Peyton Manning's Sporty Spies

The Vexing Life Of A Professional Impostor, Get Last-Minute Valentine's Day Gift Advice From The Experts At The Wirecutter, Key and Peele to Provide This Year's Most In-Depth Game Day Commentary*, The iPad Is Dying And Other Facts, The Strange Case Of Red Meat Allergies, Inside Peyton Manning's Secret Investigation Into Al Jazeera's Damning Documentary The Daily Digg Friday, February 5, 2016 HIS NAME IS JEREMY WILSON ... MAYBE The Vexing Life Of A Professional Impostor nytimes.com In a statement he gave at Rikers Island, Jeremy Wilson said "there is so much misinformation about me, no one can say with absolute certainty who I am." DIGG DIALOG Get Last-Minute Valentine's Day Gift Advice From The Experts At The Wirecutter digg.com The Sweethome and The Wirecutter put together a guide to a perfect romantic holiday. If you need more gift advice, The Wirecutter's chief gift guru, Gregory Han, and lead editor, Casey Johnston, will be here today at 12pm EST. Leave your comments now. REALTALK WE DIGG SPONSORED Key and Peele to Provide This Year's Most In-Depth Game Day Commentary* realtalk.squarespace.com *That is legally prohibited from mentioning the game itself. WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK The iPad Is Dying And Other Facts digg.com Welcome To What We Learned This Week, a weekly digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: The slow extinction of the tablet, the dark side of kale salads and disgusting candy surgery. MORE THAN JUST MEAT SWEATS The Strange Case Of Red Meat Allergies bbc.com Normally, humans aren't affected by a bite from Ixodes holocyclus — better known as the paralysis tick. But in some cases, it can trigger a dangerous and rare allergy to red meat. SPORTY SPIES Inside Peyton Manning's Secret Investigation Into Al Jazeera's Damning Documentary washingtonpost.com Al Jazeera's investigation that essentially accused Peyton Manning of using steroids made waves — little did they know that soon the roles would be reversed. Get more stories on Digg.com DON'T TALK ABOUT SNOWBALL FIGHT CLUB Japan's Yukigassen is basically pro snowball fighting. Credit: Outside Television 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

Final Words

Inside Rand Paul's Slow-Motion Collapse, The Most Important Jokes In History, And Other Stories, Never Lose Your Keys Again, How We Used To Deal With Insomnia, The Rise And Fall Of LA's Most Cinematic Bridge, Psychologists Analyzed A Big Collection of Condemned Inmates' Last Words The Daily Digg Thursday, February 4, 2016 END OF THE LINE Inside Rand Paul's Slow-Motion Collapse politico.com From botched announcement to debate snub to distant Iowa finish, a once-promising campaign never gained altitude. WHAT WE'RE READING THIS WEEK The Most Important Jokes In History, And Other Stories digg.com 100 years of influential jokes, life with Dr. Miami, and more of the best long reads of the week. HACKS WE DIGG SPONSORED Never Lose Your Keys Again getkeycatch.com KeyCatch is the smartest key storage on the market. No drilling, leveling, or mounting required and it has a magnetic field that's so powerful your keys literally won't move once attached. Cheers to never losing your keys again! NOT A WINK OF SLEEP How We Used To Deal With Insomnia vanwinkles.com These days, five to ten percent of adults are chronic insomniacs. While accounts of insomnia date back to ancient civilization, the history of the disorder as a codified disease, treated with patented drugs and studied through controlled experiments, starts in the 19th century. TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA The Rise And Fall Of LA's Most Cinematic Bridge citylab.com The iconic Sixth Street Bridge over the dried up LA River appears in 80 films per year, but now it's scheduled to disappear as the river will begin to flow again. WHAT WOULD YOUR LAST WORDS BE? Psychologists Analyzed A Big Collection of Condemned Inmates' Last Words nymag.com To psychologists who study how humans cope with fear and death, condemned inmates' final statements are — setting aside the "ick" factor — a rich potential source of information. There are few other situations in which you can hear the thoughts of someone who knows they will be dead in a few minutes. Get more stories on Digg.com BABY ON (SNOW)BOARD Baby Sloan is shredding the slopes and is so cute our faces hurt from smiling. Credit: Sloan Henderson 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

