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The Week’s Links: January 29, 2016

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Marvin Minsky's Vision of the Future: Great NYer profile of the AI pioneer. owl.li/XDCFR
  • Meet The Man Who Created Papyrus, The World's (Other) Most Hated Font owl.li/XDDgN
  • An Oral History Of The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster owl.li/XF2Hb
  • Exclusive: Inside Lucasfilm's "Star Wars" VR Project owl.li/XDDbs
  • The Urban Design Lesson Hidden in Blizzard 2016 owl.li/XBZCe
  • The Invention of Ambient Music owl.li/XBZug
  • Why Are Some People Habitually Late? owl.li/XBSkX
  • The Cameras That’ll Make the Super Bowl Way More Interesting This Year owl.li/XBWdm
  • The Information Missing From Those Super-Long Privacy Policies That No One Reads owl.li/XBtHh
  • Interactive timeline: listen to the #1 rap songs from 1989-2015 owl.li/XBTH1
  • The Vinyl Record Factory That Makes Your Niche Music Dreams Come True owl.li/XBZI9
  • Inside Facebook’s Decision to Blow Up the Like Button owl.li/XBtbe
  • 100 Years Later, Beatrix Potter's Tale Of A Fanciful Feline To Be Published owl.li/XBTFf
  • In Major AI Breakthrough, Google System Secretly Beats Top Player at the Ancient Game of Go owl.li/XBSMY
  • Virtual Reality Is Exploding at Sundance, and Could Soon Be in Your News Feed owl.li/Xzbxv
  • Next Big Test for AI: Making Sense of the World owl.li/Xzb0f
  • You Can Now Wander the Guggenheim Right on Your Computer | WIRED owl.li/XySZr
  • Next Big Test for AI: Making Sense of the World owl.li/XzaTr
  • The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain—And Almost Lost His Mind owl.li/XyKqJ
  • Meet the shadowy overlords who approve emojis owl.li/XyXW8
  • Unseen Beatrix Potter story featuring an older Peter Rabbit to be published owl.li/XyJtc
  • New Rapid Response Systems Blunt Cyberattacks owl.li/XzbAp
  • This Is 40,000 Years of London’s History—Made Entirely of Paper owl.li/XyXEI
  • After Nearly 50 Years, Niagara Falls Might Soon Run Dry Again owl.li/XyT2K
  • 5 Ideas We Need To Steal From Megacities With Great Subways owl.li/XvQ1T
  • This Fun Literature Project Replaces Google Ads With Short Stories owl.li/XvrNL
  • See The Entire Observable Universe Beautifully Rendered On Your Computer Screen owl.li/XtlSm
  • Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 - The New York Times owl.li/Xzd39
  • Droga5 Is the Ad Age and Creativity 2016 Agency of the Year owl.li/XvrJ0
  • To Make AI More Human, Teach It to Chitchat owl.li/XyJ7G
  • Using Public Domain Materials in the Classroom owl.li/Xt7KS
  • Creativity 2016 Innovators of the Year owl.li/Xvrzb
  • Old music is outselling new music for the first time in history | Chart Attack owl.li/Xt7Iw
  • Ad Age's 2016 Agency A-List owl.li/XvrsR
  • 8 Classic Novels Reduced To Their Punctuation owl.li/Xtm0V
  • What's the Difference Between a Street and a Road? owl.li/Xt7E3
  • Amid a surge in demand for rechargeable batteries, companies are scrambling for supplies of lithium owl.li/Xt7Dt
  • The strangest thing about Q-tips owl.li/XnzP9
  • Watch this robot solve a Rubik's Cube in about a second owl.li/Xt7v6
  • Discovery Of Ancient Massacre Suggests War Predated Settlements owl.li/XnzLV
  • How Well Do You Handle Uncertainty? Take This Quiz to Find Out owl.li/Xt7rR
  • The 20 Most Influential Academic Books of All Time: No Spoilers owl.li/XnzJd
  • Tracing Sriracha's Origin to a Seaside Town in Thailand owl.li/Xt6XN
  • Updated: Five Execs Leave Twitter owl.li/Xvcli
  • Google Is Offering A Free Online Class About Deep Learning owl.li/Xt7EL
  • How do they grow plants in space. owl.li/XswLb
  • Read This: A guided tour through David Bowie’s personal record collection owl.li/Xnwg4
  • When Concorde First Flew 40 Years Ago, It Was a Supersonic Sight to Behold owl.li/XmOvi
  • 7 Million Hand-inked Dots by Artist Xavier Casalta owl.li/XmwzS
  • The Fairy Tales That Predate Christianity owl.li/XmO56
  • The top 10 opening shots in film owl.li/Xmwwg
  • 130 Years of Coke Taglines owl.li/XmK3e
  • What Branding Experts Think About Coca-Cola’s New Product-Centric Campaign owl.li/XkUcY
  • New blood test can tell bacterial from viral respiratory infections (Wired UK) owl.li/XmCQG
  • 15 fun things to type into Google owl.li/XnwjZ
  • Could just two people repopulate Earth? owl.li/XmwHq
  • Evidence Stacks Up for a Planet Beyond Pluto owl.li/XkU4F
  • Can The Internet Predict The Oscars? owl.li/XkgIn
  • Everything We Know About Ukraine’s Power Plant Hack owl.li/Xk47E
  • Photographs of the Futuristic Antarctic Ice Station That Can Move On Skis owl.li/Xkger
  • Scientists Find Hints Of A Giant, Hidden Planet In Our Solar System owl.li/XjYUs
  • Go Inside The Work Of Salvador Dali With Surreal New Virtual Reality Experience owl.li/Xk9to
  • Fairytales much older than previously thought, say researchers owl.li/XjYLm
  • Jazz ‘Hot’: The Rare 1938 Short Film With Jazz Legend Django Reinhardt owl.li/XkU8f
  • VFX Bake-Off: From "Fury Road" To "The Force Awakens," VFX Oscar Contenders Talk CGI Challenges owl.li/Xk8da
  • You Don't Know as Much as You Think: False Expertise owl.li/Xk59w
  • Fantastic 99pi podcast on credit card origins: The Fresno Drop owl.li/XjPVN
  • Why Designers Love The Ampersand owl.li/XjDQJ
  • How to Answer the 31 Most Common Interview Questions owl.li/XhN2S
  • Look Up In The Sky To See Five Planets Align owl.li/XjDK7
  • 20 years ago today, NYTimes.comdebuted “on-line” on the web owl.li/XpXwE
  • A Brilliant MIT Invention Makes Incandescent Bulbs As Efficient As LEDs owl.li/XhFN9
  • Motherboard's comprehensive series on sleep. owl.li/XhW1P
  • Largest Prime Number Ever Found Is 22 Million Digits Long — NOVA Next | PBS owl.li/XhtWB
  • Derek Zoolander Hits the Cover of Vogue -- for Real - Print (image) - Creativity Online owl.li/XhURT
  • Japan’s Arcane Pictogram System Gets a Much-Needed Update owl.li/XjYIj
  • How to use data to make a hit TV show owl.li/XhN9C
  • New NYTimes site: Times Machine - Over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared. owl.li/Xp6oC