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Saturday 27 August 2016

We Hope You Like Videos

Today's Edition Is All Videos Because Our Guest Curator Is Great Big Story
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Morning · Sat, Aug 27
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Today's Edition Is All Videos Because Our Guest Curator Is Great Big Story
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The team behind Great Big Story's awesome videos share their favorite videos and short films from around the web.
GBS'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS
FUN WITH ANIMATION
What If Balloons Competed In The Olympics?
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The animation team at Animade reimagines Olympics athletes as modeling balloons. Almost makes we wish this was what the Olympic games were actually like.
ON THE ROAD TO GREATNESS
Nzingha
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Nzingha Prescod is a foil fencer and in 2015, she became the first African-American woman to win an individual medal at the Senior World Championships.
HOLD YOUR BREATH
It's Hockey, But Underwater
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Think hockey is tough? Take the speed, force, and agility of a hockey game — add water and hold your breath — and now you've got underwater hockey
A TABLETOP LEGEND
Inside The Fierce Competition Of Professional Foosball
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Foosball isn't just a table game in basements and bars — meet Tony Spredeman, the #1-ranked foosball player in the world.
FROM OUR FRIENDS AT STASH
Why You Should Start Investing While You're Young And Broke
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Turns out, starting to invest when you don't have much money or experience can actually be an advantage. Here's why.
EAT IT UP
BIG VEGETABLES FEED BIG FAMILIES
This Gardener Regularly Grows 100-Pound Vegetables
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Growing up in a family of 13, Phillip Vowles learned to appreciate the effort it took to feed all his brothers and sisters. So when he started harvesting his own crop, he decided to supersize his venture
STOP MOTION MAKES EVERYTHING BETTER
Fresh Guacamole By PES
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A 2013 Academy Award Nominated film by PES. "Fresh Guacamole" is the shortest film ever nominated for an Oscar.
WORDS FROM AN EXPERT
Monsieur Oyster: A Profile Of Renowned Oyster Farmer Joël Dupuch
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Filmmaking duo Panthalassa travel to the seaside to profile renowned oyster farmer Joël Dupuch.
A REAL HUMAN BEING
THE OLD FASHIONED WAY
The Elevator Operator
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Ruben Pardo is 75 years old and has done the same job for the past 40 years. He is LA's oldest manual elevator operator.
ONE BADASS INVENTOR
The Man Who Escaped The Iron Curtain In A DIY Plane
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The dusty desert of Lucin, Utah, isn't for everyone. It's lonely, windy and hot. But for Ivo Zadarsky, it's home.
STRING MADNESS
What It Takes To Be A Yo-Yo Master
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Ben Conde is a graphic designer who, like a lot of recent grads, is figuring out his life. There's one aspect of his life, though, he already has on lock...
BEFORE YOU GO
MALLARD BUSINESS
Got A Pest Problem? Call The Quack Squad
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They're short, they waddle, and they're coming to eat the snails. Meet the quack squad, nature's very own pest control.
That's all we could fit in this newsletter. Check out more Great Big Story picks today on Digg dot com!

Friday 26 August 2016

Millennials Are Ruining Vacation

Millennials Are Ruining Vacation, And Other Facts
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Morning · Fri, Aug 26
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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
Millennials Are Ruining Vacation, And Other Facts
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Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Young people hate vacation, Google search is sometimes bad and paper can cut wood.
PARK YOUR CAMERA HERE
The Coolest Photos From The National Park Service's Newly Digitized Historic Archives
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Clemson University and the National Park Service have released the Open Parks Network, a digital gallery of rare and unique material from the archives of the country's national parks, historic sites and battlefields.
FROM OUR FRIENDS AT REEDSY
Everything You Need To Know About Self-Publishing A Book (Part Two)
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You've written a book! Now comes the hard part: making sure people buy it. Don't worry, we'll show you how to sell, where to sell and why Facebook is your BFF.
PUT IT ON THE MAP
LAST LINE OF DEFENSE AGAINST GENTRIFIERS
How Staten Island Almost Became A Nuclear Stronghold
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In the 1980s, the US Navy proposed and built a 35-acre, multimillion-dollar homeport at Stapleton, a neighborhood on Staten Island's northeastern waterfront, to permanently station a fleet of ships potentially armed with nuclear warheads.
THE FAULTS IN OUR EARTH
Mapping The 10,000 Most Powerful Earthquakes Since 1900
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Since 1900, there have been over 10,000 earthquakes that have registered above a 6 on the Richter Scale, including the 6.2 and 6.8 quakes that hit Italy and Myanmar this week. This animated map shows the locations of those earthquakes appearing in chronological order.
BLAME IT FOR YOUR MISSED CONNECTION
A GIF Illustrating How Flight Paths Change Based On The Wind
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Because the earth is round, planes don't travel in straight lines and instead follow curved routes along the earth's "great circles."  But every flight path varies a bit based on atmospheric conditions.
BACK TO SCHOOL
THE MIGRATION PATTERNS OF HIGHER ED
How Cuts To Public Universities Have Driven Students Out Of State
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Declines in state support for public universities have helped reshape the geography of college admissions, forcing many students to attend universities far from home, where they pay higher, out-of-state tuition.
COCKS NOT GLOCKS
To Protest Guns On Campus, Students In Texas Are Carrying Big, Fake Penises To Class
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​"If you're packing heat, we're packing meat."
NO PENNY LEFT BEHIND
How Investment Banks Cash In On School Construction
priceonomics.com
Schools are the US's second largest public infrastructure investment after transportation, and it's all under local control. And inevitably, when a tiny school board works with financial firms to borrow money, they get fleeced.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
AND THEN FIFTH GRADE AND THEN COLLEGE
Kevin Wants Everybody To Know How Freaking Excited He Is To Start The Fourth Grade
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Also, HE IS NOT A BABY AND KNOWS HOW TO RIDE A BIKE ALREADY, MOM.
IN THE NEWS
Brazil Court Summons Ryan Lochte To Give Evidence Over Robbery Claim
Clinton, Trump Exchange Racially Charged Accusations
Czech Tourist Reveals How She Survived 30-Day Ordeal In New Zealand Mountains
Ground Still Shaking As Italy Quake Death Toll Rises To 267
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