The Fascinating Sonic Illusion That Makes Christopher Nolan's Movies So Tense
/Why Christopher Nolan is obsessed with Shepard tones.
Learning: The Week's Links
/ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:
- Everyone Loves Jim Henson, But Few Understand The Scope Of His Creative Genius owl.li/sT7c30dWf5Y
- The winners of the 2016 50 Books/50 Covers competition owl.li/vFuB30dW3V1
- Inside Cuba's DIY Internet Revolution owl.li/GY5Y30dW6Mz
- How to Be an Inspiring Leader owl.li/QXhr30dW3FN
- First Facebook TV Episodes Said to Be Ready for Mid-August owl.li/qAXh30dW6jp
- Advice to the Young from Astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Who Discovered the Composition of the Universe owl.li/6c0f30dW33q
- A Rare Look At One Of MoMA’s First Design Shows owl.li/tyTO30dWfEK
- The Alternative to Thinking All the Time owl.li/fed930dW5uk
- Google Spent 2 Years Studying 180 Teams. The Most Successful Ones Shared These 5 Traits owl.li/jQNa30dW4aN
- Magical, Striking Scenes From ... Google Street View? owl.li/zWkS30dUefk
- Dive Into a Galaxy of Footage From NASA's Legendary X-Plane Program owl.li/xxwr30dUe0J
- A Rather Comprehensive Collection of Design Podcasts owl.li/Xh7830dTXvd
- Reclaiming Billboards to Promote Public Art owl.li/PjFq30dUciC
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum OOH ads | Communication Arts owl.li/4aBv30dTXqz
- What will misinformation look like in 2030 (and will we be better at spotting it by then)? owl.li/fhvy30dTZEq
- 40 hours (and counting) of relaxing Planet Earth II sounds owl.li/UDho30dTRnn
- Coolness: a cultural, social and literary history owl.li/7Gsb30dTYnJ
- When the Selfie Turns Sacreligious owl.li/YmRo30dUh74
- Technology Is Biased Too. How Do We Fix It? owl.li/h7Af30dTXJV
- Evolution of the LEGO logo owl.li/whkf30dTPCw
- The Alternative to Thinking All the Time owl.li/FXQK30dTNEw
- Zero-G Blood and the Many Horrors of Space Surgery owl.li/QoXK30dSQuP
- Be Disciplined owl.li/suZc30dTNiP
- Marshall McLuhan Predicts That Electronic Media Will Displace the Book (1960) owl.li/cTWM30dSve2
- For Computers, Too, It’s Hard to Learn to Speak Chinese owl.li/c1mB30dTKTC
- Frida Kahlo on the Meanings of the Colors owl.li/E0hc30dSv5Y
- The 1970s Design Manual That Quietly Shaped Everything You Use Today owl.li/69tK30dTKGN
- The winners of the Magnum Photography Awards 2017 owl.li/Ph2d30dTR80
- Getting it right: why infographics are not the same as data visualizations owl.li/DQhS30dTKDn
- Testing the Internet of Things owl.li/lgxv30dSuRJ
- Robots Learn to Speak Body Language owl.li/BwJH30dSuKi
- A new digital epoch begins, Adobe announces end-if-life for Flash. (About time) owl.li/y7pD30dUGm2
- Data EthnographerThe Most Crucial Design Job Of The Future owl.li/wnmT30dRFKi
- UK to power industrial strategy with battery funding ‘revolution’ owl.li/VF2G30dSuEC
- Go Inside The ISS, The Most Expensive Structure Ever Built owl.li/G8Sc30dRFDm
- Made in Amsterdam: dissecting Dutch creativity owl.li/Vxzd30dS62Q
- Google's DeepMind AI Teaches Itself to Walk, and the Results Are Kooky, No Wait, Chilling owl.li/kDOe30dQA06
- Design Resources owl.li/e05l30dTNuq
- Disney’s Next Movie Could Be Watching You, Too owl.li/FzrH30dRG0Z
