The Limits Of Friendship

How Nuclear Explosions Were Used To Save The Environment, Guy Torments Girlfriend With 'Lord Of The Rings' Quotes, So You Wanna Donate But Don't Know Where To Start, The Limits Of Friendship, The World's Biggest Land, Sea And Air Vehicles, The Cure For Sore Muscles Is Trying To Make Your Muscles Sore Again The Daily Digg Wednesday, October 8, 2014 HALF LIFE IS BETTER THAN NO LIFE How Nuclear Explosions Were Used To Save The Environment nautil.us It seems strange to us now to think of nuclear bombs as just another tool for engineers to shape our environment. We have to think back to the post-War mindset, enthusiastic for all things nuclear, when people on both sides of the Iron Curtain thought our cities, cars, and lives would soon draw their power from splitting or combining atoms. FLY, YOU FOOL Guy Torments Girlfriend With 'Lord Of The Rings' Quotes digg.com We don't even want to know what he's going to say about the engagement ring. CHARITIES WE DIGG SPONSORED So You Wanna Donate But Don't Know Where To Start dollaraday.co Everyone wants to give more to charity, but often we don't know where to begin. Thankfully Dollar A Day is here to help you help. THE SCIENTIFIC CASE FOR UN-FRIENDING The Limits Of Friendship newyorker.com Social networks have pushed us to — and perhaps beyond — the limits of human friendship. ALSO THE WORLD'S BIGGEST INFOGRAPHIC The World's Biggest Land, Sea And Air Vehicles digg.com We know size doesn't matter (right? right?), but we're still enamored with giant machines. RECOVERY IS A MYTH The Cure For Sore Muscles Is Trying To Make Your Muscles Sore Again outsideonline.com Throw away your ice packs and ibuprofen if you want to recover right. Read more on Digg.com → BUT CAN IT PLAY DARTS? A model plays ping-pong with OMRON Corp.'s three-legged robot during the CEATEC Japan advanced technologies show in Chiba, near Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014. Despite its intimidating spider-like resemblance, OMRON Corp.'s robot is a relaxed ping pong playmate. It watches its human opponent to predict the ball's path. Credit: AP Photo/Koji Sasahara Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The Trillest Teacher In School

An Analysis Of The Cost Of Raising A Child Like Calvin From 'Calvin And Hobbes', How We Got Screwed By Pumpkin Spice Condoms, Don't Be A Neckbeard, Professors Read Their Own 'Rate My Professor' Reviews, Endeavour And Me, 5% Of Religious Americans Routinely Try To Fool God The Daily Digg Tuesday, October 7, 2014 SHOULD'VE JUST RAISED HOBBES An Analysis Of The Cost Of Raising A Child Like Calvin From 'Calvin And Hobbes' pnis.co In total, Calvin caused an estimated $15,955.50 worth of damage over the duration of the comic strip. BREAKING CONDOM NEWS How We Got Screwed By Pumpkin Spice Condoms digg.com Like so many great condom tales, it begins with an accident. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Don't Be A Neckbeard dollarshaveclub.com Look, we're not going to ask what you plan on shaving — that's between you and your razor (and probably your significant other). But we are going to ask that you use Dollar Shave Club to get the job done. It's a cut above on the cheap. 'HE IS THE TRILLEST TEACHER IN SCHOOL' Professors Read Their Own 'Rate My Professor' Reviews digg.com Professors at the University of Alabama find out what students think of them, bad grammar and all. AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER Endeavour And Me medium.com A quiet farewell with the last space shuttle on the last day before it became a museum piece. WE'RE PRAYING FOR THEM 5% Of Religious Americans Routinely Try To Fool God motherjones.com It seems to us that it would already be difficult enough to keep something from an omnipresent and omnipotent deity. Read more on Digg.com → FRUITS OF THEIR LABOR An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man checks an etrog, a lemon-like citrus fruit, for blemishes to determine if is ritually acceptable, before buying it as one of the four items used as a symbol on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in Netanya, Israel, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014. The holiday commemorates the biblical story of the Israelites 40 years of wandering in the desert and decorated huts are erected outside religious households as a symbol of temporary shelter. Credit: AP Photo/Oded Balilty Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Flying, Spying, Killing Machines

Drones And Everything After, What You Missed This Weekend, Cuba Is Punching Far Above Its Weight When It Comes To Ebola, 'Better Call Saul' Is Now A Song, In 1976 I Discovered Ebola, Now I Fear An Unimaginable Tragedy, Hacked Screenshots Show Friend-To-Friend Payments Feature Hidden In Facebook Messenger The Daily Digg Monday, October 6, 2014 COME FOR THE ARTICLE, STAY FOR THE GIFS Drones And Everything After nymag.com The flying, spying, killing machines that are turning humans into superheroes. DIGG PICKS What You Missed This Weekend digg.com Lab-grown penises, the death of Saturday morning cartoons, and of course more Ebola updates. NO MAN IS AN ISLAND Cuba Is Punching Far Above Its Weight When It Comes To Ebola washingtonpost.com While the international community has been accused of dragging its feet on the Ebola crisis, Cuba, a country of just 11 million people that still enjoys a fraught relationship with the United States, has emerged as a crucial provider of medical expertise in the West African nations hit by Ebola. LIKE FRASIER OR LIKE AFTERMASH? 'Better Call Saul' Is Now A Song digg.com Everybody's favorite crooked lawyer not only has his own TV show, but now he's got his very own song, as well. Show creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould wrote the lyrics, but it's Junior Brown who brings the tune to life. LESSONS FROM HISTORY In 1976 I Discovered Ebola, Now I Fear An Unimaginable Tragedy theguardian.com Peter Piot was a researcher at a lab in Antwerp when a pilot brought him a blood sample from a Belgian nun who had fallen mysteriously ill in Zaire. 'PAY ME OR I'LL POKE YOUR KNEES' Hacked Screenshots Show Friend-To-Friend Payments Feature Hidden In Facebook Messenger techcrunch.com Facebook Messenger is all set up to allow friends to send each other money. All Facebook has to do is turn on the feature, according to screenshots and video taken using iOS app exploration developer tool Cycript by Stanford computer science student Andrew Aude. Read more on Digg.com → FAULTY TOWER Members of the Castellers Collas Jove Xiquets de Tarragona fall as they tried to complete their human tower during the 25th Human Tower Competition in Tarragona, Spain, on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. The tradition of building human towers or "castells" dates back to the 18th century and takes place during festivals in Catalonia, where "colles" or teams compete to build the tallest and most complicated towers. Credit: AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

