Mother, Do You Think They'll Drop The Bomb?

The Teflon Toxin, Is More Parental Leave For Daddy Good Or Bad For Women?, Meet The Chinese Rappers Bringing Hip-Hop To The Middle Kingdom, How Life And Luck Changed Earth's Minerals, WATCH: Eagle Takes Down Drone And Reclaims The Skies For Itself, What We Need To Do To Prepare For Another Nuclear Event The Daily Digg Wednesday, August 12, 2015 TEFLON CON The Teflon Toxin firstlook.org Concerns about the safety of Teflon, C8, and other long-chain perfluorinated chemicals first came to wide public attention more than a decade ago, but the story of DuPont's long involvement with C8 has never been fully told. WHAT WE'RE READING IN POLITICS THIS WEEK Is More Parental Leave For Daddy Good Or Bad For Women? digg.com Also: the Republican debate *pops off*, Bern interrupted and Obama gets called an anti-semite. FAR EAST MOVEMENT Meet The Chinese Rappers Bringing Hip-Hop To The Middle Kingdom huffingtonpost.com Who's the bigger hater, the Communist Party or Confucius? NOT ROCK STEADY How Life And Luck Changed Earth's Minerals quantamagazine.org Is geology predictable, or is the mineral composition of Earth due to chance events? The answers could eventually help scientists identify planets likely to harbor life. THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE WATCH: Eagle Takes Down Drone And Reclaims The Skies For Itself digg.com It's the Luddite's dream — nature striking down invasive technology. (Don't worry, the eagle is okay!) IF THEY DROP THE BOMB What We Need To Do To Prepare For Another Nuclear Event digg.com Denial about the threat of a nuclear attack means that we are not very well-prepared for nuclear and radiological events. Get more stories on Digg.com → IT'S A DOG-DRINK-BEER WORLD ​Barny, the Harveys Brewery dog has a sniff of a pint of beer at the Great British Beer Festival, at Olympia in London, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015. The five day event is organised by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), with over 900 real ales, ciders, perries and international beers on offer. Credit: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth 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 Cancer Alley

The Great Sushi Craze Of 1905, Part 2, WATCH: How Famous Comedians Deal With Hecklers, Welcome To Cancer Alley, The Great Mellowing, Why Are We Letting Infectious Diseases Make A Comeback?, Inside An Internet Addiction Treatment Center The Daily Digg Tuesday, August 11, 2015 ON A ROLL The Great Sushi Craze Of 1905, Part 2 eccentricculinary.com Part 1 of this series explored the first Japanese restaurant in America. Now we explore further — from the samurai lords of Hope College to Santa Monica's finest fishing village. NSFW: LANGUAGE WATCH: How Famous Comedians Deal With Hecklers digg.com From Richard Pryor and George Carlin to current luminaries like Patton Oswalt and Louis CK, every comic inevitably has to deal with some jerk who thinks a show is actually a conversation. THE GEOGRAPHY OF POVERTY Welcome To Cancer Alley msnbc.com There have been so many cases of cancer, so much inexplicable illness and death, that the 85-mile stretch between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, home to more than 150 industrial plants and refineries, has become known as Cancer Alley. ROLL ME UP The Great Mellowing texasobserver.org God, Willie Nelson, the right wing and the increasingly thinkable pipe dream of marijuana reform. A BITE TO THE SYSTEM Why Are We Letting Infectious Diseases Make A Comeback? digg.com Having stamped out a number of tropical diseases — including malaria — decades ago, is America today complacent about a rising wave of infectious disease? CLICK SICKNESS Inside An Internet Addiction Treatment Center fusion.net These people are so addicted to the Internet that they had to go to rehab. Get more stories on Digg.com → A FIRE STILL BURNS People protest on West Florissant Ave., Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015, in Ferguson, Mo., on the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown being shot and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson.​ Credit: Cristina M. Fletes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch 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