- The value of nonsense owl.li/fFoJ30dSv04
- My First Big Screw-Up: Lessons From 8 Top Designers owl.li/5cJF30dRFSb
- Einstein’s Little-Known Passion Project? A Refrigerator owl.li/dW6a30dQzIY
- The World’s Oldest Multicolor Book, a 1633 Chinese Calligraphy & Painting Manual, Now Digitized and Put Online owl.li/xdgZ30dQzGC
- The Psychology of Feeling Like You’re Being Watched owl.li/SsZl30dQpmx
- Salvador Dalí's moustache still intact, embalmer reveals after exhumation owl.li/SNxr30dQzDl
- Being Busy Permanently Reduces Your Capacity to Think Deeply and Creatively owl.li/1CkT30dQphM
- 10 ways design thinking can help you raise resourceful kids owl.li/2agw30dQzrO
- How to identify Good Design in 6 steps owl.li/pGL030dQ2ZW
- Writers dish on scoops that slipped away - Columbia Journalism Review owl.li/NKGE30dQzqi
- Three practically painless ways to expand your social network | owl.li/2yVc30dQzQx
- Explore Pingelap Island Through the Eyes of the Colorblind owl.li/nqXC30dQz0u
- NASA's Next Great X-Plane Will Try to Revolutionize Electric Flight owl.li/dCAg30dQ2NN
- Remembering Hair-Raising Landings at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Airport owl.li/pt3P30dQ2Mu
- Airports Have Gotten Insanely Complicated owl.li/Xjxk30dOXxp
- TED Playlist: How do you create new words? owl.li/AINX30dQ2IC
- Teaching Drones How To Crash Safely owl.li/zy7130dOXaE
- Anil Seth: Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality owl.li/m63130dQ2HM
- Dave Nelson: On Making Design Front and Center at Microsoft owl.li/BdbC30dOeF3
- What Really Happens Inside A Pr Crisis War Room owl.li/G8Vi30dQ2Gh
- What do Variable Fonts mean for Web Developers? owl.li/nZl530dQ2Sc
- Effortless copywriting (and why it takes sooooo much effort to get it right) owl.li/r6iD30dOXZL
- How Aristotle Invented Computer Science owl.li/S9Qp30dN8lD
- The Mad Cheese Scientists Fighting to Save the Dairy Industry owl.li/D1Qy30dMZXI
- Breaking the Rules of Composition to Create Thought-Provoking Images owl.li/jjpK30dMVuh
- Greatest Movie Props of All Time: From Lightsabers to Wilson owl.li/Demj30dMXom
- Artists’ And Architects’ Brains Work Differently owl.li/hMAa30dMVb8
- Take Back Your Weekends (and Leave the Work at Work) owl.li/MP0U30dMWO9
- How to Be a Writer on Social Media: Advice from Roxane Gay, Alexander Chee, Celeste Ng, and Adam M. Grant owl.li/rxmd30dMUXQ
- Archaeologists Discover the World’s First “Art Studio” Created in an Ethiopian Cave 43,000 Years Ago owl.li/nqpm30dN8Hb
- Watch a shape-shifting robot extend its tentacle owl.li/vTem30dMWto
- Send a Text to SFMOMA and They’ll Text You Back an Artwork owl.li/iaQc30dMVBt
- Why we dismiss negative feedback owl.li/tVqf30dMNmd
- Why online advertising is killing creativity owl.li/aGvI30dMNgg
- What Crisis Management Is Really Like owl.li/2Gez30dLl6P
- Phil Teer on the effect of automation on creative workers. owl.li/N7uf30dMNdo
- Your Brain Doesn't Contain Memories. It Is Memories owl.li/C4gX30dLkYz
- The subtle power of uncomfortable silences owl.li/aWMe30dLpd3
- How GE Built an Innovation Lab to Rapidly Prototype Appliances owl.li/g3iB30dLkXx
- Exciting, thought-provoking ideas that reimagine how we can live and work in cities owl.li/r6yl30dLmdL
