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Friday 8 May 2015

Velcro You Can Drink

Dreams Have No Borders, Friendship Will Get You Everywhere And Other Facts, How To Make Long Distance Relationships Work, This History Of Velcro, Our Secret Identity Crisis, A Field Guide To Modern-Day Foodies
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Friday, May 8, 2015
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CAUGHT OFFSIDE
Dreams Have No Borders
sbnation.com
Sydney Leroux's journey from Canada to the American National Team.
WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
Friendship Will Get You Everywhere And Other Facts
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This week we learned that flattery will not get you everywhere, the profound effects a leaf blower has on a chiminea and Ken Jennings might be a robot.
APPS WE DIGG SPONSORED
How To Make Long Distance Relationships Work
hipchat.com
Work relationships, that is. HipChat lets you do everything you can do in person, and more. Group chat, video chat and file sharing — it's got everything a team needs to stay in touch, whether you're sitting next to Jim from accounting or a thousand miles from Michelle in sales.
AND A COCKTAIL TO GO WITH IT
This History Of Velcro
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This week, the "Dinner Party Download" podcast tells us all about how a Swiss engineer devised a "space-age" fastener we now know as Velcro, and gives us a custom drink to go down with the history.
COVER STORIES
Our Secret Identity Crisis
birthmoviesdeath.com
We're more into alter egos than ever — just not, strangely enough, in our superhero stories.
COCKS ILLUSTRATED
A Field Guide To Modern-Day Foodies
firstwefeast.com
Everything you need to know about the various species of fuccbois ignoramus foodeus.
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CATCH UP
Image: Cincinnati Reds center fielder Billy Hamilton can't come down with the ball off the center field wall by Pittsburgh Pirates' Pedro Alvarez in the fifth inning of a baseball game Thursday, May 7, 2015, in Pittsburgh.
Cincinnati Reds center fielder Billy Hamilton can't come down with the ball off the center field wall by Pittsburgh Pirates' Pedro Alvarez in the fifth inning of a baseball game Thursday, May 7, 2015, in Pittsburgh. Credit: AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar
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Thursday 7 May 2015

Mortal Enemy

The Man Who Found The Internet In A Wireless Place, America's Epidemic Of Useless Medical Care, And Other Things You Didn't Have Time To Read, It's Not Your Fault You Get Motion Sickness, Bill Gates' Quest To Determine Why Children Are Dying, The Case For Violent Video Games, What It Was Like To Play For The '80s Clippers, The Worst Team In Sports
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Thursday, May 7, 2015
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LOGGING ON AMONG THE ULTRA-ORTHODOX
The Man Who Found The Internet In A Wireless Place
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On this week's episode of the Reply All podcast, a story about the Internet encroaching on a world that has managed pretty successfully to block it out — New York's Ultra Orthodox Jewish community.
THE LONG-READER'S DIGEST
America's Epidemic Of Useless Medical Care, And Other Things You Didn't Have Time To Read
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Useless medical care, Mexico's missing students, and Gamergate's origin — here's the best of this week's long-form journalism.
DNA TESTS WE DIGG SPONSORED
It's Not Your Fault You Get Motion Sickness
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Are you one of the 1 in 3 people who suffer from motion sickness? You can probably blame your ancestors for that.
MORTALITY'S ENEMY
Bill Gates' Quest To Determine Why Children Are Dying
theatlantic.com
An interview with Gates about why so many newborns die in developing countries, and what he thinks he can do about it.
ON OUR WORST BEHAVIOR, ON-SCREEN
The Case For Violent Video Games
themarshallproject.org
A new book says kids know they're a fantasy — even a healthy one.
WINGS CLIPPED
What It Was Like To Play For The '80s Clippers, The Worst Team In Sports
deadspin.com
With the Clippers entering a new era, one in which they aren't the most embarrassing franchise in pro sports, it feels like a good time to look back at the bad old days, and talk to those who lived through them. Call it an oral history of crushing incompetence.
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CAN'T SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREE POSES
Image: People take part in a yoga session on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Every week in May free Yoga classes are offered featuring different yoga instructors in Ottawa.
People take part in a yoga session on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Every week in May free Yoga classes are offered featuring different yoga instructors in Ottawa. Credit: Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP
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Wednesday 6 May 2015

