The Week's Links: December 11, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

• Hexagons! And other reasons to love math owl.li/VCJAa
• Why rejection hurts so much -- and what to do about it owl.li/VCJsF
• ◉ Penguin Classics team up with (RED) for typographic covers owl.li/VxZWW
• The Best Movie Posters of 2015 on Notebook owl.li/VzOcm
• Brainstorm Questions, Not Solutions owl.li/VAdbO
• After 4 Decades in the C-3PO Suit, Anthony Daniels Is Star Wars’ Most Special Effect of All owl.li/VzCpx
• Google Dance Aims To Take Viewers Anywhere In The (Dance) World owl.li/VzYzu
• What Happens on a Typical Day in the Ultimate Movie Library — ART & SCIENCE owl.li/VzCk3
• Ad Age's 2015 Marketer A-List owl.li/VzTB8
• Stanley Kubrick’s typography owl.li/VzOTz
• Martin Scorsese Creates a List of 39 Essential Foreign Films for a Young Filmmaker owl.li/Vydgx
• How Twitching Frog Legs Helped Inspire 'Frankenstein' owl.li/VydfX
• ◉ Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" owl.li/VxZT7
• Europeans Only Started Digesting Dairy 4,000 Years Ago owl.li/Vyd9q
• How Many People Can You Remember? owl.li/VydeW
• Big Cable’s Sledgehammer Is Coming Down — Backchannel owl.li/Vyd89
• Why Even Experts Fall for Art Forgery owl.li/Vydep
• This 200-Year-Old Jeweled Caterpillar Crawls Using Clockwork owl.li/Vyd6n
• Vintage Footage Shows a Young, Unknown Patti Smith & Robert Mapplethorpe Living at the Famed Chelsea Hotel (1970) owl.li/Vydc5
• The Shadow - A hundred years of Orson Welles owl.li/VydbA
• Life Will Never Be as Perfect as These Éclairs - Bon Appétit owl.li/Vyd5v
• Chuck Jones’ Rules for Writing Road Runner Cartoons owl.li/Vyd4t
• ◉ Paula Scher on Failure owl.li/VxZQc
• How A Stage Design Legend Creates Sets For Beyonce, Lady Gaga, And Bruno Mars owl.li/Vy1F0
• A Five-Step Process To End Overthinking owl.li/Vyagb
• Packing up to preserve a musical treasure owl.li/Vy0SQ
• A Five-Step Process To End Overthinking owl.li/Vya97
• Single Artificial Neuron Taught to Recognize Hundreds of Patterns | MIT Technology Review owl.li/Vy0E9
• British Rail Reissues Its Iconic Midcentury Graphic Standards Manuals owl.li/Vy2wX
• Is This The Most Technologically Advanced Book Ever Published? owl.li/Vy2vg
• The digital revolution in higher education has already happened. No one noticed. owl.li/Vy0AV
• The New Intimacy Economy — Thoughts on Media owl.li/Vy0zb
• ◉ Great Designers Steal by Jeff Veen owl.li/VxZMM
• Search Engine Censys Knows the Internet’s Dirty Little Security Secrets | MIT Technology Review owl.li/Vx0a0
• New Horizons Just Sent the Sharpest Pluto Photos It Can Get owl.li/VxXH4
• How the Guy Behind Fallout 4 Builds His Epic Dream Worlds owl.li/VwVbK
• ‘Outsiders’ Crack a 50-Year-Old Math Problem owl.li/VxXFT
• The MIT Media Lab was the birthplace of many of the biggest innovations of the last thirty years owl.li/VwV5v
• The MIT Media Lab was the birthplace of many of the biggest innovations of the last thirty years owl.li/VxPTO
• A Bandage That Glows to Warn of the Presence of Bacterial Invaders | MIT Technology Review owl.li/Vx0bH
• Everything You Need to Know About CRISPR Gene Editing’s Monster Year owl.li/VrZ5Z
• New Books By Dead Authors Have Become A Big Business owl.li/VroVH
• Best resources to learn typography owl.li/VrmGS
• Evolution of the bicycle owl.li/VrnL3
• 'Star Wars' Strikes Back: Behind the Scenes of the Biggest Movie of the Year owl.li/VrfZs
• Space miniatures owl.li/VrnFS
• What to leave out and what to leave in owl.li/Vrc2m
• 58 commonly misused words and phrases owl.li/VrnBo
• Sharing ideas at massive scale owl.li/Vvfr0
• Feast Your Eyes On The Most Beautiful Data Visualizations Of 2015 owl.li/VrmPg
• Who Makes the Rules for Outer Space? — NOVA Next | PBS owl.li/Vr72m
• The Best Space Photos Of The Month owl.li/Voq6V
• You'll Never Guess What The First Thing Ever Sold On The Internet Was owl.li/ViF4H
• Genetic editing: Crispr Is Getting Better. Now It’s Time to Ask the Hard Ethical Questions owl.li/Vm7JY
• Solar or Coal? The Energy India Picks May Decide Earth's Fate | WIRED owl.li/ViD6j
• A deadly banana fungus is now threatening some of the world's main banana-growing centers - Quartz owl.li/Vl8ON
• 7 TED Talks to help you find your purpose owl.li/VeWis
• Artificial Intelligence Aims to Make Wikipedia Friendlier and Better owl.li/Vl10S
• Are Confident People More Productive? owl.li/Vraie
• How You Record Ideas May Impact Creativity owl.li/ViFEE
• How Plastic Injection Works, And What's So Brilliant About LEGO's Design owl.li/Vep6L
• The Good Sides of Work owl.li/VeluT
• ◉ Ken Robinson Talks About How To Be In Your Element owl.li/VdCqC
• David Lynch Directs a Mini-Season of Twin Peaks in the Form of Japanese Coffee Commercials owl.li/Vee8J
• David Lynch Teaches You to Cook His Quinoa Recipe in a Weird, Surrealist Video owl.li/Vedlt
• Beautiful, Color Photographs of Paris Taken 100 Years Ago—at the Beginning of World War I & the End of La Belle... owl.li/Vee6E
• How Many Steps a Day Should You Really Walk? owl.li/VedjA
• John Cleese Touts the Value of Philosophy in 22 Public Service Announcements for the American... owl.li/Vee0p
• The history of board games, from morality to Monopoly to Cards Against Humanity - Timeline owl.li/Vez5Z
• Travel Back in Time and See Picasso Make Abstract Art owl.li/VedUI