This Week's Best Videos: The Return Of Homestar Runner, A Man Riding A Bike Very Dangerously And Another Man Saying 'Burger'

Danny MacAskill Rides The Ridge, 'Fish Eye Lens,' A Brand-New Animation From Homestar Runner, Jerry Seinfeld Won A Clio Award, Gave Scathing Speech Mocking Advertising, BUUUUUUUURRGGGEEERRRR, The Work Of A Professional Neon Sign Maker, The Eyes Of Alfred Hitchcock The Daily Digg Sunday, October 5, 2014 DON'T LOOK DOWN Danny MacAskill Rides The Ridge digg.com Danny MacAskill is a very good bike rider. A very, very good bike rider. So he climbed a mountain near his home on the Isle of Skye and did something that will make you scream with joy and horror. EVERYTHING IS BETTER 'Fish Eye Lens,' A Brand-New Animation From Homestar Runner digg.com You know how some bands decide to get back together and tour, like, 15 years after they broke up? This is sort of like that, but the cast of Homestar Runner aren't all broke, overweight and hate each other now. HAVE A GREAT EVENING Jerry Seinfeld Won A Clio Award, Gave Scathing Speech Mocking Advertising digg.com "I think spending your lives trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy." BUUUURGGGGEEEEEER BUUUUUUUURRGGGEEERRRR digg.com BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRGGGGGGEEEER '10 SECONDS' The Work Of A Professional Neon Sign Maker digg.com Mike Heist has been working in the neon industry in Portland, Oregon for 30 years. He is a master of his craft, and is responsible for the bending of some of the city's most iconic signage. DON'T LOOK AWAY The Eyes Of Alfred Hitchcock digg.com It is said the eyes are the windows to the soul, and the late, great director Alfred Hitchcock had quite a way with eyes. Though most of the peepers shown in this tribute to Hitch reveal dark, disturbed and fearful souls behind them. Read more on Digg.com → THIS IS ED. HE ISN'T REAL Want a good sense of how far computer graphics have come to mimicking actual humans? See if the beginning of this demo fools you too. Credit: Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Bite The Bullet (Train)

How The Law Turns Battered Women Into Criminals, The Train That Made Modern Japan, What We Learned This Week, A Secret History Of Mormon Heavy Metal, What Doesn't David Fincher Do?, What Would It Take To Turn New York Into A Megacity? The Daily Digg Friday, October 3, 2014 A FAILURE TO PROTECT How The Law Turns Battered Women Into Criminals buzzfeed.com Arlena Lindley's boyfriend Alonzo Turner beat her for months and murdered her child — so why was she sent to prison for 45 years? THE MOVEMENT OF CAPITAL The Train That Made Modern Japan theguardian.com At 10am on 1 October 1964, with less than a week and a half to go before the start of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the two inaugural Hikari Super Express Shinkansen, or "bullet trains," arrived at their destinations, Tokyo and Osaka. They were precisely on time. DIGG PICKS What We Learned This Week digg.com This week we learned why cyclists shave their legs, how to use an app for consensual sex and why this cat is a hero. 'WAR IN HEAVEN' IS PRETTY BRUTAL A Secret History Of Mormon Heavy Metal deathandtaxesmag.com For a brief, blaring onslaught in the early 1970s, Utah's most famous musical Mormons proudly put themselves in league with Satan. That's right: the Osmonds went heavy metal. AND THE OTHER WAY IS WRONG What Doesn't David Fincher Do? digg.com For sheer directorial craft, there are few people working today who can match David Fincher. And yet he describes his own process as "not what I do, but what I don't do." Join Tony Zhou today in answering the question: What does David Fincher not do? NO NEED FOR STREET JUDGES What Would It Take To Turn New York Into A Megacity? io9.com Something bizarre happened overnight: New York City's population grew to the size of Shanghai's, swelling from 8 million people to 24 million. It's like a natural disaster, but this tidal surge is made of human needs. Here's how we'll rebuild the city to make room for them all. Read more on Digg.com → THE BUS GOT ITS GOATS Goats look out of a bus window, while being transported to a near by livestock market, to be displayed for sale in preparation for the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or "Feast of Sacrifice", on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. Muslims around the world will mark Eid al-Adha, as the biggest holiday of the Islamic calendar. It commemorates the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim or Abraham, as he is known in the Bible to sacrifice his son in accordance with God's will, though in the end God provides him a sheep to sacrifice instead. Credit: AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014