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How To Raise An Immortal Cat, Inside The First VR Theme Park, If You Like Sleep, This Shows You How To Do It Better, Every On-Screen Death In The 'Star Wars' Prequels, Surviving Winter In The Middle Ages, The Entrepreneur Who Wants You To Make Love, Not Porn The Daily Digg Wednesday, December 16, 2015 DIGG DIALOG How To Raise An Immortal Cat digg.com Atlas Obscura's Christina Couch spent some time with a two-time Guinness World Record winner for oldest cat who believes he's discovered the secret to feline longevity. What's he like? Ask her this and more today at 12pm EST. Check out the story and leave your comments now! ENTER THE VOID Inside The First VR Theme Park technologyreview.com A new form of weekend entertainment combines virtual reality with a clever stage set. For now, you'll have to visit suburban Utah to check it out. SPHERES WE DIGG SPONSORED If You Like Sleep, This Shows You How To Do It Better hello.is If you want to make waking up a little easier, start by understanding what actually happens while you sleep. THOSE POOR, SUFFERING PIXELS Every On-Screen Death In The 'Star Wars' Prequels digg.com Not only were the prequels terrible films, they were also considerably more tame than the original trilogy. And thanks to the magic of CG, 99% of everything that blew up these movies was a droid! MUGS AND MUGS OF ALE Surviving Winter In The Middle Ages medievalists.net Winter was the most dangerous time in the medieval calendar year. Add to that, the onset of the Little Ice Age from 1300 until about 1870, and it meant surviving much colder winters. How did people cope? LOVE SELLS? The Entrepreneur Who Wants You To Make Love, Not Porn priceonomics.com Cindy Gallop never intended to get into sextech. Today she is the CEO of a small startup, a video platform called Make Love Not Porn, whose members pay $5 to stream videos submitted by content creators. Its premise is unorthodox, even for the contrarian atmosphere of Silicon Valley. Get more stories on Digg.com SKYROCKETS IN FLIGHT ​In this photo taken with long time exposure the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-19M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015. The Russian rocket carries British astronaut Tim Peake, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and U.S. astronaut Tim Kopra. Credit: AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

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The Refugee Jail Deep In The Heart Of Texas, WATCH: Let A Possibly Deranged Old Man Teach You Everything There Is To Know About Art, We've Been Carrying Keys All Wrong, The Corporate Takeover Destroying The Red Cross, Up Close With Beijing's New South China Sea Islands, Inside The Shell Companies And Multi-Million Dollar Palaces That Are Rocking LA The Daily Digg Tuesday, December 15, 2015 NOWHERE TO GO The Refugee Jail Deep In The Heart Of Texas narrative.ly While families fleeing Middle East bloodshed continue to dominate the news, the US government has quietly built a gargantuan detention center for desperate Central American migrants. WHAT IS IT? WATCH: Let A Possibly Deranged Old Man Teach You Everything There Is To Know About Art digg.com Prepare yourself to do a large amount of learning, as Dr.* Lewis Host explains all there is to know about the wide world of art. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED We've Been Carrying Keys All Wrong getkeysmart.com It's only taken thousands of years, but finally there's a more elegant way to carry your keys. BAD BLOOD The Corporate Takeover Destroying The Red Cross digg.com Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern and her handpicked team of former AT&T colleagues have presided over a string of management blunders that have hamstrung the agency's capabilities. KEYS TO THE KINGDOM Up Close With Beijing's New South China Sea Islands bbc.com Last year the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes travelled across the South China Sea in a fishing boat and became the first journalist to observe close-up how China is constructing new islands on coral reefs. A few days ago he returned to the area in a small aircraft — provoking a furious and threatening response from the Chinese Navy. HE SELLS SHELLS BY THE SEA SHORE Inside The Shell Companies And Multi-Million Dollar Palaces That Are Rocking LA nytimes.com In the booming high-end market of Los Angeles, where hidden ownership is common, one house stands out. Get more stories on Digg.com BLESS TEAM ROCKET ​Orthodox priests conduct a blessing service in front of the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft at Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The new Soyuz mission is scheduled to start on Tuesday, Dec. 15. The Russian rocket will carry US astronaut Tim Kopra, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and British astronaut Tim Peake. Credit: AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

