Monkey Trial 2.0

Thinking Outside The Pillbox, Digg Summarizes The Things You Didn't Have Time To Read, Chimpanzee Rights Get A Day In Court, Death Of A Domestic Terrorist, The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, And The Secret Ghostwriters Of Children's Fiction, Holy Crop: How Federal Dollars Are Financing The Water Crisis In The West The Daily Digg Thursday, May 28, 2015 LEMON AID Thinking Outside The Pillbox newrepublic.com Many doctors dismiss nutritional therapies as quack medicine. But many patients disagree, and they're taking matters into their own hands — sometimes to the detriment of their health. Can food cure disease? And are doctors ready to think outside the pillbox? MOUNTAINS, RACISM, AND HUMAN EXPERIMENTS Digg Summarizes The Things You Didn't Have Time To Read digg.com ​In this week's edition of the Long-Reader's Digest: Climbing the Unclimbables, un-teaching racism, and the strange history of child research subjects. NOT WHAT SCOPES HAD IN MIND Chimpanzee Rights Get A Day In Court wired.com At stake: the question of whether only human beings deserve human rights. BY KNIFE OR BY BULLET Death Of A Domestic Terrorist digg.com On this week's episode of the "Reply All" podcast — talking to a woman victimized by the pioneer of online death threats. WRITING JALOPY COPY The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, And The Secret Ghostwriters Of Children's Fiction theatlantic.com Along with the Nancy Drew series, almost all of the thrillers in the popular teenage franchise were produced by ghostwriters, thanks to a business model that proved to be prescient. THE PROBLEM WITH COTTON Holy Crop: How Federal Dollars Are Financing The Water Crisis In The West digg.com Cotton comes at enormous environmental expense, a price the American West may no longer be able to afford. Get more stories on Digg.com → FULL OF HOT AIR Activists of the international campaigning and advocacy organization ONE install illuminated balloons with portraits of the G7 heads of state in front of the Frauenkirche cathedral (Church of Our Lady) prior the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Dresden, eastern Germany, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. The G7 Finance Ministers meeting is to be held in Dresden from May 27 to May 29, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Jens Meyer 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

Death Of A Stuntman

Horrible Movie Set Accidents You Might Not Know About, Sending Ice To Antarctica, Shorts You Can Wear To Work, Meet The 'Dark Money' Phantom, The Creepy Fundamentalist Homeschool Cult That Trained The Duggars, Scientists Have Mummified A Human Leg Using Ancient Egyptian Methods The Daily Digg Wednesday, May 27, 2015 DEATH OF A STUNTMAN Horrible Movie Set Accidents You Might Not Know About digg.com Stunt doubles don't get the credit they deserve. Imgur user FatherUzzi put together a list of notable movie set accidents, some of which were fatal and gruesome. COLD STORAGE Sending Ice To Antarctica bbc.com Scientists are planning to ship ice to the Antarctic. They're afraid that mountain glaciers around the world are melting as a result of climate change and want to store samples of ice in a new vault in the coldest place on Earth. SHORTS WE DIGG SPONSORED Shorts You Can Wear To Work ministryofsupply.com If you're into wearing shorts to work, these pups are your best bet. Editor's note: They also look good on the weekends. CONSIDER THE SOURCE Meet The 'Dark Money' Phantom publicintegrity.org Just outside Cincinnati, tucked among insurance agencies, hair salons and a yoga studio, is the nexus of one of the nation's most mysterious networks pouring secret money into elections. DUGG DEEPER The Creepy Fundamentalist Homeschool Cult That Trained The Duggars gawker.com You know about the Duggars, the evangelical Christian family whose 19 children catapulted them to fame through Discovery Health specials and TLC show, "19 Kids and Counting." But we've still just barely scratched the surface of the insane, terrifying homeschool cult that the Duggars and thousands more across the country subscribe to: the Advanced Training Institute. WALKING LIKE AN EGYPTIAN Scientists Have Mummified A Human Leg Using Ancient Egyptian Methods popsci.com Most of what we know about mummies comes from the written accounts of historians like Herodotus, who lived in the 400s BC and recorded how the ancient Egyptians mummified cadavers. But how do we know we can trust this Herodotus guy? Instead of taking his word for it, scientists decided to test whether the ancient methods worked, taking a human body and mummifying it themselves. Get more stories on Digg.com → GRAVE CONCERNS An abandoned cage is photographed at a camp found in Wang Burma at the Malaysia-Thailand border outside Wang Kelian, Malaysia on Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Malaysian forensic teams exhumed a body from a shallow grave at an abandoned camp on Tuesday that was used by human traffickers, the first of what police predicted would be more grim findings as they combed through a cluster of jungle camps on the border with Thailand. Credit: AP Photo/Joshua Paul 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

