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The Week's Links: May 10, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:​

  • Nikola Tesla's Amazing Predictions for the 21st Century 
  • The Newspaper of Tomorrow: 11 Predictions from Yesteryear 
  • The Secret to a Long Life May Be Deep Inside Your Brain 
  • Eight New Things We've Learned About Music 
  • 10 New Things We Know About Food and Diets 
  • Five Innovative Technologies that Bring Energy to the Developing World 
  • Pop Culture Through The Lens Of Nostalgia: The Evolution Of 8-Bit Art 
  • Five Surprising Facts About the Common Cold 
  • Scientists Figure Out What You See While You're Dreaming 
  • So clever: An Ingenious Cookbook Uses Infographics Instead Of Words 
  • 'Vogue,' 'Wired' to Launch Online TV Channels This Month 
  • How To Be Gracious, And Why 
  • The Story Behind the QWERTY Keyboard 
  • Michael Benson's Awe-Inspiring Views of the Solar System 
  • The Vast World Of Lego Art 
  • The Strange Beauty of David Maisel's Aerial Photographs 
  • The Earliest Stop Motion Animations are Weirdly Wonderful 
  • Can Cloning Giant Redwoods Save the Planet? 
  • Ancient Maya Were Cultural Sponges 
  • The Center of the Earth Is as Hot as the Sun 
  • Slaves To The Algorithm 
  • The First LPs Weren’t for Music—They Were Audiobooks for the Blind 
  • This New Robot Has a Sense of Touch 
  • PBS Idea Channel: Are Hologram Tupac and Hologram Freddie Mercury Nostalgia or New Aesthetic? 
  • Saturn’s Mysterious Hexagon Is a Raging Hurricane 
  • It’s Crazy to Move a Hundred-Year-Old Tree, But This One Is Thriving 
  • Physicists Have Been Waiting For This Painfully Slow Experiment for Nearly 86 Years 
  • Check out today's fantastic Google Doodle celebrating the birthday of brilliant opening title designer Saul Bass. 
  • Where Are the Centers for Education Innovation? 
  • 6 Influential Stop-Motion Movies From Ray Harryhausen (RIP) 
  • And now a few moments of joyful humanity, brought to you by Russian dash cams. 
  • Tribeca transmedia: The power of "Sandy Storylines" 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of May 6, 2013 
  • Inside the MIT Media Lab 
  • Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom on What Really Happened When Facebook Bought Instagram: Vanity Fair 
  • MIT Brain Scans Show That Entrepreneurs Really Do Think Different 
  • Typecast: How New Technology Is Reinventing Typography 
  • 47 Top Typography Tools and Resources 
  • Adobe Abandons Its Creative Suite to Focus on Creative Cloud 
  • New York Times launches web-only documentaries with Retro Report 
  • Brand Thinking: Seth Godin, Dan Pink, and Other Mavens on How and Why We Define Ourselves Through Stuff 
  • Robert Krulwich On Becoming Yourself 
  • High Speed Photos of Flying Liquids by Manon Wethly 
  • Gorgeous: Incredibly Surreal Scenes Where Women Defy Gravity 
  • What do we talk about when we talk about the economic impact of the arts? 
  • Permission to Play: Let's Make Fixing Things Cool Again 
  • World's smallest movie: IBM uses individual atoms to make record-breaking short film of boy kicking football 
  • Some timely perspective: HERE IS TODAY 
  • Musicals are booming 
  • Good Science Fiction 
  • Michael Bierut: Typography, Modern Applications, and Timeless Communication Challenges 
  • The 15 Most Important Minutes Of The Work Week 
  • Tony Fadell: Building With Atoms, Electrons, Frustrations & Constraints 
  • How to Get More Done: The 1-3-5 Rule 
  • Why Kickstarter Can't Usurp the Hollywood Entertainment-Industrial Complex 
  • How Australia is transforming their libraries. 
  • How Coffee Influenced The Course Of History 
  • Why Caffeine In Coffee Is A Miracle Drug For The Tired 
  • WSJ. asks six luminaries to weigh in on a single topic. This month: Design. 
  • Life in the City Is Essentially One Giant Math Problem 
  • The 50 Most Perfectly Timed Photos Ever 
  • 10 Beautiful Words About Love That Don’t Exist in English 
  • Who Was Mather? Meet the Lesser-Known Men Behind Famous Agency Names 
  • Meet The Accidental Designer Of The GitHub And Twitter Logos 
  • MIT Technology Review: Your Body Does Not Want to Be an Interface 
  • An Introduction To Programming Type Systems: Smashing Coding 
  • 20 Amazing Outdoor Libraries and Bookstores From All Over the World 
  • Sir Ken Robinson: Why We Need to Reform Education Now 
  • Hermione Hoby spends an evening backstage with the unsung heroes of opera: the dressers 
  • What Happened To Opera? When you weren't looking… some things changed. 
  • TED Playlists: Words, words, words. Ten talks on the wonder of words. 
  • Secrets of the Most Successful College Students 
  • Amazon's bid for rights to sell secondhand ebooks 
  • For the First Time Ever, You Can Now Hear What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like - Technology 
  • NYTimes, Grantland and now Microsoft deliver a responsive essay: 88 Acres 
  • Well done BBH, well done: This Heartwarming Tale of Friendship out of BBH London is a Must-Watch for Parents: 
  • First NYTimes and now Grantland deliver a responsive essay: Out in the Great Alone 
  • Artificial Intelligence Is The New Uncanny Valley 
  • David Lynch Explains How Meditation Enhances Our Creativity 
  • How to Tell a Story with Data 
  • 10 Secrets to Eye-Popping Package Designs 
  • An Exit Interview With the Man Who Transformed the Oxford English Dictionary 
  • How the Egyptian Pyramids Were Built: A New Theory in 3D Animation 
  • The Abstraction Method of Problem Solving 

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