'Star Wars' Ships Make No Sense

The Ships In 'Star Wars' Make No Sense And Other Facts, When Correctional Officers Carry Shotguns, The Result Is Death And Mayhem, The Procrastinator's Gift Guide, How Online Vigilantes Take Down Cheating Runners, Get Last-Minute Gift Advice From The Experts At The Wirecutter, Why Your Brain Prefers Eggs With Orange Yolks The Daily Digg Friday, December 18, 2015 WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK The Ships In 'Star Wars' Make No Sense And Other Facts digg.com ​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: everything wrong with ships in 'Star Wars,' corporate America's undoing of the Red Cross and molten aluminum meets water beads. THE SHOOTING GALLERY When Correctional Officers Carry Shotguns, The Result Is Death And Mayhem highline.huffingtonpost.com Guards inside prisons shouldn't have guns. That's pretty much an accepted fact. Except in Nevada. DIGG STORE SPONSORED The Procrastinator's Gift Guide store.digg.com Yep, it's nearly Christmas and you still don't have anyone's gifts yet. Lucky for you, we've pulled together some kick-ass gifts that will help you save face come Christmas morning. GUMSHOES How Online Vigilantes Take Down Cheating Runners outsideonline.com LetsRun.com's web vigilantes are some of the Internet's most tenacious sleuths. Cheat at your own peril. DIGG DIALOG Get Last-Minute Gift Advice From The Experts At The Wirecutter digg.com AH! You still haven't gotten your [insert person here] anything for the holidays?? Come talk to the gift-giving experts from The Wirecutter and The Sweethome at 1pm. You're a mess! They'll help you get your life together. YOLK'S ON YOU Why Your Brain Prefers Eggs With Orange Yolks digg.com If you think something tastes better, it really does taste better, even if it doesn't taste better. Get more stories on Digg.com DREAMING OF A LITE-BRITE CHRISTMAS ​Demetri Masincup, 8, sits on the top a car while visiting the Christmas light show in Briery Branch, Va., on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. The 35-minute long show had lights choreographed with music that played on the radio. Credit: Austin Bachand/Daily News-Record via AP Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

Ready For Your Vasectomy?

Meet The Masterminds Behind The Vasectomy Movement, How Not To Handle A Rape Investigation, How To Save Money Without Even Trying, The 'Star Wars' Reviews Are Here — Is It Any Good?, The Case For Martian Independence, The Best Articles Of The Week: Organ Donors And Gun Smugglers The Daily Digg Thursday, December 17, 2015 SEEDS OF CHANGE Meet The Masterminds Behind The Vasectomy Movement hopesandfears.com The organizers of World Vasectomy Day want to educate the world about the values of voluntary male sterilization, one incision at a time. DIGG DIALOG How Not To Handle A Rape Investigation digg.com Reporters T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong will join retired police detective Joanne Archambault to discuss their story on a teenager's "unbelievable" rape, and the search for a serial rapist that spanned the Denver metro area. They'll be live today at 12:30pm EST. Check out the story and leave your comments now! STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED How To Save Money Without Even Trying digit.co Ever wish someone, or something, would just take care of that whole "saving money" thing for you? Meet Digit. A SPOILER-FREE GUIDE The 'Star Wars' Reviews Are Here — Is It Any Good? digg.com Although the general public doesn't get to see "The Force Awakens" until Friday, film critics were released from the review embargo today. So, is the Force strong with JJ Abrams? The answer is a resounding yes. THE LITTLE PRINCES The Case For Martian Independence bbc.com If we build a colony on Mars, should its citizens be their own masters? WHAT WE'RE READING The Best Articles Of The Week: Organ Donors And Gun Smugglers digg.com What happens when organ donation turns into a popularity contest, when the influx of tech money pushes the poor out of their Silicon Valley homes, and more. Get more stories on Digg.com A LIGHT RAIN ​People walk on a bridge as Christmas lights illuminate the Darsena dei Navigli, the neighborhood named for the canals that run through this area of Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Antonio Calanni Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

Enter The Void, Visit Utah Today!

