The Knuckleheads Who Ditched Their Student Loans

Millennial Idiots Are Bailing On Their Student Loans And Other Facts, Why You Should Listen To Sleep's 'Dopesmoker', How to Never Go Clothes Shopping Again, This Is The Man Behind The Bear Attack In 'The Revenant', Are Millennials Being Held Back By Their Elders? Let's Talk About It, Remembering Kobe Bryant's 81-Point Game The Daily Digg Friday, January 22, 2016 WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Millennial Idiots Are Bailing On Their Student Loans 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: kids make poor financial decisions, a washing machine jumps for joy and an explanation of why the holograms in 'Star Wars' suck. IT'S SO DOPE Why You Should Listen To Sleep's 'Dopesmoker' nytimes.com After years of unofficial and official releases, bootlegs and specially remastered collectors' editions, ''Dopesmoker'' is now recognized as a masterpiece of the stoner-metal genre and one of the most formidable recordings of the past 20 years. BOXES WE DIGG SPONSORED How to Never Go Clothes Shopping Again bombfell.com Hate shopping, but still want to look good? Bombfell feels your pain, so they match you with a stylist who sends you clothes straight to your door. A REAL BEAR OF A MAN This Is The Man Behind The Bear Attack In 'The Revenant' theguardian.com It's a gruesome, fear-inducing scene, but in actuality it was a stuntman in a blue bear suit rolling around on the ground with Leonardo DiCaprio. DIGG DIALOG Are Millennials Being Held Back By Their Elders? Let's Talk About It digg.com Economist writer Robert Guest argues that millennials are the brainiest, best-educated generation ever. Yet their elders often stop them from reaching their full potential. Leave your thoughts on the story here and come talk to him today at 12pm EST. POINT GOD Remembering Kobe Bryant's 81-Point Game vocativ.com A decade later, people who saw it still can't believe it. Get more stories on Digg.com ROCKET, MAN ​An Indian soldier stands underneath a multi barrel rocket launcher during a rehearsal for the Republic Day parade in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016. India celebrates Republic Day on Jan. 26 every year, highlighted by a march past by different branches of the military as well as a display of arms and missiles. Credit: AP Photo/Bernat Armangue Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

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The Q-Tip Industrial Complex

What People Were Saying About Facebook Before It Got Big, The Strange Life Of Q-Tips, The Most Bizarre Thing People Buy, The Electric Toothbrush Subscription Everyone's Buzzing About, How To Pull Off A Bank Heist, And Other Stories, What I Learned From Hacking My Sleep Schedule And Going 'Polyphasic', What Does Free Speech Mean On The Internet? The Daily Digg Thursday, January 21, 2016 'A NEW PESTILENCE' What People Were Saying About Facebook Before It Got Big digg.com An addiction, a dating website, the next Friendster — here's what people had to say about Facebook before it took over the world. HOW THESE THINGS COTTON The Strange Life Of Q-Tips, The Most Bizarre Thing People Buy washingtonpost.com We continue to twist Q-tips in our ears thanks to a simple truth: it feels great. Our ears are filled with sensitive nerve endings, which send signals to various other parts of our bodies. Tickling their insides triggers all sorts of visceral pleasure. SUBSCRIPTIONS WE DIGG SPONSORED The Electric Toothbrush Subscription Everyone's Buzzing About getquip.com Sleek, cheap and so fresh and so clean, clean. WHAT WE'RE READING THIS WEEK How To Pull Off A Bank Heist, And Other Stories digg.com Why it's gotten so hard to pull a successful bank heist, where "Making a Murderer" got it wrong, and more — here are the best long reads of the week. SPILLING THE SLEEPYTIME TEA What I Learned From Hacking My Sleep Schedule And Going 'Polyphasic' motherboard.vice.com The promises of polyphasic sleeping are seductive. But for all the earnest stories of polyphasic sleeping as a lifestyle panacea, I couldn't find much discussion of the compromises. DIGG DIALOG What Does Free Speech Mean On The Internet? digg.com "Freedom of speech" gets thrown around on Twitter, Facebook and various Internet comment sections. Beyond its constitutional meaning, what does "freedom of speech" mean to you, especially on the Internet? Leave your thoughts here. Get more stories on Digg.com DANCING IN THE STREET Traditional "Parachicos" dancers wearing wooden masks perform on the street during a Catholic celebration in Chiapas De Corzo, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016. The festivity, which has been included in UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists, takes place from Jan. 4 to 23 every year in honor of the Christ of Esquipulas, Saint Anthony Abbot and Martyr Saint Sebastian. Credit: AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

