The Week's Link: November 18, 2012
/All the links posted on social networks this week:
- As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living ➞
- 11 Badass Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes ➞
- And Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year Is … GIF ➞
- Richard Silver's New York Churches Panoramas ➞ /via @Coudal
- Matt Molloy's gorgeous series of sky images ➞
- The human central processing unit, slice by slice. ➞
- Dan Ariely Presents “A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior” in Upcoming MOOC ➞
- The Patent Fix: A Wired series on the patent problem ➞
- How To Sell A $1 Snow Globe For $59: The Real ROI Of Brand Storytelling ➞
- Inside the MIT Media Lab: Big Data, Privacy, Modern Cities and More ➞
- Another great interview: Robin Sloan, Author and 'Media Inventor' ➞
- The Met’s Exhibition Catalogs Are Revived for a Digital Life, available online. ➞
- Great interview: Oliver Reichenstein on design ➞
- Adweek's 2012 Brand Genius Awards ➞
- Steve Cober: On Quitting Your Day Job & Building A Business With Heart ➞
- Your Brain by the Numbers ◉
- Do slang and vulgarity belong in the dictionary? A look at America's greatest language controversy ➞
- What do birds do in a hurricane? ➞
- Does TV actually brainwash? ➞
- Copy, Transform, Combine ◉
- Timing is everything. But exactly how the brain keeps time, which it does very well, has been something of a mystery. ➞
- Kermit the Frog Learns to Love Jazz Through “Visual Thinking” (1959) ➞
- Educating Players: Are Games the Future of Education? ➞
- How Do You Raise a Prodigy? ◉
- Love these images of dancers out of the stage. ➞
- Square Wallet, the Apple Store, and Uber: Software Above the Level of a Single Device ➞
- So great: Artist Creates Intricate Paper Cut Patterns On Newspapers ➞
- I Saw The Future Of Advertising And It's Pretty Awesome ➞
- All Consuming Passion ◉
- The Stockdale Paradox: How Optimism Creates Resilience ➞
- Excellent typography: Industrial-Strength Types ➞
- The Icon in the Costume Shop: Valentino at NYC Ballet ◉
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Raw data, now! ➞
- Inner ear implant uses biological battery to self-charge ➞
- Experience Relativity Firsthand In MIT Video Game That Slows The Speed Of Light ➞
- 4 studies on the surprising science of mind-wandering ➞
- Useful Talks And Videos From Web Design Conferences ➞
- PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 6: Street Art ◉
- The History And Impact Of The Red Cross ➞
- The Secret Lives of Kitchen Spices ➞
- 25 College Classes Based on TV Shows ➞
- Three Studios Agree to Let a Guild Certify Credits for Film Producers ➞
- Rare and Iconic Photos of Einstein Celebrate His Nobel Win 90 Years Ago ➞
- The Crisis in Higher Education: MIT Technology Review ➞
- Get To Know NYC Ballet ◉
- Amazing to see the places tweets come from: The one million tweet map #onemilliontweetmap ➞
- Cool: With Tinkercad you can quickly turn your idea into a CAD model for a 3D printer. ➞
- Arts Branding Sucks. Here Are 4 Ways To Fix It ➞
- TED introduces Playlists: Collections for curious minds ➞
- A Short Lesson in Perspective ➞
- Will we ever understand how our brains work? ➞
- When Truman Capote set out to profile Marlon Brando for The New Yorker in 1957, he knew just how to set his traps ➞
- Beth Comstock: You Have To Tell A Story, Before You Can Sell A Story ◉
- How to Devise Passwords That Drive Hackers Away ➞
- The Legendary George Nelson On Creating A Design-Driven Company ➞
- Front-end development standards ➞
- Creativity Top 5: November 12, 2012 ◉
- #InPraiseOfTheHashtag - The NYTimes.comexplains the hashtag. ➞
- From the diary of Jim Henson: Imagination Illustrated ➞
- Inside The Mind Of A Chef ◉
- Your Employee Is an Online Celebrity. Now What Do You Do? ➞
- Hypercollaborations: An Interview with Tod Machover ➞
- Key to American Innovation? Incorporating Art and Design into Education ➞
- Stop Being a People-Pleaser ➞
- John Rauser: What is a Career in Big Data? ◉
- The History of Humans is the History of Technology: The Millions Interviews Robin Sloan ➞
- In Experiments, Caffeine Accelerates the Brain's Verbal Processing ➞
- The Mystery of Human Blood Types ➞
- Early Bow and Arrows Offer Insight Into Origins of Human Intellect ➞
- Dear Brands, Tell Us A Story - Love Consumers ➞
- Meet the Salak, the Ubiquitous Indonesian Fruit You've Never Heard Of ➞
- Favorites From the Cooper-Hewitt's New Online Collection ➞
- Art as Therapy: How to Age Creatively ➞
- Amazing Close-Ups of Seeds ➞
- The Scientific Reason Complementary Colors Look Good Together ➞
- How Astronauts Take Such Beautiful Photographs in Space ➞