Born Without Bones

A Giant Squid Giving Birth Is A Crazily Surreal Experience, Rachel Dolezal's Husband Created A Music Video To Celebrate Their Love, Step 1: Open Snapchat Step 2: Tap To Focus On The Image Above, Don't Film A Wedding With A Drone, You Dingus, Why 82,000 Is An Extraordinary Number, These Plants Evolved To Explode Today's Top Videos Friday, June 12, 2015 BORN LIKE STARS A Giant Squid Giving Birth Is A Crazily Surreal Experience digg.com Skip to 3:00 to jump right into the action, but watching the entire video from the start truly adds to the mystery and beauty of the whole experience. 'I'M GONNA LOVE YOU FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE' Rachel Dolezal's Husband Created A Music Video To Celebrate Their Love digg.com The video features the not-actually-black NAACP chapter leader in a series of uncomfortable pictures. OR JUST ADD DIGGDOTCOM Step 1: Open Snapchat Step 2: Tap To Focus On The Image Above digg.com Step 3: Enjoy all the Snapchats you'll be getting from Digg! We've got cute dogs, weird Internet junk, sneak peeks inside Digg HQ and even an evening news program! FLYING THE KNOT Don't Film A Wedding With A Drone, You Dingus digg.com For one, your joyous day will be filled with robotic mosquito sounds. For two, this might happen. BREAKING: 1 NO LONGER LONELIEST NUMBER Why 82,000 Is An Extraordinary Number digg.com And it's not just because it comes after 81,999. YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT These Plants Evolved To Explode digg.com Behold the beautiful and violent reactions of violets, touch me nots, and squirting cucumbers. Read more on Digg.com → 'DERELICT' Someone edited "Alien" and "Prometheus" into one gorgeous film Credit: Job Willins Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Hail Satan

The Future According To Anime, The Peak Of Satanic Art And Other Facts, The Misfits Of Reddit Aren't Leaving, This Alleges To Be The Most Boring Viral Video, Inside The Secret World Of NSA Art, Could Neurons Have Evolved Twice? The Daily Digg Friday, June 12, 2015 ANIME IS REAL The Future According To Anime hopesandfears.com While Western audiences constantly look to science fiction to get a feel for what the future might look like, anime is often overlooked when they pull out their crystal balls. This is a shame because the talented forces behind one of the world's most popular art forms have an extremely distinctive outlook on what is to come. WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK The Peak Of Satanic Art And Other Facts digg.com This week we learned that demonic art peaked in the 18th century, how to make a steak with meat glue and what code is. BUT MAYBE THEY'LL GROW UP The Misfits Of Reddit Aren't Leaving digg.com A vocal minority of Redditors are threatening a mass exodus of the site after the banning of five totally indefensible subreddits. This is why they're probably not going anywhere. KONY2012 DETHRONED This Alleges To Be The Most Boring Viral Video digg.com At present, this video is not terribly boring, and it has not yet gone viral. It is, however, a good idea to get money to those who need it most. THE MFA AT THE NSA Inside The Secret World Of NSA Art firstlook.org Over 17 years, David Darchicourt worked with the National Security Agency as a graphic designer and art director, illustrating top-secret documents about government surveillance programs. Now he is the unwitting central character in a new exhibition that puts the spotlight on the spy agency's imagery. SECOND TIME'S THE CHARM Could Neurons Have Evolved Twice? digg.com According to traditional evolutionary biology, neurons evolved just once, hundreds of millions of years ago, likely after sea sponges branched off the evolutionary tree. But one researcher thinks it happened twice, calling into question the origins of the brain and the evolutionary history of animals Get more stories on Digg.com → WELCOME TO EARTH Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov rests in a chair outside the Soyuz TMA-15M space capsule after he and U.S. astronaut Terry Virts and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti landed in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Thursday, June 11, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, Pool Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Jaws, IRL

Cooking With Glass: How Pyrex Transformed The Kitchen, Three Great Articles Worth Your Time This Week, The Shady Math Behind Columbia House's '8 CDs For A Penny', VIDEO: Crazy Diver Stares Death In The Face, High-Fives A Great White Shark, The Secrets Of Airport Design, Mexican Wrestling Grapples For Its Future The Daily Digg Thursday, June 11, 2015 A MILLION MEGAPIXELS OF THE PYREX Cooking With Glass: How Pyrex Transformed The Kitchen collectorsweekly.com Almost from its debut in 1915 as the first glassware for cooking, Pyrex has been a ubiquitous part of the American kitchen. THE LONG-READER'S DIGEST Three Great Articles Worth Your Time This Week digg.com ​In this week's edition of the Long-Reader's Digest: The secret (and not so secret) history of SEAL Team 6, the mysterious case of a dead man on an Australian beach, and the curious proliferation of get-rich-quick schemes in Mormon country. MATH ROCK The Shady Math Behind Columbia House's '8 CDs For A Penny' avclub.com Any music fan eager to bulk up their collection in the '90s knew where to go to grab a ton of music on the cheap: Columbia House. The company's hook was enticing: Get a sizable stack of albums for just a penny, with no money owed up front, and then just buy a few more at regular price over time to fulfill the membership agreement. NEVER GOING IN THE OCEAN AGAIN VIDEO: Crazy Diver Stares Death In The Face, High-Fives A Great White Shark digg.com It's unclear why this diver is not in a cage, but given the size of this shark, he's lucky to still be in one piece. He did get a sweet high-five out of it, though. TO ENSURE A SMOOTH FLIGHT The Secrets Of Airport Design mentalfloss.com Everything from the architecture and lighting to the trinkets on sale in the gift shops is strategic. LIBRE AIN'T FREE Mexican Wrestling Grapples For Its Future bbc.com Despite continuing grumbles from the Mexican wrestlers that the promoters take too much of the cash, there is simply not a great deal of money in the industry. Although lucha libre has a loyal fanbase, its popularity in Mexico is dwarfed by the likes of football, baseball and boxing. Get more stories on Digg.com → A TIGER OUT OF THE WOODS A Royal Bengal tiger is silhouetted as it walks near a lake at the Ranthambhore national park in Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan, India, Wednesday, June 10, 2015. India's latest tiger census conducted in 2014 showed a sharp increase in the number of the endangered cats in the wild. The country has nearly three-fourths of the world's estimated 3,200 tigers. Credit: AP Photo/ Deepak Sharma Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Baseball's Oldest Ruse