How To Raise An Immortal Cat, Inside The First VR Theme Park, If You Like Sleep, This Shows You How To Do It Better, Every On-Screen Death In The 'Star Wars' Prequels, Surviving Winter In The Middle Ages, The Entrepreneur Who Wants You To Make Love, Not Porn The Daily Digg Wednesday, December 16, 2015 DIGG DIALOG How To Raise An Immortal Cat digg.com Atlas Obscura's Christina Couch spent some time with a two-time Guinness World Record winner for oldest cat who believes he's discovered the secret to feline longevity. What's he like? Ask her this and more today at 12pm EST. Check out the story and leave your comments now! ENTER THE VOID Inside The First VR Theme Park technologyreview.com A new form of weekend entertainment combines virtual reality with a clever stage set. For now, you'll have to visit suburban Utah to check it out. SPHERES WE DIGG SPONSORED If You Like Sleep, This Shows You How To Do It Better hello.is If you want to make waking up a little easier, start by understanding what actually happens while you sleep. THOSE POOR, SUFFERING PIXELS Every On-Screen Death In The 'Star Wars' Prequels digg.com Not only were the prequels terrible films, they were also considerably more tame than the original trilogy. And thanks to the magic of CG, 99% of everything that blew up these movies was a droid! MUGS AND MUGS OF ALE Surviving Winter In The Middle Ages medievalists.net Winter was the most dangerous time in the medieval calendar year. Add to that, the onset of the Little Ice Age from 1300 until about 1870, and it meant surviving much colder winters. How did people cope? LOVE SELLS? The Entrepreneur Who Wants You To Make Love, Not Porn priceonomics.com Cindy Gallop never intended to get into sextech. Today she is the CEO of a small startup, a video platform called Make Love Not Porn, whose members pay $5 to stream videos submitted by content creators. Its premise is unorthodox, even for the contrarian atmosphere of Silicon Valley. Get more stories on Digg.com SKYROCKETS IN FLIGHT ​In this photo taken with long time exposure the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-19M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015. The Russian rocket carries British astronaut Tim Peake, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and U.S. astronaut Tim Kopra. Credit: AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

How To Art

The Refugee Jail Deep In The Heart Of Texas, WATCH: Let A Possibly Deranged Old Man Teach You Everything There Is To Know About Art, We've Been Carrying Keys All Wrong, The Corporate Takeover Destroying The Red Cross, Up Close With Beijing's New South China Sea Islands, Inside The Shell Companies And Multi-Million Dollar Palaces That Are Rocking LA The Daily Digg Tuesday, December 15, 2015 NOWHERE TO GO The Refugee Jail Deep In The Heart Of Texas narrative.ly While families fleeing Middle East bloodshed continue to dominate the news, the US government has quietly built a gargantuan detention center for desperate Central American migrants. WHAT IS IT? WATCH: Let A Possibly Deranged Old Man Teach You Everything There Is To Know About Art digg.com Prepare yourself to do a large amount of learning, as Dr.* Lewis Host explains all there is to know about the wide world of art. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED We've Been Carrying Keys All Wrong getkeysmart.com It's only taken thousands of years, but finally there's a more elegant way to carry your keys. BAD BLOOD The Corporate Takeover Destroying The Red Cross digg.com Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern and her handpicked team of former AT&T colleagues have presided over a string of management blunders that have hamstrung the agency's capabilities. KEYS TO THE KINGDOM Up Close With Beijing's New South China Sea Islands bbc.com Last year the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes travelled across the South China Sea in a fishing boat and became the first journalist to observe close-up how China is constructing new islands on coral reefs. A few days ago he returned to the area in a small aircraft — provoking a furious and threatening response from the Chinese Navy. HE SELLS SHELLS BY THE SEA SHORE Inside The Shell Companies And Multi-Million Dollar Palaces That Are Rocking LA nytimes.com In the booming high-end market of Los Angeles, where hidden ownership is common, one house stands out. Get more stories on Digg.com BLESS TEAM ROCKET ​Orthodox priests conduct a blessing service in front of the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft at Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The new Soyuz mission is scheduled to start on Tuesday, Dec. 15. The Russian rocket will carry US astronaut Tim Kopra, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and British astronaut Tim Peake. Credit: AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002