The Week's Links: December 4, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

• How Plastic Injection Works, And What's So Brilliant About LEGO's Design owl.li/Vep6L
• The Good Sides of Work owl.li/VeluT
• ◉ Ken Robinson Talks About How To Be In Your Element owl.li/VdCqC
• David Lynch Directs a Mini-Season of Twin Peaks in the Form of Japanese Coffee Commercials owl.li/Vee8J
• David Lynch Teaches You to Cook His Quinoa Recipe in a Weird, Surrealist Video owl.li/Vedlt
• Beautiful, Color Photographs of Paris Taken 100 Years Ago—at the Beginning of World War I & the End of La Belle... owl.li/Vee6E
• How Many Steps a Day Should You Really Walk? owl.li/VedjA
• John Cleese Touts the Value of Philosophy in 22 Public Service Announcements for the American... owl.li/Vee0p
• The history of board games, from morality to Monopoly to Cards Against Humanity - Timeline owl.li/Vez5Z
• Travel Back in Time and See Picasso Make Abstract Art owl.li/VedUI
• So Apparently There Are 4 Kinds of Introversion owl.li/Vedbm
• 25 Possible New Extinctions: Hawaiian Plants, Madagascar Orchids, Chilean Water Frog owl.li/Ved9e
• ◉ Kill bad meetings in 9 easy steps owl.li/VdCef
• JK Rowling meets Lauren Laverne: ‘Success never feels the way you think it will’ owl.li/Veb9x
• Digging into the floor of the North Sea to map the terrain and DNA of a sunken country owl.li/Ve8K2
• 101 Facts About Pixar owl.li/Ve9u1
• ◉ Why Work Is so Much Easier than Love - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/11/2…
• Online collection of digitized wax cylinder recordings owl.li/VdDjy
• Why Every Man Should Study Classical Culture owl.li/Ve8XM
• What Americans can learn from other food cultures owl.li/Vedhm
• How Humans Ended Up With Freakishly Huge Brains owl.li/Ve8Pa
• 11 years of Saturn photos from the Cassini probe owl.li/VdDgS
• Fire tornado in super slow motion owl.li/VdDcG
• ◉ The World Through the Eyes of a Transmedia Generation owl.li/VdC9y
• Lucas on the Star Wars divorce owl.li/VdD9R
• Einstein’s first proof owl.li/VdCSB
• Your Creative Calendar: 57 Things To Do, See, And Hear This December owl.li/VosMe
• A final test of relativity owl.li/VdD74
• How The Internet* Talks owl.li/VdCQq
• ◉ Know When to Stop Checking Your Phone and Go to Sleep - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/11/2…
• The Strange Science of the Placebo owl.li/VdD1I
• CRISPR, a cheap and accurate copy/paste for DNA owl.li/VdDhh
• 7 Things That Happen When You Go To Space owl.li/VdCZi
• Abandoned Olympic Venues from Around the World owl.li/VdCvf
• The Most Beautiful Bookstore On Earth owl.li/VdBmM
• Adobe is telling people to stop using Flash owl.li/Vm6Tu
• ◉ The Evolution of Storytelling - A TEDx Talk by Sean Stewart owl.li/VdC2Q
• Why Orson Welles lived a life like no other owl.li/Vdg5Q
• The Birth And Death Of Privacy: 3,000 Years of History Told Through 46 Images — The Ferenstein Wire owl.li/VdBkm
• Researchers are now 90 percent sure King Tut's tomb has a hidden chamber owl.li/Vdg54
• 16 Different Ways Designers Think About Money owl.li/VdAM2
• ◉ Alex Blumberg: Your Best Selling Points Are the Mistakes You've Made - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/11/2…
• A brief history of tap dance (and why it’s still a great art form) owl.li/Vd75w
• My journey to yo-yo mastery owl.li/Vdg6T
