The Elephant No Longer In The Room

The Best and Worst Places To Grow Up: How Your Area Compares, VIDEO: Mom Has The Only Sane Reaction To Idiot Using A Leaf Blower On A Chiminea, How To Get A Better Job, The Man Who Cut Out His Own Appendix, How Corona Made Cinco De Mayo An American Holiday, The Elephant Watcher The Daily Digg Tuesday, May 5, 2015 KIDS DON'T HAVE IT MADE IN MANHATTAN The Best and Worst Places To Grow Up: How Your Area Compares nytimes.com Children who grow up in some places go on to earn much more than they would if they grew up elsewhere. 'WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!' VIDEO: Mom Has The Only Sane Reaction To Idiot Using A Leaf Blower On A Chiminea digg.com This entire neighborhood probably smells like burning because one drunk dummy thought massive plumes of chiminea smoke looked cool. Way to ruin a nice day for everyone, bud. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED How To Get A Better Job teamtreehouse.com These people did it. So can you. Seriously. You can do it. You. ALWAYS BRING TWO DOCTORS The Man Who Cut Out His Own Appendix bbc.com During an expedition to the Antarctic, Russian surgeon Leonid Rogozov became seriously ill. He needed an operation — and as the only doctor on the team, he realised he would have to do it himself. THE VALENTINE'S DAY OF CHEAP BEER How Corona Made Cinco De Mayo An American Holiday vinepair.com Suffice it to say, Cinco de Mayo is a behemoth when it comes to selling booze, but how did a holiday that isn't really even celebrated in Mexico become not only the most powerful US holiday when it comes to selling alcohol, but also the only connection most Americans have to our largest immigrant group? OUR TURN NOT TO FORGET The Elephant Watcher newyorker.com As poachers grow bolder, Andrea Turkalo records the behavior of a vanishing species. Get more stories on Digg.com → DON'T BACK DOWN A worker of the recently closed Swan garments factory covers her face with a scarf to shelter herself from the sun as she participates in a protest outside the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Export Association office in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, May 4, 2015. More than two hundred workers protested Monday demanding payment of wages still owed to them as well as reopening of the manufacturing unit. Bangladesh is the world's second-largest garment manufacturing country after China. The sector employs about 4 million workers, mostly women. Credit: AP Photo/A.M. Ahad Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Damn Good Coffee

A Minute Of Horror, Then Hours Of Panic On The Path To Mount Everest, Why You Can't Get Cheap Lobster, And Other News, What The Mattress Industry Doesn't Want You To Know, The Decline Of Pseudoscience, VIDEO: Making Turkish Sand Coffee Looks Like Magic, My Struggle With The Last Great Taboo: Admitting My Salary The Daily Digg Monday, May 4, 2015 SLIPPERY SLOPES A Minute Of Horror, Then Hours Of Panic On The Path To Mount Everest washingtonpost.com At base camp, it was lunchtime. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND Why You Can't Get Cheap Lobster, And Other News digg.com Expensive shellfish, magical coffee, and a man-sized cake. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED What The Mattress Industry Doesn't Want You To Know tuftandneedle.com Mattresses are marked up 6-12 times from manufacture to point of sale. That means you're mostly paying for bad TV commercials, retail markups, sales commissions, and wholesaler's profits. DR. OZYMANDIAS The Decline Of Pseudoscience newrepublic.com Now that "natural" living has gone mainstream, its days are numbered DAMN GOOD SAND, AND HOT VIDEO: Making Turkish Sand Coffee Looks Like Magic digg.com On first glance, it looks a lot like this coffee maker is summoning coffee from the bottom of the cup like a rabbit from a hat. CAN I GET YOUR NUMBER? My Struggle With The Last Great Taboo: Admitting My Salary wired.com Late last week, using the hashtag #talkpay, people began tweeting about how much money they make — a radical thing to do in a culture that treats disclosing your salary as the ultimate taboo. Get more stories on Digg.com → TALLADEGA LIGHTS Austin Dillon's car catches fire during the Talladega 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Talladega Superspeedway, Sunday, May 3, 2015, in Talladega, Ala. Credit: AP Photo/Butch Dill Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

