0
  • Dive into an ocean photographer's world owl.li/Z6JK5
  • The 4 Most Important Things MythBusters Taught the World owl.li/Z5xZd
  • Restoring the world’s oldest library owl.li/Z5sgT
  • The End of the Stethoscope? owl.li/Z2Jr5
  • Grow plants without water owl.li/Z5saA
  • Inventor of email and savior of the @ sign, Ray Tomlinson, is dead at 74 owl.li/Z8lbi
  • How Snapchat Built a Business By Confusing Olds owl.li/Z2IT7
  • Could You Hack Your Brain To Get More Motivated? owl.li/Z4LYc
  • Anish Kapoor Gets Exclusive Rights to the World’s Darkest Material [UPDATED] owl.li/Z2yDa
  • Martin Scorsese Plays Vincent Van Gogh in a Short, Surreal Film by Akira Kurosawa owl.li/Z5yrN
  • Mapping data might have just revealed who the real Banksy is owl.li/Z4KdW
  • The Bizarre Branding Of America's Many, Many Secret Societies owl.li/Z4BW9
  • The 5 Types of Personal Projects (And How You Can Justify Pursuing Them) owl.li/Z2xOo
  • Thoreau on the Difference Between an Artisan, an Artist, and a Genius owl.li/Z1XIN
  • Meet The Art Historian Decoding Martian Data For NASA owl.li/YYRT7
  • Why The Art World Is Fighting Over A Bizarre Material Developed For Satellites owl.li/Z1RfR
  • The Best Photographs From Scott Kelly's Year In Space owl.li/YYaSn
  • How A 145-Year-Old Art Museum Stays Relevant In The Smartphone Age owl.li/Z01za
  • Gene Editing May Have Just Unlocked a Solution to Another Life-Threatening Disease owl.li/YYaLc
  • Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt To Head Pentagon Innovation Board owl.li/YZZLP
  • Visual survey of NYC's disposable coffee cups owl.li/Z2yru
  • Encryption Pioneers Win Computing’s Most Prestigious Award owl.li/YZZHu
  • AT&T Will Let You Get Cable TV Without Having Cable—Or a TV owl.li/YXuXJ
  • ◉ A Storytelling & Transmedia Master Class In 10 Short Videos owl.li/YQSt7
  • James Gleick on the Common Character Traits of Geniuses owl.li/YSphW
  • As Astronaut Scott Kelly Returns To Earth, PBS Celebrates Space Explorers Then And Now owl.li/YWFud
  • A new kind of logic: How to upgrade the way we think owl.li/YQNKX
  • How Google Is Turning Cities Into R&D Labs owl.li/YW8wy
  • The Coen brothers: shot, reverse shot owl.li/YQM96
  • Ask Smithsonian: Could the Volcano Beneath Yellowstone National Park Ever Erupt? owl.li/YXzc1
  • The Biggest Problem With Robots Is That We Trust Them—Even When They're Wrong owl.li/YW8q4
  • 5 Times Crayola Retired Its Crayons owl.li/YSplR