Me, Myself And Island

Meet The Man Who Has Lived Alone On This Island For 31 Years, The Mystery Of Germany's Low Coronavirus Death Rate, and more.

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Digg Editions Sat, Mar 28

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COST AND EFFECT 'AS IF THERE WERE AN ANVIL [ON MY CHEST]' Diary Of A COVID-19 Patient theatlantic.com The thought of simply breathing in and out without coughing and reuniting with my children, wherever that might be, is goal enough. To —literally — live and let live will be enough. SPILL THE BOHNEN The Mystery Of Germany's Low Coronavirus Death Rate vox.com Germany has the fifth most coronavirus cases worldwide — but only a fraction of the deaths. WHO'S BENEFITING THE MOST? Where All The Money In The $2 Trillion Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Is Going, Visualized digg.com Earlier this week, the United States Senate passed a roughly $2 trillion coronavirus response bill, but where is all that money going? PAY IT FORWARD What Should The Government Spend To Save A Life? fivethirtyeight.com Economists have done the math. LIVE TV WE DIGG | SPONSORED The Live TV You Love — For Less sling.com Stop paying too much for live TV. Cut the cord and switch to Sling to create your own custom channel lineup and watch the live TV you love for less. PICTURE THIS Life In Earth's Deepest Deep Freeze, And More Best Photography Of The Week digg.com The weird and wonderful world of British car boot sales, a journey to Japan's centuries-old festivals and more best photos of the week. GO YOUR OWN WAY THE ART WORLD IS NUTS The Auction Game: Can You Guess How Much Different Artworks Sold For? neal.fun Neal Agarwal's "Auction Game" is like "The Price Is Right," but way, way harder. AT LEAST ONE MAN IS AN ISLAND Meet The Man Who Has Lived Alone On This Island For 31 Years nationalgeographic.com Mauro Morandi has lived alone on Italy's Budelli Island for 31 years. "What I love the most is the silence," he says. NOT GONNA CARRY THAT WEIGHT The Technical Challenges Of Flying Near-Empty Planes thepointsguy.com Revenue aside, flying empty or near-empty planes requires operational changes due to physics. It's all because of weight and balance. DECIPHERING THE MESS Radical Solutions damninteresting.com French mathematician Évariste Galois lived a full life. When he wasn't trying to overthrow the government, he was reinventing algebra. VIDEO OF THE DAY FOUL PLAY 'Stunningly, Outrageously Weird': This Bonkers History Of The Seattle Mariners Will Fill The Sports Void In Your Life youtube.com Jon Bois and Alex Rubenstein's YouTube history of the Mariners gets off to a roaring start — "with 140 acts of arson." DIGG PICKS | AFFILIATE Six Card Games To Help Fight Boredom digg.com Need something to keep the cabin fever away? These card games are a great way to waste time with your quarantine buddies. FROM THE ARCHIVES SURVIVOR NO. 3 The Girl Who Survived The Brain-Eating Amoeba (2014) buzzfeed.com One year ago, Kali Hardig went swimming at an Arkansas water park and the next day was rushed to the hospital where doctors diagnosed her with a rare, 99% fatal condition: a brain-eating amoeba. This is the miraculous story of how she lived. 'TIGER KING' COMPANION READING Joe Exotic And His American Animals (2019) nymag.com Joe Exotic bred lions, tigers, and ligers at his roadside zoo. He was a modern Barnum who found an equally extraordinary nemesis. CIGARETTE BUTT OF A JOKE The Most Hated Poet In Portland (2017) theoutline.com One tweet turned Collin Andrew Yost into a joke. Could he survive it? BRB, we have to go finish 'Tiger King' View the Edition at Digg.com »

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Experts Chart Their Coronavirus Projections, The Color Photographs That Changed The Art World, The Time Everyone 'Corrected' The World's Smartest Woman, and more.

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Digg Editions Fri, Mar 27

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WHAT'S COMING NEXT FROM BAD TO WORSE Experts Say The Coronavirus Outlook Has Worsened, But The Trajectory Is Still Unclear fivethirtyeight.com FiveThirtyEight is surveying experts weekly to ask about the trajectory of the COVID-19 virus and for each expert's prediction of three different scenarios: the most likely, the best case and the worst case. NOBODY IS IMMUNE I'm Treating Too Many Young People For The Coronavirus theatlantic.com Americans in their 20s and 30s — no matter how healthy and invincible they feel — need to understand how dangerous this virus can be, writes a doctor in New York City. NO TIME TO LOSE 'It's A Razor's Edge We're Walking': Inside The Race To Develop A Coronavirus Vaccine theguardian.com Around the world, more than 40 teams are working on a vaccine for COVID-19. We followed one doctor in the most urgent quest of his life PURELL OF HEART The Surprising — And Surprisingly Contentious — History Of Hand Sanitizer vanityfair.com A quaint family-owned company that's found itself at the center of stockpiling and price-gouging. TECH WE DIGG | SPONSORED PayPal Has 300 Million Members – Yet Few Have This Upgrade joinhoney.com If you ever shop online, you need to read this. WOULD YA LOOK AT THAT IN LIVING COLOR The Colorful Photographs Of Everyday Life That Shocked The Art World And Changed Photography Forever artsy.net Self-taught photographer William Eggleston's vivid images of mundane scenes arrived at MoMA at a time when the only photographs considered to be art were in black and white. NATURE HAS RECLAIMED THESE MEMES The Week's Best Quarantine Memes, Ranked digg.com All the internet can talk about is coronavirus, which means there are lots of memes about it. Here are some of the funniest. POST CORONA CINEPHILE Meet The Criterion Channel, The Most Fun Way To Become A Film Buff vox.com The specialty streaming service has an expansive collection of masterpieces, cult classics and more. SCARRING Damn Your Eyes: The Ugliest Cars Ever Made automobilemag.com We appreciate good design, but ugly cars are even more entertaining. Here are 30 of the ugliest cars ever made. VIDEO OF THE DAY ESCAPE ROOM Indoor Security Camera Captures 3-Year-Old Twins Figuring How To Handle A Thunderstorm In The Most Adorable Way rumble.com Sometimes in life you just need your sibling to give you a little nudge. IN THE NEWS Coronavirus Death Toll In US Reaches 1,000 As Number Of Confirmed Cases Passes China House Set To Vote Friday On $2 Trillion Stimulus Bill UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tests Positive For Coronavirus Actor Mark Blum Dies At 69 Of COVID-19 Complications DIGG PICKS | AFFILIATE Just Because We're Locked Down Doesn't Mean We Shouldn't Enjoy Some Drinks drizly.com Get some of your favorite beers, wines and spirits delivered to your door. We're big fans of Dogfish Head, but almost anything you can imagine is on offer. Must meet age requirements. FROM THE ARCHIVES BIRTH OF THE MANSPLAIN The Time Everyone 'Corrected' The World's Smartest Woman (2015) priceonomics.com When vos Savant politely responded to a reader's inquiry on the Monty Hall Problem, a then-relatively-unknown probability puzzle, she never could've imagined what would unfold: though her answer was correct, she received over 10,000 letters, many from noted scholars and Ph.Ds, informing her that she was a hare-brained idiot. FROM THE ARCHIVES The World Is Not Ready For The Next Pandemic (2017) time.com On a hyperconnected planet rife with hyperinfectious diseases, experts warn we aren't ready to keep America — and the world — safe from the next pandemic MURDER HE POPE The Unsolved Case Of The Attempted Assassination Of Pope John Paul II (2015) atlasobscura.com Three decades after an attempt was made on Pope John Paul II's life, the motives are still unknown. We made it to Friday, again. Nice work. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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