Thanks Granny Smith

Apple Has Plans For Your DNA, A Comprehensive Collection Of Comedians Tweeting About Their Flights, Your Underwear Needs A Spring Cleaning Too, VIDEO: An Honest Trailer For '50 Shades Of Grey', Scientists Take First Picture Of Thunder, When Your Surgeon Really Is A Hack
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015
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GOT IT FROM YOUR GRANNY SMITH
Apple Has Plans For Your DNA
technologyreview.com
The iPhone could become a new tool in genetic studies. Apple is collaborating with U.S. researchers to launch apps that would offer some iPhone owners the chance to get their DNA tested, many of them for the first time, according to people familiar with the plans.
HOPEFULLY THEY DON'T CRASH AND BURN
A Comprehensive Collection Of Comedians Tweeting About Their Flights
splitsider.com
Nothing puts off one's judgment like anger, so oftentimes comedians end up posting airline tweets without the kind of mental editing or restraint they give their usual punchlines. The result is a sometimes hilarious and sometimes shameless look at which comedians perform best under pressure — and not the kind of pressure they're used to onstage.
UNDIES WE DIGG SPONSORED
Your Underwear Needs A Spring Cleaning Too
meundies.com
It's time. You know it. We know it. Everyone in the gym locker room knows it. You need new underwear and MeUndies' got the pair for you. With a money back guarantee and 20% off your first pair, you can't go wrong.
STARRING EDWARD CULLEN GREY
VIDEO: An Honest Trailer For '50 Shades Of Grey'
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"Teenage girls from around the world made Twilight into a global phenomenon. Now it's mom's turn."
BOOM, CLAP
Scientists Take First Picture Of Thunder
sciencenews.org
For the first time, scientists have precisely captured a map of the boisterous bang radiating from a lightning strike. The work could reveal the energies involved in powering some of nature's flashiest light shows. All it took was a kevlar-coated copper wire launched into an electrically charged cloud using a small rocket.
A DIFFERENT TYPE OF VIRUS
When Your Surgeon Really Is A Hack
blog.norsecorp.com
There's been a quiet revolution going on within hospitals, mostly in the United States. In 2013, for example, nearly half-a-million robot surgeries were performed where a doctor remotely manipulated a device performing the operation. And these devices could be prone to security weaknesses. In other words, someone might hack your doctor's robot.
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SMOKE RINGING IT IN
Image: Australian indigenous performers, William Barton, left, and Djakapurra Munyarryun perform the smoking ceremony during the inauguration of the Australian pavilion at the 56th Biennale of Arts in Venice, Tuesday, May 5, 2015.
Australian indigenous performers, William Barton, left, and Djakapurra Munyarryun perform the smoking ceremony during the inauguration of the Australian pavilion at the 56th Biennale of Arts in Venice, Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis
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Tuesday 5 May 2015

