Sesame Street: What is Dance?

Ok ask your mom or dad or your big sister to put on some music. Then start feeling the groove. Now, take a step and do a little wiggle. Throw your hands in the air and wave them back and forth. There you go, you're dancing! What is dance?

If You Want to Meet That Deadline, Play a Trick on Your Mind

From The New York Times, studies show how fooling ourselves to think deadlines are closer or within certain specific parameters help us get started with the work needed: 

Research into procrastination has noted that people have much less concern about their future selves than their present selves — and are willing to sell their future selves down the river for the sake of present ease. But when the present marches into the future, and we are confronted with the work that our past selves refused to do, we pay the price in unmet deadlines, all-nighters and general torment.

So if a few little tricks can manipulate us into thinking that time is of the essence, why not give them a try?

Behind The Next Step

As the world looks back on the year that was, Johnnie Walker looks forward to the year ahead. Here's to the next step. Here's to #2015. #KeepWalking. Join the conversation here: http://bit.ly/1vjapY1

From AdWeek:

One of the great ads of the past decade was the 2009 Johnnie Walker spot, filmed in a single take, with the brilliant Robert Carlyle telling the brand's history while strolling in the Scottish Highlands. Now, the whiskey brand and BBH have crafted another captivating single-take spot—a year-end meditation that looks forward, rather than backward, by showing a man walking through his dreamlike vision of 2015.

They did some 50 takes in three days.

As the world looks back on the year that was, Johnnie Walker looks forward to the year ahead. Here's to the next step. Here's to #2015. #KeepWalking. Watch the full film here: http://bit.ly/11Snixr Join the conversation here: http://bit.ly/1vjapY1

