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The Week's Links: May 23, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • Was Shakespeare Aware of the Scientific Discoveries of His Time? http://owl.li/wYDbW
  • Architects Give the Classic Chess Set a Radical Makeover http://owl.li/wYDry
  • This graphic designer makes "smell maps" of cities around the world http://owl.li/x2cBc
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 400,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use http://owl.li/x2dYH
  • The Future is Here: What's Next For Mobile Phones? http://owl.li/wYDEe
  • The philosophers’ guide to gratitudehttp://owl.li/x3h9e
  • James W. Rouse’s Legacy of Better Living Through Design owl.li/wYDpC
  • Photog Rose-Lynn Fisher captures tears of grief, joy, laughter and irritation in extreme detail, they are different owl.li/wYD1y
  • NASA releases "Global Selfie" owl.li/x9GVp
  • Cooper-Hewitt Gets Crafty and Honors Etsy with a National Design Award owl.li/wYDmc
  • ◉ Gretchen Rubin: The 4 Ways to Successfully Adopt New Habits -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/20…
  • Future of Storytelling: Scent Storiesowl.li/wYBLk
  • How Did Computers Uncover J.K. Rowling’s Pseudonym? owl.li/wYDkq
  • 36 Free Film Noir Movies owl.li/wXS18
  • Text Me, Ishmael: Reading Moby Dick in Emojiowl.li/wYDiG
  • How America’s Leading Science Fiction Authors Are Shaping Your Future owl.li/wYDfy
  • The Rise of Nintendo: A Story in 8 Bits «owl.li/wXJNv
  • Chipotle Cups Will Now Feature Stories by Jonathan Safran Foer, Toni Morrison, and Other Authors owl.li/wSkoV
  • MIT harvests fog to make water in one of the driest places on Earth owl.li/wXEPA
  • Interactive Poster Charges Phones And Encourages People To Donate Bloodowl.li/wSkjj
  • Scientific Typeface Illustrates 26 Great Inventions owl.li/wT2L6
  • ◉ How does a work of art come to be considered great? -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/20…
  • Extraordinary, photo-realistic paintings of warer.owl.li/wSiXr
  • Elon Musk on the Flawed Premise of Tesla and the False Promise of Fuel Cells owl.li/wSmzr
  • 5 Ways Design Thinking Can Help You Get Hired owl.li/wRtws
  • Internet Machine - Invisible infrastructures of the internet owl.li/wSkxF
  • In London, A Pop-Up Restaurant That Lets Customers Pay With Instagram Picturesowl.li/wSkst
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/x4LUa
  • Exercising the Mind to Treat Attention Deficitsowl.li/wRtqJ
  • Amazing: Magnificent 19th-Century Library Shelves 350,000 Books owl.li/wRsTk
  • Tim Burton's Early Student Films: King and Octopus & Stalk of the Celery Monsterowl.li/wRtpj
  • The Library of Congress Wants to Destroy Your Old CDs (For Science) owl.li/wRsPm
  • Freeing Up Space on iPhones. owl.li/wRtmI
  • Exploring New York City’s Abandoned Island, Where Nature Has Taken Over owl.li/wRrJ6
  • NPR compiles The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever owl.li/x3Ild
  • New Tech City: Sleep and Your Screens, Not Friends owl.li/wRtjq
  • AMC embraces the power of Tumblr to debut its new series "Halt and Catch Fire" owl.li/x3rit
  • ◉ Simon Sinek: Why Good Leaders Make Your Feel Safe -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/19…
  • Leaked NY Times Innovation Report applies to ad agencies, too owl.li/x3jAI
  • Can Email Be Responsive? owl.li/wPn3D
  • The Strange, Secret History of Isaac Newton’s Papers owl.li/wRthZ
  • A Question Of Biggitude: What's The Largest Creature On Earth? owl.li/wRtcg
  • Long Before Jack Daniels, George Washington Was a Whiskey Tycoon owl.li/wOwju
  • Cultivating a creative workforce owl.li/wNrjq
  • How to Use Donor Data to Boost Fundraisingowl.li/wOwfp
  • Is Corporate Storytelling Replacing The News Business? owl.li/wNqUP
  • The science of symmetry owl.li/wOuIx
  • Understanding the New Battle Over Net Neutrality owl.li/wNqdl
  • Tell a Meaningful Story With Data owl.li/wOuAV
  • ◉ All In The Timing: Learned Last Week -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/18…
  • How Scholastic Kept Its Relevance In A Digital World owl.li/wNpW2
  • Instagram Ads Are Getting Instant Recallowl.li/wOtH4
  • How Data Visualization Answered One of Retail's Most Vexing Questions owl.li/wNtR8
  • Draw My Left! No, No, My Other Left! A Hidden Bias In Art History Revealed owl.li/wN4Pl
  • 'Opera can make us see, feel and hear the world differently': UK's opera chiefs tell us why their art form matters owl.li/wIJD5
  • From Marketing to Writing: 5 Brilliant Marketers Who Became Successful Writers owl.li/wN4oZ
  • Inspiring the Creative Economy: How Cities Increase Economic Activity Through Innovation and The Arts owl.li/wIJvm
  • How Emotionally Intelligent Are You? Here’s How To Tell owl.li/wN02v
  • Psychologists find people who were allowed to play freely as children have greater social success as adults owl.li/wIJqV
  • The 70, 20 ,10 Approach to Innovationowl.li/wMZIl
  • Are Sundays Dying? owl.li/wIJmc
  • Efficiently Simplifying Navigation, Part 2: Navigation Systems owl.li/wLUOA
  • "The role of the critic is, for me, about connection." owl.li/wJzXm
  • Two Things Experts Do Differently Than Non-Experts When Practicing owl.li/wIxCJ
  • To Be a Better Leader, Learn How to Learn. Join a Study Group.owl.li/wIiWN
  • Email Is For Setting Expectations owl.li/wIkmL
  • A Series of Minimalist Posters Featuring Women Who Changed Science owl.li/wIgUp
  • Why Motivating Others Starts with Using the Right Language owl.li/wIkiQ
  • TED Radio Hour: Brand Over Brain: TED speakers explore the seductive power of brands. owl.li/wIgMQ
  • 99U Conference Recap 3: Rethinking the Way We Lead owl.li/wIjdq
  • The Surprising History of Making Alcohol a Powdered Substance owl.li/wIgGn
  • 99U Conference Recap 2: Rethinking the Way We Work owl.li/wIjbr
  • 99U Conference Recap Vol. 1: What Are Your Creative Values? owl.li/wIj78
  • For 20 Days, This App Connects Two Strangers Who Will Never Meet owl.li/wIgrR
  • Apple, Amazon and the uncertain future of the book startup owl.li/wIbwF
  • Logo style swap highlights the importance of appropriate visuals. owl.li/wIgmO
  • The Chief Of Microsoft Research On Big Ideas, Failure, And Its New Skunkworks Groupowl.li/wGKXb
  • ◉ Recommended: The Intellectual Devotional Health owl.li/wGv70
  • ◉ Talking Art In A Capitalist Worldowl.li/wGwKd
  • 100 Years Of Type In Design, Curated By Monotype owl.li/wId2u
  • How A Grown-Up Field Trip To A Museum Can Improve Your Work (And Life) owl.li/wGKSr
  • Ogilvy Brazil is Training Tattoo Artists to Spot Signs of Skin Cancer owl.li/wIcSk