Here Come The Teens

What's It Really Like To Be 18 In America Right Now?, Provincial Cookie Advisors And The Unbelievable Origins Of Canada's Girl Guides, Stop Searching The Web For Graphics, It's All Right Here, A Woman Will Replace Hamilton On The $10 Bill, Two Great Articles Worth Your Time This Week, Bees Are Literally Worrying Themselves To Death The Daily Digg Thursday, June 18, 2015 WHAT IS A 'TEEN' ANYWAYS? What's It Really Like To Be 18 In America Right Now? medium.com Through a series of projects — some written, others visual  —  a group of students in the Bay Area told their own stories and captured a vibrant portrait of their lives. The result: A raw, raucous and very real of depiction of what it's like to be an American teen today. CHILDREN OF WAR Provincial Cookie Advisors And The Unbelievable Origins Of Canada's Girl Guides digg.com On this week's episode of "Reply All" we travel back in time to early 1940's China to investigate the indomitable spirit of the girl guides. GRAPHICS WE DIGG SPONSORED Stop Searching The Web For Graphics, It's All Right Here graphicstock.com Finding great graphics for our project sucks. GraphicStock makes it easier by putting 250,000 of them in one place, available for unlimited download. No hassle, easy and simple to understand pricing. Try it out free for a limited time. ANDREW JACKSON SURVIVES A Woman Will Replace Hamilton On The $10 Bill thehill.com A woman will replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill — the first woman to be on a American paper currency in more than 100 years. THE LONG-READER'S DIGEST Two Great Articles Worth Your Time This Week digg.com ​In this week's edition of the Long-Reader's Digest: Questioning the right to assisted suicide in Belgium and the Korean teenager leading eSports into a new era. HIVE-MINDFULNESS Bees Are Literally Worrying Themselves To Death nymag.com They're dying of stress, which is stressing us out. But we've only got ourselves to blame. Get more stories on Digg.com → THAT WON'T WORK AS A BRIDGE A woman takes a photograph as a rainbow forms over the Harbour Bridge on a wet day in Sydney Wednesday, June 17, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Rick Rycroft 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

All Wal-Marts Go To Heaven

What Happens To Big Box Stores After They Die?, The Power Plant Fueling America's Drought, How To Wear Long Sleeves This Summer Without Feeling Gross, The Earth Is Running Out Of Helium, VIDEO: Hockey Pucks Are Made Of Adamantium, Apparently, Below Our Feet, A World Of Hidden Life The Daily Digg Wednesday, June 17, 2015 THE GREAT BIG PARKING LOT IN THE SKY What Happens To Big Box Stores After They Die? theawl.com Big box stores are the lowest-hanging science fiction prompt in any given town. Big box nostalgia is weak, so thinking about these stores clearly is easier. What, you wonder as you drive by, will happen to the big old Circuit City at Crossroads Plaza or Windermere Village or whatever? FIGHTING AN UPHILL BATTLE The Power Plant Fueling America's Drought digg.com The Navajo Generating Plant powers pumps that push trillions of gallons of water out of the Colorado River and send it shooting over mountains and through canals to cities like Phoenix and Tucson. It's also an environmental disaster. SHIRTS WE DIGG SPONSORED How To Wear Long Sleeves This Summer Without Feeling Gross ministryofsupply.com Ministry of Supply's Gemini dress shirt is engineered to keep you comfortable no matter what, even when it's 95 and humid. ALL GASES GO TO HEAVEN The Earth Is Running Out Of Helium priceonomics.com The earth is literally leaking its helium into outer space. Such is the fate of a gas lighter than air — Earth's gravitational pull just can't hold it. OR MYTHRIL OR NOKIA PHONES VIDEO: Hockey Pucks Are Made Of Adamantium, Apparently digg.com Carsandwater went back for revenge on the hockey puck that bested his red hot nickel ball. This time he brought thermite, which burns at about 4500 degrees Fahrenheit and can easily melt through an engine block. THE HUM OF THE HUMUS Below Our Feet, A World Of Hidden Life quantamagazine.org The soil teems with billions of hidden microbes. Researchers have begun to catalog how these organisms are changing the world. Get more stories on Digg.com → HAT TRICK A fan of Uruguay cheers before the start of a Copa America Group B soccer match between Argentina and Uruguay at La Portada stadium in La Serena, Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan 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