The Week' Links: January 2, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

• The Rapidly Disappearing Business of Design http://owl.li/GyY88
• The Esquire Register: 37 People Under 35 Who Are Reshaping the World http://owl.li/GBdyj
• Talk, Sing, Read, Write, Play: How Libraries Reach Kids Before They Can Read http://owl.li/GBLJK
• How NPR Is Preparing for "The Year of the Podcast" http://owl.li/GBVbq
• The Weird Connections Between Hearing and Taste http://owl.li/GECsR
• 15 Amazing Places You Can Tour Virtually http://owl.li/GCAXL
• Explainer: what is 4D printing? http://owl.li/GBMai
• How to Hack Your Holiday Memories owl.li/GAcPi
• Is there still a case against Serial's Adnan Syed after Jay Wilds' interview? owl.li/GFLwj
• Clever end credits for The Boxtrolls shows how stop motion works owl.li/GyXTt
• Ahem: Your Complete Guide to the Science of Hangovers owl.li/GFLmA
• Spirited Photos of Authors Getting Boozy owl.li/GyYAb
• Ranked: The 12 programming languages that will earn you the most owl.li/GyTE2
• 5,200 Days in Space: An exploration of life aboard the ISS, & the surprising reasons the mission is still worthwhile owl.li/GyYrG
• Peter Gabriel: Tech Can Make Video Evidence a Cornerstone of Justice owl.li/GBLZ6
• Scientists Discover That Drunk Birds Sing Like Drunks owl.li/GyYha
• Being cold can have positive metabolic effects. owl.li/Gwa54
• Nutmeg Spice Has A Secret Story That Isn't So Nice owl.li/Gw84D
• Why There's a Dangling Thing In Our Throats owl.li/Gvt2B
• The Illustrious History of Misquoting Winston Churchill owl.li/GvV8Q
• How The New Yorker Finally Figured Out The Internet: 3 Lessons From Its Web Redesign owl.li/GvsRj
• 40 Free Resources Every Designer Should Know owl.li/GvJt4
• Jay Speaks Part 2: 'Hae was dead before she got to my house. Anything that makes Adnan innocent doesn’t involve me.' owl.li/GDT02
• 7 of the Ocean's Strangest Creatures, Including a Fish With a Flashlight owl.li/GvsHf
• Behind the Scenes at Sony as Hacking Crisis Unfolded - WSJ owl.li/GDSyF
• Knight Foundation: Net Neutrality Report owl.li/GvGZJ
• Rare Look Inside North Korea's Capital City owl.li/Gx3Im
• Interesting study: Making your kid play organized sports could cost them their creativity owl.li/GvGQW
• Experts demand urgent overhaul of England’s public library service owl.li/GvrrF
• The Anti-Plagiarism Machine owl.li/Gvrpa
• What's the score? The classical music quiz of the year owl.li/GvqQs
• 10 Creative Rituals You Should Steal owl.li/GvreT
• The Meanings Behind the Weird Symbols on 20 Beer Labels owl.li/Gvqs5
• Yoga Hacks: How to Undo the Damage of a Desk Job owl.li/GvrcA
• How the Nutcracker Lost Its Purpose owl.li/GvqdZ
• Michelle MacLaren Is the Best Director on TV owl.li/Gvr8u
• Before The Internet, Librarians Would 'Answer Everything' — And Still Do owl.li/Gvskx
• Moody’s Lowers the Metropolitan Opera’s Credit Rating - NYTimes.comowl.li/GvqYM
• Nicholas Negroponte: Internet Access is a Human Right owl.li/Gve1W
• Cartography: The true true size of Africa owl.li/GuBFD
• The Messy Minds of Creative People owl.li/Gus3l
• Exclusive: Jay, Key Witness from 'Serial' Tells His Story for First Time, Part 1 - The Intercept owl.li/GyZjO
• Rise and Fall of the American Kiddie Ride owl.li/Guw8n
• Meet the Dogged Researchers Who Try to Unmask Haters Online- MIT Technology Review owl.li/GsRu0
• Examining Martian Meteorites, Scientists Think They’ve Found The Red Planet’s Missing Water owl.li/Guw1l
• The Ultimate Counterfeiter Isn't a Crook—He's an Artist owl.li/GsRaY
• A 3D Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" owl.li/GuvYz
• Why Airlines Want to Make You Suffer owl.li/Gvpdv
• How Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us to Greater Harm owl.li/GuvIv
• The Leonard Lopate Show: Staging The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, 25 Years After His Passing owl.li/GsPru
• Keeping ‘Nutcracker’ Running Like Clockwork owl.li/GsPpw
• Switching to Farming Made Human Joint Bones Lighter owl.li/GsHyn
• How Reading Transforms Us- NYTimes.com owl.li/GsOFa
• 11 Smells That Are Slowly Disappearing owl.li/GsHoS
• NASA’s Style Guide Details Its Striking Design Language, Allows For Comic Sans owl.li/GsNIk
• Stunning Black-and-White Photos of the Nazca Lines owl.li/GsHjg
• 6 things I learned from riding in a Google Self-Driving Car owl.li/GsNsC
• A High-Tech Dance Performance Melds Human Bodies With Code owl.li/GsPtP
• The French Go Crazy For 'An American In Paris' owl.li/GsHXm
• In Memoriam: Classical Musicians Who Died in 2014 owl.li/GsHf6
• Snow Drawings Transform Frozen Lakes owl.li/GsHds
• Language study: What is a foreign language worth? owl.li/GrQ6V
• What Happens to Your Identity When You Don’t Speak to Anyone for 27 Years owl.li/GsH9E
• MIT Students Build a Wooden Roller Coaster by Hand for Incoming Freshmen owl.li/GrPV0
• Space Songs: An EP Made Entirely from NASA's Sound Library owl.li/GsH6d
• What Americans can learn from other food cultures owl.li/Gqxdx
• The secret histories of 6 ubiquitous American foods owl.li/GsGRc
• Rockstar litigation, a high-water mark in patent wastefulness, is over owl.li/GsHhn
• The Web Is the Real World owl.li/Gs2MH
• 6 Questions For The White House's Maker-In-Chief Stephanie Santoso owl.li/GpHgN
• There’s More to Frankincense and Myrrh Than Meets the Eye owl.li/GpG1s
• 6 Brand Storytelling Lessons From Santa Claus owl.li/GpCIi
• The Esquire Register: 37 People Under 35 Who Are Reshaping the World owl.li/GpFVZ
• ‘PBS Idea Channel’ Explains the History Behind the Television Broadcast of a Burning Yule Log in a Fireplace owl.li/GpCHe
• Serial Host Sarah Koenig Says She Set Out To Report, Not Exonerate owl.li/GpCKO
• ‘Know Before You Fly’, An Animation by the FAA About Drone Safety for People Who Receive Unpiloted Aircraft as Gifts owl.li/GpCGt
• A decade from now, will our offices commute to us? owl.li/GpCJu
• The science of setting goals owl.li/Gqx8K
• Watch Art on Ancient Greek Vases Come to Life with 21st Century Animation owl.li/GpCIQ

