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Dichotomies: The Week's Links

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS:

  • Calculating art: Artistic success takes a mysterious mix of talent, luck and timing. But could algorithms now predict and produce the hits? buff.ly/2z75NLZ

  • Inside the windowless bunker where Disney stores its 'secret weapon' buff.ly/2RasrdA

  • Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin buff.ly/2ODQTHw

  • Nasa photographs rectangular iceberg buff.ly/2R3tD2q

  • The 50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs in 2018 buff.ly/2SasyXS

  • Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever buff.ly/2ScpnPw

  • Lessons learned: Seven ways news outlets can rebuild trust and sustainability buff.ly/2OJR6sz

  • What happens when Facebook goes down? People read the news - Chartbeat Blog buff.ly/2EvYKCl

  • Younger generations are actually better at telling news from opinion than those over age 50 buff.ly/2Aq9AWr

  • A 6-Part Tool for Ranking and Assessing Risks buff.ly/2Ap3HZx

  • One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible buff.ly/2AoKXcP

  • How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years buff.ly/2CxJeTI

  • The “Big Three” (And Free) Ways To Boost Your Creativity: Todd Sampson buff.ly/2D1Vpt9

  • Michael Bloomberg Thinks Midsize Arts Nonprofits Can Change American Cities, and He's Spending Over $100 Million to Prove It buff.ly/2PVNCjx

  • 4 types of research methods all designers should know buff.ly/2PQEgFF

  • (Re)building use cases for language technology in the newsroom buff.ly/2AoLZoQ

  • Six Cyber Threats to Really Worry About in 2018 – MIT Technology Review – Medium buff.ly/2PzrAmR

  • “We Had Gone Back 20 Years.” The Heads of Puerto Rico’s Largest Media Company on Life After Hurricane Maria buff.ly/2CBDA2T

  • Which Data Skills Do You Actually Need? This 2×2 Matrix Will Tell You. buff.ly/2NOBpuZ

  • Illusion of the Year: Top 10 finalists in the 2018 Contest buff.ly/2OLE3Hr

  • An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption buff.ly/2yVVWbz

  • Establishing an AI code of ethics will be harder than people think buff.ly/2yVCFqS

  • Did I Make a Mistake Selling My Social-Media Darling to Yahoo? buff.ly/2PKNsLK

  • Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know buff.ly/2CxHw4I

  • Fold N Fly ✈ A database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions. buff.ly/2R9nT7s

  • How to redesign a 175-year-old newspaper – The Economist buff.ly/2CWHFjr

  • The Two Types of Knowledge (or How to Be Smart) buff.ly/2RYEo7v

  • When you need to take an intellectual snack break buff.ly/2yTs7IA

  • Why we have an emotional connection to robots buff.ly/2yTrJK8

  • Why Kodak Died and Fujifilm Thrived: A Tale of Two Film Companies buff.ly/2NOlRHF

  • It’s Time to Become a Time Realist buff.ly/2zXSRt6

  • 3 ways that tech helps me handle my anxiety and depression buff.ly/2EpJ4R9

  • When Pop-Up Books Taught Popular Science buff.ly/2CuqEMc

  • Italy’s Oldest Instrument Hints at Sounds of Prehistoric Rome buff.ly/2OBpxl9

  • The 10 Best Books on Productivity, According to People Who Get Things Done buff.ly/2NQfxiT

  • Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings? buff.ly/2q1Zntd

  • The Enduring Appeal of Oscar the Grouch buff.ly/2S39AT9

  • How quantum physics can make encryption stronger buff.ly/2CVn0Mv

  • Why I study the most dangerous animal on earth -- mosquitoes buff.ly/2Curbhp

  • 8 TED Talks on what you need to know about medicine buff.ly/2CV87tO

  • The Best Colors Named After People buff.ly/2ysMsEk

  • How Can We Make Design Better for the Color-Blind? buff.ly/2pUs9vM

  • Celebrity designers, context collapse, and rethinking how I teach design history buff.ly/2QYcPd5

  • How to Turn Creative Tension Into an Inspired Creative Product buff.ly/2OACdss

  • Typographica: Our Favorite Typefaces of 2017 buff.ly/2CTASGX

  • Stephen Hawking’s Final Book and Scientific Paper Just Got Published: Brief Answers to the Big Questions and “Information Paradox” buff.ly/2QYVDEa

  • Life Advice: Don’t Find Your Passion. Study suggests meaningful work can be something you grow into, not something you discover buff.ly/2RXvneN

  • Being Good at Prioritizing Is More Important Than Working Hard buff.ly/2S02Ox9

  • To Achieve More, Focus on Your Principles buff.ly/2Ey8X1f

  • A cartography of consciousness – researchers map where subjective feelings are located in the body buff.ly/2QZE4ns

  • Dear Creative Leaders: Will Creative Teams Exist in 2028? buff.ly/2EwNKol

  • Inside 75 Years of Lippincott's Iconic Designs, From Campbell's Soup Can to Coca-Cola's Ribbon buff.ly/2RXlttD

  • After 50 Years, The Iconic Mexico 68 Olympics Design Is Still Revered — And Disputed buff.ly/2CSfKkG

  • Computer Stories: A.I. Is Beginning to Assist Novelists buff.ly/2RZpAVX

  • Mysterious cosmic radio signal spotted unusually close to Earth buff.ly/2EwTEWk

  • Moons can have moons and they are called moonmoons buff.ly/2EEETke

  • From Print to Digital: Designing an Immersive ePub buff.ly/2RSPj2t

  • Rhythm in Web Typography buff.ly/2AcEqBR

  • Winners of VR Awards 2018 announced buff.ly/2NQ5x9c

  • 'The body lights up': stroke survivors find their footing through dance buff.ly/2pYbjfH

  • Mathematical ideas are some of the most transformative and beautiful in history. So why do they get so little attention? buff.ly/2RZvkyW

  • Relics of power: why humans cannot resist the magical potency of charismatic objects buff.ly/2EvbtVY

  • How immersive technologies have sparked a theatrical revolution buff.ly/2Eor1dU

  • How Immersive Theater Is Bringing Intimacy Back to Entertainment. Instead of passively observing the story, audiences at these shows are swept up in human interactions buff.ly/2J4TMez

  • Rembrandt masterpiece The Night Watch to be restored under world's gaze buff.ly/2pXj05N

  • Why the practice of craft delivers a meaningful life buff.ly/2EqLH4T

  • Your next doctor’s appointment might be with an AI buff.ly/2RTtaB8

  • Palm’s progress: The rise, fall—and rebirth—of a legendary brand buff.ly/2AeGsRY

  • Paul Allen, 1953-2018: Microsoft’s cofounder and so much more buff.ly/2QTN1yP

  • DNA-based molecular computing will pave the way for programmable pills buff.ly/2NMLgBv

  • How acting as Carrie Fisher’s puppet made a career for Rogue One’s Princess Leia buff.ly/2NMrXZ8

  • How Paul Allen Saved the American Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence buff.ly/2CRPQ0v

  • Actors are digitally preserving themselves to continue their careers beyond the grave buff.ly/2NMrPJ9

  • Columbia DSL’s Sandbox: a podcast exploring new forms & functions of storytelling buff.ly/2RXKbu6

  • Creating Virtual Reality Journalism: A Guide For Best Practices buff.ly/2QLVuVr