The Week's Links: December 16, 2012
/All the links posted on social networks this week:
- The Making of XOXO, plus all the session videos. ➞
- The Pleasures of Imperfection ➞
- Love Of Spicy Food Is Built Into Your Personality ➞
- 30 Great Moments In The History Of Robots ➞
- What Schools Can Learn From Google, IDEO, and Pixar ➞
- TED's Ads Worth Spreading Report (PDF) ➞
- The Top 10 Smartest Cities In North America ➞
- How to Train an Animator, by Walt Disney ➞
- What storytelling does to our brains ➞
- The sad, surprising story of Google Reader. ➞
- Gift Ideas For Smarter Creativity ◉
- The Design of a Site Meant to be Read ➞
- Gestures as a New Dimension in Mobile Design ➞
- Behind The App: The Making of Twitterrific 5 ➞
- Why your computer is getting cheaper but your broadband bill isn’t ➞
- A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 9 - A 50th Birthday ◉
- PBS series 'Shakespeare Uncovered' to dig deep into Bard's plays ➞
- Researchers Create the Most Complex Virtual Brain So Far ➞
- Listen to the BBC's radio version of Asimov's 'Foundation' trilogy online ➞
- It's Your Life: The Holstee Manifesto Lifecycle Video ◉
- Start your day with Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's Object of the Day. ➞
- Start your day with History.com's What Happened Today in History ➞
- Woody Allen answers 12 unusual questions ➞
- A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 8 - The corps de ballet ◉
- Amazing: Birds of a Feather ➞
- Remarkable Macro Photographs of Ice Structures and Snowflakes ➞
- Aaron Dignan: How to Use Games to Excel at Life and Work ◉
- Ten things you never knew about Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol ➞
- Why Leaders Should Constantly Reiterate What's Important ➞
- Loren Brichter: Designs on the future of iOS apps ➞
- How To Win At Self-Distribution If You're Not Louis C.K.: A Case Study For Creators And Marketers ➞
- The Orchestra ◉
- Have the Courage to Be Direct - Anthony Tjan ➞
- MIT Media Lab's Leah Buechley on falling in love with technology ◉
- Cavemen Were Much Better At Illustrating Animals Than Artists Today ➞
- Collecting the World's Collections of Small Oddities One Day at a Time ➞
- Why Do We Hiccup? And Other Scientific Mysteries—Seen Through the Eyes of Artists ➞
- The Insane Amount of Biodiversity in One Cubic Foot ➞
- Ambient Noise Spurs Creativity ➞
- Bacterial Life Abounds in Antarctic Lake, Cut Off From the World for 2,800 Years ➞
- The First Use of OMG Was in a 1917 Letter to Winston Churchill ➞
- For Adults, TV Can Serve the Same Role as an Imaginary Friend ➞
- Understand Music ◉
- Creativity Top 5 ◉
- Made By Hand: The Knife Maker ◉
- Amazing Modernist Sandcastles Sculpted by Calvin Seibert ➞
- There Are More Brainteasers About Crossing Rivers Than You Ever Imagined ➞
- 20 Game-Changing Technology Trends That Will Create Both Disruption and Opportunity on a Global Level ➞
- The Paper That Changed Type Design ➞
- Beautiful: 20 Inspiring Typography Posters ➞
- Kafka’s Nightmare Tale, ‘A Country Doctor,’ Told in Award-Winning Japanese Animation ➞
- The Four Fears Blocking You from Great Ideas ➞
- World's Largest Brain Simulation Has 2.5 Million Neurons ➞
- A great new tumblr: Photoshop Secrets ➞
- New research suggests specially selected nocturnal odors can inspire creativity. ➞
- Give A Damn, Damn It: Reddit Co-founder Alexis Ohanian ◉
- Learning by Design: It's Not What You Know, But How You Think ➞
- What Neuroscience Really Teaches Us, and What It Doesn't ➞
- The Neuroscience of Creativity ➞
- Made By Hand: The Distiller. A short-film series on hand-made things. ◉
- Raymond Chandler, "The Simple Art of Murder"(1950) ➞
- New Cadbury chocolate doesn't melt, even at 104 degrees ➞
- The Code Side Of Color ➞
- 7 Basic Types of Stories: Which One Is Your Brand Telling? ➞
- The Best Ads And Creative Talent Of The Last 50 Years, According to Britain's D&AD ➞
- How encryption works in your web browser. ➞