Nature Finds A Way

After The Flood, Homesick In The Modern World, You're Unique (Right?) — Why Shouldn't You Have Some Unique Underwear Too?, WATCH: Pranksters Dressed As Dinosaurs Scare The Crap Out Of Chris Pratt, Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type Of Japanese Chalk, Why This Blue Whale's Massive Heart Is Being Blown Up Like a Beach Ball The Daily Digg Tuesday, June 16, 2015 SALVAGE OPERATION After The Flood texasmonthly.com As the turbid water of the Blanco River receded, flood survivors began the long, hard task of piecing their lives back together. HOMESCREEN BLUES Homesick In The Modern World digg.com What does it mean to be homesick in 2015, and does technology help or hinder us when we move to a new place? UNDIES WE DIGG SPONSORED You're Unique (Right?) — Why Shouldn't You Have Some Unique Underwear Too? digg.com For their "Peace and Love" Design of the Month, MeUndies used a tie-dye technique that was popular 1,500 years ago in India, Japan, and Africa to create underwear as original as you are. MeUndies have always been really damn comfortable, but now they look really damn cool too. HOW DO YOU SAY 'F*CK YOU' IN POLISH? WATCH: Pranksters Dressed As Dinosaurs Scare The Crap Out Of Chris Pratt digg.com That whole "Jurassic World" thing really came back to bite him in the ass huh? CHALK TALK Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type Of Japanese Chalk gizmodo.com This spring, an 80-year-old Japanese chalk company went out of business. Nobody, perhaps, was as sad to see the company go as mathematicians who had become obsessed with Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk, the so-called "Rolls Royce of chalk." JUST ANOTHER DAY AT THE BEACH Why This Blue Whale's Massive Heart Is Being Blown Up Like a Beach Ball motherboard.vice.com If you ever find yourself in the possession of a massive, frozen whale heart, here are some tips: don't thaw it out too quickly, don't inflate it too fast, and definitely don't forget your arsenal of toilet plungers and Pepsi cans you'll need to plug all the arteries up. Get more stories on Digg.com → UNLOCKED STOCKS AND OIL BARRELS A Saudi man walks at the Tadawul Saudi Stock Exchange, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Monday, June 15, 2015. Saudi Arabia's stock market, valued at $585 billion, opened up to direct foreign investment for the first time Monday, as the kingdom seeks an economic boost amid low global oil prices. Credit: AP Photo/Hasan Jamali 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

Welcome To Our Mind Palace

Was Lester Bower Innocent?, Going On Vacation Might Get You Promoted, And Other News, How To Not Spend All Your Money On A New Mattress, The Fake Battle That Fooled ISIS Supporters — And Their Opponents, Your Brain Actually Doesn't Suck At Passwords, A Housing Development Where Every Home Is Archaeological Site The Daily Digg Monday, June 15, 2015 IT'S TOO LATE NOW Was Lester Bower Innocent? politico.com Given our justice system, the man Texas executed this month won't be the last with so many holes in his case — and still on Death Row. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND Going On Vacation Might Get You Promoted, And Other News digg.com Why you shouldn't work so much, where your lost luggage is now, and why band frontmen are still the coolest. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED How To Not Spend All Your Money On A New Mattress tuftandneedle.com Mattresses are usually marked up 6-12 times between manufacture and sale. Meet Tuft & Needle, the company making quality mattresses, without the ridiculous markup. SHADOW WAR The Fake Battle That Fooled ISIS Supporters — And Their Opponents bbc.com A fake battle, invented in a hail of tweets by a London man, has tricked both so-called Islamic State's supporters, and their opponents, Shia militia fighters in Iraq. STORE THEM IN YOUR MIND PALACE Your Brain Actually Doesn't Suck At Passwords motherboard.vice.com You can remember a combination of random words or characters, you just need to train your brain. DON'T LET THE DOG DIG IN THE BACKYARD A Housing Development Where Every Home Is Archaeological Site slate.com Landowners often loot or destroy archaeological sites. Is this new subdivision a solution? Get more stories on Digg.com → YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER TRANQUILIZER People follow a hippopotamus that has been shot with a tranquilizer dart after it escaped from a flooded zoo in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, June 14, 2015. Tigers, lions, a hippopotamus and other animals have escaped from the zoo in Georgia's capital after heavy flooding destroyed their enclosures, prompting authorities to warn residents in Tbilisi to say inside Sunday. At least eight people have been killed in the disaster, including three zoo workers, and 10 are missing. Credit: AP Photo/Beso Gulashvili 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

Born Without Bones

A Giant Squid Giving Birth Is A Crazily Surreal Experience, Rachel Dolezal's Husband Created A Music Video To Celebrate Their Love, Step 1: Open Snapchat Step 2: Tap To Focus On The Image Above, Don't Film A Wedding With A Drone, You Dingus, Why 82,000 Is An Extraordinary Number, These Plants Evolved To Explode Today's Top Videos Friday, June 12, 2015 BORN LIKE STARS A Giant Squid Giving Birth Is A Crazily Surreal Experience digg.com Skip to 3:00 to jump right into the action, but watching the entire video from the start truly adds to the mystery and beauty of the whole experience. 'I'M GONNA LOVE YOU FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE' Rachel Dolezal's Husband Created A Music Video To Celebrate Their Love digg.com The video features the not-actually-black NAACP chapter leader in a series of uncomfortable pictures. OR JUST ADD DIGGDOTCOM Step 1: Open Snapchat Step 2: Tap To Focus On The Image Above digg.com Step 3: Enjoy all the Snapchats you'll be getting from Digg! We've got cute dogs, weird Internet junk, sneak peeks inside Digg HQ and even an evening news program! FLYING THE KNOT Don't Film A Wedding With A Drone, You Dingus digg.com For one, your joyous day will be filled with robotic mosquito sounds. For two, this might happen. BREAKING: 1 NO LONGER LONELIEST NUMBER Why 82,000 Is An Extraordinary Number digg.com And it's not just because it comes after 81,999. YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT These Plants Evolved To Explode digg.com Behold the beautiful and violent reactions of violets, touch me nots, and squirting cucumbers. Read more on Digg.com → 'DERELICT' Someone edited "Alien" and "Prometheus" into one gorgeous film Credit: Job Willins Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014