The Week's Links: October 23, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

• Top 50 most popular non-fiction podcasts in 2015: The Best Factual Podcasts owl.li/TEvoj
• What Every Young Designer Should Know, From Legendary Apple Designer Susan Kare owl.li/TEvvX
• The Typographical Street Art of Michael Pederson owl.li/TG7de
• This Giant Van Gogh Painting Is Made of Pumpkins, Watermelons and Squash owl.li/TEvhG
• ◉ J.K. Rowling And The Benefits of Failure owl.li/Tyl92
• The writing system is 6,000 years old, but its influence is still felt today, What the Heck is Cuneiform, Anyway? smithsonianmag.com/history/what-h…
• The Future of Doodling - The New Yorker owl.li/TDJTz
• How Nobel Prize Economist Angus Deaton Changed Our Thinking About World Progress owl.li/TDmz4
• Engaging Storytelling's Future Banks on a Balance Between New Tech and the Analog owl.li/TDJPZ
• The Times Partners With Google on Virtual Reality Project owl.li/TDmwy
• Teen Who Hacked CIA Director’s Email Tells How He Did It owl.li/TDmt1
• ◉ Who translates your ideas? owl.li/TykEx
• Will We Recognize Alien Life When We See It? owl.li/TDcJZ
• First Gene-Edited Dogs Reported in China: An extra-muscular beagle has been created through genome engineering. owl.li/TDmeY
• How Emojis Find Their Way to Phones owl.li/TDb1o
• Microsoft Research Debuts Autocomplete For Animation, And It’s Incredible owl.li/TDm8W
• What The Most Successful People Understand About Creative Work owl.li/TAmWo
• Why are placebos getting more effective? - BBC News owl.li/TDk8M
• What Are The Web's Most Played Out Fonts? owl.li/TDdfI
• How The Most Productive People Procrastinate owl.li/Typ1W
• Another great Radiolab episode, this one on colors. owl.li/Tykae
• ◉ The Meaning of Life (A TED Remix) owl.li/Tykyw
• How fantasy sports went from nerdy bar game to gambling giant - Timeline.comowl.li/TydKd
• iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch owl.li/Tyi3S
• Elizabeth Stokoe can control a conversation with a single word (Wired UK) owl.li/TydCI
• History Lovers Reconstruct a Roman Empire Display Entirely Out of LEGOs owl.li/Tyi0o
• Viewpoint: Why do fictional universes matter? - BBC News owl.li/Tx0op
• Bridge » Women in design share keys to creative confidence owl.li/TyhZr
• The electric car’s road from glorified golf cart to $100,000 Tesla - Timeline.comowl.li/TydWU
• How the U.S. Government Lost the Smithsonian Fortune owl.li/TwZMa
• NY Public Library: Our Favorite New York Stories owl.li/TwZLC
• ◉ Mystery (A TED Remix) owl.li/Tykwg
• The Origins of the King James Bible owl.li/TwZmX
• Using Legos as a Legitimate Urban Planning Tool owl.li/TwZFY
• Has NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovered an Alien Megastructure? — Discovery News owl.li/TuTDu
• Kate Winslet and the little Australian anti-bullying film that took on the world owl.li/TwZxQ
• A Map Of Every Superman Villain Ever owl.li/TuDKr
• This is Your Brain on Dreams, with Michio Kaku | Big Think owl.li/TwZt9
• How the Making of ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Was Different From Other Pixar Movies owl.li/TwZWB
• See at a Bee’s Eye Level With 9 Award-Wining Microscopic Photos smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/get…
• Outer-space anomaly gets ET experts' attention - CNN.com owl.li/TuoGG
• Britain’s Antarctic Research Station Looks Like a Spaceship owl.li/TuoDt
• Monty Python Fans, It's Your Holy Grail: 14 Minutes Of Lost Terry Gilliam Animation owl.li/TpzlA
• More Than 8,400 Never-Before-Seen Photos from NASA's Apollo Moon Landings owl.li/TuoxM
• The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy - The Atlantic owl.li/TmocO
• Hunter-Gatherers Sleep Little and Get Up Early owl.li/Tub5A
• The Fader Celebrates 100 Issues by Posting Them All Free on BitTorrent owl.li/TlLvD
• People Without Electricity Don’t Get 8 Hours’ Sleep Either owl.li/Tso21
• The Billion View Club: YouTube's 10 Most Watched Videos owl.li/Tupk5
• Every type of tech product has gotten cheaper over the last two decades — except for one owl.li/TpQLv
• Watch: Boeing On How They Developed The World's Lightest Material owl.li/Tjg8C
• How to Travel Like Anthony Bourdain owl.li/Tjfss
• The Man Who Designed Manhattan owl.li/Thbyv
• Secrets From 11 Of The Most Productive People From Oprah To Aziz Ansari owl.li/TjamL
• Disney's Crazy New Tech Brings Coloring Books To Life owl.li/ThbjW
• 6 Sleep Habits Of Productive People owl.li/Tja3E
• How Background Noise Affects The Way You Work owl.li/ThbiG
• Functional connectome fingerprinting: identifying individuals using patterns of brain connectivity : Nature... owl.li/TjwS4
• Five Leadership Lessons From Malala Yousafzai owl.li/Tj9SF
• “Tomato” versus “#FF6347”—the tragicomic history of CSS color names owl.li/Tj9NP
• Perfecting Pixar’s Movies Takes a Crazy Amount of Research owl.li/Thb0a
• California Now Has the Nation’s Best Digital Privacy Law owl.li/ThaVv
• ◉ How do you create? (A TED Remix) owl.li/TfYuQ
• 1968: Elton John's first photo shoot owl.li/TgF1X
• How the hoodie became more than a garment - Timeline.com owl.li/TgZpr
• 16 Crisp, Colorful Photos from the Apollo Missions owl.li/TgEKb
• Apple and The World's Most Public Privacy Policy | DuetsBlog owl.li/TgNCn
• Will You Ever Be Able to Upload Your Brain? owl.li/TgEGz
• How Tom Wolfe Became … Tom Wolfe owl.li/TgFu5
• The Cellphone Imperative: If I Can’t Text, I’m Moving owl.li/TgFst

