The Week's Links: January 31, 2014

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All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • The 10 Greatest Books Ever, According to 125 Top Authors (Download Them for Free)http://owl.li/sVZC9
  • Common Myths About the Brain Debunkedhttp://owl.li/sVZJV
  • Art critics matter only if they engagehttp://owl.li/sW1p2
  • There is evidence that reading can increase levels of all three major categories of intelligence. http://owl.li/sW1Ea
  • How Arduino Is Becoming The World's Social Network For Hackers And Makershttp://owl.li/sW1J9
  • Beautiful: How Disney's 1942 Film Bambi Came to be Influenced by the Lush Landscapes of the Sung Dynasty owl.li/sVZwe
  • Fun: Line Drawings Transform Everyday Objects Into Quirky Scenes owl.li/sVZiA
  • ◉ The Seed Of Doubt owl.li/sW6mT
  • Stephen Hawking Proposes Radical New Theory of Black Holes owl.li/sVZcs
  • ◉ Recommended: The Design of Everyday Things -smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Amazing: Deep Freeze Reveals Lake Superior's Secluded Ice Caves owl.li/sVYSs
  • ◉ Photographer JR and New York City Ballet Collaborate For Art Series -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/1/28…
  • Wow: The world put $4 billion on Starbucks gift cards last year. 10% of American adults received a gift card over the holidays....
  • The Choreography Of Design, Treasure Hunts, And Hot Dogs That Have Made Costco So Successful owl.li/sVqbP
  • Luxury Store Selfridges Transforms Basement For Upcoming Festival Of Imaginationowl.li/sV3Tj
  • Google Tips and Tricks Every Student Should Know owl.li/sV37f
  • The 2 Teenagers Who Run the Wildly Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics owl.li/sUyiI
  • No reason for me to watch the game: See All The Spots From Super Bowl XLVIII, Nowowl.li/t5PLe
  • So great: Vintage Ads for Libraries and Reading owl.li/sUxS8
  • While you were sleeping, a new supernova appeared in the sky owl.li/sTwuM
  • 7 Things to Remember When You Think You’re Not Good Enough owl.li/sTgaY
  • Beautiful: The True Inner Beauty of Fishesowl.li/sTfmE
  • Simply thinking you got better sleep makes your brain work better owl.li/sSBSJ
  • 4 Ways To Find Inspiration Everywhereowl.li/sRg1w
  • Using science to explain art is a good way to butcher both owl.li/sRfIm
  • ◉ Humble owl.li/sW6iN
  • ◉ Recommended: Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work -smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Tiffany Jenkins: Art is more than brain deepowl.li/sRfcg
  • New research finds a brain network linked to solitary introspection gets switched on when we encounter particularly moving artworks....
  • ◉ Arts and Cultural Production Account for 3.2 Percent -- $504B -- of GDP in 2011 -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/1/26…
  • Don’t feed the swans: behind the scenes of Matthew Bourne's all male Swan Lakeowl.li/sReZb
  • 8 Unexpected Ways Technology Will Change The World By 2020 owl.li/sR6xE
  • Twitter’s 2014 Strategy: The Intersection of Video and Data owl.li/sR5Zv
  • Sit Back, Relax, and Read That Long Story—on Your Phone owl.li/sR5Sj
  • Another Radiolab Classic: Thomas Jefferson Needs A Dead Moose Right Now To Defend America owl.li/sR25K
  • Creativity Top 5: Dumb Ways to Die Toys; Sarah McLachlan Pleads for the Doberhuahua & More owl.li/t2RlB
  • Tumblr No. 2 in Revenue Per Visit Among Social Networks Joins Pinterest, Twitter cutting into Facebook's lead owl.li/t2PZZ
  • ◉ The Connection Between Shakespeare and Maurice Sendak owl.li/sW6h7
  • Learn Web Design: 50+ of the Best Online Educational Resources to Learn to Build Web Sites owl.li/sR22b
  • ◉ Recommended: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action -smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • ◉ What Drives Success? -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/1/26…
  • Gorgeous: Powerfully Dramatic Landscapes by 23-Year-Old Shane Hawk owl.li/sQSl7
  • MIT and Stanford will teach Ford's automated cars how to dodge obstacles owl.li/sQiSx
  • Useful science, accessible by all owl.li/sQhXE
  • 12 Shapes You Didn’t Know Had Namesowl.li/sQ2gO
  • Algorithms Are Not Enough: Lessons Bringing Computer Science to Journalism owl.li/sQ1X7
  • Mastering The Fine Art Of Getting To The Pointowl.li/sPXFp
  • Theometrica - Generative sound synthesis instrument inspired by acupuncture owl.li/sPVki
  • ◉ Storytelling Across Platforms: J.J. Abrams And Gabe Newell owl.li/sW6eX
  • ◉ Recommended: Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't -smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Here Are The 7 Things That Can Make You Wildly Successful owl.li/sPTTV
  • ◉ Simon Sinek: Leadership Is Not a Rank, It's a Decision. -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/1/26…
  • Brain Games: Move Objects With Your Mind To Find Inner Calm? owl.li/sPJpK
  • New Instagram Photos of Everyday Objects Turned into Whimsical Illustrations by Javier Perez owl.li/sOPTD
  • BBC Tests Instagram As A Breaking News Service owl.li/sOPR2
  • The Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mysteryowl.li/sOH5V
  • Fantastic: Steve Jobs Unveils Mac at Boston Computer Society, Unseen Since 1984owl.li/sXGFf
  • Download 100,000+ Images From The History of Medicine, All Free Courtesy of The Wellcome Library owl.li/sOGQV
  • Seeing things: A new transparent display system could provide heads-up data - MIT News Office owl.li/sOAFU
  • The 10 strangest musical instrumentsowl.li/sMScm
  • The 5 Best Punctuation Marks in Literatureowl.li/sMarx
  • 7 Things Really Persuasive People Doowl.li/sLP0Q
  • Presentation Zen: Coping with Presentation Anxiety & "Stage Fright" owl.li/sLOAC
  • The Ultimate Guide To Google Analyticsowl.li/sLDY8
  • When Will The Machines Start Predicting Bestsellers? owl.li/sLx16
  • Salvador Dalí Illustrates Don Quixoteowl.li/sLk5S
  • Salvador Dalí’s Rare 1975 Illustrations for Romeo & Juliet owl.li/sLjSJ
  • How To Do Less: A Short Guide owl.li/sLhND
  • Out in the Open: These Hackers Want to Give You Coding Superpowers owl.li/sLgYd
  • Employees Perform Better When They Can Control Their Space owl.li/sLgOI
  • Five Best Language Learning Tools owl.li/sLejb
  • When great authors pick up the brushowl.li/sLbMM
  • A Pizza Geek Discovers the World's Smartest Pizza Box- Wired Design owl.li/sJEPb
  • ◉ Why We Love Beautiful Things owl.li/sLDID
  • An Illustrated Account of the Great Maple Syrup Heist owl.li/sJEA2
  • The Brian Lehrer Show: A Running List of What We Know the NSA Can Do. So Far.owl.li/sJEcB
  • Do what you love, love what you do: An omnipresent mantra that’s bad for work and workers. owl.li/sJwsY
  • 20 Ways the Apple Mac Changed Everythingowl.li/sVbNi
  • Russell Foster: Why do we sleep? owl.li/sJrdZ
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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

