The Week's Links: December 9, 2012

All the links posted on social networks this week:

• Gift Ideas For Smarter Creativity ◉
• How encryption works in your web browser. ➞
• Which Is Greater, The Number Of Sand Grains On Earth Or Stars In The Sky? ➞
• Experimentation Is The New Planning ➞
• Past philanthropists: How giving has evolved ➞
• Boston Public Library treasures abound on Flickr ➞
• The Best (and Worst) of Mobile Connectivity by Pew Internet ➞
• The Science Behind Those Obama Campaign E-Mails ➞
• A Triumph of the Comic-Book Novel by Gabriel Winslow-Yost ➞
• Making Advertising Work In A Responsive World ➞
• The wide open future of the art museum: Q&A with William Noel ➞
• On Great Novels with Bad Endings ➞
• García Márquez Among the Best-Selling Writers in China ➞
• 11 Weirdly Spelled Words—And How They Got That Way ➞
• Why Is it Impossible to Stop Thinking, to Render the Mind a Complete Blank? ➞
• Dzine: "Listen, I Have This Crazy Idea…" ➞
• Rare Dictionaries May Reach $1 Million in NYC Next Week ➞
• The Beauty Of Slow Motion ◉
• 4 Lessons to Learn from Charles and Ray Eames ➞
• MoMA Adds Video Games to Its Collection ➞
• The 14 Video Games MoMA has acquired for their permanent collection. ➞
• PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 8: Video Games ◉
• Journey’s Soundtrack Nominated for a Grammy. The first video game score ever given the honor. ➞
• How to welcome and nurture the poets and painters of the future ➞
• Search engine for the full text and descriptions of every Calvin and Hobbes script ➞
• Atari Teenage Riot: The Inside Story Of Pong And The Video Game Industry's Big Bang ➞
• Alexis Madrigal: Why Startups Need To Solve Real Problems Again ◉
• Why people spend so many hours stitching footage into YouTube supercuts. ➞
• Lead-proton collisions yield surprising results, may be producing a new type of matter. ➞
• After ‘The End’: 10 Memorable End-Credit Scenes ➞
• Best statistics question ever ◉
• How we read, not what we read, may be contributing to our information overload ➞
• Old Media, New Tricks. Can The New York Times' R&D Lab tech-heads help save the battered news brand? ➞
• AIGA: Identifying red flags to avoid trouble clients ➞
• The Real Problem With Neuroscience Today ◉
• General-Purpose AI is the Logical Endpoint for Task Management Software ➞
• How Computers Understand Speech—in 7 Steps ➞
• Exhibition Explores The Invisible Art Of Perfume Making ➞
• Brand identity style guides from around the world ➞
• Chris Poole: Our identity is like a diamond, multi-faceted ◉
• Leonard Bernstein’s First “Young People’s Concert” at Carnegie Hall Asks, “What Does Music Mean?” ➞
• Newly Developed Live Nanoscale Imaging Technique Promises Improvement in Li-ion Batteries ➞
• 9 Leadership Myths--& How to Overcome Them ➞
• Human Brain Is Wired for Harmony ➞
• Coming soon to a theatre near you: Demand-based ticket pricing ➞
• Edwin Land invented not just instant photography but the culture that came with it ➞
• Bad Robot Meets MIT Media Lab: In Conversation With JJ Abrams ◉
• frog design releases Collective Action Toolkit- A resource for change makers ➞
• With Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow Grows His Young Hacker Army ➞
• Mary Meeker releases stunning data on the state of the Internet ➞
• UN internet regulation treaty talks begin in Dubai ➞
• Technology Is Useless If It Doesn't Address A Human Need ➞
• PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 7: Etsy Art & Culture ◉
• Designers: here's your master list of Lorem Ipsum alternatives ➞
• 10 Best Commercials of 2012: The Year's Most Entertaining, Intriguing and Beautiful Spots ➞
• What Neuroscience Really Teaches Us, and What It Doesn't ➞
• Can Money Change the Brain? ➞
• Fascinating: Theresa Christy On The Ups and Downs of Making Elevators Go ➞
• How to Power Through Any Demanding Task ➞
• Beautiful: Woodchip Animal Sculptures ➞
• He sent the first text message 20 years ago, and forever changed the world ➞
• 9 More Gorgeous European Libraries ➞
• Creativity Top 5: December 3, 2012 ◉
• Google’s Searches for UnGoogleable Information to Make Mobile Search Smarter ➞
• The 7 Greatest Engineering Innovations Of 2012 ➞
• Simple scents make you part with most cash ➞
• Ultrasound Video Captures Fetuses Yawning ➞
• 8 TED Talks on the importance of listening ➞ Also: ➞
• 5 Moments in Sauce History That Changed The Way We Eat ➞
• Does Creativity Come With A Price? New Insight On Creatives And Mental Illness ➞
• Elmore Leonard: 10 Rules ◉
• University Of California Rebrands Itself With Surfer Charm ➞
• Maker's Row: A Comprehensive Database Of American Manufacturers ➞
• Have we, like, lost our conviction? You know? ◉
• Original Creator: Hip-Hop And Electro Pioneer Afrika Bambaataa ➞
• Imagination Illustrated: Muppets Creator Jim Henson's Never-Before-Seen Journals and Sketches ➞
• How Memory Works: 10 Things Most People Get Wrong ➞
• Infographic: History's most influential people, ranked by Wikipedia reach ➞
• M.I.T. Lab Hatches Ideas, and Companies, by the Dozens ➞
• Lincoln, Shakespeare, and Tony Kushner ➞
• Nine Dangerous Things You Learned In School ➞
• The Autism Advantage, fascinating article about a company that only hires people with autism. ➞
• The Harvard Classics: A Free, Digital Collection ➞

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