Mortal Enemy

The Man Who Found The Internet In A Wireless Place, America's Epidemic Of Useless Medical Care, And Other Things You Didn't Have Time To Read, It's Not Your Fault You Get Motion Sickness, Bill Gates' Quest To Determine Why Children Are Dying, The Case For Violent Video Games, What It Was Like To Play For The '80s Clippers, The Worst Team In Sports The Daily Digg Thursday, May 7, 2015 LOGGING ON AMONG THE ULTRA-ORTHODOX The Man Who Found The Internet In A Wireless Place digg.com On this week's episode of the Reply All podcast, a story about the Internet encroaching on a world that has managed pretty successfully to block it out — New York's Ultra Orthodox Jewish community. THE LONG-READER'S DIGEST America's Epidemic Of Useless Medical Care, And Other Things You Didn't Have Time To Read digg.com Useless medical care, Mexico's missing students, and Gamergate's origin — here's the best of this week's long-form journalism. DNA TESTS WE DIGG SPONSORED It's Not Your Fault You Get Motion Sickness digg.com Are you one of the 1 in 3 people who suffer from motion sickness? You can probably blame your ancestors for that. MORTALITY'S ENEMY Bill Gates' Quest To Determine Why Children Are Dying theatlantic.com An interview with Gates about why so many newborns die in developing countries, and what he thinks he can do about it. ON OUR WORST BEHAVIOR, ON-SCREEN The Case For Violent Video Games themarshallproject.org A new book says kids know they're a fantasy — even a healthy one. WINGS CLIPPED What It Was Like To Play For The '80s Clippers, The Worst Team In Sports deadspin.com With the Clippers entering a new era, one in which they aren't the most embarrassing franchise in pro sports, it feels like a good time to look back at the bad old days, and talk to those who lived through them. Call it an oral history of crushing incompetence. Get more stories on Digg.com → CAN'T SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREE POSES People take part in a yoga session on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Every week in May free Yoga classes are offered featuring different yoga instructors in Ottawa. Credit: Justin Tang/The Canadian Press 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

Thanks Granny Smith

Apple Has Plans For Your DNA, A Comprehensive Collection Of Comedians Tweeting About Their Flights, Your Underwear Needs A Spring Cleaning Too, VIDEO: An Honest Trailer For '50 Shades Of Grey', Scientists Take First Picture Of Thunder, When Your Surgeon Really Is A Hack The Daily Digg Wednesday, May 6, 2015 GOT IT FROM YOUR GRANNY SMITH Apple Has Plans For Your DNA technologyreview.com The iPhone could become a new tool in genetic studies. Apple is collaborating with U.S. researchers to launch apps that would offer some iPhone owners the chance to get their DNA tested, many of them for the first time, according to people familiar with the plans. HOPEFULLY THEY DON'T CRASH AND BURN A Comprehensive Collection Of Comedians Tweeting About Their Flights splitsider.com Nothing puts off one's judgment like anger, so oftentimes comedians end up posting airline tweets without the kind of mental editing or restraint they give their usual punchlines. The result is a sometimes hilarious and sometimes shameless look at which comedians perform best under pressure — and not the kind of pressure they're used to onstage. UNDIES WE DIGG SPONSORED Your Underwear Needs A Spring Cleaning Too meundies.com It's time. You know it. We know it. Everyone in the gym locker room knows it. You need new underwear and MeUndies' got the pair for you. With a money back guarantee and 20% off your first pair, you can't go wrong. STARRING EDWARD CULLEN GREY VIDEO: An Honest Trailer For '50 Shades Of Grey' digg.com "Teenage girls from around the world made Twilight into a global phenomenon. Now it's mom's turn." BOOM, CLAP Scientists Take First Picture Of Thunder sciencenews.org For the first time, scientists have precisely captured a map of the boisterous bang radiating from a lightning strike. The work could reveal the energies involved in powering some of nature's flashiest light shows. All it took was a kevlar-coated copper wire launched into an electrically charged cloud using a small rocket. A DIFFERENT TYPE OF VIRUS When Your Surgeon Really Is A Hack blog.norsecorp.com There's been a quiet revolution going on within hospitals, mostly in the United States. In 2013, for example, nearly half-a-million robot surgeries were performed where a doctor remotely manipulated a device performing the operation. And these devices could be prone to security weaknesses. In other words, someone might hack your doctor's robot. Get more stories on Digg.com → SMOKE RINGING IT IN Australian indigenous performers, William Barton, left, and Djakapurra Munyarryun perform the smoking ceremony during the inauguration of the Australian pavilion at the 56th Biennale of Arts in Venice, Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis 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

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