The Week's Links: October 16, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

• Beautiful: 49 Extraordinary Vintage Portraits of Hollywood's Most Famous Faces owl.li/TgEEb
• Another reason why Flash needs to die: Adobe confirms major Flash vulnerability, and the only way to protect... owl.li/TsTEE
• Why do your knuckles pop? - Eleanor Nelsen owl.li/TgEBZ
• ◉ The Meaning of Work (A TED Remix) owl.li/TfYsb
• "The Martian" Filming Locations That Bring the Red Planet to Life owl.li/TgEhE
• Top 5 TED-Ed Lessons of all time owl.li/TgEsx
• Pretty vacant: the glory of abandoned spaces | Art and design | The Guardian owl.li/TgEde
• HBO’s Richard Plepler and Jimmy Iovine on Dreaming and Streaming owl.li/TgErq
• French Mailman Spends 33 Years Building Epic Palace From Pebbles Collected On His 18-Mile Mail Route owl.li/TgEcE
• Hailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human behavior as he steals... owl.li/TgEnh
• 8 Historic Cuban Hotels You Can Stay In Now owl.li/TgElc
• 10 Best Parks According to World Travelers owl.li/TgEae
• Ha, great TEDxTalk: How to sound smart in your TEDx Talk owl.li/TgE8H
• ◉ Thinking About The Future Of The Internet owl.li/TfYnn
• Perfecting Pixar’s Movies Takes a Crazy Amount of Research owl.li/Tg0Rd
• Inside the Legal Intrigue at Columbia’s Elite, Secret Campus Society owl.li/TgE6D
• 226 Ansel Adams Photographs of Great American National Parks Are Now Online owl.li/Tg0MF
• 22 Movies Roger Ebert Really Hated owl.li/TgE1C
• 100 Overlooked Films Directed by Women: See Selections from Sight & Sound Magazine’s New List owl.li/Tg0L1
• It's the final toll for the card catalog - the library cooperative that printed and provided the old-fashioned... owl.li/TgCXv
• How Victoria Sebastian Schipper pulled off a bank heist drama movie in one take. owl.li/TgBX6
• ◉ Scientists Can Now Predict Intelligence From Brain Activity - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/10/1…
• The Periodic Table of Elements Scaled to Show The Elements’ Actual Abundance on Earth owl.li/Tg0Kf
• NBC University Theater Adapts Great Novels to Radio & Gives Listeners College Credit : Hear 110... owl.li/Tg0Hl
• ◉ Heidi Grant Halvorson: Why No One Understands You (and What To Do About It) owl.li/TfYjI
• Oculus Rift will change the world, but can it change art? owl.li/TfZOR
• Arthur Conan Doyle Names His 19 Favorite Sherlock Holmes Stories owl.li/Tg0Gp
• Does Today’s Great TV Rival The Best Novels Of Yesterday? owl.li/TfZLC
• The 25 Most Rewatchable Movies Of All Time owl.li/Tg0C4
• US television wakes up to growing Latino audience with new options owl.li/TfZG7
• Carl Sagan on the evolution of humans owl.li/Tg0uY
• Can Posters Still Change the World? owl.li/TfZXa
• ◉ Casey Gerald: Don’t Wait for Permission - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/10/1…
• Which TV Show First Referenced the Internet? owl.li/TfZDD
• Mary Beard: why ancient Rome matters to the modern world owl.li/TfZBF
• ◉ The Universality of the Word Huh owl.li/TfYcQ
• You can grow new brain cells. Here's how owl.li/TfZpU
• The Big Question owl.li/TfZAf
• Two Stories That Will Change the Way You See Steve Jobs owl.li/TfZnU
• Misty Copeland on Pushing Ballet’s Boundaries - The New York Times owl.li/TfZyj
• The Epic of Gilgamesh grows by 20 lines owl.li/TfZgf
• The lost art of getting lost - BBC News owl.li/TfZwr
• Will digital books ever replace print? – Craig Mod – Aeon owl.li/TfZs5
• ◉ Does Watching Good TV Make You a Better Person? - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/10/1…
• Histography, an interactive timeline of all history owl.li/TfZdB
• Yale launches an archive of 170,000 Depression-era photos owl.li/TfZbS
