The Week's Links: October 9, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

• The psychology behind successful Web design owl.li/SZMpn
• The Art Directors who Made "Esquire" History | AIGA Eye on Design owl.li/SZlFk
• Why the Curiosity Rover is Forbidden From Collecting Water on Mars owl.li/SZLXG
• 'I'll do the first human head transplant' | Science | The Guardian owl.li/SZLBv
• The Internet Helps Photographer Find the Mystery Couple from Gorgeous Wedding Photo owl.li/SYTwr
• The Collaborative Excellence of The Martian: In a story in which everything goes wrong, the filmmakers and stars... owl.li/SYTum
• ◉ The Plot Twist: E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far From Dead owl.li/SYYF9
• Vertical panoramas of churches owl.li/SYSSD
• The Nazis Wanted to Beat the British With Exploding Chocolate Bars owl.li/SYTqb
• What Makes a Memorable Logo Design (or Redesign)? owl.li/SYSQF
• 'Major' IBM breakthrough breathes new life into Moore’s Law owl.li/SYTpP
• 13 Reasons You’re Sleep-Deprived owl.li/SYSMD
• Louisa May Alcott, In Her Own Words owl.li/SYT4P
• Mary Beard: why ancient Rome matters to the modern world owl.li/SYTwY
• Martha Graham on the Life-Force of Creativity and the Divine Dissatisfaction of Being an Artist owl.li/SYSWj
• Mike Nichols’s Life and Career: The Definitive Oral History owl.li/SYNJ3
• Maria Pereira's surgical glue could completely revolutionize modern medicine owl.li/SYMxd
• ◉ "Paper," Another Spectacular Spot for Honda owl.li/SYYCD
• 4 Design Lessons From The Pixar Team owl.li/SRJWZ
• 20 words that aren't in the dictionary yet owl.li/SWVh5
• How to make hard choices owl.li/SRhFv
• Why The Martian’s Andy Weir loves Mars -- but doesn’t want to go there owl.li/SWVaj
• The 10 New MacArthur Genius Scientists Are All Connected owl.li/SRhBt
• Achieve Goals By Gamifying Them owl.li/SWUfp
• 8 Hidden Uses for Common Kitchen Tools owl.li/SYS9j
• Why Sweden Is Shifting To A 6-Hour Workday owl.li/SUp12
• The Wild Architecture of Soviet-Era Bus Stops owl.li/SQV58
• Jaguar's Ian Callum On Restraint, Leadership, and Following Up On A Hit Design owl.li/SQMog
• ◉ Can Brands Be Good? owl.li/SYYBg
• Design at Facebook: Uncovering the challenges behind building a product at scale owl.li/SQrzf
• The Untold History Of Polka Dots (And Other Graphic Patterns) owl.li/SQMim
• Alphabettes is a showcase for work, commentary, and research on lettering, typography, and type design. owl.li/SQrm0
• The 20 Best Culture Podcasts owl.li/SQMaI
• Design Principles FTW owl.li/SQqSp
• Here’s What Neuroscience’s Newest ‘Genius’ Discovered About the Brain owl.li/SRhxs
• Local Color: Shades of history, from black to white. owl.li/SQLYW
• Hitchcock/Truffaut Documentary Trailer. Fantastic. owl.li/SQLlm
• ◉ Thinking About The Future Of The Internet -  smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/10/6…
• Genius: A Conversation With ‘Hamilton’ Maestro Lin-Manuel Miranda owl.li/SQf6n
• The Secret of the Apple’s New San Francisco Fonts owl.li/SQeAZ
• ◉ Everything is a Remix Remastered owl.li/SYYA7