Meet The New Uber, Same As The Old Uber

How Will We Recognize Alien Life?, Meet The Man Who Makes A Lot Of Money Investing In Wine, Stop Drinking Shitty Wine, The Inside Story Of Uber's Radical Rebranding, One Of Africa's Biggest Dams Is Falling Apart, The Only Known Recording Of The First Super Bowl The Daily Digg Wednesday, February 3, 2016 WE'LL KNOW IT WHEN WE SEE IT How Will We Recognize Alien Life? quantamagazine.org Searching for signs of life on faraway planets, astrobiologists must decide what to look for. DIGG DIALOG Meet The Man Who Makes A Lot Of Money Investing In Wine digg.com Venture capitalist Charles Banks isn't someone with a rich history in wine. Regardless, he invested in the right people and managed to take the price of a wine brand from $250 per bottle to $750. Read VinePair co-founder Adam Teeter's story about Charles and join both Adam and Charles today at 1pm EST. Leave your comments now! BOTTLES WE DIGG SPONSORED Stop Drinking Shitty Wine clubw.com Dear valued Digg user: Because we love you (and we love you even more after a glass of wine) we want to introduce you to your next delivery obsession: Club W. Plus get 50% off your first order. Wine not? (See what we did there?) THESE COLORS RUN The Inside Story Of Uber's Radical Rebranding wired.com Today, millions of people around the world will power on their smartphones and scan their screens for the black-and-white Uber icon, only to find it missing. COMING APART AT THE SEAMS One Of Africa's Biggest Dams Is Falling Apart newyorker.com If the Kariba dam were to collapse, it would constitute an epochal event in the history of energy development — the dam industry's Chernobyl. JUST GOTTA FIND A VCR FOR IT The Only Known Recording Of The First Super Bowl nytimes.com Troy Haupt is a 47-year-old nurse anesthetist here in North Carolina's Outer Banks. He has a secret to reveal about Super Bowl I: He owns the only known recording of its broadcast. Get more stories on Digg.com DIGG'S VIDEO OF THE DAY Microsoft's conception of what watching football will be like with its HoloLens augmented reality headset seems awesome — and really, really overwhelming. Credit: Microsoft 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

Cruz-in To Victory

Cruz Wins; Clinton Narrowly Beats Sanders, What Are The Origins Of Groundhog Day?, The Best Way To Cover Your Ass This Valentine's Day, The Millionaire Who Wants To Make You Live Longer, 15 Years Ago, Hackers Attacked Davos In One Of The First Acts Of 'Hacktivism', These Are The Tech Jobs With The Highest Salaries (And Where They Are) The Daily Digg Tuesday, February 2, 2016 IOWA CAUCUSES Cruz Wins; Clinton Narrowly Beats Sanders cnn.com Ted Cruz surged past Donald Trump to win the Iowa Caucuses, while Marco Rubio took third. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton eked by Bernie Sanders in a tight race. Meanwhile, Martin O'Malley and Mike Huckabee suspended their campaigns. IT ALL STARTED WITH THE PAGANS... What Are The Origins Of Groundhog Day? digg.com Every February 2nd, residents of the US look to a groundhog in Pennsylvania to tell them how long winter will last. Aside from the mysterious origins of the climatological logic, the tradition itself is hard to make sense of. UNDERWEAR WE DIGG SPONSORED The Best Way To Cover Your Ass This Valentine's Day meundies.com This February 14th, show them you care about their derriere. (And their heart and mind and stuff, too.) Grab the special edition Keith Haring design by MeUndies. ANTI-AGING DREAM The Millionaire Who Wants To Make You Live Longer digg.com Craig Venter, multi-millionaire maverick, says he can help you live a better, longer life. How? .HACKTIVISM 15 Years Ago, Hackers Attacked Davos In One Of The First Acts Of 'Hacktivism' motherboard.vice.com Exactly 15 years ago today, one of the first high-profile hacks carried out for protest purposes occurred: Anti-globalization activists wormed their way into the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. PORTLAND, HERE WE COME These Are The Tech Jobs With The Highest Salaries (And Where They Are) fastcompany.com It's no surprise that Silicon Valley's tech workers already passed the six-figure mark. Dice reports that it's the top-earning market in the country (with a cost of living to match). Others aren't so easily pegged as tech hives. Get more stories on Digg.com VIDEO OF THE DAY "The Food Surgeon" performs an Oreo cream transplant on a Reese's Cup. Surgery is scary. Credit: The Food Surgeon 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