- Ravens can plan for future as well as 4-year-old children can | New Scientist owl.li/s7PC30dMUii
- Buzz of drones is more annoying than any other kind of vehicle owl.li/6LLq30dLls1
Exhaustive: The Week's Links
/ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:
- Is The Big Break A Myth? 10 Designers On How One Job Can Shape Your Career owl.li/mH6K30dLe6K
- Flow is a typeface built for wireframing by Dan Ross owl.li/TJTt30dLe52
- Great Design Thinkers: Tim Brown on Design Thinking owl.li/sEzb30dKYXm
- A 4,000-Word Article About Checkers owl.li/bcj430dLc7U
- Why Needy Brands Will Never Make Great Entertainment owl.li/GR0O30dKYTG
- We Went Inside Adidas’s Top Secret Design Lab owl.li/BL7b30dLbkh
- How to identify Good Design in 6 steps owl.li/wmzU30dKYRg
- Google Search Embraces the Feed -- but Don't Call It Social owl.li/Vn0P30dLaCd
- Science: Doodling Has Real Benefits For The Brain owl.li/8Xwg30dLeek
- Great Design Thinkers: Frank Chimero on The Shape Of Design owl.li/PN2f30dKZUQ
- How stress works in the human body, to make or break us owl.li/XubC30dJeQC
- How Paula Scher works #1: On establishing a client's needs owl.li/jaVh30dJeab
- IBM Z's 'Pervasive Encryption' Wants to Stop Data Breaches in Their Tracks owl.li/3AdA30dHWBZ
- Here (with 2 Years of Exhausting Photographic Detail) Is How To Write A Book owl.li/XGDF30dIXMb
- To Truly Fake Intelligence, Chatbots Need To Be Able To Change Your Mind owl.li/s2sd30dHWdJ
- Silence is a space for something new to happen owl.li/ouXV30dITME
- ◉ Where Do Ideas Come From? - smartercreativity.com/blog/2017/7/19…
- Stream a Playlist of Charles Dickens Stories, Featuring Classic Recordings by Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles & More owl.li/mPEt30dHfEg
- In Search of… The Best Design Bookstores owl.li/SGwi30dIQYX
- Inside Google’s Slow-Mo Virtual Reality Moonshot owl.li/Jbom30dJeYo
- Chicago's Field Museum Uses Your Voice to Make Its Exhibits Come Alive owl.li/LxoV30dIJAr
- Neil Grimmer: Shout Your Ideas From the Mountaintop owl.li/8Kf430dHfm6
- How to solve problems, from an inventor with 200+ patents | owl.li/gMW130dHf8Z
- Can These Innovative Journalism Projects Find The Future Of News? owl.li/LIxx30dFHro
- The two strategies companies need to use to innovate | owl.li/WZWr30dHf4w
- The Theatre Industry Needs to Start Awarding Free Theatre Licensing to Low Income Schools owl.li/XHGl30dFvu4
- RSC to introduce ‘chilled performances' allowing audience noise owl.li/dgfm30dHesz
- Power of the Mind: You Can Play This Instrument Using Just Your Thoughts owl.li/O6r530dFvsj
- Download 200+ Belle Époque Art Posters: An Archive of Masterpieces from the “Golden Age of the Poster” (1880-1918) owl.li/fFHP30dHfAs
- Meet the International Space Station’s adorable camera drone owl.li/bUz530dHe6B
- Science: Doodling Has Real Benefits For The Brain owl.li/5Gbx30dH3H4
- How stress works in the human body, to make or break us owl.li/icwE30dFvmc
- The Women Who Built the New York Art World, from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney to Peggy Guggenheim owl.li/AJRA30dFtPo
- Teleportation: Photon particles today, humans tomorrow? owl.li/XDYN30dFsaP
