The Week's Links: April 5, 2013
/All the links posted on social networks this week:
- Great resource: On staying current with development trends ➞
- Learning code: Time for us all to recognize the creative value of those 0s and 1s ➞
- The Roller Coaster Up and Downs of Selling an Orchestra ◉
- IBM's liquid transistors could help build brain-like chips ➞
- Coffitivity: Ambient sounds to boost your workday creativity! ➞
- A compatibility table showing the available default system fonts across different mobile platforms ➞
- Heart of the Swarm – the Amazing Science of Shoals, Flocks, Hives and Brains ➞
- Veronique Greenwood "I grew up in the future" - My futurist childhood ➞
- Another study finds music piracy 'does not displace digital sales' ➞
- Urgent, Please Read ASAP ◉
- Artist Damien Hirst Looks Back On His Life In Art ◉
- Peruvian billboard creates drinking water ➞
- The 50 Best Opening Scenes in Movies ➞
- Nine Decades of Science in The New Yorker: Looking Back to Look Ahead ◉
- Robert Rodriguez On Creative Action: "You Don't Have To Know Anything; You Just Have To Start" ➞
- The top 25 movie posters of all time ➞
- How Pi Was Nearly Changed to 3.2 … and Copyrighted! ➞
- TED Playlist: These extraordinary maestros bring you into the world of writing and conducting music. ➞
- Why Travel Makes You Awesome ➞
- 100 Metropolitan Museum Curators Talk About 100 Works of Art That Changed How They See the World ➞
- Reasoning Training Increases Brain Connectivity Associated with High-Level Cognition ➞
- 20 Things Life Is Too Short To Tolerate ➞
- The Newspaper of Tomorrow: 11 Predictions from Yesteryear ➞
- Are Birds Evolving to Avoid Cars? ➞
- Introducing MusicMoves.Me ◉
- A Tuner App That Visualizes Your Pitch In Real Time ◉
- After Twenty-Three Years, FBI Says It Finally Knows Who’s Responsible for the Largest Unsolved Art Heist Ever ➞
- Chop Chop, A Dramatic Rescue Is In Progress ◉
- Are Optical Illusions Cultural? ➞
- Creativity Top 5: Week of April 1, 2013 ◉
- The British Library chooses 100 websites they feel capture the digital universe ➞
- Fantastic: 100 Websites You Should Know and Use (updated!) - TED ➞
- Gorgeous: Hexagonal rocks ➞
- Listen as Albert Einstein Reads You A Scientific Essay ➞
- Sleep consolidates memories for competing tasks ➞
- Introducing WordsMove.Me ◉
- So great: Quentin Tarantino Screenplays as Classic Penguin Style Book Covers ➞
- The Adverb Is Not Your Friend ◉
- The Art of Film & TV Title Design: PBS Off Book ◉
- Need a Creativity Jolt? Drop by a Modern Art Show ➞
- Work Alone: Ernest Hemingway's 1954 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech ➞
- On education reform: Need a Job? Invent It ➞
- How to See Like an Artist ➞
- A tip for effective meetings: Always be capturing ➞
- Love this, so beautiful: Holi celebrations 2013 ➞
- The Temporal Doppler Effect: Why The Future Feels Closer Than The Past ➞
- How The New York Times, Warby-Parker, Burberry, Sharp, Vodafone and Others Get Creative With Data ➞
- How To Maintain Motivation When Your Goals Are Epic ➞
- So good: A compulsive tribute to Giambattista Bodoni ➞
- Introducing DanceMoves.Me ◉
- Agony & Ecstasy: A Year with English National Ballet ◉
- A Partial History of Headphones ➞
- The Effects Of Sound ◉
- The Best Animated Films of All Time, According to Terry Gilliam ➞
- HTML5 code snippets to take your website to the next level ➞
- Herb Lubalin and Expressive Typography ➞
- A Visual Timeline of the Future Based on Famous Fiction ➞
- The 20 best tools for data visualization ➞
- The Ideal Praise-to-Criticism Ratio - Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman ➞
- Why No One Likes Mobile Ads and How Companies Hope to Change That ➞
- Entire library journal editorial board resigns, citing 'crisis of conscience' after death of Aaron Swartz ➞
- Why Innovators Get Better With Age -NYTimes.com ➞
- Amazon Buys Book-Recommendation Site Goodreads ➞
- Tod Machover: how to crowdsource a symphony ➞
- Carnegie Hall MOOC Will Teach You How to Listen to Orchestras (Free) ➞
- Another great radio play: BBC Radio 2 heads over to Dark Side with Pink Floyd play by Tom Stoppard ➞
- LA County Museum Makes 20,000 Artistic Images Available for Free Download ➞
- 10 Illuminating Fan Letters From Famous Authors, To Famous Authors ➞
- Gears of War writer Tom Bissell on video games and storytelling: The New Yorker ➞
- 10 Constellations that Never Caught On ➞
- Finally, a Pop-Cultural Portrayal of Ballet as Art, Not Sport ➞
- Cultural Icons on Criticism ➞
- Break your addiction to being right. ➞
- First There Was IQ. Then EQ. But Does CQ — Creative Intelligence — Matter Most? ➞
- The 16-Year-Old Who Created A Cheap, Accurate Cancer Sensor Is Now Building A Tricorder With Other Genius Kids ➞
- Another great post by @robinsloan: Making culture for the internets—all of them ➞
- Wayfinding is fascinating: From Wayfinding to Interaction Design. ➞
- 25 Web development resources to help you create better websites ➞
- Useful: Photoshop add-ons you should be using ➞