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The Week's Links: January 18, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Comprehensive storytelling analysis: The Avengers script in detail 
  • Mapping The Entertainment Ecosystems: A Brief Revisit 
  • Psychologists Uncover Hidden Signals of Trust—Using a Robot 
  • PressPausePlay: The Complete Documentary About Digital Culture 
  • Does Helping Others Hurt Your Creativity? The Cost of Interruption 
  • The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational 
  • The Placebo Phenomenon: An ingenious researcher finds the real ingredients of “fake” medicine. 2013 
  • What's Inside a 2,000-Year-Old, Shipwreck-Preserved Roman Pill? 
  • When Machines See 
  • How Hot is That Pepper? Unpacking the Scoville Scale 
  • The Gadgets of the Future from the Electrical Shows of Yesterday 
  • Love this: Birds of a Feather: Chris Maynard's New Art Form 
  • Telecommuters Are More Productive On Creative Tasks, Less On Dull Ones 
  • Why Do Flowers Smell Good? 
  • Get Ready for the Best Meteor Showers of 2013 
  • Simon Sinek On Intelligence & Creativity 
  • The Science of Why Comment Trolls Suck 
  • Innovation pessimism: Has the ideas machine broken down? 
  • The Joy of Books : Organizing the Bookcase 
  • Cautionary tale: List of inventors killed by their own inventions  /via @curiousoctopus
  • Facebook's Bold, Compelling and Scary Engine of Discovery: The Inside Story of Graph Search 
  • A $1 Billion Project To Remake The Disney World Experience, Using RFID 
  • So great: 125 Years of National Geographic Photos 
  • Attention Must Be Paid 
  • More Evidence Music Training Boosts Brainpower 
  • Designing a responsive, Retina-friendly site 
  • When do You stop being You? 
  • 8 Words of the Year from Other Countries 
  • Bill Gates to speak on education in first made-for-TV TED Talk, airing on PBS in April 
  • The Criminal Lives of 5 Classical Musicians 
  • PepsiCo's CEO Indra Nooyi shares 5 points to deal with Uncertainty 
  • How to design a better world 
  • Is Poor Time Management Limiting Your Potential? 
  • Creativity Top 5: January 15, 2013 
  • Picasso, Kepler, and the Benefits of Being an Expert Generalist 
  • Top 10 Cities for Book Lovers 
  • Will the kids love it? In the UK McDonald's swaps Happy Meal toys for books 
  • Fantastic: Pentagram Updates New York City Parking Signs 
  • Check out the new site for Information Is Beautiful 
  • The Elements Of Typographic Style: Version 4.0: 20th Anniversary Edition 
  • Unleash Your Unconscious: How Switching Tasks Maximizes Creative Thinking 
  • Campfire's Mike Monello Celebrates TV Theme Songs with a repository of classic show intros. 
  • The Elements Song by Theodore Gray (and a Daniel Radcliffe Cover) 
  • Van Gogh as Photograph 
  • A Behind-The-Scenes Look At How Twitter Search Works 
  • Walnut Creek Ballet Company Crowdsources Choreography 
  • Overcoming Procrastination, Money Problems, Self-Doubt & Other Creative Distractions 
  • How should Shakespeare really sound? 
  • The end of history and the last website 
  • New Yorkers are spending more time in libraries than ever: The Future of Libraries 
  • #overlyhonestmethods is the PostSecret of the science world, and it is amazing 
  • Brilliant: White House response to the Death Star petition 
  • Yves Béhar: Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas 
  • The Best Aerial Image of New York City You'll Ever See 
  • Is Umami the key to happiness? 
  • Wow: Live Action Toy Story, A Shot-for-Shot Remake Using Actors & Toys 
  • Is This the First Videogame About Battling Old Age? 
  • European Union urged to adopt Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death 
  • Website lists all the free ebooks available on Amazon 
  • NYC Ballet pirouettes into the hearts of New Yorkers with an art project that can be seen all around the city. 
  • Fantastic: Master Curator Paul Holdengräber Interviews Hitchens, Herzog, Gourevitch & Other Leading Thinkers 
  • So great: 2012 National Geographic Photography Contest Winners 
  • IDEO's David Kelley: How to design breakthrough inventions 
  • Buzzwurgatory: Words and phrases we should use more carefully in 2013 
  • Scanner's Guide to the Joy of Sound 
  • Imagine Radiolab episodes as books, some students did and the results are so great: 
  • AOL and Hotmail Users Spend More than Gmail Users, and Other Research Finds 
  • 21 Emotions For Which There Are No English Words 
  • Key Takeaways From PSFK's Future Of Work Report 
  • 25 words you might not know are trademarked 
  • How does my brain work? 
  • Inside The Library of Congress's Mission To Organize 170 Billion Tweets 
  • Cool: The Big Internet Museum 
  • Creative Aging: The Emergence of Artistic Talents 
  • Great study: Why Does Music Move Us So? 
  • Twitter's Biz Stone And Ev Williams And Charlie Rose: The Long And Short Of Creative Conversations 
  • How to figure out what you want. 
  • Fictional Character Birthday Calendars 
  • How to think like Sherlock Holmes: See and observe to fight attention blindness; be happier. 
  • Visionary Images: The Lost Fractals of Benoît Mandelbrot 
  • Great Interview: David Attenborough - A life measured in heartbeats 
  • Babies Pick Up On Language Before They're Even Born 
  • Important Science Of The Season: Hot Chocolate Tastes Better In An Orange Cup 
  • Why are we so content with umbrellas? They desperately need redesigning 
  • The Dieline's Top 100 Posts of 2012. The best in packaging. 

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