Guest Thinkers — February 22, 2011

Endless Innovation Links: July 27 – July 31

Dominic Basulto

As we roll into another summer weekend, here are some of the best innovation links for the week of July 27 – July 31:

Deconstructing the Wildly-Popular YouTube Wedding Video [Official Google Blog]

The Next Chapter in Interactive Storytelling [BBH Labs]

PowerPoint humor from Hah-vahd [Harvard Business Publishing]

The Best Collection of Augmented Reality Resources [DayLife]

The Ultimate “What-If” Scenario for the New York Times [Tech Crunch]

Three New Social Shopping Websites that are Generating Buzz [Fast Company]

Google Analytics for Your iPhone App [Springwise]

Foursquare Appoints Multiple “Mayors” of Manhattan [New York Times Bits Blog]

34 Ways to Use YouTube for Your Small Business [Web Worker Daily]

An Open Collection of Tools for Any Complex Design Process [Service Design Tools]

[image: X-Ray Boeing via Nick Veasey X-Ray Photography]

a computer generated image of a human brain.

Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

a collage of photos of a man with a hat and a book.

High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

a group of five matches on a pink background.

The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

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