Now This Is How You Park A Bike

Where Did The Cocktail Come From?, The Way They Park Bicycles In Japan Is Awesome, The Experiment That Changed Superheroes Forever, Being 5'9'' Doesn't Stop This Guy From Dunking Over A Dude Sitting On Another Dude's Shoulders, The World's A Lot More Violent Than Reported, Why Mobile Calls Are Still Subpar, And How That's Changing The Daily Digg Tuesday, May 26, 2015 SHOULD YOU SHAKE IT OR STIR? Where Did The Cocktail Come From? digg.com In addition to its peculiar history as a medicinal tonic, plenty of hard science lies behind the perfect cocktail, from the relationship between taste perception and temperature to the all-important decision of whether to shake or stir. WHEELIE COOL The Way They Park Bicycles In Japan Is Awesome digg.com Forget chaining your ride to a parking meter. This intricate underground system puts all of that to shame. THE SECRET HISTORY OF ULTIMATE MARVEL The Experiment That Changed Superheroes Forever vulture.com It was a compendium of stories that saved the company that launched it, revolutionized the comics medium, and became the foundation of the multi-billion-dollar Marvel cinematic empire. PEOPLE NOT WEARING A TRENCH COAT Being 5'9'' Doesn't Stop This Guy From Dunking Over A Dude Sitting On Another Dude's Shoulders digg.com Ilya Kroshka, a 20-year-old Ukrainian man, shows off his skills and proves once and for all that white men can jump. A NEW HISTORY OF VIOLENCE The World's A Lot More Violent Than Reported historynewsnetwork.org It has a dreary name: "On the tail risk of violent conflict and its underestimation." But this new paper by social scientists Pasquale Cirillo and Nassim Nicholas Taleb could rewrite the history of violence. IDLE CHATTER Why Mobile Calls Are Still Subpar, And How That's Changing technologyreview.com Wireless companies and a few ambitious startups are racing to make your cell-phone calls better. Get more stories on Digg.com → BORING BUDDHA BIRTHDAY A shaven-headed young boy yawns during a special service to celebrate the 2,559th birthday of Buddha at the Chogye Temple in Seoul, Monday, May 25, 2015. Buddhists prayed for the unification between South and North Korea at the service. 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

Strange Brew

Saving Coffee From Extinction, This Is What It's Like To Have Your Life Stolen By A Woman Who Doesn't Exist, Stop Buying Expensive Wine, And Other News, The Secret To Vacationing In The World's 'Most Dangerous' Places, VIDEO: Hula-Hooping Shadow Boxer Provides The Entertainment NASCAR Races Sorely Lack, In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is In Demand The Daily Digg Monday, May 25, 2015 BEAN NICE KNOWING YOU Saving Coffee From Extinction bbc.com Two billion cups of coffee are drunk around the world every day and 25 million families rely on growing coffee for a living. Over the past 15 years, consumption of the drink has risen by 43% — but researchers are warning that the world's most popular coffee, Arabica, is under threat. SHE'S NOT ALL THERE This Is What It's Like To Have Your Life Stolen By A Woman Who Doesn't Exist buzzfeed.com Leah Palmer was a high-flying fashionista with a jet-setting lifestyle and a host of admirers on social media. But her entire existence was a fraud — a multi-year hoax that depended on stealing someone else's life. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND Stop Buying Expensive Wine, And Other News digg.com Cheap wine is all you need, dogs have been our friends longer than we thought and this whirlpool is very hungry. ADVENTURE CAPITALS The Secret To Vacationing In The World's 'Most Dangerous' Places kernelmag.dailydot.com Vacation in Somalia. Really. It's amazing. HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY! VIDEO: Hula-Hooping Shadow Boxer Provides The Entertainment NASCAR Races Sorely Lack digg.com The cars zipping by do provide a great backdrop though. VALLEYGAG In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is In Demand nytimes.com "It just removes food completely from my morning equation up until about 7 p.m." Get more stories on Digg.com → THE THIRST IS REAL A two month-old Black Howler Monkey named Gael by the zoo staff, is nursed in the Rescue Center at a National Zoo of Managua, Nicaragua, Sunday, May, 24, 2015. The monkey was rescued by hunters before being brought to the center. Credit: AP Photo/Esteban Felix 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: Catchers, Cramps and Chabbernaggles

Delta Made 'The Internetest Safety Video On The Internet', We've Found Harry Shearer's Replacement For 'The Simpsons', Organized Crime And The Japanese Right Wing, Smooth Batter Catches Ball That Hit Him, Tosses It Back To Pitcher Like It's No Big Deal, Say 'Hebbo!' To Tarvuism, This Is The Worst Cramp Of All Time Or There's A Bunch Of Worms Under This Dude's Skin The Daily Digg Sunday, May 24, 2015 WE GOT MEMED Delta Made 'The Internetest Safety Video On The Internet' digg.com Meme-morial Day weekend came early this year. 'THEY'RE SAYING BOO-URNS' We've Found Harry Shearer's Replacement For 'The Simpsons' digg.com Brock Baker does impressions, and apart from Principal Skinner he seems to have mastered the Shearer repertoire. THE TATTOOED MAN IN THE VAN Organized Crime And The Japanese Right Wing digg.com "Uyoku dantai" are Japanese nationalist right-wing groups of which there are over 1,000 in Japan with about 100,000 members in total. VICE caught up with Masaya Kudo, a Right-Wing activist and leader of his own group, "Nihon-no-Kai" as he explained his philosophies and concerns regarding the Right-Wing movement today and their ties to the Yakuza. BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME Smooth Batter Catches Ball That Hit Him, Tosses It Back To Pitcher Like It's No Big Deal digg.com Eh-hem... Sir? I believe this belongs to you. Perhaps you should watch where you're throwing. #TBT Say 'Hebbo!' To Tarvuism digg.com In the way back year of 2008 someone made up a joke religion called Tarvuism. What is it? We have no idea. All we know is that it's so easy to join. THE HUMAN BODY WAS NOT MEANT TO 'BUBBLE' This Is The Worst Cramp Of All Time Or There's A Bunch Of Worms Under This Dude's Skin digg.com This has to be some viral marketing for a new "Alien" movie right? Get more stories on Digg.com → TENDER, IT'S HOW PEOPLE MEAT Tender is the easy way to connect with new and interesting meat around you. Who knows, you might even find your soulmeat. Credit: Marcello Gómez Maureira 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