8: The Answer To Life, The Universe And Everything

Jeff Henry often said that his goal in life was to make customers of his family's legendary water parks happy — "to put a smile on their faces, to give them a thrill or two." It was a beautiful vision. Until it went horribly wrong.

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LESSONS UNLEARNED 'A NIGHTMARE BEYOND COMPREHENSION' Schlitterbahn's Tragic Slide texasmonthly.com Jeff Henry often said that his goal in life was to make customers of his family's legendary water parks happy — "to put a smile on their faces, to give them a thrill or two." It was a beautiful vision. Until it went horribly wrong. SALÂM, ESM E SHOMA CHIE? The Hardest Languages For Native English Speakers To Learn, Visualized digg.com Not all secondary languages were created equal for native English speakers. According to the Foreign Service Institute, some languages take a lot longer to learn than others. TAKING THE HEAT Apple Can't Handle The Heat extremetech.com Severe core i9 throttling has been found on new MacBook Pros. THINK GLOBALLY, CORRUPT LOCALLY The Demise Of Local Newspapers Is Hurting City Finances qz.com Without local reporters poking around, local governments aren't monitored as closely. What results is higher government wages, more government employees, and higher taxes. BANKS WE DIGG | SPONSORED This Bank Will Save You $337 In ATM Fees radiusbank.com Radius Bank is entirely online, so that means it's built around you, no matter where you live. They recently joined the MoneyPass ATM network, which gives users access to 32,000 fee-free ATMs across the country. And if you use an ATM that's still out of network, they'll reimburse all fees at the end of each month. THE WEEK IN PICTURES PICTURE THIS The Best Photography Of The Week digg.com The pigeons that were photographers, the US military's camouflage Disneyland and other best photos of the week. STARRY STARRY NIGHT The Week's Coolest Space Images digg.com Seeing Titan with infrared eyes, "spiders" from Mars and other cool space images of the week. YOU CAN'T FAKE CANDID High-Res Outtakes From Apollo 11's 1969 Moon Landing qz.com The off-kilter composition and the in-between moments remind you that beneath the layers of their impermeable spacesuits, there were actually humans walking on the moon. LIFE IS STRANGE THE ANSWER TO THE UNIVERSE IS 8 The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie The Laws Of Nature quantamagazine.org New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called "octonions." WE'D ALL BE WEARING MOON BOOTS How Apollo-Era Scientists Thought We'd Live On The Moon nationalgeographic.com In the 1960s, experts drew on the best science of the time to show how humans might live and work in lunar style. LOST (NOT) AT SEA The Secret Desert Home Of A Tiny, Lonely Seabird theatlantic.com To save the South American storm petrel, scientists are venturing deep into their long-hidden habitat—and sticking their noses into a lot of stinky holes in the ground. VIDEO OF THE DAY WHAT AN INSANE PLACE TO GET LOST The Moment A Drone Finds A Missing 65-Year-Old Mountaineer Presumed Dead In The Himalayas digg.com Rick Allen was on an excursion with his climbing partner when he fell after a solo attempt on the 26,401-foot summit of Broad Peak, the 12th highest mountain in the world. After he was spotted, he was promptly brought to safety and is on the mend. DIGG PICKS Is Your 401(k) Actually Working? blooom.com Blooom's free 401(k) health report tells you if your 401(k) is doing what you think it's doing. If not, it provides (free) suggestions for how to get your investments where you need them to be. Did we mention it was free? It doesn't matter how many languages you can speak, it's the weekend. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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