The Week's Links: January 8, 2016

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

• I read 164 books in 2015 and tracked them all in a spreadsheet. Here's what I learned. owl.li/WtJrR
• Peak TV: Surge From Streaming Services, Cable Pushes 2015 Scripted Series Tally to 409 owl.li/WtLv9
• 5 brainiac brain facts (illustrated by TED-Ed GIFs) owl.li/WtJnV
• Hear 6 Classic Philip K. Dick Stories Adapted as Vintage Radio Plays owl.li/WtHd5
• A Fascinating Case Study by Oliver Sacks Inspires a Short Animated Film, The Lost Mariner owl.li/WtHbu
• ◉ Ten rules for writing fiction continued owl.li/WCBY2
• In 1911, Thomas Edison Predicts What the World Will Look Like in 2011: Smart Phones, No Poverty,... owl.li/WtGqG
• The Real Science of Introversion (and the Rest of Personality) owl.li/WtH4E
• ◉ Rochelle King: Your Biggest Rival is Your Best Asset - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/12/3…
• 1150 Free Online Courses from Top Universities owl.li/WtFZK
• Why Creativity is a Numbers Game owl.li/WtH2A
• ◉ Recommended: The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
• Copyranter: The 5 best ads you didn't see this year - Digiday owl.li/WtFXY
• Inside the Making of Serial Season Two owl.li/WtHsg
• Old Book Illustrations: Free Archive Lets You Download Beautiful Images From the Golden Age of... owl.li/WtGwH
• Watch 34 of Quentin Tarantino’s Visual References to Citizen Kane, Blade Runner, 8 1/2 & Other Great Films owl.li/WtGso
• The New York Times Magazine’s Best Photos of 2015 - The New York Times owl.li/WtFNa
• Shot-By-Shot Breakdowns of Spielberg’s Filmmaking in Jaws, Scorsese’s in Cape Fear, and De... owl.li/WtFJg
• ◉ The Difficulty of Estimating Time and the Planning Fallacy owl.li/WCBRC
• 2015: The Year in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence | MIT Technology Review owl.li/WtFnI
• Hear Tom Lehrer Sing the Names of 102 Chemical Elements to the Tune of Gilbert & Sullivan owl.li/WtFEr
• ◉ 16 mobile theses by Benedict Evans - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/12/3…
• The Best Technology GIFs of the Year | MIT Technology Review owl.li/WtFjZ
• How a Good Night’s Sleep — and a Bad Night’s Sleep — Can Enhance Your Creativity owl.li/WtFCO
• ◉ Recommended: Lois Greenfield: Moving Still - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
• NASA Releases a Spectacular Earthrise Image Captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter owl.li/WtELK
• Discover The Music Vault: A Massive YouTube Archive of 22,000 Live Concert Videos owl.li/WtFyS
• TED Playlist: Slow down! Enjoy life. owl.li/WtFUw
• How to Get Started: John Cage’s Approach to Starting the Difficult Creative Process owl.li/WtFy7
• A Graphic Designer Explains What Makes a Logo Great and Why They Ultimately Don’t Matter Much on... owl.li/WtECh
• My Life In Monsters, A Documentary About the Work of Star Wars and Jurassic Park Stop-Motion... owl.li/WtEAp
• ◉ Deep Focus: Freedom of movement in eight of the greatest long takes ever owl.li/WCBKB
• The Thrilling Uncertainty of the Understudy - The New Yorker owl.li/WtDM1
• Astronaut Leland Melvin Explains the Physical Changes That Happen to a Person’s Body in Space owl.li/WtEvO
• Our 14 Best Design Longreads Of 2015 owl.li/WtDHV
• ◉ How Arts and Culture Add to City Economies - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/12/3…
• Ambitious Journalist Attempts to Photograph 12,000 Endangered Animals Before They Become Extinct owl.li/WtEpk
• ◉ Recommended: Shakespeare's Freedom (The Rice University Campbell Lectures) - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
• Why You Should Go to the Movies (and Do Other Stuff) Alone owl.li/WtDGt
• A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How Google Tests Its Enormous Project Loon Internet Balloons owl.li/WtEhu