• You Can Now Explore the Ruins of Petra on Google Street View owl.li/Vdg6D
• Why creativity should not be measured owl.li/Vd6NZ
• 34 Of The Most Beautiful Book Covers Of 2015 owl.li/Vd6LB
• ◉ Playing Chess With Kubrick owl.li/VdBZQ
• Are We Entering the End of the Specialist Era? owl.li/Vd34k
• Inspiration needs action: Tobias Van Schneider on taking creative risks owl.li/Vd6GW
• The gorgeous, transforming buildings of Tom Kundig owl.li/Vd2UC
• The secret history of spots, stripes and other everyday patterns owl.li/Vd6D9
• ◉ Learning to Deal With the Impostor Syndrome - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/11/2…
• Twenty Predictions For The Next 20 Years owl.li/Vd2Jc
• Reading Design is an online archive of critical writing about design. owl.li/Vd6x7
• Mark Henry Phillips takes a cinematic approach to mixing and composing for the popular podcast Serial. owl.li/Vd6Z2
• How the Clouds Got Their Names owl.li/Vd6j4
• ◉ Recommended: The True History of Chocolate - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
• A Stunning Art Installation Built With 6000 Bulbs To Resemble A Life-Sized Cloud - DesignTAXI.com owl.li/Vd21q
• If Daniel Kahneman Had a Magic Wand He’d Rid the Human Race of Overconfidence owl.li/Vd1TN
• What Do America’s Top Chefs Cook for Thanksgiving? owl.li/V7Jxg
• First Reusable Rocket Launched and Landed Safely Back on Earth owl.li/VbGZG
• Hunger Makes You Crave More Than Food owl.li/V7JwD
• “Everything Was Completely Destroyed”: What It Was Like to Work at Sony After the Hack owl.li/VbF7o
• Crows Remember Who Wronged Them owl.li/V7Juf
• The Physics of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons owl.li/V7Jyz
• The Future Of Archaeology Is Not Digging Anything Up owl.li/Vd2Hb
• Crazy About Alice: I Made Tiny Paper-Cuts Inspired By “Alice In Wonderland” owl.li/V7JxR
• How Demographics Rule the Global Economy - WSJ owl.li/V7HJn
• This Vaccine Can Protect You From Anthrax—After Exposure owl.li/V7Hs4
• Kyle Abraham, Choreographer on the Move owl.li/V7H9K
• 6 designers tell us how they'd make air travel less terrible owl.li/V7HqM
• I Let IBM’s Robot Chef Tell Me What to Cook for a Week — How We Get To Next owl.li/V7GQR
• The Bankrupt Irishman Who Created the Dollar Sign by Accident owl.li/V7HmY
• China Is Building the World’s Largest Animal Cloning Facility — How We Get To Next owl.li/V7GOL
• Privacy On The Internet? What’s The Reasonable Expectation? owl.li/V7Hjw
• Demographic Destiny: What Will the World Be Like in 2050? owl.li/V7HMV
• Gulfstream Pictures Dancing With George Balanchine Biopic owl.li/V7HcQ
• Teaching Grownups How to Eat - The New Yorker owl.li/V7GvU
• Data Mining Reveals How Smiling Evolved During a Century of Yearbook Photos | MIT Technology Review owl.li/V7CJq
• ◉ Playing Chess with Kubrick owl.li/UVHI6
• The Latest Breakthrough In Understanding Diabetes Was Made By An Algorithm owl.li/V28mU
• How General Electric Created The Hit Science-Fiction Podcast "The Message" owl.li/V7CGG
• People Who Grow Up Dancing Are Happier, Less Stressed And Smarter owl.li/V1WFe
• 9 Things You Didn't Know About Frank Gehry owl.li/V7Czy
• Men’s and Women’s Brains Appear to Age Differently owl.li/V1WB9
• Why Do Magicians Have Assistants? owl.li/V2HJM
• How Modern Art And Design Influenced The Beloved Cartoon Tintin owl.li/V28qK

