It's Okay To Be A Jerk

A Nice Afternoon With The Women Of New Orleans' Trans Veterans Support Group, Why You Should Be A Jerk And Other Facts, Does Color Exist?, Your Contribution To The California Drought, VIDEO: This Cactus Bloomed In Two Days, You Can Watch It Happen In Twenty Seconds, Could The Skyscrapers Of The Future Be Made Out Of Wood? The Daily Digg Friday, May 22, 2015 'WE LEARNED TOGETHER' A Nice Afternoon With The Women Of New Orleans' Trans Veterans Support Group buzzfeed.com Though transgender people are still barred from openly serving in the military, a small but increasingly visible population of veterans are demanding health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs — and getting it. WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Why You Should Be A Jerk And Other Facts digg.com This week we learned that sometimes you need to be a bully to get ahead, the Navy has a big frickin' railgun now and raindrops are impossible. HOW CAN COLORS BE REAL IF OUR EYES AREN'T Does Color Exist? newrepublic.com What you see is only what you see. THE THIRST IS REAL Your Contribution To The California Drought nytimes.com The average American consumes more than 300 gallons of California water each week by eating food that was produced there. WHAT A BUDDING TALENT VIDEO: This Cactus Bloomed In Two Days, You Can Watch It Happen In Twenty Seconds digg.com Kind of looks like it's waking up and stretching out. ABOVE THE TREE TOPS Could The Skyscrapers Of The Future Be Made Out Of Wood? digg.com Until recently, the potential for using timber in towers was very limited. But new advances could help take wooden architecture to the next level, literally. Get more stories on Digg.com → PHONER ECLIPSE A man uses his mobile phone to photograph a circular sun halo in Mexico City, Thursday, May 21, 2015. The ring around the sun is a fairly common weather phenomenon caused by ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. Credit: AP Photo/Marco Ugarte 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

Find Ye Olde Chill

Ecuador's President Does All His Own Tweets, Three Things You Should Read This Week, Box Of Awesome? Yes, Please., 1776: The Revolt Against Austerity, Machine-Learning Algorithm Mines Rap Lyrics, Then Writes Its Own, VIDEO: Meet Conrad, The Engineer Who Keeps Pratt Institute Running The Daily Digg Thursday, May 21, 2015 AND FIGHTS TROLLS Ecuador's President Does All His Own Tweets digg.com In Latin America, Twitter offers a direct line to heads of state. And no Latin American President president is more engaged online than Rafael Correa. RATS, DRUGS AND GENITALS Three Things You Should Read This Week digg.com ​In this week's edition of the Long-Reader's Digest: The fall of Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road drug market, a history of the clitoris and humanity's war against rats. BOXES WE DIGG SPONSORED Box Of Awesome? Yes, Please. bespokepost.com Bespoke Post is like having Don Draper on speed dial. They pack up a themed box that is delivered right to your doorstep each month. You can skip any box, cancel anytime, and now you can get your first box for 25% off. Awesome indeed. FIND YE CHILL 1776: The Revolt Against Austerity nybooks.com What made the Declaration of Independence so offensive to British politicians then, and what makes it highly relevant to Europeans and Americans today, is that America's founders offered a blueprint for a different kind of state response to fiscal crisis. RAP GENIUS Machine-Learning Algorithm Mines Rap Lyrics, Then Writes Its Own technologyreview.com An automated rap-generating algorithm pushes the boundaries of machine creativity, say computer scientists. 'CONRAD AND THE STEAMPLANT' VIDEO: Meet Conrad, The Engineer Who Keeps Pratt Institute Running digg.com Conrad Milster, Pratt Institute's chief engineer, has worked in the Brooklyn power plant nearly his entire adult life. Starting as a mechanic in 1958, he later became one of only four chief engineers in the plant's 127-year history, taking over the official duties in 1965. He's been there ever since. Get more stories on Digg.com → FLEE(T) WEEK A young boy runs off with a cadet's hat after the newly commissioned ensigns tossed them into the air at the conclusion at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's 134th Commencement Exercises during the closing procession, Wednesday, May 20, 2015, in New London, Conn. where President Barack Obama delivered the commencement address speaking on global warming. Credit: AP Photo/Stephan Savoia 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

Money Machine

Why It Pays To Be A Jerk, How Terrorist Bounties Are Calculated, The Extreme Athlete Who Built A New Knee, Building A Private Titanic, The Second Job You Don't Know You Have, VIDEO: This Is A Plate And It Is Also A Bowl The Daily Digg Wednesday, May 20, 2015 LEAN MEAN MONEY-MAKING MACHINE Why It Pays To Be A Jerk theatlantic.com Sneer at the customer. Keep your colleagues on edge. Claim credit. Speak first. Put your feet on the table. Withhold approval. Instill fear. Interrupt. Ask for more. And by all means, take that last doughnut. You deserve it. A TERRIBLE PRICE How Terrorist Bounties Are Calculated defenseone.com Osama Bin Laden had a $25 million prize on his head, and even that might have been undervalued. KNEED FOR SPEED The Extreme Athlete Who Built A New Knee digg.com When Brian Bartlett was 24 he was hit by a car from behind so hard it ripped his right leg off instantly. It all happened so fast. THAT'S MY SHIP Building A Private Titanic hakaimagazine.com Engineers are struggling to keep up with demands from the megarich for ever-bigger megayachts. EVERYONE IS SELF-EMPLOYED The Second Job You Don't Know You Have politico.com How self-checkouts, ATMs and airport check-ins are changing our economy. BOWL, NOT FOR SOUP VIDEO: This Is A Plate And It Is Also A Bowl digg.com But it's so beautifully made you shouldn't use it for either of those things. Just admire it. And watch it transform. Get more stories on Digg.com → ACTING TROOP Indonesian men dressed as "stormtroopers" from the movie "Star Wars", take a break between performances during a promotional event at a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Stormtroopers are fictional soldiers from the epic film series Credit: AP Photo/Dita Alangkara 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

