The Week's Links: 8/26/12

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All the items posted to Facebook and Twitter this week:

  • How Biomimicry is Inspiring Human Innovationowl.li/dbT5o
  • Why Do We Yawn? owl.li/dbSfM
  • 8 Sounds That Are Trademarked owl.li/dbS5O
  • Steven Pinker Explains the Neuroscience of Swearing (NSFW) owl.li/dbCcA
  • Why We Keep Getting the Same Old Ideasowl.li/daPcv
  • 6 Memorable Letters From Neil Armstrongowl.li/deo8v
  • Facebook, Gehry Build Idea Factoryowl.li/delmA
  • Awesome or Awful: A self-critique tool for young creatives. owl.li/daP0W
  • Prince Harry, Lance Armstrong and the psychology of scandal owl.li/deg3L
  • 5 Ideas Trapping The Advertising Industry Right Now owl.li/daOSE
  • 35 Innovators Under 35 - Technology Reviewowl.li/dakdV
  • Inside the World’s Largest Fact Checking Operation: A conversation with two staffers at Der Spiegel owl.li/dak0o
  • Neal Stephenson on the State of Science Fiction owl.li/dajGD
  • Test Your Creativity: 5 Classic Creative Challenges owl.li/d8ydK
  • 26 Words You Really Wish Existed in Englishowl.li/d8ycc
  • 8 diagnostic tests we could have at our disposal in the near future owl.li/d8xyr
  • 8 Filmmaking Tips From Guillermo Del Toro and Nicholas Winding Refn owl.li/d8x0I
  • What 20 Top Companies' Logos Looked Like Before They Were Famous owl.li/d8wFb
  • What 20 Top Companies' Logos Looked Like Before They Were Famous owl.li/d8wye
  • Coffee: The Greatest Addiction Everowl.li/d4GUL
  • The 20 most-watched TED Talks to dateowl.li/d8wkD
  • Beauty vs. Usability: Using Subway Maps to Explore Information Design owl.li/d8tzg
  • Towards A Retina Web owl.li/d8ttX
  • Great collection of images to give you a humbling sense of scale. owl.li/d8oDg
  • The Art of Animation, Motion Graphics, Tech Gone Wrong & Why They Go Viralowl.li/1m7fFu
  • Design Tip: Never Use Black by Ian Storm Taylor owl.li/d8ouS
  • People Who Eat Breakfast Are Smarter And Skinnier owl.li/d8lMw
  • Microsoft's First New Logo in 25 Years Is Pretty Damn Nice owl.li/dbC9r
  • The World's 100 Most Powerful Women - Forbes owl.li/dbAsY
  • Plot Device - inexpensive short film thats puts mega movies to shame owl.li/d4GMn
  • Not only are you being tracked, you are ranked with a consumer e-score. owl.li/d8lqz
  • Love this: Parisian Theaters. Also love: 5 things I learned today owl.li/d83Ez
  • Humanities aren’t a science. Stop treating them like one. owl.li/d7UBj
  • Futurist Stewart Brand Wants to Revive Extinct Species owl.li/d7Dss
  • Love this: A Forum of Vintage Adsowl.li/d7CWm
  • Facebook Rolls Out Studio Edge for Agencies. Education platform schools creatives on socialowl.li/dajdm
  • Kickstarter's most successful projects suggest the creativity we value is interactive, rather than aesthetic. owl.li/d7wLb
  • “I hate writing, I love having written.” Dorothy Parker’s Guide to Life, on her birthday.owl.li/dai5c
  • Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire's Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth owl.li/d7wiR
  • Coca-Cola’s Top Storyteller On Finding Truth From Within owl.li/d7pqz
  • The Science of Expectation: Using Humor To Understand Creativity owl.li/d7pbA
  • How Do We Create Cultures of Creativity: Festival of Ideas (Video)‏ owl.li/d4GLc
  • 7 Buildings That Defy The Laws of Physicsowl.li/d7jVk
  • Be More Productive. Shorten the Workweek.owl.li/d7jAa
  • 50 Years of Space Exploration owl.li/1m5mr6
  • Why does the return journey feel quicker?owl.li/d5lyc
  • A History of Book-Pulping. What happens when books are recycled. owl.li/d4WaD
  • Great Minds Think Alike: Making the morning commute more humane owl.li/d4V5G
  • Principles of User Interface Design. Concise and useful. owl.li/d4UPB
  • Chile: making investment in science a national priority owl.li/d4UN3
  • Game changer: AP Stylebook moves faster than Merriam-Webster as linguistic authorityowl.li/d4UJP
  • Khan Academy Launches A Computer Science Course owl.li/d4UHM
  • Transforming libraries into programming incubators. owl.li/d4UFb
  • Does NYC water lead to better bagels?owl.li/d4UCH
  • Smoon: Self-Transforming Spoon of the Future Is the Geekiest Cooking Gadget Everowl.li/d4UBp
  • How Books Shaped The American National Identity owl.li/d4Upw
  • Transmedia Hollywood 2: Visual Culture & Design Panel Videos owl.li/d4GJU
  • One of my favorite newsletters, @davepell's Next Draft, is now an app for even easier access to fascinating news. owl.li/d7WXg
  • Why It’s Good that the Internet Is Changing Our Brains owl.li/d4UnE
  • They never forget: The strange gift of perfect memory owl.li/d7x91
  • The Pros & Cons Of Waiting In Lineowl.li/1m4itX
  • The Four Paradoxes of Great Performanceowl.li/d4IL9
  • Creative processes we wish we’d witnessedowl.li/d4B3K
  • Hindsight Project: A collection of career wisdom provided by experienced professionals across creative fields.owl.li/d4AHy
  • Creativity Top 5: 8/20/12 owl.li/1m3RCY
  • Nick Gill: 10 Things I’ve Learned That Might Help owl.li/d4Axe
  • Scrabble cheating: The real story behind the stolen-blanks scandal at the National Scrabble Championship. owl.li/d4yfo
  • Interesting Study On What Audiences Want From Storytelling owl.li/d4y3q
  • The Next Web created a Tech Hall of Fame on Pinterest. owl.li/d4xIi
  • How to run a problem-solving meetingowl.li/d3Xdt
  • Liza Klaussmann (great-great-great-granddaughter of Melville): 'I reread Moby-Dick and thought: where was your editor?'owl.li/d3oJ8
  • Introducing Bjork's Gameleste, a bespoke Gamelan Celeste Hybrid owl.li/d4GGU
  • Generation Read: Millennials Buy More Books Than Everybody Else owl.li/d3oBP
  • How I Got My Digital Life Back Again After An Epic Hacking. Following up with Mat Honan.owl.li/d3owv
  • Trust your hunches, and write them down.owl.li/1m3gwD
  • Tony Scott dies at 68; a film career in retrospective owl.li/d5m4H
  • Great Illustrated Vintage Vogue Magazine Covers From The Early 20th Century -DesignTAXI.com owl.li/d2qLj
  • Is Opera Ailing? A Conversation About The State Of The Art owl.li/d2kmo
  • Amazing: The Colorful Rainbow Eucalyptusowl.li/d1YTZ
  • "Misquotations are often stickier than actual quotes," Lincoln once joked. Why Misquotations Catch On owl.li/d1YKJ

