All That Glitters Is Cold

The Strongest Evidence Yet That America Is Botching Coronavirus Testing, The Real Stories Billionaires Tell Themselves To Justify Their Wealth, I Was A Middle-Class Drug Mule, and more.

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Digg Editions Sat, Mar 07

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SYSTEMS FAILURE THE WHITE HOUSE DECLINED TO COMMENT The Strongest Evidence Yet That America Is Botching Coronavirus Testing theatlantic.com "I don't know what went wrong," a former CDC chief told The Atlantic. RUNNING AND RUNNING I Was A Middle-Class Drug Mule vice.com "I probably should've been scared, but I wasn't." WHO WANTS TO MEET A BILLIONAIRE? The Real Stories Billionaires Tell Themselves To Justify Their Wealth gen.medium.com Yale professor Justin Farrell spent five years among the billionaires of Teton County, Wyoming to find out what it's like to be really, really rich. DEALS WE DIGG | SPONSORED This Must-Have Browser Extension Finds Promo Codes At 30,000 Sites joinhoney.com If you aren't using Honey when you're shopping online, you're probably wasting money. See why this free extension has over 100,000 five-star reviews — here's how it works. LOOK CAREFULLY OLD AGE ART A Collection Of 'Fossils' Of Popular Cartoon Characters behance.net A series imagining realistic skulls based on cartoon characters, from Canis Goofus to Canaria Tweetea. (WARNING: FLASHING LIGHTS) WATCH: You'll Swear These Gears Are Moving — But It's Just An Extremely Convincing Optical Illusion gfycat.com Logically, three interlocking gears would be physically locked in place, but the flashing colors in this illusion don't care about logic. ALL THAT GLITTERS The Women Who Scavenge For Gold At The Top Of The World widerimage.reuters.com Eva Chura is one of the magpies of the mountain. Living with their families in shacks in a gold shantytown in the Andes, these women make a living gleaning gold from rubble. BET ON THE MELT The Great Alaskan Guessing Game outsideonline.com Last year the jackpot in the Nenana Ice Classic was $311,652. Watching ice melt just got really interesting. VIDEO OF THE DAY 'THAT'S NOT A HOT WHEELS' Somebody Built A Tiny Race Track For Toy Cars And Filmed It With Ridiculously High Production Values youtube.com 3Dbotmaker's "Diecast Rally Championship" is a painstaking labor of love of making a racing show with toy cars — including dramatic music and professional announcers. DIGG PICKS | AFFILIATE Make Your Own Ornate Marble Courses On The Side Of Your Fridge kickstarter.com Your refrigerator needn't be relegated to holding up grocery lists and souvenirs from gift shops. Constructing your own marble course is much more interesting. FROM THE ARCHIVES 'MY SILENT STRUGGLE' The Concussion Diaries: One High School Football Player's Secret Struggle with CTE (2017) gq.com Zac Easter knew what was happening to him. He knew why. And he knew that it was only going to get worse. So he decided to write it all down — to let the world know what football had done to him, what he'd done to his body and his brain for the game he loved. And then he shot himself. SUN'S OUT, BLOCKCHAINS OUT My Wet and Wild Bitcoin Weekend On Richard Branson's Island Refuge (2016) motherboard.vice.com How the global economy is being overturned by men in flip flops. Happy Saturday, friends. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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Honey Bunches Of Nopes

Your Fancy Honey Might Not Actually Be Honey, The Richest Person In Every American State, Visualized, A Legendary Photographer Kept These Photos Unseen For Decades, Until Now, and more.

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Digg Editions Fri, Mar 06

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THE HIDDEN PICTURE SWEET, SOURED Your Fancy Honey Might Not Actually Be Honey — And It's A Big Problem vice.com It may have been sweetened, heated, filtered, and turned into a fraud — and the entire agricultural system is at risk as a result. NEW EXPOSURE A Legendary Photographer Kept These Photos Unseen For Decades, Until Now washingtonpost.com Stephen Shore is one of the most iconic and legendary American photographers of all time. His latest book gives new insight into one of his iconic masterpieces. A TRUE DOUBLE WHAMMY I Was Trapped In Quicksand For 12 Hours In A Blizzard outsideonline.com Five hours into their trip, Ryan Osmun stepped in a tiny patch of quicksand, but it was enough to completely swallow his leg. NATURE, WHAT IS GOOD FOR? National Park Illustrations, Based On Their Worst One-Star Reviews boredpanda.com I'm an illustrator and I have always had a personal goal to draw all 62 US National Parks, but I wanted to find a unique twist for the project. STARTUPS WE DIGG | SPONSORED This Tiny Company Is Disrupting The $27 Trillion Retirement Industry getadvisor.smartasset.com Once this startup's founder realized that only 26% of Americans are on track to retire, he launched a free tool that matches you with the right fiduciary financial advisors in your area. IT'S MEME TIME THIS EXPERIMENT HAS ENDED The Week's Best Memes, Ranked digg.com It's an internet fight and only the funniest meme will emerge victorious. This week, we have: the most fascinating ethical debates on film, "I meet someone, we talk, they leave," a failed sociological experiment, and CDC memes. MONEY FOR NOTHING THE SCROLL TOLL Addiction To Technology Is Killing Capitalism theatlantic.com The biggest, best-known companies in the digital economy are getting their users hooked on their products — and undermining the pillars of America's market economy. CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME The Richest Person In Every American State, Visualized digg.com The rich get richer, and everyone else seemingly less so. As income inequality continues to be a problem in the United States, what better time to find out who the biggest fat cats in America are — specifically, who are the richest people in your state? MONEY CAN'T BUY EVERYTHING I Was Born Wealthy, And Know For A Fact That Rich People Don't Work Harder Than You readpassage.com I never saw exceptional "hard work" or "intelligence" among the members of the class I was born into. VIDEO OF THE DAY (FOR SCIENCE) Archival Footage Of The Time NASA Crashed A Jetliner Filled With Fuel Into The Desert youtube.com Back in 1984, NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration conducted a controlled impact demonstration, intentionally crashing a Boeing 720 into the Mojave Desert to test technologies that would help passengers and crew survive. IN THE NEWS 2,773 People Are Under Coronavirus Quarantines In City Cruise Passengers Off California Await Virus Test Results Ahead Of Coronavirus Impact, Economy Added 273,000 Jobs For February Dozens of Catholic Priests Credibly Accused Of Abuse Found Work Abroad, Some With The Church's Blessing DIGG PICKS | AFFILIATE This Modern Re-Release Of Mark Twain's 'Roughing It' Deserves A Prime Spot On Our Bookshelf huckberry.com Nobody can squeeze joy out of the English language quite like Mark Twain. And since this hard cover re-release of his classic travel book features a gorgeous new cover treatment, it's earned a front-and-center spot. FROM THE ARCHIVES THE HOUSE DOESN'T ALWAYS WIN The Lottery Hackers (2018) highline.huffingtonpost.com Jerry Selbee has always had an eye for puzzles and spotting patterns — which is how he discovered a lottery loophole that would eventually make him and his wife millionaires. It's 9 AM. Do you know where your honey is? View the Edition at Digg.com »

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