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Thursday, 16 July 2015

Fang You Very Much

Take Me Out To The Brain Game, The Best Articles Of The Week, Summarized, Finally, An Easy Way To Frame Your Art And Photos, The Myth Of The Ethical Shopper, Hate Syringes? You Might Be In Luck, An Adult's Guide To Learning To Ride A Bicycle
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Thursday, July 16, 2015
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GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME
Take Me Out To The Brain Game
sbnation.com
Can two entrepreneurs turn neuroscience into Moneyball?
THE LONG-READER'S DIGEST
The Best Articles Of The Week, Summarized
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​In this week's edition of the Long-Reader's Digest: The monster earthquake that will destroy the Pacific Northwest, a bizarre twin swap in Colombia, and an NFL legend's controversial search for a cure to brain damage.
FRAMES WE DIGG SPONSORED
Finally, An Easy Way To Frame Your Art And Photos
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BAD DEAL
The Myth Of The Ethical Shopper
highline.huffingtonpost.com
We're still trying to eliminate sweatshops and child labor by buying right. But that's not how the world works in 2015.
DRAWING THE STING
Hate Syringes? You Might Be In Luck
gizmodo.com
The worst part about getting vaccinated is the shot. I don't care how much of a badass you are, it's still painful and annoying. But now a group of researchers in Japan have tested a new "dissolving needle" that is basically a painless patch that you stick to your arm. And it works.
SO YOU CAN JOIN THAT BIKER GANG
An Adult's Guide To Learning To Ride A Bicycle
adequateman.deadspin.com
"There's no sexy trauma in my past that kept me from learning: no 10-speed mowing down my parents in front of my eyes, no bike-mounted bullies menacing me for my lunch money. It just never happened for me."
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FANGS FOR STAYING WITH US
Image: A receptionist dinosaur robot performs at the new robot hotel, aptly called Henn na Hotel or Weird Hotel, in Sasebo, southwestern Japan, Wednesday, July 15, 2015. From the receptionist that does the check-in and check-out to the porter that's a stand-on-wheels taking luggage up to the room, the hotel, that is run as part of Huis Ten Bosch amusement park, is
A receptionist dinosaur robot performs at the new robot hotel, aptly called Henn na Hotel or Weird Hotel, in Sasebo, southwestern Japan, Wednesday, July 15, 2015. From the receptionist that does the check-in and check-out to the porter that's a stand-on-wheels taking luggage up to the room, the hotel, that is run as part of Huis Ten Bosch amusement park, is "manned" almost totally by robots to save labor costs.​ Credit: AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi
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Wednesday, 15 July 2015

Energy = Minions Content Squared

Why Are We So Afraid Of Radiation?, What To Read In Politics This Week: Trump Plug Edition, Meet The People Who Make Your Business Run Better, The Odd Rise Of Live-Action Quest Games In Russia, The New Laws Of Explosive Networks, How To Run On The Horns In Pamplona
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015
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FEAR OF AN IRRADIATED PLANET
Why Are We So Afraid Of Radiation?
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Radioactivity stirs primal fears in many people — an undue sense of risk that might itself be causing real harm.
THE ENTHUSIASM GAP
What To Read In Politics This Week: Trump Plug Edition
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​Welcome to "The Enthusiasm Gap," a weekly digest that aims to bridge the gap between interest and enthusiasm in politics.
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Meet The People Who Make Your Business Run Better
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Have a small business? You should check out Justworks. They'll take care of all the annoying stuff (like payroll, benefits, and gov't paperwork) you're too busy to do yourself. Because you've got better things to do with your time.
THE GREAT ESCAPES
The Odd Rise Of Live-Action Quest Games In Russia
calvertjournal.com
Real-life room escape games are booming in popularity in Russia, becoming a new form of entertainment for a Friday night. But why are so many people willing to be locked up for fun?
ENERGY = MINION CONTENT SQAURED
The New Laws Of Explosive Networks
quantamagazine.org
Researchers are uncovering the hidden laws that reveal how the Internet grows, how viruses spread, and how financial bubbles burst.
PART OF THE HERD
How To Run On The Horns In Pamplona
true.ink
For nearly fifty years, Brooklyn-native Joe Distler has been one of Pamplona's most ambitious bull runners. Distler reveals the roots of his taurine obsession, and the secrets of getting out in the street and in front of the herd each morning in San Fermin.
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JUMP CUT
Image: Tiberiu Dolniceanu, of Romania, left, and Daryl Homer, of the United States, right, in action during his semifinal match at sabre competition at the fencing World championships in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, July 14, 2015.​
Tiberiu Dolniceanu, of Romania, left, and Daryl Homer, of the United States, right, in action during his semifinal match at sabre competition at the fencing World championships in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, July 14, 2015.​ Credit: AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Silicon Ceiling