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Recommended This Week:

 
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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.

The Art of Animation, Motion Graphics, Tech Gone Wrong & Why They Go Viral

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PBS Off Book continues with another set of thought-provoking videos that take a look at animation, what happens when  you decide to make art when technology goes wrong and why those videos go viral. ​

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Animation has been captivating audiences for more than a hundred years. From classic forms like hand drawn and stop-motion, to cutting-edge techniques like motion graphics and CGI, animation has a long history of creating style and poetry unachievable through live action filmmaking. It is a tool for educating, a place for experimentation and play, and a way of telling personal stories that reach the viewer with powerful visual metaphors. 

Featuring:
​John Canemaker
​Jesse Thomas, Jess3 
​Justin Cone
​Julia Pott 

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Glitches are the frustrating byproduct of technology gone awry. Wildly scrambled images, frozen blue screens, and garbled sounds signify moments where we want to throw our expensive computer products out the window. Many artists and programmers, however, have embraced these crisis moments and discovered beauty in the glitch. By hacking familiar systems, they intentionally cause glitches, and manipulate them to create art. Enjoying the aesthetics of technological mistakes defies the notion that technology and entertainment has to be a seamless experience. Most importantly, glitch artists reveal a certain soulfulness that emerges when complex streams of information, visual media, and our own lives converge in the chaos of the glitch.

Featuring:
​Phillip Stearns 
​Scott Fitzgerald 
​Anton Marini 
​Daniel Temkin 

Additional artists featured: 
​Antonio Roberts and Jeff Donaldson
​Gustavo Fajardo

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"Viral Video" is the signature phenomenon of internet media. Something akin to pop songs, these videos with irresistible hooks have saturated video culture online and have now evolved into a multitude of sophisticated forms. Whether rooted in comedy, spectacle, schadenfreude, cuteness, politics, performance, or deep meaning, the idea of viral videos, and the huge audiences they generate, have forever changed the values and potential impact of video online. 

Featuring:
​Jonah Peretti, Buzzfeed
​Kevin Allocca, YouTube
​Brad Kim, Know Your Meme
​Dan Gurewitch, College Humor
​Mark Douglas and Todd Womack, Key of Awesome
​Michael Learmonth, Advertising Age
​Casey Neistat

List of Featured Viral Videos​

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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.

The Theory Behind Social Networking & Dijkstra's Algorithm (MIT Video Lesson)

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Teachers: Dr. F. Jordan Srour and Dr. George Turkiyyah
​Summary: This video lesson will introduce students to algorithmic thinking through the use of a popular field in graph theory --- social networking. Specifically, by acting as nodes in a graph (i.e.  people in a social network), the students will experientially gain an understanding of graph theory terminology and distance in a graph (i.e. number of introductions required to meet a target person).

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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.

50 Years of Space Exploration

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​Inspired by Curiosity here is an extraordinary illustration showing 50 years of space exploration. 

50 Years of Space Exploration - An Infographic from

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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.

The Pros & Cons Of Waiting In Line

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Americans spend roughly 37 billion hours each year waiting in line. The dominant cost of waiting is an emotional one: stress, boredom, that nagging sensation that one’s life is slipping away. The last thing we want to do with our dwindling leisure time is squander it in stasis. We’ll never eliminate lines altogether, but a better understanding of the psychology of waiting can help make those inevitable delays that inject themselves into our daily lives a touch more bearable. And when all else fails, bring a book.

Alex Stone, author of Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks and the Hidden Powers of the Mind, writing for The New York Times explores the psychological challenges of waiting in line and the many creative solutions used to fool us into waiting. 

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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.