The Week's Links: December 26, 2014

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

• ‘Know Before You Fly’, An Animation by the FAA About Drone Safety for People Who Receive Unpiloted Aircraft as Gifts owl.li/GpCGt
• A decade from now, will our offices commute to us? owl.li/GpCJu
• The science of setting goals owl.li/Gqx8K
• Watch Art on Ancient Greek Vases Come to Life with 21st Century Animation owl.li/GpCIQ
• The chemistry of cookies - Stephanie Warren owl.li/GpC4I
• How Facebook and Candy Crush Got You Hooked owl.li/GpBYo
• The mythology of Middle-earth explained in four short minutes owl.li/GpmWG
• The “motion microscope,” a video-processing tool plays tiny changes in motion impossible to see with the naked eye owl.li/GpBXy
• 5 Bizarre Christmas Traditions From Around the World ... owl.li/GqD2G
• Sony Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Tweets Containing Leaked Emails owl.li/GmYUd
• A Christmas Feast, Experienced With Dishes From Around the World owl.li/GpnaQ
• Coca-Cola Disconnects Voice Mail at Headquarters owl.li/GmRKt
• The Eggnog Riot: Jefferson Davis throws a holiday rager. owl.li/Gpn6Z
• Daily chart: Which miser makes the most? owl.li/GpCEw
• A 2014 Timeline of When Brands Did Superb Things in Social Media owl.li/Gpn2T
• The Daily Habits of Highly Productive Philosophers: Nietzsche, Marx & Immanuel Kant owl.li/GfSmZ
• Design Legend Louise Fili Photographs The Gorgeous Typography Of Italy owl.li/GfSg6
• NASA Just Emailed A Wrench Into Space for 3D Printing owl.li/Gc2Jn
• These Companies Own All the Food Brands owl.li/GfP1N
• Inside the Business of Serial owl.li/G8piY
• TED Playlist: Talks to restore your faith in humanity owl.li/GfOZp
• Miles Davis's Illustrious Jazz Career Visualized Like A Record owl.li/G8nH8
• 700 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices owl.li/GfOSe
• Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery About Prime Numbers owl.li/GiHvq
• 12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted owl.li/GfO4i
• Inside the secret lab where Amazon is designing the future of reading owl.li/G88jl
• Building the Bakery of Every Kid's Dreams owl.li/G82r2
• Seeing blue where there is none. owl.li/G7FVF
• McSweeney’s: Serial’s Sarah Koenig On Santa’s Alleged Hit-and-Run Murder of Grandma. owl.li/G81Cc
• Meet the Guy Who Designed the Elegant Branding for Serial owl.li/G7DWk
• Why Schools Should Lower The Bar For Teaching Programming To Kids owl.li/G7L36
• Tech Toys to Make Children Smarter owl.li/G7wvz
• The Most Popular Toys Of The Holidays, According To Shipping Containers owl.li/G7KRi
• From Saturn's Moons To The Hoover Dam: The Greatest Landscape Photos Of All Time owl.li/G8nCV
• The science of "hangry" — how low blood sugar makes you a monster owl.li/G7HhS
• 10 Words Shakespeare Used With Unclear Meanings owl.li/G6bXW
• A Secret Ballroom Built In The 1800s Lies Under A Lake, Guarded By Neptune owl.li/G6bOS
• The 23 Best Countries for Work-Life Balance owl.li/G67lc
• Fascinating Photos of NASA's Abandoned Launch Sites owl.li/G6brA
• What It's Like To Design A Font From Scratch owl.li/G66Gj
• What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs - NYTimes.comowl.li/G6bgE
• Science Shows Art Is Doing Something Amazing to Our Health owl.li/G4HnK
• How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood owl.li/G6bcV
• The Secret World of Stolen Smartphones, Where Business Is Booming owl.li/G74A1
• The Surprising Ways Your Breath Connects You to the Entire Planet owl.li/G6aZK
• The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/G4H4z
• Student Doodles from the Middle Ages owl.li/G0JiP
• 10 Everyday Technologies We Owe to NASA owl.li/G0nqa
• Where Did Times New Roman Come From? owl.li/G0HdE
• What Is The Oldest Known Song? owl.li/FWre5
• Sage advice from designers: What’s the one thing you wish you’d been told? owl.li/G0GHh
• Inside an internet addiction treatment centre in China owl.li/FVXrf
• Why learning Spanish, not Mandarin, is the best way to globalize your ideas owl.li/G4HhU
• The Urban Dictionary Of Design Slang owl.li/G0tbY
• Ayse Birsel: The designs I love most owl.li/FSaS9
• Beautiful, old stuff is still really cool: A look inside the new Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum owl.li/FSaOI
• Nicholas Negroponte on Biotechnology and Future Learning owl.li/FRUEc
• Fascinating maps of how people connect in Istanbul, Baltimore, Barcelona and more owl.li/FSaLk
• Working hours: Proof that you should get a life. With higher working hours, labor output per hour fell. owl.li/FRQiC
• David Kelley: The designs I love most owl.li/FSaJ6
• Eastern Philosophy Explained with Three Animated Videos by Alain de Botton's School of Life owl.li/FRMz7
• How Busy People Make Time To Read--And You Can Too owl.li/FS3Bs
• On visual web, a photo is worth more than a 1000 words owl.li/FVNYk
• Watch All of Terry Gilliam's Monty Python Animations in a Row owl.li/FRVrw
• Why your brain loves procrastination owl.li/FRLQc
• A brief history of web design for designers. Explained with animations owl.li/FRLCc
• ‘Locked in the Ether’, Eerie Photos of Flowers Frozen in Ice owl.li/FQP1F
• Instagram Is Getting So Good at News, It Should Scare Twitter owl.li/FRGKl
• ◉ Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
• Did you notice? Today Obama only called on women, all of them print reporters, during his press conference. owl.li/Gc4DH
• ◉ Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career owl.li/FQU97
• A lost Disney cartoon from 1927 has been found owl.li/FQHkk
• The Backfire Effect: The Psychology of Why We Have a Hard Time Changing Our Minds owl.li/FQTi4
• Amazing: Historic Photos From the NYC Municipal Archives owl.li/FQHhK
• A Stroll Through New York’s Gorgeous, and Occasionally Trippy, Holiday Windows owl.li/FQT8b
• The Economic History of the Last 2,000 Years in 1 Little Graph owl.li/FQT5M