The Week's Links: November 20, 2015

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ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • The Vision of Charles and Ray Eames owl.li/UOhP3
  • The Subtle Art of Being a Designer at a Massive Company owl.li/UOaR0
  • Pac-Man’s Siren Call. The story of a most unusual bug on a most unusual day owl.li/ULbFq
  • I Turned Off JavaScript in My Web Browser for a Whole Week and It Was Glorious owl.li/UO46x
  • Like it or not, encryption's going to be a major issue in the presidential campaign owl.li/UL8gW
  • ◉ Legendary Massimo Vignelli on The Art of Timeless Design owl.li/UFG83
  • Michael Bierut on Tough Design Assignments + What it’s Like to be Publicly Scrutinized owl.li/UFSsk
  • Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is…  owl.li/UL7Fv
  • The twisted history of high heels: How a man’s shoe became a divisive symbol of sex and power -... owl.li/UFNLb
  • A Free Man's Letter to A Former Slaveowner in 1865 owl.li/UIZZC
  • Web Poets’ Society: New Breed Succeeds in Taking Verse Viral owl.li/UFKTf
  • Drink To Your Health: Study Links Daily Coffee Habit To Longevity owl.li/UL8Ov
  • The Future of Sesame Street Is Kinder and Gentler, With Fewer Puppets owl.li/UIeOp
  • Lessons from the PC video game industry owl.li/UIc9B
  • How the language you speak changes your view of the world owl.li/UFKpi
  • ◉ Nature by Numbers Beautifully Visualized owl.li/UFG5e
  • J.J. Abrams, Star Wars Superfan, on Directing The Force Awakens owl.li/UFGkY
  • The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades owl.li/UFIMI
  • 7 Hand Gestures That Make You Look Like a Real Intellectual owl.li/UFGjF
  • Problems of output are problems of input owl.li/UFHeg
  • ◉ The Brain, The Faulty Walnut - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/11/1…
  • TensorFlow and Monetizing Intellectual Property - Stratechery by Ben Thompson owl.li/UFGid
  • Unseen Charlotte Brontë story and poem discovered owl.li/UFHar
  • Meet Jean Jullien, the artist behind the "Peace for Paris" symbol owl.li/UFKqQ
  • Classic: The Definitive Mr. Rogers Profile owl.li/UFGKo
  • Google Just Open Sourced TensorFlow, Its Artificial Intelligence Engine owl.li/UFGhb
  • Can digital technology make the Herculaneum scrolls legible after two thousand years? owl.li/UF2Ev
  • ◉ Honda Power of Dreams - Campaign Magazine "Campaign of the Decade" owl.li/UFG1T
  • Documentary Films Are Changing In A Big Way. Finally The Oscars Have To Deal With It owl.li/UF2uT
  • British Museum opens to whole world after 262 years as it invites Street View indoors owl.li/UF2DQ
  • If 'Fantasia' Hadn't Flopped 75 Years Ago, What Would Feature Animation Look Like Today? owl.li/UEJ6s
  • Mapped: All the world's 1,031 World Heritage Sites owl.li/UF2zc
  • College Students Can Now Get The New York Times for $1 a Week owl.li/UCEAi
  • ◉ The Internet Lives in a Huge Hotel in Manhattan - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/11/1…
  • Study: Music Lessons Change Students’ Behavior owl.li/UF2wH
  • 3 Reasons Why You Are Always Mishearing Song Lyrics owl.li/UF2vh
  • 7 Hidden Art Secrets That Were Uncovered With Technology owl.li/UzuzU
  • Why Do Humans Cry? owl.li/Uzukq
  • ◉ Spinning Songs from Movies owl.li/UFFZp
  • Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost NYU Lecture on What It Takes to Be a Writer, Animated owl.li/UwwCe
  • Ray Bradbury on the Possibility of Science Fiction owl.li/Uwxfw
  • Star Wars characters as Greek statues owl.li/UwwoS
  • The Beautiful Network of Ancient Roman Roads owl.li/Uwx3L
  • ◉ How the Metaphor of “the Cloud” Changed Our Attitude Toward the Internet - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/11/1…
  • MIT's Weird Snake Bot Could Be The Future Of UI owl.li/UwsSO
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  • From Middle Earth to Hundred Acre Wood: putting fiction on the map owl.li/UwwJK
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  • 9 Fascinating Facts About The Microbiome, The Trillions Of Microbes Hidden Inside Us owl.li/UzVud
  • New Dinosaur Species Probably Endured Snow and Darkness for Months on End owl.li/UwwHw
  • ◉ Recommended: A Prehistory of the Cloud - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Manhattan Project sites get National Park status owl.li/UuxS2
  • This Surveillance Drone Never Needs to Land owl.li/Uubxv
  • The Science Behind How Pay Affects Productivity owl.li/Uu43w
  • Robot Toddler Learns to Stand by “Imagining” How to Do It owl.li/UubqT
  • The Way We Experience Art Is Changing--And Brands Can Capitalize On The Disruption owl.li/Uu40q
  • To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife owl.li/UubkR
  • How to start planning when you’d really rather not owl.li/Uu3W0
  • 50 Brilliant Science Fiction Movies That Everyone Should See At Least Once owl.li/Uu80C
  • A History Of Insane Art Prices owl.li/UwsOj
  • What designers need to know about copyright ownership owl.li/Uu6OA
  • Gorgeous: Ed Fairborn's map portraits. owl.li/UtySt
  • Comic Sans, Helvetica & Times New Roman: A Brief History of 6 Iconic Fonts owl.li/UtwUg
  • The Gene Hackers: A powerful new technology enables us to manipulate our DNA more easily than ever before. owl.li/UqFxO
  • Highlights from Google's Design Conference owl.li/UtwJj
  • The Genetic Reason Why Some People Are Born To Travel All Over The World owl.li/UnVn3
  • How Is Paper Made? Take a Factory Tour owl.li/UtwwX
  • Researcher Misses Out on Grant Because of Calibri/Arial Font Dustup owl.li/UnS1T
  • Idea Sex: How New Yorker Cartoonists Generate 500 Ideas a Week owl.li/UtvZB
  • Google Cardboard: Novelty or Useful? | Poynter. owl.li/UtVOd
  • UK gov’t promises all homes will have legal right to 10Mbps broadband by 2020 owl.li/UqRt4
  • Find Out What The ‘Most Popular Colors Of 2015’ Are - DesignTAXI.com owl.li/UnS1h
  • According to This 1919 Writing Guide, There Are Only 37 Possible Stories smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/191…
  • ◉ The new economics of entertainment owl.li/UicJs
  • The Importance of Face-to-Face Conversation | The Art of Manliness owl.li/Un82b
  • The Real-World Locations of 14 Sci-Fi Dystopias owl.li/UnRWT
  • David Foster Wallace on Why You Should Use a Dictionary, How to Write a Great Opener, and the... owl.li/Un819
  • This Library-Themed Tokyo Hotel Lets You Sleep Next to 1,700 Books owl.li/UnRVY
  • Science Tackles Very Important Question: What’s The Best Cheese For A Gooey Grilled Cheese Sandwich? owl.li/Ulabn
  • Paper bird sculptures by artist Diana Beltran Herrera owl.li/UnRTi
  • Photo Essay: Your Cup Of Coffee Is Ready For Its Closeup owl.li/UnRRQ
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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 Brain, The Faulty Walnut

