ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

• Undercover in MI6: what's it like to work as a spy? http://owl.li/GXqk7
• No Longer the Heart of the Home, The Piano Industry Quietly Declines http://owl.li/GUmrr
• ◉ Recommended: Instructions By Neil Gaiman - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
• The Real Story Behind Jeff Bezos's Fire Phone Debacle And What It Means For Amazon's Future owl.li/GTyGz
• 'I couldn't see, hear or speak' – the day I nearly drowned in space owl.li/GXq9d
• 15 Companies That Originally Sold Something Else owl.li/GXmTf
• ◉ Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating owl.li/GJ0N8
• I am Elon Musk, CEO/CTO of a rocket company, AMA! : IAmA owl.li/GTg8s
• Facebook's New AI Acquisition Could Give Its Messenger App Siri-Like Powers owl.li/GTcam
• Facebook is the new AOL, and why in technology the 90s are back owl.li/GODmP
• TED Playlist: Talks from inspiring teachers owl.li/GSAdh
• ◉ The Meaning of "Culture" - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/1/4/…
• Why So Many Writers Now Move Between TV and Theater owl.li/GNqiK
• The Hubble Space Telescope captures another amazing image of the Pillars of Creation owl.li/GRu6c
• ◉ Recommended: A Technique for Producing Ideas by James Webb Young - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
• Music Downloads Plummet in U.S., but Sales of Vinyl Records and Streaming Surge owl.li/GNq1P
• Why Do I Always Wake Up 5 Minutes Before My Alarm Goes Off? owl.li/GRtXw
• Do-It-Yourself Art at the Met owl.li/GPXHv
• ◉ Frank Chimero: No New Tools owl.li/GJ0K8
• The Future for Consumer Goods in the Data Economy owl.li/GNpY1
• Changing of the Guard: Five Prima Ballerinas Reflect on the Biggest Change in the Dance World owl.li/GNpoi
• The Parts of the U.S. Where Nobody Lives owl.li/GM2RK
• Happy 800th, Magna Carta owl.li/GMmT6
• Exclusive: Prosecutor in 'Serial' Case Goes on the Record - The Intercept owl.li/GXu6Y
• ◉ Sesame Street: What is Dance? - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/1/4/…
• Designing The Best Board Game On The Planet owl.li/GLZtB
• Six Education Stories To Watch in 2015 owl.li/GMbQS
• ◉ Recommended: How We Got to Now With Steven Johnson - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
• Walter Isaacson on The Imitation Game and Making Alan Turing Famous owl.li/GLWYD
• What Processes in the Brain Allow You to Remember Dreams? owl.li/GM31l
• This Exotic Frog Skips the Eggs, Gives Birth to Live Tadpoles owl.li/GM2Yl
• ◉ Sandy Pentland: Social Physics, How Good Ideas Spread, The Lessons From A New Science owl.li/GJ0Bl
• NASA to Lead a Nation of Explorers Into Deep Space owl.li/GLH7L
• The Birth of Pulp Fiction owl.li/GLFWj
• Margaret Hamilton, the Engineer Who Took the Apollo to the Moon owl.li/GJ7GP
• Your Creative Calendar: 53 Things To Do, See, And Hear This January owl.li/GTVCH
• Her Task Is to Wean the White House Off Floppy Disks - NYTimes.com owl.li/GLFnS
• ◉ If You Want to Meet That Deadline, Play a Trick on Your Mind - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/1/4/…
• Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking that IQ Tests Miss owl.li/GJ7C3
• How Sweden Is Eliminating Road Deaths owl.li/GJ8MC
• ◉ Recommended: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
• Best Performance by a Focus Group owl.li/GJ7wh
• A Wired Classic: Obsessed With the Internet: A Tale From China owl.li/GJ8LB
• The Man Who Invented Scotch Tape owl.li/GJ7I9
• ◉ Joi Ito & Tim Brown on The Future of Making owl.li/GJ0zr
• Steven Pinker: 'Literally,' Emojis, and Other Trends That Aren't Destroying English owl.li/GJ7lY
• Letters unravel mystery of the death of Oscar Wilde’s wife owl.li/GJ76J
• Loneliness is a modern epidemic in need of treatment owl.li/GJ6oM
• Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Theater owl.li/GJ6Rg
• ◉ Behind The Next Step - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/1/4/…
• What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2015? owl.li/GJ6nh
• The Art Newspaper's Market predictions for 2015 owl.li/GJ6MF
• ◉ Recommended: The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
• Tango revolution sweeps Tbilisi off its feet owl.li/GJ6gR
• Twitter rolls out ‘while you were away’ recap feature owl.li/GJ6Ho
• One powerful person just got over 130,000 people to agree overnight to read a book about... powerful people owl.li/GOpNg
• In Search Of A Science Of Consciousness owl.li/GJ6qs
• ◉ Magic in Service of Truth: Rushdie pays tribute to Gabriel García Márquez owl.li/GJ0vC
• A Hacker's Hit List of American Infrastructure owl.li/GIz5k
• Why We Are So Intrigued by Zombies- Scientific American owl.li/GHqqM
• Admiral William H. McRaven Commencement Speech Interview - Making Your Bed owl.li/GFQd2
• Pew Research Center: What will digital life look like in 2025? Highlights from our reports owl.li/GG3UV
• Amazing: Rohinni's Lightpaper Is Incredibly Thin, And Printable owl.li/GFQ0N
• Beautiful: Photog Benjamin Von Wong Shoots a Fairy Tale Fashion Shoot at the 18th C Admont Abbey Library in Austria owl.li/GFQPL
• TED Playlist: The 20 most popular talks of all time owl.li/GFPWc
• Top 10 Backups Everyone Should Have (Not Just Computer Backups) owl.li/GFQET
• The future of jobs: The onrushing wave- The Economist owl.li/GIZAf
• How Steve Jobs's Mastery Of Analogies Sent Apple Skyrocketing owl.li/GFQkl
• FTC Finalizes Charges Against Snapchat for Privacy/Security Flaws owl.li/GFPNj
• Nicholas Negroponte: A 30-year history of the future owl.li/GFPgY
• Sony Cyberattack, First a Nuisance, Swiftly Grew Into a Firestorm - NYTimes.comowl.li/GENJr
• Julian Treasure: How to speak so that people want to listen owl.li/GFPfp
• Bill Cunningham's Old School Photography Meets Instagram owl.li/GECL1
• When Personality Matters More Than Intelligence owl.li/GFt5g
• The Physics of Champagne Bubbles Could Help Power the Future owl.li/GECzX
• 86 viral images that are actually fake owl.li/GFsQl
• The Web Is Not The Net owl.li/GFPRu
• Good advice for all: 17 Hopes and Dreams for The Times in the New Year owl.li/GFro0
• The Economist explains: Why Japan's high-speed trains are so good owl.li/GE4bK
• The Economist explains: Why Sweden has so few road deaths owl.li/GE43R
• The Leonard Lopate Show: What's Going on Inside the Toddler Brain owl.li/GBUG7
• Get ready: The FCC says it will vote on net neutrality in February- The Washington Post owl.li/GIKyE
• How Can We Fundamentally Change Higher Ed? owl.li/GE3Xw
• Why You Do Your Best Thinking In The Shower: Creativity & the "Incubation Period" owl.li/GBMgR
• News in a remix-focused culture owl.li/GDXzX
• Explainer: what is 4D printing? owl.li/GBMai
• 15 Amazing Places You Can Tour Virtually owl.li/GCAXL
• The Weird Connections Between Hearing and Taste owl.li/GECsR
• How NPR Is Preparing for "The Year of the Podcast" owl.li/GBVbq