A Real Brewhaha

China's Island Builders, There Is No Bourbon Shortage And Other Facts, Get Your Hands On A Better Watch, For Less, Tracing The Origins Of Lucky Buddha Beer, VIDEO: SpaceX Launches In 4K, How An Ex-Cop Saved, Then Doomed, Two Wrongfully Convicted Men The Daily Digg Friday, April 10, 2015 THE PEOPLE'S WAR AT SEA China's Island Builders foreignaffairs.com Recent satellite images show that the Spratly islands, a series of features in the South China Sea, are growing at a staggering pace. Tons of sand, rocks, coral cuttings, and concrete are transforming miniscule Chinese-occupied outcroppings into sizeable islands with harbors, large multi-story buildings, airstrips, and other government facilities. WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK There Is No Bourbon Shortage And Other Facts digg.com This week we learned that the bourbon apocalypse is a lie, humanity is on the verge of discovering alien life and why you should eat broccoli stalks. WATCHES WE DIGG SPONSORED Get Your Hands On A Better Watch, For Less mvmtwatches.com The only thing better than getting yourself a snazzy new watch? Paying less than full price for it: Use the code "DiggApril" to save $10 off your next order from MVMT. A REAL BREWHAHA Tracing The Origins Of Lucky Buddha Beer theconcourse.deadspin.com Lucky Buddha Beer is beer. Because of the fact that I have had many other beverages definitively known to science as beer (not bragging ... much), merely tasting the Lucky Drink Co. product was proof positive: This is beer. Beyond that meek pronouncement, however, the bona fides of this stuff are somewhat more difficult to establish. LAUNCH FOOTAGE THAT'S OUT OF THIS WORLD VIDEO: SpaceX Launches In 4K digg.com If you're looking for approximately two minutes of rockets blasting off into space in a resolution your computer probably can't display, have we got the video for you. A MURDER AT LA CASA GREEN, PART 3 How An Ex-Cop Saved, Then Doomed, Two Wrongfully Convicted Men buzzfeed.com In 2010, two men were exonerated and freed after more than 16 years in prison. Then the man who worked to free them was arrested for witness tampering, putting their newfound freedom in jeopardy. Get more stories on Digg.com → GODZILLA EX MACHINA Godzilla's head is unveiled as the irradiated monster was appointed special resident and tourism ambassador for Tokyo's Shinjuku ward during its awards ceremony in Tokyo Thursday, April 9, 2015. The giant Godzilla head towering 52-meters (171 feet) above ground level was unveiled Thursday at an office of Toho, the studio behind the 1954 original. Credit: AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi 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

Her?

How A Dog Goes From 0 To 1.2 Million Instagram Followers In A Year, Cover Girl, Remember How You Said You Wanted To Start Saving More Money? Yeah, This Will Help, The Market Forces Behind Endangered Dog Breeds, VIDEO: This Girl Is Way More Scared Of A Manatee Than She Has Any Right To Be, The More Money Americans Make, The More Sleep They Get The Daily Digg Thursday, April 9, 2015 ALL BARK, NO BYTE How A Dog Goes From 0 To 1.2 Million Instagram Followers In A Year digg.com ​This week on the "Reply All" podcast, we try to answer a question that seems simple but ends up being very, very, complicated: What is the formula for Internet dog fame? HER? Cover Girl digg.com Like most things, dating an Invisible Girlfriend started out as a joke. Until it wasn't. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Remember How You Said You Wanted To Start Saving More Money? Yeah, This Will Help digit.co Mo' money mo' problems? Yeah, less money mo' problems, too. That's why we use Digit to help us save cash automatically. It's a stress-free way of dealing with a stressful problem. A DOG EAT DOG WORLD The Market Forces Behind Endangered Dog Breeds priceonomics.com Unpopularity in a fashion-driven market could mean extinction, because it means there's no market to support continued breeding. And it turns out, with more than 400 internationally-recognized breeds out there, most breeds are pretty unpopular. SEA COWARD VIDEO: This Girl Is Way More Scared Of A Manatee Than She Has Any Right To Be digg.com From http://www.manatees.gov: "Manatees are gentle and slow-moving creatures. Most of their time is spent eating, resting and traveling. They are often shy and reclusive. They have no natural enemies, no system of defense and are completely harmless. " THE LION OF INDUSTRY SLEEPS TONIGHT The More Money Americans Make, The More Sleep They Get factually.gizmodo.com How do you sleep at night? If you're rich, the answer is probably "really well." Get more stories on Digg.com → SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW BRICK ROAD Elementary school students walk on paving stones covered with sidewalk chalk outside the nursing school at Calhoun Community College, Wednesday, April 8, 2015, in Decatur, Ala. The children were taking part in an event called "Let's Pretend Hospital," presented by Calhoun nursing students, to help children feel more comfortable when they need health care. Credit: AP Photo/The Decatur Daily, Gary Cosby Jr. 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