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The School of Life: 

Our minds are made up of some of the most impressive matter in the universe. But they are also profoundly flawed machines, whose weaknesses we should be well aware of. We like to call them 'faulty walnuts.' 
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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 Internet Lives in a Huge Hotel in Manhattan

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A great photo series by Taylor Glascock in Wired, showing the very real places that make the internet and the cloud:

Garritano always knew the Internet is as much a place as it is a thing, one where vast networks in frigid rooms move enormous amounts of data around the world. But he didn’t have a real understanding of how all that info moves from one place to another, and he wanted to find out. He’s spent the last few months doing just that, shooting at five “carrier hotels” where many networks converge to form a single, larger network. That’s why they called it the Internet. It allows an unlimited number of different networks to come together as one.

 

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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.

How the Metaphor of “the Cloud” Changed Our Attitude Toward the Internet

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Hua Hsu review "A Prehistory of the Cloud" for The New Yorker:

Around 2010, casual Internet users were introduced to the idea that the digital world around them could be understood in terms of the “cloud.” As a metaphor, the cloud seems easy to grasp: our data is somewhere in the ether, floating, drifting and wireless, available wherever and whenever we need it. It carries hints of childhood wonder; the term is evocative because it is the opposite of the hard, material world of plugs and cables, disk drives and superhighways. But the thing about a cloud, Tung-Hui Hu reminds us in his mesmerizing new book, “A Prehistory of the Cloud,” is that you can only see it from a distance. How did we come to place our faith in a symbol that is so ephemeral—all vapor and crystal? “Like the inaudible hum of the electrical grid at 60 hertz, the cloud is silent, in the background, and almost unnoticeable.” What might we learn if we try to trace its mellow outline against the sky?

 

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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 Week's Links: November 13, 2015