- What is the point of intermissions. owl.li/gXKV30dFthl
- TED Playlist: Life lessons from writers owl.li/EsiS30dEWa3
- Kurt Vonnegut Walks Into a Bar. How the legendary writer handled his Scotch and his fans. owl.li/T7Go30dFsQT
- Manu Prakash: Lifesaving scientific tools made of paper owl.li/aBs130dEW9n
- 10 Best Podcasts, According to Health Experts owl.li/vAGd30dFstA
- When Stress Makes You Fall Asleep owl.li/gdRT30dFvnY
- 43 Embarrassing Grammar Mistakes Even Smart People Make owl.li/Foev30dFsfQ
- Don’t Tell The Kids, But Bedtime Is A Social Construct owl.li/lmCD30dEVTj
- LISTEN: 12 podcasts that explore the human side of tech owl.li/4ua830dEVPU
- See All the 2017 Emmy Nominees for Outstanding Commercial owl.li/yyK330dDJHg
- I attend, therefore I am. You are only as strong as your powers of attention owl.li/7yoR30dEVFA
- The Netflix Prize: How a $1 Million Coding Contest Changed Streaming owl.li/HymZ30dDJuV
- Disney’s Star Wars Theme Park Attraction Is the Next Worldbuilding Frontier owl.li/AJYE30dEVy7
- How Pentagram’s Paula Scher Defines Success owl.li/hRtp30dDAfw
- You Won’t Live to See the Final Star Wars Movie owl.li/PNUr30dEVrx
- The daredevil, his helicopter, the risk of flying too high, and the birth of modern news. owl.li/nqHW30dEW53
- AI Is Inventing Languages Humans Can’t Understand. Should We Stop It? owl.li/twLD30dDSZw
- Who Killed The Encyclopedia? owl.li/M4YB30dDeqx
- Gallery: The art and science of museum dioramas owl.li/DGjV30dC9KR
- A Real-Life Education in Protecting Your Creative Work In a Digital Age owl.li/dQUa30dC5xW
- Meet the genius scientist transforming the world — on a shoestring | owl.li/ikUB30dC9IX
- Self-Driving Ambulances And Augmented Reality Crime Scenes: Welcome To The Future Of First Response owl.li/C88Q30dC5oF
- If You Get Your Face Scanned the Next Time You Fly, Here’s What You Should Know - MIT Technology Review owl.li/rVym30dC72c
- Henry Blodget: We’re “deeply underestimating how big digital media can be” in the next decade» Nieman Journalism Lab owl.li/pRPQ30dC59h
- Study of 16 Countries Shows That the Most Productive Firms (and Their Employees) Are Pulling Away from Everyone Else owl.li/ReJh30dDlWb
- Scientists Used CRISPR to Put a GIF Inside a Living Organism’s DNA - MIT Technology Review owl.li/wv8r30dC6Xm
- 60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed owl.li/bjsQ30dC6TF
- Pastries Like You've Never Seen Before by Dinara Kasko owl.li/QtSA30dC3v6
- The Ultimate Army Field Guide to Wild Edible Plants owl.li/aONa30dC3g2
- How we invented a new way to teach one of the most difficult languages to learn | Making Duolingo Blog owl.li/2cBg30dC2mR
- National Geographic's Chasing Genius: One idea can change the world. Let it be yours. owl.li/E2S630dC2Wq
- 6 Digital Storytelling Lessons from Pottermore owl.li/GwrF30dC1Q4
- 10 UX Designers to Follow on Instagram for Inspiration owl.li/CduU30dC2NU
- Why Shakespeare Is the Perfect Beach Read owl.li/2JFi30dBxUo
- More than 80,000 Vintage Sewing Patterns on Vintage Patterns Wiki owl.li/4omN30dC3G4
- The Appeal of the Dark Side of Fairy Tales owl.li/AOpy30dBNyP
- What I Wish I Knew at Every Age owl.li/ufTZ30dC2qn
Where Do Ideas Come From?