A Not So Happy Father's Day

Getting To Know The Son Of Africa's Most Notorious Dictator, How Sobriety Lost The Battle: Beer And The Battle Of Trenton, VIDEO: This Little-Known German Device Was Like Vinyl And An 8-Track Combined, The Grand Duke Of Tuscany's Secret Jasmine Chocolate Recipe, The Solar System And Beyond Is Awash In Water, VIDEO: How To Draw Like Disney's Best Animators The Daily Digg Wednesday, April 8, 2015 'THIS MAN I CALL FATHER' Getting To Know The Son Of Africa's Most Notorious Dictator foreignpolicy.com Meet Jaffar Amin. He does voiceover work, likes MC Hammer, and posts family histories on Facebook. Oh, and his father was Idi Amin — once described the as "one of the most brutal military dictators to wield power in post-independence Africa." MAKING A LAST KEG STAND How Sobriety Lost The Battle: Beer And The Battle Of Trenton warontherocks.com The sons of farmers and tradesmen felt quite useless against the well-trained British Regulars, but what truly terrified the Americans were the mercenary Hessians. The Hessians were German soldiers, leased by the British from the Germanic state of Hesse. To beat the Germans, Washington needed an equalizer; a way to level the playing field with the Hessians. The answer came in the form of American brew. THE BETAMAX OF MUSIC VIDEO: This Little-Known German Device Was Like Vinyl And An 8-Track Combined digg.com It may not have taken off, but the Tefifon is an interesting artifact: the guts of each cartridge are spooled tape, but they're not magnetic. Instead they're plastic with etched grooves, just like vinyl. TO GODIVA FOR The Grand Duke Of Tuscany's Secret Jasmine Chocolate Recipe recipes.hypotheses.org By 1708 the Medici grand ducal "spezieria," or pharmacy, had grown into a complex of eleven rooms. It included a medical laboratory for the production of alchemical medicines, a pharmacy for the production of herbals, syrups and powders, and a distillery for the production of medicinal waters, tinctures, and liquors. The first room of the spezieria was dedicated to one activity in particular — the consumption of chocolate. WATER WORLDS The Solar System And Beyond Is Awash In Water jpl.nasa.gov As NASA missions explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places. Water is but one piece of our search for habitable planets and life beyond Earth, yet it links many seemingly unrelated worlds in surprising ways. BY THE GOOD BOOK VIDEO: How To Draw Like Disney's Best Animators digg.com YouTuber Alan Becker took it upon himself to make animated tutorial videos for each of the 12 principles of Disney animation, to help budding artists understand what the art form is all about.​ Get more stories on Digg.com → A TENT FOR TWO In this photo, Syrian refugee Feedah Ali, 18, who is four months pregnant, poses for a portrait inside her tent at an informal settlement near the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan. Pregnant refugee women living in these settlements are among the most vulnerable of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who have found shelter in Jordan. By contrast, pregnant women in Jordan's three recognized refugee camps have access to free services, including pre-natal care and delivery, according to the U.N. refugee agency. Credit: AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen 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