Feeling Ourselves

Shell Oil's Cold Calculations For A Warming World, VIDEO: This Is All The Excitement This Guy Could Muster For His Sneaker Review, Slack Made A Podcast. Yes, That Slack., Fifty Years On The Path To Marriage Equality, Scientists Examine Why Men Even Exist, How The Soviet Union Tracked People With 'Spy Dust' The Daily Digg Tuesday, May 19, 2015 NOTHING CRUDE ABOUT IT Shell Oil's Cold Calculations For A Warming World nytimes.com Last week, when the Obama administration gave tentative approval to Shell Oil's plan to return to the Arctic after its disastrous attempt to find oil there in 2012, I found myself thinking of a conversation I had several years ago with a man named Jeremy Bentham. A theater-loving Englishman, Bentham leads Shell's legendary team of futurists, whose methods have been adopted by the Walt Disney Company and the Pentagon, among others. 'I WILL WEAR THEM TO MY FUNERAL' VIDEO: This Is All The Excitement This Guy Could Muster For His Sneaker Review digg.com Brad Hall joined YouTube last month and has since uploaded three videos, all of which are sneaker reviews. But his genuine love of shoes is somewhat at odds with his impossibly monotone voice. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Slack Made A Podcast. Yes, That Slack. slack.com The second season of "Serial" isn't out yet, so you need something to listen to. May we humbly suggest the Slack podcast? (Spoiler: No one gets murdered) TO HAVE AND TO HOLD Fifty Years On The Path To Marriage Equality newyorker.com A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges, a consolidation of the petitions of four couples seeking relief from state same-sex-marriage bans in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee. The coincidence of the fiftieth anniversary of the Court's ruling in Griswold and its anticipated decision in Obergefell makes this, inescapably, an occasion for considering the past half century of legal reasoning about reproductive and gay rights. BEETLE JUICES Scientists Examine Why Men Even Exist washingtonpost.com From a purely biological standpoint, the existence of the male sex is kind of perplexing: When it's time to create a new generation, the males of a species often contribute nothing but genetic material to the mix. Scientists turned to beetles for an answer. DUST BUSTED How The Soviet Union Tracked People With 'Spy Dust' io9.com The US started hearing about a substance that could be used to track the movements of any person who touches, or walks across, a contaminated surface. in 1963. It wasn't until 1984 that they got a sample of the stuff. Get more stories on Digg.com → NATIONAL DISASTER Residents look for survivors after and avalanche in Salgar, in Colombia's northwestern state of Antioquia, Monday, May 18, 2015. The avalanche of mud and debris roared down Salgar before dawn, killing at least 49 people in a flood and mudslide triggered by heavy rains. Survivors barely had enough time to gather their loved ones. Credit: AP Photo/Luis Benavides 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

Do You Hear What I Hear?

Meet The King Of The Cult Of Dunkin' Donuts, The Internet Could Run Out Of Space, And Other News, No, There Aren't Too Many Cooks, Other People's Playlists, The GOP Is Dying Off. Literally., ​Nuclear Fusion, The Clean Power That Will Take Decades To Master The Daily Digg Monday, May 18, 2015 JOE MILLIONAIRE Meet The King Of The Cult Of Dunkin' Donuts thedailybeast.com Nuclear fusion is what powers the Sun and the stars — unleashing huge amounts of energy through the binding together of light elements such as hydrogen and helium. If fusion power were harnessed directly on Earth, it could produce inexhaustible clean power. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND The Internet Could Run Out Of Space, And Other News digg.com The Internet isn't infinite, that old wine in your refrigerator probably isn't good anymore, and we should all be drinking whole milk. MEALS WE DIGG SPONSORED No, There Aren't Too Many Cooks blueapron.com Hey, do you eat food? If you said "yes," boy do we have the thing for you! Blue Apron helps you cook exactly what you want to cook, when you want it. No fuss, no mess. And if you order now, you get $20 off! DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR? Other People's Playlists newrepublic.com Travels on Spotify's secret social network. PARTY'S OVER The GOP Is Dying Off. Literally. politico.com It turns out that one of the Grand Old Party's biggest — and least discussed — challenges going into 2016 is lying in plain sight, written right into the party's own nickname. THIS IS FUSION ​Nuclear Fusion, The Clean Power That Will Take Decades To Master digg.com Nuclear fusion is what powers the Sun and the stars — unleashing huge amounts of energy through the binding together of light elements such as hydrogen and helium. If fusion power were harnessed directly on Earth, it could produce inexhaustible clean power. Get more stories on Digg.com → THESE COST AN ARM AND A LEG Heavily tattooed youths pose for their friends as they take part in a contest during the annual Athens Tattoo Convention in Athens, Sunday, May 17, 2015. About 230 artists from Greece and abroad took part in the three-day event attracted thousands of visitors. Credit: AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis 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