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ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Science Tackles Very Important Question: What’s The Best Cheese For A Gooey Grilled Cheese Sandwich? owl.li/Ulabn
  • Paper bird sculptures by artist Diana Beltran Herrera owl.li/UnRTi
  • Photo Essay: Your Cup Of Coffee Is Ready For Its Closeup owl.li/UnRRQ
  • Science Tackles Very Important Question: What’s The Best Cheese For A Gooey Grilled Cheese Sandwich? owl.li/Ula9F
  • 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest, Part II owl.li/Ula48
  • ◉ David Lynch on Finding Ideas owl.li/UicAu
  • How one of the most obese countries on earth took on the soda giants owl.li/Ul9cF
  • All 300-plus languages spoken in American homes, and the number of people who speak them owl.li/Ula0f
  • Nonprofit theaters are attracting more donors, but audiences keep shrinking, report says owl.li/Ul45Z
  • Companies Are Attacking Consumers For Bad Reviews — Now Congress Wants To Step In owl.li/Ul9zl
  • A Tale of 11 Cities: New Data-Driven Assessment of the Nonprofit Arts Sector owl.li/Ul3Wj
  • Starbucks’ Grande Plan: Selling Coffee via Apps owl.li/Ul9v8
  • College Students Aren’t The Only Ones Abusing Adderall owl.li/Ul9mr
  • What We Owe the MythBusters owl.li/UkZEG
  • Gene editing saves girl dying from leukaemia in world first owl.li/UkZlK
  • ◉ Inside the Library of Human Imagination owl.li/UickS
  • 3 Tips On Designing For VR, From Google owl.li/UkN37
  • C.S. Lewis on how to be original. owl.li/UkZ0C
  • 5 Brilliant TED Talks That Will Boost Your Emotional Intelligence owl.li/UimjL
  • Steal Strategies by @austinkleonowl.li/UkYSM
  • Here’s Why the Spectacle of Holiday Windows Is Still Crucial for Brands owl.li/Uim8z
  • NASA just saw something come out of a black hole for the first time ever owl.li/UkNhd
  • A breakthrough new kind of wireless Internet owl.li/UkN5P
  • Brian Eno Lists the Benefits of Singing: A Long Life, Increased Intelligence, and a Sound Civilization owl.li/Uile4
  • After the Snowden Revelations, Did We Change Our Behavior on the Internet? owl.li/Uijj1
  • ◉ Life in HD owl.li/Uic0G
  • Type Detail: resources about learning typography. owl.li/UihLk
  • TV Networks turn to neuroscience to commercialise viewers owl.li/UiiNw
  • Pantone: How the world authority on color became a pop culture icon owl.li/UihCk
  • Facebook Breathes Some Common Sense into Artificial-Intelligence Systems | MIT Technology Review owl.li/UiiDi
  • A New Documentary Unearths Lost Taped Interview with Legendary Art Patron Peggy Guggenheim owl.li/UihyZ
  • "Note And Vote": How Google Ventures Avoids Groupthink In Meetings owl.li/UtBfs
  • CRISPR Gene Editing to Be Tested on People by 2017, Says Editas owl.li/Uiivu
  • How do you pick the 50 best restaurants in the world? owl.li/Uii9r
  • This Marine Biologist Photographs Rare, Otherworldly Oceanic Creatures owl.li/Ui5tM
  • See A Daily Portrait Of Earth, In Real Time owl.li/Ui4Ga
  • ◉ On Deadlines owl.li/UibU9
  • 4K NASA video lets you see the sun in a new light owl.li/Ufwmx
  • A Facebook Designer Reveals How Her Favorite Objects Inspire The Site's Design owl.li/Ui4BZ
  • The Guggenheim Launches Its First Ever Online Exhibition owl.li/UfeQc
  • The evolution of music: How genres rise and fall over time owl.li/Ui4sh
  • Researchers Observe That a Group of Ants Collectively Behave With Properties Similar to Both Solids and Liquids owl.li/U9p4h
