All That Glitters Is Cold

The Strongest Evidence Yet That America Is Botching Coronavirus Testing, The Real Stories Billionaires Tell Themselves To Justify Their Wealth, I Was A Middle-Class Drug Mule, and more.

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SYSTEMS FAILURE THE WHITE HOUSE DECLINED TO COMMENT The Strongest Evidence Yet That America Is Botching Coronavirus Testing theatlantic.com "I don't know what went wrong," a former CDC chief told The Atlantic. RUNNING AND RUNNING I Was A Middle-Class Drug Mule vice.com "I probably should've been scared, but I wasn't." WHO WANTS TO MEET A BILLIONAIRE? The Real Stories Billionaires Tell Themselves To Justify Their Wealth gen.medium.com Yale professor Justin Farrell spent five years among the billionaires of Teton County, Wyoming to find out what it's like to be really, really rich. DEALS WE DIGG | SPONSORED This Must-Have Browser Extension Finds Promo Codes At 30,000 Sites joinhoney.com If you aren't using Honey when you're shopping online, you're probably wasting money. See why this free extension has over 100,000 five-star reviews — here's how it works. LOOK CAREFULLY OLD AGE ART A Collection Of 'Fossils' Of Popular Cartoon Characters behance.net A series imagining realistic skulls based on cartoon characters, from Canis Goofus to Canaria Tweetea. (WARNING: FLASHING LIGHTS) WATCH: You'll Swear These Gears Are Moving — But It's Just An Extremely Convincing Optical Illusion gfycat.com Logically, three interlocking gears would be physically locked in place, but the flashing colors in this illusion don't care about logic. ALL THAT GLITTERS The Women Who Scavenge For Gold At The Top Of The World widerimage.reuters.com Eva Chura is one of the magpies of the mountain. Living with their families in shacks in a gold shantytown in the Andes, these women make a living gleaning gold from rubble. BET ON THE MELT The Great Alaskan Guessing Game outsideonline.com Last year the jackpot in the Nenana Ice Classic was $311,652. Watching ice melt just got really interesting. VIDEO OF THE DAY 'THAT'S NOT A HOT WHEELS' Somebody Built A Tiny Race Track For Toy Cars And Filmed It With Ridiculously High Production Values youtube.com 3Dbotmaker's "Diecast Rally Championship" is a painstaking labor of love of making a racing show with toy cars — including dramatic music and professional announcers. DIGG PICKS | AFFILIATE Make Your Own Ornate Marble Courses On The Side Of Your Fridge kickstarter.com Your refrigerator needn't be relegated to holding up grocery lists and souvenirs from gift shops. Constructing your own marble course is much more interesting. FROM THE ARCHIVES 'MY SILENT STRUGGLE' The Concussion Diaries: One High School Football Player's Secret Struggle with CTE (2017) gq.com Zac Easter knew what was happening to him. He knew why. And he knew that it was only going to get worse. So he decided to write it all down — to let the world know what football had done to him, what he'd done to his body and his brain for the game he loved. And then he shot himself. SUN'S OUT, BLOCKCHAINS OUT My Wet and Wild Bitcoin Weekend On Richard Branson's Island Refuge (2016) motherboard.vice.com How the global economy is being overturned by men in flip flops. Happy Saturday, friends. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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