How Humans Turned A Chatbot Into A Holocaust Denier And Other Facts

Humans Turned A Chatbot Into A Holocaust Denier And Other Facts, How A Pile Of Muddy Bones Uncovered A Bronze-Age Slaughter, Meet The Robot That Helps You Invest Your Money, The Food Industrial Complex, What's The Point Of That Weird Minimalist Art?, How Your Favorite Songs End Up In Commercials The Daily Digg Friday, March 25, 2016 WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Humans Turned A Chatbot Into A Holocaust Denier 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: Twitter ruins yet another thing, the engineers of terrorism and lighting thousands of matches all at once. SKELETON KEYS How A Pile Of Muddy Bones Uncovered A Bronze-Age Slaughter science.sciencemag.org About 3,200 years ago, two armies clashed at a river crossing near the Baltic Sea. The epic confrontation can't be found in any history books because it was only discovered in bones 20 years ago. ROBOTS WE DIGG SPONSORED Meet The Robot That Helps You Invest Your Money lendingrobot.com The first robo-advisor for peer lending, LendingRobot automates investments to help you get better diversification and kick-ass returns. EAT THE RICH The Food Industrial Complex priceonomics.com American farmers receive billions of dollars from Uncle Sam every year. So why is the "food lobby" synonymous with unhealthy food? TAKING ART TO THE MIN What's The Point Of That Weird Minimalist Art? digg.com Minimalist art is notoriously confusing. What are all of those shapes supposed to mean anyways? Let this video explain. A COMMERCIAL SUCCESS How Your Favorite Songs End Up In Commercials npr.org Over the past few years, pop songs have come to play so consistently in advertising that there are smartphone apps designed to listen and help you name that tune, and the word "sellout" has lost a lot of its bite. Get more stories on Digg.com MY LITTLE PURIM Israeli girls prepare for the Purim parade festival in Petah Tikva, Israel. The Jewish holiday of Purim commemorates the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Book of Esther. Credit: AP Photo/Oded Balilty 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

Batman Needs More Color In His Wardrobe

The Indian Widows Who Broke A 400-Year-Old Taboo In Color, The Best Reporting On Solitary Confinement, The No-Contract Alternative To Big Home Security Firms, How Aerial Surveillance Has Changed Policing — And Crime — In LA, Batman And The Rise Of Nerd Culture, Should Parents Of Severely Disabled Children Stop Their Growth? The Daily Digg Thursday, March 24, 2016 LIFE IN FLYING COLORS The Indian Widows Who Broke A 400-Year-Old Taboo In Color qz.com On March 21, thousands of widowed women gathered at temples in Vrindavan in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh to celebrate the spring festival of Holi. In doing so, they violated a 400-year-old Hindu tradition. A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE MARSHALL PROJECT The Best Reporting On Solitary Confinement digg.com Brush up for our March 30th Digg Dialog on solitary confinement by reading some of the most crucial journalism on the issue. SECURITY WE DIGG SPONSORED The No-Contract Alternative To Big Home Security Firms simplisafe.com If paying for home security feels like you're getting robbed, switch to a provider that has no annual contracts and offers 24/7 monitoring plans way cheaper than ADT's. SimpliSafe systems are affordable, easy to install and engineered to move around as much as you do. PANOPTICOPS How Aerial Surveillance Has Changed Policing — And Crime — In LA nytimes.com The expansive built environment of Los Angeles and unique geography have made the city reliant on aerial surveillance. Here's how the practice has shaped policing and crime itself in the city. THE WAYNES AND MEANS Batman And The Rise Of Nerd Culture io9.gizmodo.com It is Batman whose comics, television shows, and movies continue to serve as gateway drugs to the nerdly life. DIGG DIALOG Should Parents Of Severely Disabled Children Stop Their Growth? digg.com Is it ethical for parents to medically stunt the growth of their children if they suffer from a severe mental disability? Read editor Genevieve Field's piece and join her today at 1pm EST. Leave your comments now! Get more stories on Digg.com LOVE NOT WAR Two men write on a wall at a memorial for victims of attacks in Brussels on Wednesday, March 23, 2016. Belgian authorities were searching Wednesday for a top suspect in the country's deadliest attacks in decades, as the European Union's capital awoke under guard and with limited public transport after scores were killed and injured in bombings on the Brussels airport and a subway station.​ Credit: AP Photo/Valentin Bianchi 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

