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The Week's Links: February 5, 2016

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Why The 21st-Century Economy Needs More Polymaths owl.li/XX7ec
  • Shakespeare's Globe theatre takes Hamlet to Jungle - BBC News owl.li/XUKN6
  • The Life and Death and Life of Magazines owl.li/XXt5t
  • The Search For Alien Life Is Getting Bigger, Weirder, And More Contentious owl.li/XX56E
  • Can Gizmos Cure Insomnia? owl.li/XUFvX
  • Policing the Future - On our way to predictive policing? owl.li/XUEDP
  • Watch the Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation (79 AD) owl.li/XRn3F
  • How Will We Recognize Alien Life? owl.li/XUaqB
  • What Is Code? If You Don't Know, You Need to Read This - now a National Magazine Award winner owl.li/XRioA
  • The Inside Story of Uber’s Radical Rebranding owl.li/XSarB
  • Why The Shape Of A Company's Logo Matters owl.li/XOSC3
  • Watch All of 2015's Weather in a Time-Lapse Video owl.li/XUGoa
  • Of Our Own Making: Inmates Redesign Prisons for Rehabilitation - 99% Invisible owl.li/XRP6B
  • The UK Just Green-Lit Crispr Gene Editing in Human Embryos owl.li/XROPe
  • Logos And Paintings Undercutting Each Other — Graphic Designs from Eisen Bernard Bernardo owl.li/XOKPC
  • Sesame Launches A Venture Arm To Invest In Startups That Help Kids owl.li/XOs6R
  • Glow-in-the-dark sharks and other stunning sea creatures owl.li/XLKCd
  • MIT Students Win SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition owl.li/XOs45
  • What's The Best Way To Keep Mosquitoes From Biting? owl.li/XLI6o
  • Can Google’s AlphaGo really feel it in its algorithms? | John Naughton owl.li/XOaQJ
  • ◉ A Neuroscientist Explains 'Why We Snap' - smartercreativity.com/blog/2016/1/20…
  • Listen to J.R.R. Tolkien Read Songs and Poems from 'The Lord of the Rings' owl.li/XLI4s
  • The 100 Jokes That Shaped Modern Comedy owl.li/XOQQz
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson and genetics guru Anne Wojcicki on a future without disease owl.li/XO4MR
  • The science behind a good cup of coffee owl.li/XN1Je
  • CIA Posts Declassified UFO Documents from Its “X-Files” owl.li/XLI1k
  • NASA Rover Designed To Last 90 Days Celebrates 12 Year Anniversary | TechCrunch owl.li/XLHZM
  • Visual effects breakdown for The Martian owl.li/XLw1q
  • This Is Hemingway's Paris as Seen Through the Eyes of His Last Assistant owl.li/XLHX1
  • What Errol Morris thinks about Making a Murderer owl.li/XLrhE
  • See These Photos Of Earth's Most Beautiful Places--Before They Disappear owl.li/XRr5T
  • Michael Pollan gets his own Netflix series owl.li/XLwIw
  • If You Go Near the Super Bowl, You Will Be Surveilled Hard owl.li/XLI2N
  • 17 equations that changed the world owl.li/XLreu
  • A brief history of The Flatiron Building owl.li/XLwD8
  • Absurdly challenging recipes from actual cookbooks owl.li/XLwz2
  • The Stock Market Is Not The Economy owl.li/XLqJ7
  • The Battle Over CRISPR Could Make Or Break Some Biotech Companies owl.li/XLqFt
  • Pluto Is Covered in Frozen Water. Lots of Frozen Water owl.li/XLoEM
  • A Toolkit for Unhooking from Criticism owl.li/XLpNM
  • America's Oldest Mall Now Contains 48 Charming Low-Cost Micro-Apartments owl.li/XLaYz
  • Claudio Guglieri: The Secrets of Design Leadership owl.li/XLpHl
  • ◉ How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off - smartercreativity.com/blog/2016/1/31…
  • Imagining Football’s Future Through the Super Bowl of 2066 owl.li/XHQmr
  • ◉ Recommended: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Down in Havana, Searching for the Ghost of Hemingway owl.li/XLoKT
  • Bill Gates' tribute to Richard Feynman, "The Best Teacher I Never Had" owl.li/XLr0y
  • Eye Contact: How Long Is Too Long? owl.li/XLoH0
  • The History Of Kimono Design In 15 Beautiful Images owl.li/XHPZZ
  • 10 Things You Didn’t Know About New Car Smell owl.li/XHPXn
  • Ideas Matter: Art Direction And Illustration For The New York Times Opinion Section owl.li/XH7Is
  • AI Researcher Yoshua Bengio Says Machines Won’t Become Dangerously Smart Anytime Soon | MIT Technology Review owl.li/XHP9T
  • Boston Museum Acquires First Painting Frida Kahlo Ever Sold owl.li/XH7D7
  • Why Your Stubborn Kid Will Probably Be A Wildly Successful Adult owl.li/XHP8C
  • New York Is Going to Turn Off Niagara Falls. Here’s How owl.li/XGZSj
  • Jim Henson’s Violent Wilkins Coffee Commercials (1957-1961) owl.li/XHyoh
  • Amsterdam's 'Night Mayor' Helps the City Thrive After Dark owl.li/XHQ8d
  • Lego Unveils Its First Disabled Minifigure in a Good Week for Inclusivity owl.li/XH7Lh
  • 36 Hours in Porto, Portugal owl.li/XG1nQ
  • 'Mi Comida Latina': A Hand-Drawn Guide To Latin Cuisines owl.li/XG111
  • Babylonians Were Using Geometry Centuries Earlier Than Thought owl.li/XF4bF
  • The blessing and curse of the people who never forget owl.li/XG0LQ
  • Why Every Highway Sign in America Has to Change (Again) owl.li/XF2Vf
  • Gone to the wall – why modern movie posters are dreadful owl.li/XG0GJ
  • In Japan, the CD is still king. Why does one culture resist online music? owl.li/XF2Qm
  • Go Players React to Computer Defeat owl.li/XF4eo
  • The Best and Worst of Sundance 2016, Documentary Edition owl.li/XGBhf
  • This Woman Was Picasso, Hemingway and Fitzgerald's Muse owl.li/XF4dC
  • Buying tickets for big New York events is a 'fixed game', attorney general says | US news | The Guardian owl.li/XF0qV
  • Browse the entire history of the Universe in this one incredible timeline: owl.li/XEZM6
  • AlphaGo: Mastering the ancient game of Go with Machine Learning owl.li/XDCOo
  • Transit Agencies Can Now Test New Routes in a Virtual World owl.li/XEZGS
  • This NASA-Tech Health Scanner Might Be The Closest Thing To A Real-Life Tricorder Yet owl.li/XDCLj
  • NSA Hacker Chief Explains How to Keep Him Out of Your System owl.li/XEZEL
  • 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