• How does caffeine turn a morning zombie into a functioning member of society? This lesson will get you thinking... owl.li/SOjxH
• Creative games for creative designers owl.li/SQetF
• Beautiful. NYTimes Magazine Voyages Issues: Six Photographers on Their Dream Journeys. owl.li/SO4dw
• Audio Inspiration: 10 of the Best Podcasts for Designers & Creatives owl.li/SQeoZ
• 3 Radical Ideas To Totally Disrupt Air Travel owl.li/SNRfz
• A Day at Pentagram New York: an insight into the partners, politics and personalities owl.li/SQqIz
• The Right Way to Do Collaborative Design: How to Avoid Designing by Committee owl.li/SOrH4
• How to Invent a Language, From the Guy Who Made Dothraki owl.li/SOoCJ
• ◉ Heidi Grant Halvorson: Why No One Understands You (and What To Do About It) - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/10/4…
• Why Sweden Is Shifting To A 6-Hour Workday owl.li/SNKBw
• A nation of tall cheese-eaters - BBC News owl.li/SNAi0
• This New Google Project Is So Futuristic You Won't Be Able To Understand It owl.li/SIV4Q
• Google’s Quantum Computer Just Got a Big Upgrade owl.li/SNAd0
• Get ready for hybrid thinking owl.li/SIV3F
• How much do you know about science topics? owl.li/SL6wN
• One more reason to get a good night’s sleep owl.li/SIUYT
• How Playing the Long Game Made Elizabeth Holmes a Billionaire owl.li/SIVnp
• Beyond ad blocking — the biggest boycott in human history owl.li/SNQxR
• MIT Physicist Proposes New "Meaning of Life" | Big Think owl.li/SIV7i
• 4 species on the verge of extinction, animated by high school students owl.li/SIUUF
• Names Have Meaning: A Research Guide for Baby Names and Family Names owl.li/SIUT8
• How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are owl.li/SILrU
• The Best Shots Fired in the Oxford Comma Wars owl.li/SIURs
• Board game pieces found in ancient Roman settlement owl.li/SILpK
• What It’s Like to Remember Almost Everything That Has Ever Happened to You owl.li/SIUOW
• The Tangled History And Mysterious Legality Of "Happy Birthday" owl.li/SI0RG
• Incredible Aerial Photos Of Cruise Ships Look Like Alien Space Yachts owl.li/SIUWN
• TED Playlist: How language changes over time owl.li/SINsq
• Movie Posters Stripped Of Their Text Reveal Stunning Imagery And Artwork - DesignTAXI.com owl.li/SINnM
• The Bizarre, Bony-Looking Future of Algorithmic Design owl.li/SGCIp
• How do you direct a standup gig? Meet the experts behind the comics owl.li/SGCHI
• ◉ Paris in 3 Minutes - Hyperlapse Short owl.li/SGDgL
• 25 Museums You Need to See in Your Lifetime owl.li/SGwYS
• The Genius of Learning - Issue 28: 2050 - Nautilus owl.li/SGCGJ
• 8 Cities That Show You What the Future Will Look Like | WIRED owl.li/SGwTT
• Forget Business School--Just Watch These 10 TED Talks owl.li/SGCFC
• Interview: Stunning Vertical Panoramas of Churches by Richard Silver owl.li/SGwH2
• This Graphic Explains 20 Cognitive Biases That Affect Your Decision-Making owl.li/SGCEH
• 2015 Ig Nobel prizes: dinosaur-like chickens and bee-stings to the penis owl.li/SGCKa
• We Asked a Cultural Historian: Are Apple Stores the New Temples? owl.li/SGxgt