Perfect Track Record

The Quest For New York City's Most Adequate Dollar Slice, VIDEO: This Is The Gigantic Machine That Renews Railroad Tracks, Fund An Art Show About Your Favorite Subject: You, How A Notorious Counterfeiter Reinvented Himself As An Artist, Actually, It's About Ethics In Doxxing, A Working Computer Smaller Than A Grain Of Rice The Daily Digg Tuesday, April 7, 2015 ITALI-AIN'T The Quest For New York City's Most Adequate Dollar Slice luckypeach.com Your food friends may all have their street-meat guy or a favorite falafel or a cheap dumpling spot to recommend. But you know what no New York food know-it-all is talking about? Dollar pizza. ALL IN A DAY'S TRAINING VIDEO: This Is The Gigantic Machine That Renews Railroad Tracks digg.com It might looks like a regular train, but each of the cars on this Plasser & Theurer RU 800 have a specific purpose. As the whole machine passes, the existing track below is removed and replaced. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Fund An Art Show About Your Favorite Subject: You kickstarter.com The history of art commissions is the history of wealthy people paying artists to make something about wealthy people, or big institutions paying artists to make something about everybody else. In 2015, the people behind Electric Objects think that there's a different way to do this — one in which anyone can contribute to a commission, to make art about everyone who contributes to it. ON THE MONEY How A Notorious Counterfeiter Reinvented Himself As An Artist vice.com Arthur J. Williams Jr. is perhaps best known for being the counterfeiter who successfully replicated the supposedly impossible to replicate 1996 hundred-dollar bill. NOT WHAT THE DOX ORDERED Actually, It's About Ethics In Doxxing medium.com Taking down bigots with their own weapons is sweet, satisfying  —  and very, very wrong. THE SIZE OF THE CUTTING EDGE A Working Computer Smaller Than A Grain Of Rice cnet.com The University of Michigan's Micro Mote is a fully autonomous computer that's programmed and charged via light and could be used for a variety of medical and industrial purposes. Get more stories on Digg.com → CAN YOU DIG IT? In this photo, a quarry worker wearing a face mask to protect from dust pauses while arranging freshly cut stones at a quarry in the desert of Minya, southern Egypt. Around 45,000 people work in an estimated 1,500 quarries, digging out stones that later will be used in construction or powdered to be used by pharmaceutical and ceramic companies inside Egypt and abroad. Credit: AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy 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

Good Night, And Good Riddance

How Has The Network Anchorman Endured?, Sex Drive Doesn't Actually Exist, And Other News, The Perfect Mattress Is The Simple Mattress, The Third Man, Rolling Stone And UVA: The Columbia University Graduate School Of Journalism Report, Aliens Are Enormous, Science Suggests The Daily Digg Monday, April 6, 2015 GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD RIDDANCE How Has The Network Anchorman Endured? nymag.com Some two months into Brian Williams's six-month banishment from NBC for making stuff up, it's not known whether he will ever return to the anchor chair at Nightly News. It's also not known whether anyone cares. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND Sex Drive Doesn't Actually Exist, And Other News digg.com There's no drive in your sex drive, life on the Internet isn't always easy, and the story of the man who almost killed Hitler. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED The Perfect Mattress Is The Simple Mattress tuftandneedle.com Until now, over-priced and over-complicated mattresses have been the standard. Tuft & Needle mattresses start at $350 and ship free directly to you. LINE OF FIRE The Third Man slate.com The Boston bombing, a triple murder, a mysterious death at the hands of the FBI, and the end of an American dream. 'ANATOMY OF A JOURNALISTIC FAILURE' Rolling Stone And UVA: The Columbia University Graduate School Of Journalism Report rollingstone.com After investigations uncovered inconsistencies in Rolling Stone's article "A Rape On Campus," the Columbia School of Journalism conducted an extensive review of the article. Here is the review. BUT WILL THEY COME IN PEACE? Aliens Are Enormous, Science Suggests newsweek.com Aliens, if they exist, are likely huge. At least that's the conclusion of a new paper by cosmologist Fergus Simpson, who has estimated that the average weight of intelligent extraterrestrials would be 650 pounds (300 kilograms) or more. Get more stories on Digg.com → RED DAWN Crosses at a war memorial stand in front of the dawning sky at Muhi, 167 kms northeast of Budapest, Hungary, on Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015 Credit: AP Photo/MTI, Zsolt Czegledi 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