/A short film about the mysteries of inspiration. Featuring thoughts on the subject by: David Lynch Robert Krulwich Chuck Close Tracy Clayton & Heben Nigatu Ray Barbee Lulu Miller Susan Orlean and a couple of kids named Mason and Ursula Presented by www.transom.org With funding from The National Endowment for the Arts For more about this video, visit: http://transom.org/2017/where-do-ideas-come-from/
Interfaces: The Week's Links
/ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:
- 6 Digital Storytelling Lessons from Pottermore owl.li/GwrF30dC1Q4
- 10 UX Designers to Follow on Instagram for Inspiration owl.li/CduU30dC2NU
- Why Shakespeare Is the Perfect Beach Read owl.li/2JFi30dBxUo
- More than 80,000 Vintage Sewing Patterns on Vintage Patterns Wiki owl.li/4omN30dC3G4
- The Appeal of the Dark Side of Fairy Tales owl.li/AOpy30dBNyP
- What I Wish I Knew at Every Age owl.li/ufTZ30dC2qn
- The internet is f-ed (again) Why does this keep happening? owl.li/RHCz30dAohx
- Scientists Inject Ferrets' Brains With Rabies to Study ... Vision? owl.li/Hr4430dAnXy
- How Well Do You Know The Typography Of Rock ‘N’ Roll? owl.li/o2rC30dxOdr
- The 25 Best Ads of 2017 (So Far) owl.li/8Vnp30dAnRG
- 7 Leading Designers Describe The First Time They Got Rejected owl.li/Vrre30dxN80
- Evolution of the LEGO logo owl.li/x6Wt30dzmJZ
- Unlocking the Secrets Behind the Hummingbird's Frenzy owl.li/bOSv30dxN1x
- Are you smarter than a pigeon? owl.li/63L830dxRRy
- ‘Game of Thrones’ Is the Last Piece of TV Monoculture owl.li/jFXZ30dAovI
- The Frank Lloyd Wright Project History Conveniently Forgot owl.li/b1kO30dxOg9
- 3 big benefits of talking to yourself owl.li/EZ4g30dxKLH
- U.S. to Fund Advanced Brain-Computer Interfaces - MIT Technology Review owl.li/SKDP30dxJn7
- The Three-Step Process That’s Kept 3M Innovative For Decades owl.li/1dWA30dxA3f
- Microsoft’s Rural Broadband Solution: TV ‘White Space’ - WSJ owl.li/VOJa30dxJf3
- Strange Noise in Gravitational-Wave Data Sparks Debate owl.li/FuJW30dwuuM
- Your Best Teammate Might Someday Be an Algorithm - MIT Technology Review owl.li/EMwH30dxJ7n
- 11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies' Archive of Americana Architecture: Download, Use & Re-Mix owl.li/jJHJ30dw70p
- The Many Ways Thomas Campbell Transformed The Met owl.li/JMjQ30dxFCb
- This Is Why Your Brain Sucks At Time Management owl.li/L1tJ30dxMth
- Abbi Jacobson’s New Podcast Will Make You Feel Less Stupid About Modern Art owl.li/nWz030dxA7s
- This Is How To Write A Follow-Up Email That’s Not Annoying owl.li/jKbK30dvekq
- Mighty AI and the Human Army Using Phones to Teach AI to Drive | WIRED owl.li/KoZ530dvdLv
- How Instagram Learns From Your Likes To Keep You Hooked owl.li/lXDy30dtqTC
- Crispr Patent-Holders Move Toward Easing Access to Gene-Editing Technology - WSJ owl.li/BmUr30dvdGY
- Miami’s New Science Museum Teaches With Architecture owl.li/WLSE30ds5XZ
- Artists’ And Architects’ Brains Work Differently owl.li/3EF430dvdEl
- Scientifically Speaking, Your PowerPoint Sucks owl.li/P0Zx30ds5Up
- How I Managed to Design the Most Successful Educational Computer Game of All Time owl.li/gFeJ30dv6SZ
- What Makes A Good Data Visualization? — Information is Beautiful owl.li/Ar1630dw6Zo