Thinking About The Future Of The Internet

On the Wall Street Journal David Gelernter and  Eric Freeman discuss the evolution of how we consume the internet: 

We go to the Internet for many reasons, but most often to discover what’s new. We have had libraries for millennia, but never before have we had a crystal ball that can tell us what is happening everywhere right now. Nor have we ever had screens, from room-sized to wrist-sized, that can show us high-resolution, constantly flowing streams of information. 

Today, time-based structures, flowing data—in streams, feeds, blogs—increasingly dominate the Web. Flow has become the basic organizing principle of the cybersphere. The trend is widely understood, but its implications aren’t.

There is also the other side of the equation, not just consumption but production. Anyone working producing content to distribute on the internet is aware of how rapid this flow really is. 

Heidi Grant Halvorson: Why No One Understands You (and What To Do About It)

Ever get the feeling you and a client or colleague are just talking past one another? Miscommunication and misunderstandings are one of the biggest culprits of career acrimony. That’s why, in this 99u talk, researcher and author Heidi Grant Halvorson shares how we can get out of our own minds and make sure our message is heard. Using research from her latest book, Halvorson demonstrates the importance of overcoming the assumption of false consensus, and how subtle cues like eye contact and nodding can make all the difference. 

The Week's Links: October 2, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

• Ten books that changed the world owl.li/SG06T
• We Asked a Cultural Historian: Are Apple Stores the New Temples? owl.li/SGxgt
• 2015 Ig Nobel prizes: dinosaur-like chickens and bee-stings to the penis owl.li/SGCKa
• This Graphic Explains 20 Cognitive Biases That Affect Your Decision-Making owl.li/SGCEH
• Spectacular Early Entries from the 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest owl.li/SG01Q
• ◉ A Classic: Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign owl.li/SGDcX
• Chess Deconstructed: Inside The Saul Bass Tribute-Turned-Video Game owl.li/SFuZh
• A 3D-printed jumbo jet? owl.li/SFZXA
• Delta Gets Philosophical About Take-Off In A Striking New Ad owl.li/SFqwH
• The 104-Year-Old Street Artist Who Yarn-Bombed Her Town owl.li/SFZVi
• Microsoft and Google Call an End to Patent Battles owl.li/STRUy
• World Ballet Day LIVE | One Day. Five World Renowned Ballet Companies. Live and Online. owl.li/STR2A
• How did you get that job: deputy administrator of NASA owl.li/SFqrk
• The History of Philosophy, from 600 B.C.E. to 1935, Visualized in Two Massive, 44-Foot High Diagrams owl.li/SFZRa
• How You Can Outsmart Your Own Stupidity | Big Think owl.li/SG0bI
• Learn How Neurons Work Through An Autobiographical, Interactive Story owl.li/SFvcA
• Audio Inspiration: 10 of the Best Podcasts for Designers & Creatives owl.li/SFk0X
• UK government pledges funds for cyber security education owl.li/SFeVK
• ◉ The World Of Professional Creativity owl.li/SGDas
• Facebook Debuts 360 Video With an Immersive Star Wars Clip owl.li/SBcsV
• World's First Firefly-Themed Park is an Illumination Celebration owl.li/SEQdi
• Observe, Question, Reinvent: Lessons For Seeing Clearly From George Carlin owl.li/SAvBd
• How Marketing Turned the EpiPen Into a Billion-Dollar Business owl.li/SDs4x
• ◉ The Universality of the Word Huh - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/9/27…
• In Sweden Algorithm predicts and prevents train delays two hours in advance owl.li/SAgdw
• How Prescription Drugs Get So Wildly Expensive owl.li/SDs1k
• Finding Your Inner Creative Soul as a Photographer owl.li/SFkfa
• This New Platform Makes The Contents Of Videos As Searchable As Text owl.li/SCtG4
• Introducing: U.S. Web Design Standards by United States Digital Service owl.li/SQlqA
• Introducing: U.S. Web Design Standards by United States Digital Service owl.li/SQiiS
• 12 “Made-in-Japan” English Terms that Might Confuse English Speakers owl.li/SA01y
• Here’s Your Chance to Play With a Wind-Powered Strandbeest owl.li/SzZMr
• ◉ Sooner or later, the critics move on owl.li/SGD7B
• Documentarian wipes out Warner’s $2M “Happy Birthday” copyright | Ars Technica owl.li/SzKfZ
• What if I fail? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Tom Hodgkinson owl.li/SzVCR
• The Theory of Relativity, Then and Now owl.li/SxX4k
• Where People Go To Check The Weather owl.li/SzVo0