• A Beautiful Aerial Tour of Venice, California Taken During the Quiet of Sunrise owl.li/WtEIt
• Five Legal Cases Changing the Art Market as We Know It owl.li/WtDOQ
• 16 Insane Construction Projects That Will Be Completed in 2016 owl.li/WtDmj
• The Most Infuriating Science Stories of the Past 12 Months | WIRED owl.li/WtCbm
• ◉ Stephen Fry: What I Wish I Had Known When I Was 18 owl.li/WCBsz
• 15 Habits That Will Totally Transform Your Productivity owl.li/WsKyg
• ◉ Deep Focus: Freedom of movement in eight of the greatest long takes ever owl.li/WCBy5
• The 7 Best Train Trips in the World owl.li/WtC8d
• ◉ The birth of the web - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/12/3…
• 9 Ideas Shaping The Future Of Architecture owl.li/WsKnT
• Your Creative Calendar: 67 Things To Do, See, and Hear In January owl.li/WC4RF
• Science Fiction That Came to Life This Year owl.li/WtC63
• ◉ Recommended: Dancers Among Us: A Celebration of Joy in the Everyday - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
• Your Creative Calendar: 67 Things To Do, See, and Hear In January owl.li/WBJK5
• Student Develops An Ingenious Building Material That Shapeshifts In Response To Rain owl.li/WsKke
• The funny, the weird, the elaborate, the terrible – 33 media errors from 2015 | Poynter. owl.li/WsTN2
• The Ford Foundation’s Quest to Fix the World owl.li/WtDCV
• Beautiful, Fleeting Moments of the World’s Best Dancers in Action  owl.li/WsTIp
• Americans conflicted about sharing personal information with companies owl.li/WsKaC
• Apple Gets Arty With New Artist Collaboration And Creative Workshops owl.li/WsK3t
• The New Yorker 15 most read blog posts of 2015 owl.li/Wrycz
• Yes, Star Wars Is the Original Action Blockbuster. It’s Also a Postmodern Masterpiece. owl.li/WryVe
• 100 Insanely Interesting People You Should Know — Unmistakable Creative owl.li/Wry9i
• Arts Education Is Growing in NYC Public Schools owl.li/WryKs
• Morning People Vs. Night Owls: 9 Insights Backed By Science owl.li/Wry12
• 8 Fascinating Things We Learned About The Mind In 2015 owl.li/WryIZ
• 5 Steps To Re-create Xerox PARC's Design Magic (From The Guy Who Helped Make It) owl.li/WsKe7
• Ancient Pompeii Is Alive Again as Italian Officials Unveil Six Restored Ruins owl.li/WryxK
• 13 Brilliant Outdoor Ads That Dazzled the Real World in 2015 owl.li/WrxYs
• Looking Back At The World Changing Ideas Of 2015 owl.li/WrxXt
• What percentage of your brain do you use? - Richard E. Cytowic owl.li/WrwK9
• Your Must-Listen Podcast Playlist For 2016 owl.li/WrxWS
• Maps of the Earth's Most Cursed Destinations owl.li/WrwGS
• Research-Based Ways to Win at Work in 2016 owl.li/WrxRJ
• From Google to Hillary to Snoop Dogg's pot candies, we look back on some of the year's best branding owl.li/WrwCm
• The Smartest Fashion Designs Of 2015 owl.li/WrxZm
• Year in Review: The Best and Worst Ads of 2015 - WSJ owl.li/WrxPK
• Researchers: Dance Helps Mitigate Symptoms Of Parkinson’s owl.li/WrxOt
• Quiz: Can You Match the Brand With Its Original Logo? owl.li/WrwwY
• 2015 Year in Pictures: Part I - The Boston Globe owl.li/Wrwsy
• The next Stage of Machine Learning: Teach Robots to Think Like Humans | Big Think owl.li/Wrwgs
• What's the difference between accuracy and precision? - Matt Anticole owl.li/Wrwke
• A Tantalizingly Simple Theory of Brain Disease owl.li/Wqqet
• Here’s How Nintendo Transformed Itself in Just a Year owl.li/WrwjP
• Brand New: The Best and Worst Identities of 2015, Part 1: The Most Notable Reviewed owl.li/Wqqc7
• Welcome to the Deserted Island Vacation Directory owl.li/Wrwj3
• The Best WIRED Photo Stories of the Year owl.li/Wrwz8
• China Is Teaching Kids to Code Much, Much Earlier than the U.S. | Big Think owl.li/Wrwha