The Elephant No Longer In The Room

The Best and Worst Places To Grow Up: How Your Area Compares, VIDEO: Mom Has The Only Sane Reaction To Idiot Using A Leaf Blower On A Chiminea, How To Get A Better Job, The Man Who Cut Out His Own Appendix, How Corona Made Cinco De Mayo An American Holiday, The Elephant Watcher
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015
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KIDS DON'T HAVE IT MADE IN MANHATTAN
The Best and Worst Places To Grow Up: How Your Area Compares
nytimes.com
Children who grow up in some places go on to earn much more than they would if they grew up elsewhere.
'WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!'
VIDEO: Mom Has The Only Sane Reaction To Idiot Using A Leaf Blower On A Chiminea
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This entire neighborhood probably smells like burning because one drunk dummy thought massive plumes of chiminea smoke looked cool. Way to ruin a nice day for everyone, bud.
STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED
How To Get A Better Job
teamtreehouse.com
These people did it. So can you. Seriously. You can do it. You.
ALWAYS BRING TWO DOCTORS
The Man Who Cut Out His Own Appendix
bbc.com
During an expedition to the Antarctic, Russian surgeon Leonid Rogozov became seriously ill. He needed an operation — and as the only doctor on the team, he realised he would have to do it himself.
THE VALENTINE'S DAY OF CHEAP BEER
How Corona Made Cinco De Mayo An American Holiday
vinepair.com
Suffice it to say, Cinco de Mayo is a behemoth when it comes to selling booze, but how did a holiday that isn't really even celebrated in Mexico become not only the most powerful US holiday when it comes to selling alcohol, but also the only connection most Americans have to our largest immigrant group?
OUR TURN NOT TO FORGET
The Elephant Watcher
newyorker.com
As poachers grow bolder, Andrea Turkalo records the behavior of a vanishing species.
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DON'T BACK DOWN
Image: A worker of the recently closed Swan garments factory covers her face with a scarf to shelter herself from the sun as she participates in a protest outside the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Export Association office in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, May 4, 2015. More than two hundred workers protested Monday demanding payment of wages still owed to them as well as reopening of the manufacturing unit. Bangladesh is the world's second-largest garment manufacturing country after China. The sector employs about 4 million workers, mostly women.
A worker of the recently closed Swan garments factory covers her face with a scarf to shelter herself from the sun as she participates in a protest outside the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Export Association office in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, May 4, 2015. More than two hundred workers protested Monday demanding payment of wages still owed to them as well as reopening of the manufacturing unit. Bangladesh is the world's second-largest garment manufacturing country after China. The sector employs about 4 million workers, mostly women. Credit: AP Photo/A.M. Ahad
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Monday 4 May 2015

Damn Good Coffee

A Minute Of Horror, Then Hours Of Panic On The Path To Mount Everest, Why You Can't Get Cheap Lobster, And Other News, What The Mattress Industry Doesn't Want You To Know, The Decline Of Pseudoscience, VIDEO: Making Turkish Sand Coffee Looks Like Magic, My Struggle With The Last Great Taboo: Admitting My Salary
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Monday, May 4, 2015
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SLIPPERY SLOPES
A Minute Of Horror, Then Hours Of Panic On The Path To Mount Everest
washingtonpost.com
At base camp, it was lunchtime.
WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND
Why You Can't Get Cheap Lobster, And Other News
digg.com
Expensive shellfish, magical coffee, and a man-sized cake.
STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED
What The Mattress Industry Doesn't Want You To Know
tuftandneedle.com
Mattresses are marked up 6-12 times from manufacture to point of sale. That means you're mostly paying for bad TV commercials, retail markups, sales commissions, and wholesaler's profits.
DR. OZYMANDIAS
The Decline Of Pseudoscience
newrepublic.com
Now that "natural" living has gone mainstream, its days are numbered
DAMN GOOD SAND, AND HOT
VIDEO: Making Turkish Sand Coffee Looks Like Magic
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On first glance, it looks a lot like this coffee maker is summoning coffee from the bottom of the cup like a rabbit from a hat.
CAN I GET YOUR NUMBER?
My Struggle With The Last Great Taboo: Admitting My Salary
wired.com
Late last week, using the hashtag #talkpay, people began tweeting about how much money they make — a radical thing to do in a culture that treats disclosing your salary as the ultimate taboo.
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TALLADEGA LIGHTS
Image: Austin Dillon's car catches fire during the Talladega 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Talladega Superspeedway, Sunday, May 3, 2015, in Talladega, Ala.
Austin Dillon's car catches fire during the Talladega 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Talladega Superspeedway, Sunday, May 3, 2015, in Talladega, Ala. Credit: AP Photo/Butch Dill
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