This Week's Best Videos: CGI Strawberries, Sake And A Sweet Save

Competitive Eater Molly Schuyler Demolishes A Burger The Size Of A Small Child, What You Get When You Pour Molten Aluminum Into A Watermelon, Want To Cook More? Here's The Best Way To Do It, Dude Falling Off A Longboard Proves He's Really A Transformer, The Making Of High-End Saké, Week's Best Short: 'Keith' The Daily Digg Sunday, May 3, 2015 CHEWING IS FOR CHUMPS Competitive Eater Molly Schuyler Demolishes A Burger The Size Of A Small Child digg.com The record for this contest was previously held by Furious Pete, but Molly demolishes his time, cutting the record down from 3:27 to a mere 2:12. MELON MOLDS What You Get When You Pour Molten Aluminum Into A Watermelon digg.com Anthill art is a thing of the past. Watermelon sculpture is the way of the future. Plus, you're not killing hundreds of ants. MEALS WE DIGG SPONSORED Want To Cook More? Here's The Best Way To Do It blueapron.com Whether you're new to cooking or a pro, the best way to save time and effort is Blue Apron. Good meals without the hassle-- try it today and get 2 meals free! SAVETY FIRST Dude Falling Off A Longboard Proves He's Really A Transformer digg.com This is why you wear protective gear, kids. RICE TO MEET YOU The Making Of High-End Saké digg.com Saké brewing is older than written language in Japan. Which means they've had a lot of time to get really, really good at it. 'CAN I HELP YOU?' Week's Best Short: 'Keith' digg.com "Keith" shows what's possible for a creative filmmaker with a budget of zero dollars. Get more stories on Digg.com → THE MEANING OF (BILL'S) LIFE Let's not mince words here: Don Hertzfeldt is a genius who makes genius things, and this 2012 short is no exception. It's sad, funny, bizarre and — more relevant to you viewers — now being hosted for free on Hulu. Click through to watch his most recent (and not free) short "World Of Tomorrow." Credit: Hulu Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

A Poultry Sum

Wax Is Weed's Next Big Thing And No One Knows If It's Safe, Meme-ing Ain't Easy And Other Facts, Your Wrist Would Look Better With This Watch, This Man Wants To Sell You A Lion Burger, The Making Of High-End Saké, We're Not Paying Enough For Our Chicken The Daily Digg Friday, May 1, 2015 CRACK POT Wax Is Weed's Next Big Thing And No One Knows If It's Safe buzzfeed.com California dispensaries say butane hash oil, or "wax," now accounts for 40 percent of sales — despite potential health risks and home lab explosions on the rise. With no regulation and a lack of good information, stoners turn to self-appointed, and self-interested, "experts" like Matt Rize — but at what cost? WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Meme-ing Ain't Easy And Other Facts digg.com This week we learned it's hard to make dank memes, the best way to fall of of a skateboard and why coffee is so dang expensive. WATCHES WE DIGG SPONSORED Your Wrist Would Look Better With This Watch mvmtwatches.com We're not winding you up: MVMT has top-quality watches for affordable prices. THE MEAT GUY This Man Wants To Sell You A Lion Burger californiasunday.com If it moves, Anshu Pathakhas probably sold it. RICE TO MEET YOU The Making Of High-End Saké digg.com Saké brewing is older than written language in Japan. Which means they've had a lot of time to get really, really good at it. A POULTRY SUM We're Not Paying Enough For Our Chicken luckypeach.com It's hard out here at the supermarket, choosing a chicken. Get more stories on Digg.com → MERKEL'S NEW FRIEND German Chancellor Angela Merkel feeds a lemur that sits on her shoulder during her visit at the bird park in Marlow, northeastern Germany, Thursday, April 30, 2015. Merkel is scheduled to open the enclosure for penguins in the bird park. Credit: Jens Buettner/dpa via AP Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

You Had Me At Holo

Inside America's Massive, Messy Evacuation From Saigon, Netflix Is Adapting 'Green Eggs And Ham', Who Said You Can't Handle The Truth?, Microsoft Shows HoloLens' Augmented Reality Is No Gimmick, How The New Cold War Is Improving Your Navigation, The Nepal Earthquake Moved The City Of Kathmandu 10 Feet The Daily Digg Thursday, April 30, 2015 GET TO THE CHOPPA Inside America's Massive, Messy Evacuation From Saigon newrepublic.com How the U.S. managed the failure of the Vietnam War 40 years ago. SAM-I-AM-BINGE-WATCHING Netflix Is Adapting 'Green Eggs And Ham' theverge.com A new Netflix series has appeared, but this one is a little weird. The streaming service has a plan to adapt Green Eggs and Ham — Dr. Seuss' famous creation, made into TV animation STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Who Said You Can't Handle The Truth? moven.com Some people would rather spend blindly all month, and wait for the rude shock at the end. The Moven app gives you a better way. SAY HOLO TO THE FUTURE Microsoft Shows HoloLens' Augmented Reality Is No Gimmick wired.com Today, Microsoft demonstrated how far its augmented-reality HoloLens wonderland project has come. In fact, it cemented HoloLens's place as one of the most exciting new technologies we have — just in ways that you may never actually see. GPS 4.0 How The New Cold War Is Improving Your Navigation indefinitelywild.gizmodo.com Ever contemplated going to war with America, but been thwarted when the Great Satan switched off your access to its navigation satellites? That's potentially a real problem for China and Russia, but the real victor in this navigational arms race might be you; it's improving the quality of location data on your phone and in your car. SEISMIC SHIFT The Nepal Earthquake Moved The City Of Kathmandu 10 Feet citylab.com And it's not just the cities above a fault line that move as a result of the tectonic rupture. Get more stories on Digg.com → THE LOTUS HEATERS Buddhist believers holding lanterns in the shape of lotus flowers walk around the Gwanghwamun Plaza in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday, April 29, 2015, to celebrate Buddha's upcoming birthday, which is on May 25. Credit: AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014