Ben There, Done That

A 200-Year-Old Gift From Benjamin Franklin Made Boston And Philadelphia A Fortune, 'Natural' Doesn't Always Mean 'Good', Journalist Goes To A South Korean Love Motel, Tries To Find All The Spycams Hidden Inside

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MONEY TALKS THAT'S INFLATION FOR YA A 200-Year-Old Gift From Benjamin Franklin Made Boston And Philadelphia A Fortune mentalfloss.com When Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, he left a small sum of money to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia with one condition: that they not spend it in full for 200 years. NO WIGGLE ROOM How Rigid Is The Middle Class In The US, Really? pudding.cool Exploring the economic mobility of 11,172 middle class families over a 50 year period. GREEN FLEX Who's Paying $5,000 For One Houseplant? More People Than You'd Think vice.com A record-breaking auction with an anonymous buyer has pushed houseplant hysteria into an even bigger luxury market. SEEING THROUGH THE TV The Making Of Ellen DeGeneres, The Nicest Person On Television jezebel.com In recent weeks, a hairline fracture in DeGeneres's reputation is beginning to widen into an uncontrollable chasm, rending apart a career she's so tightly rebuilt. SECURITY WE DIGG | SPONSORED Award-Winning DIY Home Security simplisafe.com There's a reason PCMag and CNET both gave SimpliSafe their Editors' Choice Award for home security. Just order online and easily set it up in under 30 minutes. After that, your family is protected 24/7 from break-ins, fires, floods and more. THE BIGGER PICTURE SOAPS AND DREAMS 'Natural' Doesn't Always Mean 'Good' reallifemag.com Products like Mrs. Meyer's soap encourage you to feel good when there is no reason to. BASKET CASE Why Are The NBA's Ratings Going Down? slate.com A conversation with the Athletic's Ethan Strauss. 'THE GRAND OLD MELTDOWN' What Happens When A Party Gives Up On Ideas? politico.com The party is now defined primarily by its appetite for conflict, even when that conflict serves no obvious policy goal. HOWDY, SPORTS FANS Here Are The Greatest Novels Ever Written About Every Sport lithub.com And why there should be so many more. VIDEO OF THE DAY THIS IS UPSETTING Journalist Goes To A South Korean Love Motel, Tries To Find All The Spycams Hidden Inside youtube.com Molka, the capturing of voyeuristic images and videos via hidden cameras, is on the rise in South Korea, and it's disturbing how many places in a motel room can host a spy camera. IN THE NEWS Arsonists Set Fires As Wisconsin City Rages Over Police Shooting Of Black Man Business Partner Of Falwells Says Affair With Evangelical Power Couple Spanned Seven Years Fierce Storm Surge Feared As Laura Bears Down On Gulf Coast Kremlin: Navalny Poisoning Accusations 'Empty Noise' FROM THE DIGG STORE | SPONSORED This Ingenious Ergonomic Screwdriver Comes With 20 Universal Bits store.digg.com Tackle just about any at-home project with the innovative Spinner Drive ergonomic screwdriver. Successfully funded on Kickstarter, Spinner Drive has 20 universal bits and is on sale for 12 percent off at just $64.99. FROM THE ARCHIVES LIVING ON THE EDGE The People Who Moved To Chernobyl (2018) bbc.co.uk The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 left a ring of ghost villages as residents fled, fearing radiation poisoning. But now people are choosing to live in the crumbling houses on the edge of the exclusion zone. FULL OF CHARACTERS Solving A Century-Old Typographical Mystery (2016) theatlantic.com How a strange face in a random 19th-century newspaper ad became a portal to a forgotten moment in ASCII art history. It's okay not to be okay sometimes. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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