Sting Like A Bee

The Billionaire Who'd Bring Back The (Holographic) Beatles, You Don't Want To Use These Bathrooms, And Other News, Stop Drinking Shitty Wine, Mapping The Wildly Implausible Road Trips In 'True Detective', Growing Up With A Deadline, The Unretiring Serena Williams The Daily Digg Monday, August 10, 2015 BEATLEMANIAC The Billionaire Who'd Bring Back The (Holographic) Beatles vulture.com Greek billionaire Alki David's quest to build the celebrity hologram business. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND You Don't Want To Use These Bathrooms, And Other News digg.com Germany's public restroom ads are terrifying, a bunch of your favorite TV characters almost met an early death, and a dairy debacle in Denmark. WINE WE DIGG SPONSORED Stop Drinking Shitty Wine clubw.com 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?) THEY DROVE SO FAR Mapping The Wildly Implausible Road Trips In 'True Detective' wired.com Time and time again, these people defied the laws of man and nature, driving up and down the coast of California — the tallest state in America — as if it was Rhode Island. BORROWED TIME Growing Up With A Deadline narrative.ly The handful of children born with the devastating disorder known as Batten disease have a life expectancy of only eight to twelve years. Sammie just turned eight. HOLDING COURT The Unretiring Serena Williams nymag.com She's eyeing a fashionable post-court life, but first she's got tennis history to make. Get more stories on Digg.com → IN HOT WATER People cool off as they bathe at the aqua-park swimming pool in Minsk, Belarus, on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015. Temperatures in the capital have reached around 32 degrees Celsius (89.6 F), drawing large crowds to the water park over the weekend. Credit: AP Photo/Yauhen Leonov 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 Week's Best Videos: Mopburger, Mini Segway and Mainus

Don't Watch This Prototype Tesla Charger In Action, A Lost 'Shrek' Story Reel With Chris Farley As The Voice Of Shrek Surfaces Online, How To Actually Get Things Done, Japanese Company Invents A Mini Segway That's About The Size Of A Laptop, Dutch Pranksters Install Android On An iPhone, Convince People It's iOS9, You'll Immediately Know What This MMA Fighter's Last Name Sounds Like The Daily Digg Sunday, August 9, 2015 IT BELONGS IN THE TRASH Don't Watch This Prototype Tesla Charger In Action digg.com It looks like some sort of metal snake/worm/other phallic creature, and it finds your Model S's charging port all on its own. Which is gross. Really, really gross. FT. EDDIE MURPHY AS DONKEY A Lost 'Shrek' Story Reel With Chris Farley As The Voice Of Shrek Surfaces Online digg.com Some people might not know, but Chris Farley recorded nearly all of the lines for "Shrek," and was only replaced by Mike Meyers due to his untimely death. Here's a glimpse at what that version of the film might have felt like. STARTUPS WE DIGG How To Actually Get Things Done asana.com Getting things done as a team can be tough. Asana helps you and your team get things organized - and actually move work forward. WOULD HAVE RUINED 'PAUL BLART' Japanese Company Invents A Mini Segway That's About The Size Of A Laptop digg.com Walkcar claims to be the world's smallest electric vehicle, and as you can see from this video it fits in an average tote bag. Preorders start in October so get your name on the list before they're gone. DO ANDROIDS FALL FAR FROM ELECTRIC TREES? Dutch Pranksters Install Android On An iPhone, Convince People It's iOS9 digg.com Face it: at a certain point, you like the things you like simply because you've liked them for a while. It's OK to be comfortable, as long as you're not a jerk about it. MULVA? You'll Immediately Know What This MMA Fighter's Last Name Sounds Like digg.com This fighter's name is Danny Mainus, which if you say it out loud sounds a great deal like "anus." Comedy! Get more stories on Digg.com → DOES ANYONE SMELL BURNING PLASTIC? This prototype radial LEGO engine runs on compressed air, has 64 cylinders, and makes an incredible racket. Credit: Raul Oaida 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