Why Work Is so Much Easier than Love

The Book of Life, from A School of Life begins an essay on work and love this way: 

We’re a culture that’s highly attuned to what’s beautiful and moving about love; we know its high points and celebrate its ecstasies in films and songs. By comparison, work is the dull, tedious bit – the thing we have to do to pay the bills. And yet what’s striking is how often work, despite its lack of glamour, in fact turns out to be the easier, more enjoyable and ultimately more humane part of life.

Know When to Stop Checking Your Phone and Go to Sleep

By now we’ve all heard the importance of getting enough sleep. Yet many of us let our technology sabotage us getting a good night’s rest. Research has found that anxiety, due to fear of missing out, plays a major role in how we (mis)use our devices. A majority of smartphone users feel uncomfortable if they aren’t in direct contact with their phones 24/7/365, even waking up to check their phones at night. To reduce your nighttime anxiety and get the sleep you need, practice not reacting to your phone’s notifications. Simply don’t check your phone every time it beeps. Try to check your phone only every 15 minutes, then every 30 minutes, then every hour. Once you build up your tolerance, try not checking your phone at all at night. Or if you’re still struggling, keep your phone outside your bedroom at night. It’s unlikely you’re missing something that important.

Source: Adapted from “Relax, Turn Off Your Phone, and Go to Sleep,” by Larry Rosen

Alex Blumberg: Your Best Selling Points Are the Mistakes You've Made

Startups often have "creation myths" about their early days. But real life is much messier than that. To prove this, former This American Life producer Alex Blumberg recorded nearly every painstaking moment in creating his new podcasting company, Gimlet Media. With plenty of audio examples, Blumberg highlights the ups and downs of turning your creative art into a business, culminating in a cringe-worthy pitch to a venture capitalist.

"The story that you tell, it's like you're killing it all the time," says Blumberg. "But deep inside every single person who has ever tried to start a business, I'm sure, has had a pitch like that—if not worse."