The Universe Is Over Now, Great Job Everyone

When Your Child Is Killed By Terrorists, You Shouldn't Have To Fight The Government, Can We Trace A Person's Intelligence?, Over The Top Comfy Underwear, The Different Ways The Universe Might End Are Fascinating And Horrifying, The $434,000,000 Biological Observatory That Spans The US, Tackling The Impossible Dream Of A Private And Socially Connected Future The Daily Digg Wednesday, January 20, 2016 HIDDEN DAMAGES When Your Child Is Killed By Terrorists, You Shouldn't Have To Fight The Government read.atavist.com After his daughter died in a terrorist attack, Stephen Flatow won a historic judgment against her killers. But to collect the funds, he first had to battle his own government. DIGG DIALOG Can We Trace A Person's Intelligence? digg.com The genetic key to human intelligence may lie in a fragment called "DUF1220" — and the idea that researchers may have found the stuff that makes humans smart was too tantalizing for Jonathon Keeney to pass up. Read his story and come talk to him today at 12pm EST. Leave your comments now. UNDIES WE DIGG SPONSORED Over The Top Comfy Underwear mackweldon.com Smart design and premium fabrics make these boxer briefs anything but basic. WE DON'T WANT TO GET BEYOND HYPOTHESES The Different Ways The Universe Might End Are Fascinating And Horrifying digg.com The power of science has allowed humans to do everything from study distant galaxies to take high-res photos of Pluto. But one thing science has struggled with has been understanding the limits of our universe, and particularly how it will end (or not end). NEON DREAMS The $434,000,000 Biological Observatory That Spans The US nature.com The United States has invested in a grand ecological observatory, but the project has been dogged by budget overruns and delays. FACE(LESS)BOOK Tackling The Impossible Dream Of A Private And Socially Connected Future medium.com Is crypto giant David Chaum's new "PrivaTegrity" the future of social media (and Internet privacy at large?) Get more stories on Digg.com BOBBING FOR CROSSES Christian Orthodox believers swim across cold water for a cross in the river Ribnica, in Podgorica, Montenegro, marking Orthodox Epiphany, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016. Orthodox Serbs celebrate Epiphany on January 19, following the old Julian calendar, with the tradition of retrieving crosses from the rivers and lakes.​ Credit: AP Photo/Risto Bozovic Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

The Man Living Under A Rock

Can A Little Calculus Make A Total Novice Into A Gambling Pro?, How We Could Evolve To Need Less Sleep, How To Get The Best Sleep Ever, Make Better Steak By Listening To It, How Thalidomide Went From Medical Disaster To Miraculous Cancer Treatment, WATCH: Turning A 700-Year-Old Cave Dwelling Into A Dream Home The Daily Digg Tuesday, January 19, 2016 DIGG DIALOG Can A Little Calculus Make A Total Novice Into A Gambling Pro? digg.com Mental Floss editor-at-large Nick Greene lacks every quality required of good poker players, but with the help of an MIT graduate-level course he decided to tackle the tables at Atlantic City. Read his story and talk to him today at 2pm EST. Leave your comments now! LESS IS SNORE How We Could Evolve To Need Less Sleep motherboard.vice.com Forget the classic model of a bed, a rectangular mattress and four legs, because it could soon be history. Now imagine sleeping in a bubble-shaped pod. PRODUCTS WE DIGG SPONSORED How To Get The Best Sleep Ever digg.com Hint: it's not repeatedly hitting the snooze button. SIZZLE REEL COOKING Make Better Steak By Listening To It digg.com In cooking, sound is the forgotten sense. But the sizzle a piece of meat makes when it hits a hot pan informs you that a vital (and delicious) chemical reaction is taking place. UNEXPECTED RETURNS How Thalidomide Went From Medical Disaster To Miraculous Cancer Treatment atlasobscura.com Originally prescribed to pregnant women in the 1950s and '60s, thalidomide caused terrible deformities at birth. But now doctors think the drug may be a way forward in the fight against cancer. A LITERAL MAN CAVE WATCH: Turning A 700-Year-Old Cave Dwelling Into A Dream Home digg.com Real-life caveman Angelo Mastropietro has made his hermit dream a reality — by spending over $230,000 turning a 700-year-old cave, carved into a 250 million-year-old cliff, into his dream home. Get more stories on Digg.com REMEMBERING DR. KING Doris Gray sits with a program during the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church where King preached, Monday, Jan. 18, 2016, in Atlanta. Credit: AP Photo/David Goldman Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002