Influence: The Week's Links

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS:

• Actors are digitally preserving themselves to continue their careers beyond the grave buff.ly/2NMrPJ9

• Columbia DSL’s Sandbox: a podcast exploring new forms & functions of storytelling buff.ly/2RXKbu6

• Creating Virtual Reality Journalism: A Guide For Best Practices buff.ly/2QLVuVr

• AI learns to decipher images based on spoken words—almost like a toddler buff.ly/2Dquo3x

• Arthur Miller and the Making of Willy Loman buff.ly/2Ov5NQg

• How to approach design differently buff.ly/2S246YO

• Exclusive: Lisa Strausfeld is developing a new kind of data viz “It’s almost like Google Earth for knowledge,” says the data guru. buff.ly/2AffwBk

• Hollywood's 50 Most Powerful TV Showrunners of 2018 buff.ly/2RXcCZ5

• MIT's AI can identify breast cancer risk as reliably as a radiologist buff.ly/2RVN5zh

• The case for behavioral strategy buff.ly/2J84XTP

• Jeff Bezos Wants Us All to Leave Earth—for Good buff.ly/2RSKzdb)

• Jack Dorsey Has Problems With Twitter, Too buff.ly/2Eo7WII)

• Isabel Allende: "The Influence of Hispanic Culture in Literature" | Talks at Google buff.ly/2J6K3o5

• How My Smartphone Revived the Purity of Reading buff.ly/2LL6raf

• Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read buff.ly/2DGStCV

• How reading rewires your brain for more intelligence and empathy buff.ly/2KMnmIX

• 10 Excel Functions Everyone Should Know buff.ly/2RQy3e4

• Coffee Rust Threatens Latin American Crop; 150 Years Ago, It Wiped Out An Empire buff.ly/2RUIe1w

• Apple overhauls its privacy pages, and now lets U.S. customers download their own data buff.ly/2CpjdpS

• All the News From Adobe MAX buff.ly/2EkZdHd

• It’s a Brand-New World When It Comes to Building Brands buff.ly/2QMStmW

• Is creativity conscious or unconscious? buff.ly/2J2u3mY

• Pantone’s latest colors are the ultimate sign of the times buff.ly/2EfzyzL

• Infographic: Netflix is Responsible for 15% of Global Internet Traffic buff.ly/2RKix3z

• M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1 Billion buff.ly/2ElfUlX

• A Rare Dalí Painting Once Hung at Rikers Island—Until the Guards Decided to Steal It buff.ly/2OQpn92

• Could the world’s mightiest computers be too complicated to use? buff.ly/2RMTmgy

• Can We Just Admit That Banksy's Art-Shredding Stunt Is Actually Really Good? | artnet News buff.ly/2EkQe91

• How to Deal With Conflict Effectively – Better Humans buff.ly/2OW6emh

• Met Says 'Heavenly Bodies' Is Most Visited Show in Museum's History - buff.ly/2IStUlP

• The Natural Wildness of the English Language – The Economist buff.ly/2pQBt3N

• 4 lessons from the longest-running study on happiness buff.ly/2FpXlJn

• Say no to meetings! And 3 other ideas to keep your workplace happy and healthy buff.ly/2RGDOLA

• 3 ways to create a space that moves you, from a Broadway set designer buff.ly/2RLyq9T

• TED Talks to watch on a sleepy day in buff.ly/2IVXGWW

• How to stop wasting your life watching TV and do something worthwhile with your downtime buff.ly/2CaJEzr

• How Much Power Do ‘Millennials’ Actually Have? buff.ly/2C6IlBr

• Gadget Lab Podcast: Gadget Lab Talks to Google’s Ivy Ross buff.ly/2ROckDO)

• No One Can Get Cybersecurity Disclosure Just Right—Especially Lawmakers buff.ly/2RNLb3O)

• Watch Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog Strut Through a Construction Site - We didn't learn from that Black Mirror episode. buff.ly/2EhSo9B)

• Stephen King’s 20 Rules for Writers buff.ly/2EdT8g0

• Cassini revealed three big surprises before diving into Saturn buff.ly/2C7wqmZ

• Three people had their brains wired together so they could play Tetris buff.ly/2EflndW

• This photographer is capturing images of dying species before they disappear buff.ly/2OkuVZV

• These 3D-printed body parts let surgeons practice on a model before they open you up buff.ly/2CcjFHD

• This bike-shaped laser projection warns cars that you’re coming buff.ly/2A6kTTl

• How do you write down a dance? buff.ly/2OmRwoQ

• In Literature, Who Decides When Homage Becomes Theft? buff.ly/2Ei3qeY

• Extracting audio from visual information. Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass. buff.ly/2RKSjhd

• A Future Where Everything Becomes a Computer Is as Creepy as You Feared buff.ly/2EhaZTh

• In praise of mediocrity buff.ly/2yy8Z2B

• Why We Have Our Best Ideas in the Shower: The Science of Creativity buff.ly/2CbOKex

• How to Check If Your Facebook Account Got Hacked—and How Badly buff.ly/2RLEeA2)

• Banksy Authenticates and Renames His Shredded $1.4 Million Painting—Which the Buyer Plans to Keep | artnet News buff.ly/2ROUmkC

• How AI is helping Amazon become a trillion-dollar company buff.ly/2Cc4gah

• How the Beatles got their famous logo buff.ly/2A7obG0

• Structural Typography Type as both language and composition buff.ly/2Ohky9e

• When Tech Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself buff.ly/2yzYhsz

• BBC 'to open classical music archive' buff.ly/2A6GN9l

• Best theatre directors and conductors are leaders not too proud to follow buff.ly/2A6OOe6

• Jan Tschichold, Master Typographer of the 20th Century buff.ly/2OkMAki

• Experience It, Live It: The New Age of Advertising buff.ly/2EqxQvN

• A brief history of calendar design buff.ly/2Nyv9aB

• New AI Strategy Mimics How Brains Learn to Smell buff.ly/2piBVHH

• 10 Immersive Things  buff.ly/2yf9LlM

• Sleep: how much do we really need? buff.ly/2NC7Z30

• Harvesting Color buff.ly/2C7DLCW

• Is “Hipster Design” Really a Thing? buff.ly/2Pwoyzq

• How to manage stress and avoid burnout at work buff.ly/2pK6lmu

• How to Overcome a Frustrating Setback at Work - Let's Grow Leaders buff.ly/2DULuXA

• A Mushroom Extract Might Save Bees From a Killer Virus buff.ly/2BYOXBX

• Why You Need a Reading Plan buff.ly/2E1opm2

• How to write the perfect sentence buff.ly/2QAyXtP