Connections: The Week's Links

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

• What Designers Can Learn From The Debate Over Escalator Etiquette owl.li/s1k330aCXIT
• How playing an instrument benefits your brain owl.li/Rw5S30aDciz
• Before-And-After Photos Show How Horrifyingly Fast The World’s Glaciers Are Melting owl.li/sO7h30aCXGp
• Jeff Goodby Reveals the Best Creative Advice He Got in His Career owl.li/lQLm30aBsuq
• 6 Inspiring Design Documentaries owl.li/nFgG30aBsrG
• Google's TPU Chip Helped It Avoid Building Dozens of New Data Centers owl.li/4em630aB6ei
• 30-Million-Year-Old Tick Full of Monkey Blood Found in Ancient Amber owl.li/aMFy30aB9vk
• How color helps a movie tell its story owl.li/UWf630aAZKU
• Found: One of the Oldest North American Settlements owl.li/jKAg30aB9pr
• The 19th Century Aristocrat Who Literally Painted The Town Red owl.li/i9t630azdac
• Bridge A Designer's Guide to Working in Tech owl.li/QSr230aBswm
• Beauty of Science videos give chemical reactions the cinematic treatment owl.li/uEbz30aB7B5
• Daniel Humm Is the Best Chef in the Country and Possibly the World owl.li/wi9N30aB6uD
• An Unprecedented Heist Hijacked a Brazilian Bank’s Entire Online Operation owl.li/uuqg30azcMY
• 680 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in April: Enroll Free Today owl.li/zNG730azcHn
• Want To Be Happier And More Successful? Learn To Like Other People owl.li/BgYd30az832
• Behold the Ingenious “Ambiguous Cylinder Illusion” (and Then Find Out How It Works) owl.li/oeAB30azcDs
• The Platform Press: How Silicon Valley reengineered journalism - Columbia Journalism Review owl.li/fU1p30az7Zt
• The Evolution of Chromatic Type owl.li/nCaq30azaQc
• 6 Epic Caving Instagrams Let You Spelunk From Your Desk owl.li/rVgw30ax4Tz
• Tools to help evaluate creative ideas owl.li/hv7S30azaOi
• Neurotechnology: How far can humans be pushed or augmented? owl.li/ToFX30azd61
• Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web, Plots a Radical Overhaul of His Creation owl.li/K7uS30az9f4
• 6 Things Every Mentor Should Do owl.li/V1BB30ax3Ih
• British babies cry the most, Danish babies the least. Why? owl.li/55D330ax35R
• The First Woman to Publish a Book in English Lived in One Room, Walled Off From Society owl.li/5rG430au89o
• The Scottish Scoundrel Who Changed How We See Data owl.li/6J3L30auBu6
• Tech Bigwigs Know How Addictive Their Products Are. Why Don’t the Rest of Us? owl.li/oHgg30au86E
• Inside knowledge: Why we like to know useless stuff owl.li/eoXQ30auAnO
• I Took the AI Class Facebookers Are Literally Sprinting to Get Into owl.li/Kw2030au7Yw
• Funny or Die at 10, an Oral History owl.li/riHN30auA5U
• Audiobook readers obsessed with multitasking are driving America's biggest new reading trend owl.li/DOH830ax43X
• Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: A Radio Drama Starring Derek Jacobi & Hayley Atwell owl.li/CltQ30au8c3
• The Arrival of Artificial Intelligence owl.li/YJGA30au5ha
• The Philosophy of The Matrix: From Plato and Descartes, to Eastern Philosophy owl.li/qrLf30atDQq
• Some Thoughts After 30 Years at the NEA owl.li/SJ8430atzuf
• Space Photos of the Week: Mystery Supernova Won’t Say Where It’s From owl.li/tSFt30atzDm
• Elon Musk Isn’t the Only One Trying to Computerize Your Brain owl.li/bfRZ30asEmv
• ◉ Indexers are the unsung heroes of the publishing world - smartercreativity.com/blog/2017/4/2/…
• Never Mind Her Stellar Jazz Career, Young Ella Fitzgerald Just Wanted to Dance owl.li/pkuw30atzB4
• Crushed cans in the style of Ming dynasty ceramics owl.li/uaYE30asEiL
• Italy announces G7 Culture meet in Florence owl.li/foJ930atzzV
• Want to Play Scrabble Like a Pro? Here’s Your Memory Trick owl.li/MUb330au5sc
• One Reason Young People Don't Go Into Science? We Don't Fail Well - Scientific American owl.li/3nuC30atzyw
• The Obvious Value of Communication is Perhaps Not So Obvious owl.li/BdFW30asE9s
• The Best Damn Creative Career Advice owl.li/gHg130asE8g
• How to Tell a Good Story, as Explained by George Saunders, Ira Glass, Ken Burns, Scott Simon & Others owl.li/HbQM30apSIT
• Explore London's Literary Side With This Gorgeous Map owl.li/tc1S30asE5Q
• 10 Unsung Graphic Design Visionaries You Should Know owl.li/FMZl30apOqh
• Gallery: The most beautiful bacteria you’ll ever see owl.li/xx9e30asE15
• The many meanings of a passport’s color owl.li/zok230apOmm
• Descartes on Opinion vs. Reason, the Key to a Wakeful Mind, and the Discipline of Critical Introspection owl.li/y9jZ30asEbP
• How NASA's Test Pilots Train for a Life in the Sky owl.li/nGTZ30asCCz
• A Brief History of the Pencil, as told by a Pencil Aficionado owl.li/zvlj30arKzf
• Is Design Still Relevant? A Candid Look At Branding Clinton’s Failed Campaign owl.li/nkY130apO6w
• Dan Bricklin: Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet owl.li/zNT730apNYq
• 10 facts you should know about Vincent van Gogh | owl.li/UYhC30apFzl
• Inventing a whole language owl.li/ldvg30apN0X
• Parrots find ‘laughter’ contagious and high-five in mid air owl.li/1xJB30apAff
• The Vast, Secretive Face Database That Could Instantly ID You In A Crowd owl.li/Gjdj30apHoD
• What Michael Bierut learned when he designed a logo for Hillary Clinton. owl.li/vbyS30apl8G
• ESPN Has Seen the Future of TV and They’re Not Really Into It owl.li/zP2q30apGmK
• Here’s why cartoon characters only have 4 fingers owl.li/gXJx30apObv
• The Design Culture Calendar: April 2017 owl.li/na0M30apG3P
• Why America’s Current Approach to Cybersecurity Is So Dangerous owl.li/5mNE30anEOk
• Watch M.C. Escher Make His Final Artistic Creation in the 1971 Documentary Adventures in Perception owl.li/sUOl30anAW3
• 12 Cafés Every History Buff Needs to Visit owl.li/kNxz30anurR
• Exquisite, Colossal Geometric Designs Handcrafted Into Sand Around The World owl.li/ROi030anAqZ
• The 10 best science images, videos, and visualizations of the year owl.li/AfY130anmzK
• 12 Cafés Every History Buff Needs to Visit owl.li/uv8j30anAkk
• A Quick Guide to Backing Up Your Critical Data owl.li/Unht30arAsr
• Meet this season’s hot new clouds owl.li/BOTS30anm4I
• Spectacular Winners of Smithsonian's 14th Annual Photo Contest owl.li/FJre30anNqE
• A Chart of a Kid’s First 100 Words Shows How We Learn Speech owl.li/ePOl30anAe2
• Top 200 Most Influential Philanthropists & Social Entrepreneurs 2017 owl.li/vvFG30anA9U