  • ◉ Anil Dash: Share Your Values and You'll Share Success - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/11/9…
  • Liverpool Just Opened Fast-Walking Pedestrian Lanes owl.li/Ui3TF
  • Photographer Dan Cretu Whips Up Tiny Sculptures Made From Food Scraps owl.li/Ui5Ia
  • Vintage photos of NYC from the 50s to the 80s owl.li/Ufwsi
  • The Science of Scotch: What’s the difference between Scotch and bourbon, and where does the smokiness come from? owl.li/U95xW
  • A Flight to the Top of the Most Powerful Hurricane Ever owl.li/U92bL
  • These Instagrammers Show Us What The Vatican Looks Like When It's Completely Empty owl.li/U6WsK
  • The Bicentennial of George Boole, the Man Who Laid the Foundations of the Digital Age owl.li/U91u8
  • How Tourism Shaped Photography in 19th Century Japan smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how…
  • Legendary Inventor Inks Deal to Test ‘Personal’ Cell Networks owl.li/U91r6
  • The Incredible Treasures Found Inside the 'Griffin Warrior' Tomb owl.li/U6Wh6
  • Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age - The New York Times owl.li/U8LUQ
  • Can a typeface make a product appear more expensive? owl.li/U9niZ
  • This is a very good proposal: Twitter Rooms. owl.li/UnVEx
  • Watch a documentary that follows high school girls solving the world's problems through code owl.li/U8GHp
  • Google Turning Its Lucrative Web Search Over to AI Machines owl.li/U6kNr
  • The lab that knows where your time really goes owl.li/U6jmZ
  • Science is not a ‘body of knowledge’ – it’s a dynamic, ongoing reconfiguration of knowledge and must be free to... owl.li/U6dEt
  • Weather on Demand: Making It Rain Is Now a Global Business owl.li/U6hVB
  • Taxonomy of the 37 basic silent-film plots owl.li/U6duU
  • Facebook’s Quest to Quash Boredom by Moving Beyond Friends owl.li/U6hSI
  • Michelangelo and Raphael; Leibniz and Newton; Constable and Turner. Does every creative genius need a bitter rival? owl.li/U6dsA
  • Seaweed could be a miracle food—if we can figure out how to make it taste good. owl.li/U6dXS
  • Hiker Accidentally Discovers 1,200-Year-Old Viking Sword in Norway smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/whi…
  • ‘Star Wars’ Doesn’t Belong to George Lucas. It Belongs to the Fans. owl.li/U6dNe
  • The Steal Like An Artist Journal Talk owl.li/U6cNf
  • Mr. Rogers Goes to Congress and Saves PBS: Heartwarming Video from 1969 owl.li/U6cAn
  • ◉ Questions owl.li/U5wJ2
  • 30,000 Works of Art by Edvard Munch & Other Artists Put Online by Norway’s National Museum of Art owl.li/U6cvi
  • Stream the Complete Works of Bach & Beethoven: 250 Free Hours of Music owl.li/U6cyP
  • Musician Plays Signature Drum Parts of 71 Beatles Songs in 5 Minutes: A Whirlwind Tribute owl.li/U6cqw
  • Stephen King Creates a List of 82 Books for Aspiring Writers (to Supplement an Earlier List of 96 Recommend Books) owl.li/U6cxq
  • Scientists Grow Living, Aging Neurons Starting with Skin Cells | MIT Technology Review owl.li/U6cee
  • Twitch launches a new hub where users can watch artists as they work owl.li/U6cZl
  • Watch “The Poetry of Perception”: Harvard Animates Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson & William... owl.li/U6cwt
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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.