Photographer JR and New York City Ballet Collaborate For Art Series

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An Unexpected Way to Experience a Night at the Ballet

Following the inaugural 2013 installation LES BALLETS DE FAILE, New York City Ballet is proud to collaborate with the French artist known as JR for the second annual Art Series.

Exhibiting freely in the streets of the world, JR catches the attention of people who are not typical museum visitors. His largest project to date, INSIDE OUT, was born in 2011 when JR won the TED prize and called for the creation of a global art project with the potential to change the world. Transforming messages of personal identity into public works of art, more than 172,000 people have taken part in nearly 8,600 locations around the world.

JR will share his Art Series installation during three special performance evenings — January 23, February 7, 13 — when every seat in the house is available for just $29. On these evenings, every audience member will receive a takeaway created specifically for this event.

Absolutely love this collaboration. More please. NYC Ballet should have a ballet with sets designed by JR. 

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

Arts and Cultural Production Account for 3.2 Percent -- $504B -- of GDP in 2011

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National Endowment for the Arts’ Sunil Iyengar discusses a government report on the value of arts and culture. He speaks with Adam Johnson and Trish Regan on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart."

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and National Endowment for the Arts Release Preliminary Report on Impact of Arts and Culture on U.S. Economy:

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) released prototype estimates today from the new Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA). This is the first federal effort to provide in-depth analysis of the arts and cultural sector's contributions to current-dollar gross domestic product (GDP), a measure of the final dollar value of all goods and services produced in the United States. According to these new estimates, 3.2 percent -- or $504 billion -- of current-dollar GDP in 2011 was attributable to arts and culture. In comparison, BEA's estimated value of the U.S. travel and tourism industry was 2.8 percent of GDP.

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Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

What Drives Success?

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Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld, in The New York Times, shared likely controversial research about success in America: 

It turns out that for all their diversity, the strikingly successful groups in America today share three traits that, together, propel success. The first is a superiority complex — a deep-seated belief in their exceptionality. The second appears to be the opposite — insecurity, a feeling that you or what you’ve done is not good enough. The third is impulse control.

Any individual, from any background, can have what we call this Triple Package of traits. But research shows that some groups are instilling them more frequently than others, and that they are enjoying greater success.

It’s odd to think of people feeling simultaneously superior and insecure. Yet it’s precisely this unstable combination that generates drive: a chip on the shoulder, a goading need to prove oneself. Add impulse control — the ability to resist temptation — and the result is people who systematically sacrifice present gratification in pursuit of future attainment.

 

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Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

Simon Sinek: Leadership Is Not a Rank, It's a Decision.

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In this in-depth talk at the 99u Conference, ethnographer and leadership expert Simon Sinek reveals the hidden dynamics that inspire leadership and trust. In biological terms, leaders get the first pick of food and other spoils, but at a cost. When danger is present, the group expects the leader to mitigate all threats even at the expense of their personal well-being. Understanding this deep-seated expectation is the key difference between someone who is just an “authority” versus a true “leader.” 

For more on this topic, check out Sinek’s latest book Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t and his last 99u presentation. 

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Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.