You're Grounded

Animals Have Rhythm, Too, The American Concordes That Never Flew, Why You Should Starting Matching Your Underwear And Socks, The Devastated Parents Who Want To Save Football From Itself, Malaysia's City Of The Future Is An Uncanny Valley, WATCH: Cleaning Dirty Marble With A 1000W Laser Is Immensely Satisfying The Daily Digg Wednesday, March 23, 2016 COO-COO-CA-CHOO Animals Have Rhythm, Too quantamagazine.org New insights from neuroscience — aided by a small zoo's worth of dancing animals — are revealing the biological origins of rhythm. GOTTA STAY GROUNDED The American Concordes That Never Flew bbc.com It was one of the most ambitious aircraft design projects in history, so what happened to the US plans to master supersonic passenger flight? STYLE WE DIGG SPONSORED Why You Should Starting Matching Your Underwear And Socks relatedgarments.com Matching your underwear to your socks is proven (by Digg staffers, not science but maybe science soon idk) to exponentially increase your confidence levels. We're talking Kanye Twitter Rant confidence. Get on that level with Related Garments and undress to impress. PLAYING A LIFE OR DEATH GAME The Devastated Parents Who Want To Save Football From Itself espn.go.com "What made me say that the culture of football is wrong, having watched my son's death live and first hand, was watching it on video." IS THIS REAL LIFE? Malaysia's City Of The Future Is An Uncanny Valley wired.co.uk Forest City is quartet of islands born from reclaimed land in the Straits of Johor, the thin strip of water between neighbors Malaysia and Singapore, but it may as well be the uncanny valley so much is it like wandering into a video game. GRIME? WHAT GRIME? WATCH: Cleaning Dirty Marble With A 1000W Laser Is Immensely Satisfying digg.com This handheld laser is primarily used to strip rust off metal, but it also works great — oh man, so great — on dirty marble. Get more stories on Digg.com STANDING WITH BELGIUM The Brandenburg Gate is illuminated with the Belgium national flag in reaction to the Brussels attacks, in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, March 22, 2016.​ Credit: AP Photo/Markus Schreiber 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 Parrot Protection Program

The Strange Tale Of Echo, The Parrot Who Saw Too Much, A Brief History Of Rock Stars Destroying Guitars, Smoother Skin Starts With Better Soap, Visiting Scarfolk, The Most Spectacular Dystopia Of The 1970s, Photos From Inside A Captured WWI German U-Boat, WATCH: 6,000 Matches Burn Up And Then Slowly Die Out The Daily Digg Tuesday, March 22, 2016 BIRDS AND BROKEN KNEES The Strange Tale Of Echo, The Parrot Who Saw Too Much digg.com A mob's pet is said to be in hiding. Could the bird be a witness in court? PUNK USED TO BE ALIVE A Brief History Of Rock Stars Destroying Guitars atlasobscura.com The story of guitar damage, of course, starts with Pete Townshend, The Who's world-smashing guitarist. SOAP WE DIGG SPONSORED Smoother Skin Starts With Better Soap drsquatch.com If you're still using the soap brand your mom bought for you in jr. high, maybe it's time to change it up. Dr. Squatch soaps are made with natural ingredients that smell fresh and won't irritate your skin. Buy the top three bestsellers and get 25% off retail. VOTED 'WORST CITY TO RAISE A FAMILY' Visiting Scarfolk, The Most Spectacular Dystopia Of The 1970s collectorsweekly.com Though adults tend to look back on youth as a time of innocence, childhood is actually terrifying. Artist Richard Littler wants to make sure you don't forget that. DAVY JONES' BARRACKS Photos From Inside A Captured WWI German U-Boat flashbak.com Like the innards of some hellish behemoth these photographs show the cramped, claustrophobic interior of U-boat 110. A MATCH MADE IN A PRYOMANIAC'S HEAVEN WATCH: 6,000 Matches Burn Up And Then Slowly Die Out digg.com It's super satisfying to watch 6,000 matches go up in flames in a matter of seconds. But it's somehow equally satisfying to watch 6,000 recently used matches sort of sadly decay into their own flames. Get more stories on Digg.com HOLI MOLY ​Indian Hindu widows throw flower petals and colored powder during Holi celebrations at the Gopinath temple. A few years ago this joyful celebration was forbidden for Hindu widows. Like hundreds of thousands of observant Hindu women they would have been expected to live out their days in quiet worship, dressed only in white, their very presence being considered inauspicious for all religious festivities. Credit: AP Photo /Manish Swarup 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