The Right To Waste Water Is Parching The West, Andrew Cuomo's Pot Problem, The Secretive Group That Decides What 'Natural Flavors' Means, Inside A Working Snail Farm, The Colorful History Of Baseball's Oldest Ruse, The Canine Catacombs And The Animal Cult Industry Of Ancient Egypt The Daily Digg Wednesday, June 10, 2015 USE IT OR LOSE IT The Right To Waste Water Is Parching The West digg.com How "use it or lose it" provisions in state water laws are soaking up valuable water supplies in the drought-stricken West. SMOKE, MIRRORED Andrew Cuomo's Pot Problem rollingstone.com In New York, one of the most liberal states in the country, why is the governor doing everything in his power to water down sensible marijuana reform? THE MISINFORMATION INDUSTRY The Secretive Group That Decides What 'Natural Flavors' Means publicintegrity.org The Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association, a secretive food industry trade group not part of the U.S. government, has become the de-facto regulator of flavor ingredients. SLOW FOOD MOVEMENT Inside A Working Snail Farm digg.com In this episode of "Gastropod," a visit with Ric Brewer, owner of Little Gray Farms, to learn what it takes to raise the "shrimp of the land," including purging, de-sliming, and kinky snail sex. THE OLDEST TRICK IN THE BOOK The Colorful History Of Baseball's Oldest Ruse ourgame.mlblogs.com The hidden-ball trick is defined as "a time- honored legal ruse in which a baseman conceals the ball and hopes that the base runner believes it has been returned to the pitcher. When the runner steps off the base, he is summarily tagged out with the hidden ball." The dying art dates back to the early days of pro baseball. THE MUMMIFIED MILLIONS The Canine Catacombs And The Animal Cult Industry Of Ancient Egypt ancient-origins.net Millions upon millions of animal mummies have been found in the dark, carved stone tunnels beneath the location of Egypt's earliest pyramid. The astounding piles of preserved animal remains not only signify a cultural and religious phenomenon, but also speak to the mammoth industry that operated to maintain a source of constant tributes to the gods. Get more stories on Digg.com → AS THE WORLD TURNS Britain's Sir Bradley Wiggins rides on his way to breaking the UCI Hour Record at the Olympic Velodrome in Lee Valley Velopark, London, Sunday, June 7, 2015. Former Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins broke cycling's prestigious hour record, covering 54.526 kilometers (33.88 miles) in 60 minutes. Credit: AP Photo/Tim Ireland Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Erdo-Gone

What It's Like To Be Declared Dead By The Government, Can Gaming Help Me See In 3D?, How To Save Money When You're Not Looking, WATCH: Mad Scientist Builds A 40 Watt Laser Shotgun, The Defeat Of Would-Be-Emperor Erdogan, Virtual Reality Tricked Stroke Victims Into Using Their Weak Limbs The Daily Digg Tuesday, June 9, 2015 DO YOU HAVE FORM 27B STROKE 6? What It's Like To Be Declared Dead By The Government priceonomics.com It is estimated that every year, some 12,200 very much alive US citizens are declared dead by the Social Security Administration due to "keystroke errors." Those affected quite literally become a walking dead, unable to secure a job, make financial transactions, file taxes, or visit the doctor. INTELLIVISION 2.0 Can Gaming Help Me See In 3D? digg.com At 42, Nic Fleming discovered that he has never really seen in three dimensions. Can new therapies based on video games fix his lazy eye and give him his first glimpse of life in 3D? STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED How To Save Money When You're Not Looking digit.co Ever wish someone, or something, would just take care of that whole "saving money" thing for you? Meet Digit. BLINDED BY THE LIGHT WATCH: Mad Scientist Builds A 40 Watt Laser Shotgun digg.com "There's no good reason for anybody to own anything this powerful." END OF AN ERDO The Defeat Of Would-Be-Emperor Erdogan politico.com To counter his enemies, Erdogan had emphasized the need to create an all-powerful presidency — similar to that of his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. To that end he had asked the Turkish electorate to give the AKP 330 parliamentary seats to rewrite the constitution. FAKE IT 'TIL YOU MAKE IT Virtual Reality Tricked Stroke Victims Into Using Their Weak Limbs motherboard.vice.com In virtual reality, an arm impaired by a stroke can seem strong again. And, according to new research, that illusion could be the key to give patients the confidence they need to practice using their weakened limbs in real life. Get more stories on Digg.com → More than 173,000 pots of plants and herbs form a flower carpet in front of the city hall in Antwerp, Belgium, on Monday. To celebrate the 450th anniversary of the Antwerp city hall, artist Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven selected 31 different species to create a design of large geometric figures in bright sixties colors. Van Kerckhoven found inspiration in the Renaissance floor of the Plantin-Moretus museum and in a map of the city by the river Scheldt, which dates from 1575, and includes the river bend. The carpet measures 196 by 98 feet. Credit: AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014