- Why Roman concrete still stands strong while modern version decays owl.li/JWCb30dtLQT
- The Invention of the Slinky owl.li/lFpb30drV7L
- Six Productivity Experts Share How To Actually Get Work Done During The Summer owl.li/ukMB30drUme
- A Master Of Design Explores The Murky, Mutable Science Of Color owl.li/5b5M30dpGM5
- Google funds 107 projects in the third round of the Digital News Initiative Fund owl.li/C55930drUhx
- How to Define Success owl.li/5o2s30dpFA4
- In the age of streaming TV, who needs title sequences? owl.li/shGK30drE90
- Burnout at Work Isn’t Just About Exhaustion. It’s Also About Loneliness owl.li/h1I830dpFt2
- When Should We Ignore Criticism? owl.li/KPEB30drBrR
- Absolut Taps Into the Past to 'Create a Better Tomorrow' owl.li/yVb030drVlU
- 7 things I learned about Gmail working at Google owl.li/851Y30dpOnD
- 15 Stunning Winners of the 2017 iPhone Photography Awards owl.li/sdpU30dpFiv
- How to Photograph Kids: Tips and Stories from Around the World owl.li/jRal30dpFfo
- 6 Ways to Weave Self-Care into Your Workday owl.li/mkA230dpDXD
- Our 6 Must Reads On Pricing a Product owl.li/eWNV30dpFcq
- 10 Famous Book Hoarders owl.li/eXPD30dpDBL
- How to Get Excited About Topics That Bore You owl.li/vizD30dpF9n
- 5 Brilliant Novelists Whose Memoirs We Want Now owl.li/BMaT30dpDmV
- The Psychology and Brain Biology of “Whatever” owl.li/7wCq30dpEu4
- The Clean-as-You-Go Principle owl.li/ejss30dpFoD
- A To Z Of Typographic Terminology: Typography Terms All Designers Should Know owl.li/dNkh30dpE2Z
- To End Distracted Driving, MIT Figures Out How People Really Drive owl.li/NpxX30dpCOx
- The Story Behind Lego’s Brilliant Print Ads From the Cannes Festival owl.li/Uis330dpCyl
- Our Favorite Typefaces of 2016 – Typographica owl.li/jE2U30dpxPn
- How the Large Hadron Collider Almost Didn't Work owl.li/NYK430dpzW9
- Everything you need to know about Augmented reality owl.li/sCSY30dpxwD
- The Search for a More Perfect Kilogram owl.li/DfWZ30dpzmF
- Gamification in 2017: Top 5 Key Principles owl.li/Gmr030dpw6V
- Edward Albee’s Final Wish: Destroy My Unfinished Work - The New York Times owl.li/h99O30dpyW5
- Mail, the Original Media: How the USPS Shaped Our Political Discourse owl.li/Tjyi30dpDf5
- The Sites Where Online Culture Gets Created Just Can’t Make Money owl.li/mgjo30dpytw
- Apple Asked Michel Gondry To Direct a Short Film On His iPhone And This Is What He Made owl.li/svx330dptBd
- MTV News: The Good, the Bad, and the Contradictions of an Ill-Fated Experiment owl.li/1sK530dptkZ
- British Theater Group Uses Heart Monitors During ‘Titus Andronicus’ owl.li/PPW530doKAU
- Sun’s gravity could power interstellar video streaming owl.li/ZvBF30dpr3V
- A Reality Check for IBM’s AI Ambitions - MIT Technology Review owl.li/AvHB30dmYeF
- Designers on Design: Debbie Millman owl.li/IG3J30dpoGu
- Why You Will One Day Have a Brain Computer Interface owl.li/sBx630dmY4w
- Research Reveals How to Take a Better Break owl.li/IE2230dptVd
- MIT Envisions The First Space Hotel owl.li/yhaa30dpoqZ
- Monsters, Marvels, and the Birth of Science - How the unlikely and unexplainable spawned the age of science. owl.li/lMse30dpojX