• There Are Way More Homeless Students Than There Used To Be owl.li/TfYTx
• This is what it looks like to land on Mars owl.li/TfZau
• Engaging with Transmedia Branding: An Interview with USC’s Burghardt Tenderich (Part One) owl.li/TfYQY
• The placebo effect grows stronger owl.li/TfZ8v
• Subtlety in Type, Jessica Hische’s presentation at Adobe MAX. owl.li/TfYMv
• Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps owl.li/TfZeN
• Does every creative genius need a bitter rival? owl.li/TfZ4X
• Towards a Classification of Tech-Induced Mental Disorders | Information is Beautiful owl.li/TfYZz
• Insights from the Lowline: How to Embrace and Thrive in a Long-Term Project owl.li/TfYBI
• Michael Bierut’s advice on how to avoid the obvious. owl.li/TfYK2
• Digital dieting: what this means to brands | Desktop owl.li/TfYGS
• Neither East nor West: Rethinking Chinese Design TodayAIGA Eye on Design | AIGA Eye on Design owl.li/TfYHS
• Nobel Prize awarded for changing neutrinos, the 'chameleons' of particle physics owl.li/T5I5q
• The deception that lurks in our data-driven world owl.li/T5HxQ
• A Brief History of the End of the Comments owl.li/TbZkG
• Japanese Universities Are Shuttering Social Sciences and Humanities Departments owl.li/T2B7E
• What Infographics Looked Like Before Computers owl.li/TbZjI
• This is amazing: Hell's Club, a place where all fictional characters meet. owl.li/T5KFP
• What It Takes To Change Your Brain's Patterns After Age 25 owl.li/SZRdH
• 25 Museums You Need to See in Your Lifetime owl.li/SZRcI
• ◉ Attitude is a skill owl.li/SYYFB
• Spiders Spin Silk into Violin Strings Able to Create Superior Symphonic Sounds owl.li/SZL6A
• TED Playlist: How to tell a story. owl.li/SZOzs
• New Software Sifts Photos for the Most Clickable owl.li/SZm2C
• 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

Scientists Can Now Predict Intelligence From Brain Activity

Chelsea Leu in Wired: 

But now that neuroscientists have used maps of people’s brains to accurately predict intelligence, reality creeps ever so much closer to fiction.

By intelligence, in this case, the scientists mean abstract reasoning ability, which they inferred by mapping and analyzing the connections within people’s brains. But the study, published today in "Nature Neuroscience", is compelling because it gets at a fundamental and very uncomfortable truth: Some brains are better than others at certain things, simply because of the way they’re wired. And now, scientists are closer to being able to determine precisely which brains those are, and how they got that way.

Casey Gerald: Don’t Wait for Permission

After graduating from Yale, Casey Gerald and his friends wondered what would happen if, instead of “marching off in pinstripe suits to slave away in a cubicle,” they set out to the heart of America to put their MBAs to work helping entrepreneurs. The result is MBAs Across America, whose message is simple but vital: There’s a new way of changing the world, and each of us has a part to play. In this 99u talk, Gerald shares his story and gives us the three aspects of this “New Playbook of Change.”

Does Watching Good TV Make You a Better Person?

Melissa Dahl in The Science of Us, reports on a study that complements a previous one that asserted that reading novels also made you more empathetic: 

If you ever feel vaguely guilty about the vast amounts of television you watch, might I suggest you cling to the findings of this study, published last week in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. In it, the authors claim that watching high-quality television dramas — things like Mad Men or The West Wing — can increase your emotional intelligence. That is, watching good TV makes you more empathetic.