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Figurative: The Week's Links

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS:

  • Harvard scientists suggest 'Oumuamua is an alien device buff.ly/2SSB12u

  • In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing? buff.ly/2AQu2Qu

  • Times critics reflect on how the Great Recession affected theater, music and the arts - Los Angeles Times buff.ly/2qylHLa

  • Writing is a product designer’s real “unicorn” skill. buff.ly/2JLcsQP

  • Q&A: Publicis Groupe creative chief Nick Law on leadership, Marcel and the future of advertising buff.ly/2SVeLER

  • Inside the booming business of background music buff.ly/2zFyBeP

  • The Problem With Being Perfect buff.ly/2zsGLqK

  • “We Need an FDA For Algorithms:UK mathematician Hannah Fry on the promise and danger of an AI world.” buff.ly/2DqDug0

  • The 8 best science images, videos, and visualizations of the year buff.ly/2Pg4MMc

  • The quirky ways AI researchers gather data to feed their algorithms buff.ly/2JJFj81

  • World's 'oldest figurative painting' discovered in Borneo cave buff.ly/2PN1VKf

  • Using Experiments to Launch New Products buff.ly/2QvGytS

  • Feeling Your Way to Breakthrough Creative Work buff.ly/2PeKfI9

  • 5 damaging habits designers need to break buff.ly/2D8Woal

  • It’s dangerous to think virtual reality is an empathy machine – Erick Ramirez | Aeon Ideas buff.ly/2Sn74XL

  • The Sensory Connection Between Art & Science with Ani Liu buff.ly/2PhvS5X

  • TC Sessions: AR/VR surveys an industry in transition buff.ly/2yZJk30

  • The 25 greatest foreign-language films buff.ly/2SO4z0S

  • Why we should all consider taking a midlife gap year buff.ly/2PxK8Xv

  • The ISS Has a Supercomputer! Never Mind the Fried Disks buff.ly/2SKEuA5)

  • A Huge Achievement in Math Shows the Limits of Symmetries buff.ly/2ztdU5p)

  • This Is Not What You Expect To See Happening Outside Of Your High-Rise Office Window buff.ly/2SLUcKY

  • Th*nks for asterisks: the maligned punctuation enjoying Twitter revival buff.ly/2JH7Zyq

  • In France, a Giant Spider and a Minotaur Roam, and Sleep buff.ly/2AOw9o2

  • Hovermap drones dive underground to autonomously map mines and tunnels buff.ly/2D5amKb

  • The future of Information Architecture – UX Collective buff.ly/2zebXcU

  • The Psychology of Social Sharing—What Makes People Engage with Your Social Media Content? buff.ly/2zwSuoj

  • Kim Høltermand: From Police Fingerprint Examiner to Professional Photographer buff.ly/2NYPVQU

  • This Is What Democracy Looked Like: A brief history of the printed ballot. buff.ly/2zyObZx

  • The New Rules of Communicating in a Virtual World buff.ly/2z6kcYw

  • Weighing the Risk: What’s the Cost of Not Making a Life-Changing Career Choice? buff.ly/2SFJohE

  • You have no idea where camels really come from buff.ly/2SFx9l4

  • What's the future of food? buff.ly/2SKIxwc

  • The quick, practical guide to picking colors for your designs buff.ly/2pZQNLH

  • How I Exploited My Own Social Media Data – Towards Data Science buff.ly/2Dan8ru

  • A Fact-Checker’s Notes on The Lifespan of a Fact buff.ly/2znY2kN

  • Andy Warhol Inc.: How He Made Business His Art buff.ly/2F28ogk

  • A Cunning Husband-and-Wife Duo Sold Hundreds of Forged Artworks in Finland. Now, They Are Headed to Prison | artnet News buff.ly/2zr9VGI

  • This Neurosensor Could Predict Hit TV Shows with Uncanny Accuracy buff.ly/2SKi01P

  • Prosthetic leg for amputees designed by Jae-Hyun An to encourage new genre of ballet buff.ly/2SI5Erd

  • Artists drive social change? How do you measure it? Here's a new tool from Americans for the Arts. buff.ly/2EZFjly

  • 5 basic skills of power, and how you can learn to use them buff.ly/2SHhTUV

  • Why we should all consider taking a midlife gap year buff.ly/2PxK8Xv

  • How can you uncover your best self? Start by judging other people — really buff.ly/2Sx8AXt

  • How do artists make a living? An ongoing, almost impossible quest buff.ly/2Mktfu9

  • The banana is dying. The race is on to reinvent it before it's too late buff.ly/2zpuNho

  • Garbage: "20 Years a Creator: The Influence of Technology in the Creative Process" | Talks at Google buff.ly/2znZfZt

  • Will Mindful Technology Save Us From Our Phones—and Ourselves? buff.ly/2OLxzrX

  • Elon Musk: The Recode interview buff.ly/2Pz1wLn

  • Acting like an extravert has benefits, but not for introverts – Christian Jarrett | Aeon Ideas buff.ly/2JHN9iF

  • Novelist Haruki Murakami has good advice on what you can do when life looks dark buff.ly/2DkMKlS

  • At Marvel HQ in NYC, we peek behind the cape at the brand’s approach to digital buff.ly/2qye9IF

  • Are interactive, digital posters set to overtake the printed poster? buff.ly/2FcGzCb

  • Designing people’s Instagram Stories is now a million-dollar business buff.ly/2AI57hZ

  • The 3 Psychological Reasons We Cling to Conventional Wisdom (and How to Break Free) buff.ly/2NjvSw3

  • DNA of a Designer: The traits of strategic designers and how they vary buff.ly/2Pz7uMm

  • The 100 greatest foreign-language films buff.ly/2EZSJhp

  • Here's What Happens to Your Body After Daylight Saving Time buff.ly/2D0d4R2

  • How Quantum Mechanics Lets Us See, Smell and Touch buff.ly/2zhqhl4

  • Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from. buff.ly/2DfZo5n

  • A freak 1870s climate event killed millions – and could happen again buff.ly/2F6qA8i

  • In Norway, a Robot Will Soon be Delivering People's Mail buff.ly/2qrsQx7

  • This Tiny Drone Uses Friction to Pull More Than Its Own Weight buff.ly/2SBdEua

  • What's the best advice you've ever received? 10 designers share tips on surviving, thriving, and knowing when to shut up. buff.ly/2EQV2n6

  • Want to Innovate? Science Says, “Be A Nonconformist!” buff.ly/2SCQBiD

  • The World’s Scariest Fonts buff.ly/2JrKM34

  • 4 Ways to Pressure-Test Strategic Decisions, Inspired by the U.S. Military buff.ly/2SzsLE7

  • The Hunt for the Watch Thieves of Southern California: The true story of a ring of thieves who stole millions of dollars' worth of luxury watches—and the special agent who brought them down. buff.ly/2Dfbv2H

  • The Surprising Power of The Long Game buff.ly/2CMrm7L

  • Use meaningful words to explain clear, precise goals buff.ly/2Dd1X8a

  • Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal buff.ly/1k8ndHi

  • Screenwriters get a bad deal, that’s why I’m producing my own show buff.ly/2Swu0nO

  • Behind the wheel: Montana Rep's experiment in car theater buff.ly/2zgxEtb