• @Snowden Is Now On Twitter owl.li/SO4Em
• ◉ How "oldschool" graphics worked - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/9/27…
• Presenting the Year's Best Storytellers: The Production Company A-List 2015 owl.li/SNSkJ
• Presenting the Ad Industry's Best Storytellers: The Production Company A-List 2015 owl.li/SNRzs
• The science of ‘The Martian’: 5 TED-Ed Lessons to help you understand the film owl.li/SxWTI
• 7 TED Talks on learning from mistakes owl.li/SzOSs
• MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Winners for 2015 Are Announced owl.li/SNyNg
• NYT makes 50 of its best pieces of journalism free to read | Poynter. owl.li/SA5zJ
• Can you guess someone's political party based on their name? And other psych quizzes owl.li/SzKIh
• 10 Works of Art Every Writer Should See in Person owl.li/SxFwl
• Your Brain Isn't a Computer. It's a Quantum Field. | Big Think owl.li/SxeKn
• ◉ Franklin Leonard: The Realist's Guide To Changing the World owl.li/SGD5O
• Carmen Balcells, Agent to Latin America’s Literary Lions, Dies at 85 owl.li/SwZ9g
• Giraffes Spend Their Nights Quietly, Constantly Humming owl.li/SxeG6
• Revisiting Frida Kahlo's Style and Cult of Personality owl.li/SwZ58
• Paulo Coelho Just Published the Entire Text of His Novel 'The Alchemist' in a Single Ad owl.li/SxerO
• Every Country's Highest Valued Export owl.li/SwYXy
• ◉ Attitude is a skill - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/9/25…
• What Makes a Prodigy? - Scientific American owl.li/SwZL6
• Stunning Map Shows Pathogens Hopping Between Species owl.li/SxWQO
• Happy End: A Photographer Captures Forgotten Plane Crash Sites of Survival owl.li/SwZeM
• How MIT Media Lab Pictured the Future of Tech And Marketing For "Minority Report" owl.li/SvZyz
• .@austinkleon shows us: How to make a newspaper blackout poem owl.li/SuOrg
• The best infographics of 2015, and why we can’t stop looking at them owl.li/Sulkd
• The Psychology of Numbers in Design — Startups + Wanderlust + Life Hacking owl.li/SunOo
• Sunday's "Supermoon" Total Lunar Eclipse: When and Where to See It owl.li/SIJJW
• This Month in Typography — I Love Typography owl.li/Sul91
• Should designers be worried about AI? | Graphic design | Creative Bloq owl.li/SumEv
• Iconic Brand Logos by Famous Painters in History | Branding Magazine owl.li/SujYc
• Bridge » The Digital Designer of the Future owl.li/SulMI
• Preserving Old Computer Games Is Harder Than it Seems owl.li/SwYSx
• How designers changed the way advertising works. owl.li/SulGK
• TED Playlist: Talks on what makes business work owl.li/Sudbr
• The Dark Origins of 11 Classic Nursery Rhymes owl.li/Sud55
• Here Are the Year's Most Inventive Marketing, Media and Digital Campaigns, Honored by Project Isaac owl.li/Su9Wf
• The Craft of Cooking: An Interview with “America’s Test Kitchen” founder Christopher Kimball owl.li/SucJA
• A 17-Year-Old Artist Created This Incredible Map Of Literature owl.li/Su9K5
• Unraveling The Surprising Relationship Between Mood And Productivity owl.li/Sucxl
• France confirms that Google must remove search results globally, or face big fines owl.li/Su9sJ
• The happy secret to better work owl.li/Sucow
• 15 Things You Might Not Know About 'Nighthawks' owl.li/SudlC
• Ernest Hemingway Creates a Reading List for a Young Writer, 1934 owl.li/Suc5h
• Monument Valley’s Creators Just Made a Stunning VR Game owl.li/Su9nv
• The Making Of FiftyThree's Beloved Paper App For The iPhone owl.li/Ss23T
• ◉ Wire Cutters: Gorgeous Animation owl.li/SrCA4
• 400 years of beer in America - Timeline.comowl.li/Ss0HG
• How to graciously say no to anyone owl.li/Ss1EG
• Software Is Smart Enough for SAT, but Still Far From Intelligent - The New York Times owl.li/Ss0AS
• 7 Mysterious Rock Formations to Rival Stonehenge owl.li/Ss1oV
• Humanity’s 30,000-year love affair with dogs - Timeline.com owl.li/Ss0e9
• How Pantone Became The Definitive Language Of Color owl.li/Ss1cJ
• Shakespearean Actor Brian Cox Teaches Hamlet’s Soliloquy to a 2-Year-Old Child owl.li/Ss1b8

The Universality of the Word Huh

Melissa Dahl, Science of Us: 

Two apparent human truths: Everybody gets confused, and everybody expresses that confusion in a similar way. A team of Dutch researchers say that the word huh may be a universal one, appearing in near-identical sound and function in 31 vastly different languages. The research, published in the journal PLOS ONE, just won an Ig Nobel Prize, a sort of parody of the Nobel Prize meant to honor science's weirder achievements.