The Life Of An Auschwitz Guard, VIDEO: Here's The Actual, Non-Leaked Trailer For 'Suicide Squad', How To Never Go Clothes Shopping Again, Diversity In Tech, A Peek Inside Instagram's Thriving Tween American Girl Doll Fandom, 'Mocha' Was A Place, Is A Flavor, And May Be A Scientific Innovation
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015
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GATEKEEPER TO HELL
The Life Of An Auschwitz Guard
politico.com
During WWII, Oskar Groening watched as hundreds of thousands of Jews were sent to their deaths. Is his prosecution now too little too late?
HE SAID THE NAME OF THE MOVIE — DRINK
VIDEO: Here's The Actual, Non-Leaked Trailer For 'Suicide Squad'
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Now that we can watch this trailer in full-resolution (and not recorded from a phone), it's obvious that: this movie looks great, they nailed Harley Quinn, and Jared Leto's joke is still kind of ridiculous.
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How To Never Go Clothes Shopping Again
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Shopping sucks. Having a personal stylist pick out and ship great clothes to you? That doesn't suck.
SILICON CEILING
Diversity In Tech
graphics.wsj.com
Last year a number of major tech companies released information on the racial and gender make-up of their employees. As those companies release 2015 'diversity reports,' we'll be updating this interactive to see how tech companies compare with the previous years and with other companies in terms of gender and race in their custom-defined 'technology' and 'leadership' positions.
AMERICAN IDOLLS
A Peek Inside Instagram's Thriving Tween American Girl Doll Fandom
jezebel.com
If you spend free time cruising Instagram's Explore page, you might've noticed a trending hashtag a last week: #AGIG. Click through and you'd find photo after photo of American Girl dolls, numbering up into the thousands.
NO CHOCOLATE NECESSARY
'Mocha' Was A Place, Is A Flavor, And May Be A Scientific Innovation
io9.com
Have you ordered a mocha lately? Do you realize that "mocha" shouldn't actually mean "chocolate-flavored-coffee," and instead should mean really, really expensive coffee? And that someday, it could mean the best decaffeinated coffee in the world?
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ANOTHER SCORCHER
Image: A woman carrying an umbrella to shield from the sun as she walks past a mural of a city skyscrapers in Beijing Monday, July 13, 2015. The National Meteorological Center (NMC) has issued a yellow alert for high temperatures as China is entering the height of summer. A heat wave will hit central, eastern and northern China on Monday with temperatures in some regions rising to around 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) , Chinese state media reported.
A woman carrying an umbrella to shield from the sun as she walks past a mural of a city skyscrapers in Beijing Monday, July 13, 2015. The National Meteorological Center (NMC) has issued a yellow alert for high temperatures as China is entering the height of summer. A heat wave will hit central, eastern and northern China on Monday with temperatures in some regions rising to around 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) , Chinese state media reported. Credit: AP Photo/Andy Wong
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Monday, 13 July 2015

The Hunt Is On

The Really Big One, Reaching Nerdvana, And Other News, Stop Drinking Shitty Wine, The Real Threat Posed By Powerful Computers, Everything You Need To See From This Year's San Diego Comic-Con, The Hard Truths Of Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Monday, July 13, 2015
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TROUBLE IN THE WATER
The Really Big One
newyorker.com
An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.
WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND
Reaching Nerdvana, And Other News
digg.com
A small comics convention took place, we learned what the best sunscreen is, and we met a real-life master of disguise.
WINE WE DIGG SPONSORED
Stop Drinking Shitty Wine
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Dear valued Digg user: Because we love you (and we love you even more after a glass of wine) we want to introduce you to your next delivery obsession: Club W. Plus, get a bottle on us. Wine not? (See what we did there?)
BIG DUMB BRUTES
The Real Threat Posed By Powerful Computers
nytimes.com
If the human race is at peril from killer robots, the problem is probably not artificial intelligence. It is more likely to be artificial stupidity.
TRAILERS GALORE
Everything You Need To See From This Year's San Diego Comic-Con
digg.com
This past weekend was nerd Christmas, and underneath the tree are teasers, trailers and exciting announcements. Here's everything you might have missed from this year's event.
'BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME'
The Hard Truths Of Ta-Nehisi Coates
nymag.com
Ta-Nehisi Coates has written a brutal 176-page meditation on the lie of racial progress. Every American should read it, though few will like what it has to say.
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FOUNTAIN OF YOUTHS
Image: ​A woman walks through fountain spray with children as they cool down in a fountain beside the Manzanares river in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, July 12, 2015. One person has reportedly died of heat stroke in Spain and Madrid's emergency service says it has seen 11 other cases in the last 24 hours as Spain swelters under a prolonged heat wave. Spain's meteorological agency issued a warning Saturday saying temperatures would continue to be as high as 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees centigrade) until at least July 16, describing the heat wave as
​A woman walks through fountain spray with children as they cool down in a fountain beside the Manzanares river in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, July 12, 2015. One person has reportedly died of heat stroke in Spain and Madrid's emergency service says it has seen 11 other cases in the last 24 hours as Spain swelters under a prolonged heat wave. Spain's meteorological agency issued a warning Saturday saying temperatures would continue to be as high as 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees centigrade) until at least July 16, describing the heat wave as "unusually long." Credit: AP Photo/Oscar del Pozo
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Sunday, 12 July 2015

The Week's Best Videos: Boxing Beats And Pizza Dreams

Some Fucking Guided Meditation For Your Shitty Life, Everything You Need To See From This Year's San Diego Comic Con, The Death Of Bees Explained In A Nutshell, Dad Gets Owned By Daughter In Beatboxing Battle, Babies' Poo Faces Caught In Adorable And Gross Slow Motion, DJ Trolls The Entire Crowd With The Best/Worst Drop Ever
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Sunday, July 12, 2015
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BREATHE IN, CHECK OUT
Some Fucking Guided Meditation For Your Shitty Life
digg.com
Most things are garbage, so just don't think about them.
WITH EACH ACTION PACKED UPDATE
Everything You Need To See From This Year's San Diego Comic Con
digg.com
It's nerd Christmas, and underneath the tree are teasers, trailers and exciting announcements. It's early in the day still, but be sure to check back regularly.
WE BEE SCREWED
The Death Of Bees Explained In A Nutshell
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Bees are dying in masses. Which at first seems not very important until you realize that one third of all food humans consume would disappear with them.
IT MUST RUN-DMC IN THE FAMILY
Dad Gets Owned By Daughter In Beatboxing Battle
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Father and daughter face off in a beatboxing battle for the ages. When she takes off her glasses you know it's getting real.
WIPE THE SMILE OFF THEIR FACES
Babies' Poo Faces Caught In Adorable And Gross Slow Motion
digg.com
Thank you Pampers?
GENTLY PLACE THE BEAT ON THE GROUND
DJ Trolls The Entire Crowd With The Best/Worst Drop Ever
digg.com
This is the best possible form of crowd control.
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DEATH BY CHEESE
Image: Google Deep Dream Has Ruined Pizza Forever
Google Deep Dream Has Ruined Pizza Forever Credit: Neue Modern
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