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The World Before 'Star Wars', Cast Out From Silicon Valley, Get Under The Mistletoe And Kiss Lame Underwear Goodbye, WATCH: Guy Delights Tourists With His Merry Band Of Trained Pelicans, Donald Trump Is Helping The Terrorists Win, Cotton Is Piling Up At Warehouses Around The World The Daily Digg Monday, December 14, 2015 A LONG TIME AGO... The World Before 'Star Wars' kernelmag.dailydot.com What science-fiction films were like in the year before the Force first awakened. DISRUPTED Cast Out From Silicon Valley newrepublic.com Those left behind by Silicon Valley's technology boom struggle to stay in the place they call home. UNDIES WE DIGG SPONSORED Get Under The Mistletoe And Kiss Lame Underwear Goodbye meundies.com MeUndies are cute, comfy and currently 20% off your first order. Bonus! They come in matching designs for guys and girls, so treat you and your boo to a pair and snuggle up by the fire in style. THEY DON'T CALL THEM PELICANTS WATCH: Guy Delights Tourists With His Merry Band Of Trained Pelicans digg.com Meet "Otto" and "Michael Jackson" the dancing pelicans... who we're still slightly fearful of. PUTTING US IN THE CROSSHAIRS Donald Trump Is Helping The Terrorists Win politico.com Counterterrorism experts will tell you that fear and Islamophobia only make the country more vulnerable to attack. THAT'S A LOT OF LOOSE THREADS Cotton Is Piling Up At Warehouses Around The World bloomberg.com There's enough cotton sitting in global warehouses to make more than 127 billion T-shirts, or 17 for each person on the planet. Get more stories on Digg.com 'MERICA ​Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Orie Lemon (45) carries an American flag as he runs onto the field during team introductions before an NFL football game against the New Orleans Saints Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015, in Tampa, Fla. Credit: AP Photo/Chris O'Meara Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

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The Best News Bloopers Of 2015, Fans Render Hockey Stadium Useless With 28,000 Teddy Bears, Social Anxiety Sucks. These Folks Help You Overcome It, Huge Mastiff Is Way Too Chill For Dog Agility Competition, The Haunting Beauty Of An Alphorn In A Parking Garage, Wine Experts Answer The Questions You're Too Afraid To Ask The Daily Digg Sunday, December 13, 2015 'SURGERY ON HIS HERNIATED DICK' The Best News Bloopers Of 2015 digg.com Every year NewsBeFunny makes one of these recaps, and every year we realize how many normal words sound just like words you absolutely cannot say on broadcast TV. BEAR NECESSITIES Fans Render Hockey Stadium Useless With 28,000 Teddy Bears digg.com Fans of the Calgary Hitmen packed the Scotiabank Saddledome on Sunday and threw a world record 28,815 stuffed bears onto the ice during the annual Petro-Canada Teddy Bear Toss, which will be collected and distributed to charities. HEALTHCARE WE DIGG SPONSORED Social Anxiety Sucks. These Folks Help You Overcome It joyable.com Always avoiding group parties? Worry about others constantly judging you? Break out in sweats at the thought of meeting new people? You may be struggling with social anxiety. And Joyable's effective and accessible 12-week program helps you tackle social anxiety head on. Take their five-minute quiz and see if they can help. THIS IS EASY. CAN I GO HOME? Huge Mastiff Is Way Too Chill For Dog Agility Competition digg.com This dog's name is Zeus, and here he is low-key crushing it at the Rocky Mountain Cluster Dog Show. SOAK UP THAT NATURAL REVERB The Haunting Beauty Of An Alphorn In A Parking Garage digg.com After the first two notes we thought this was going to be the Obi-Wan death motif from "Star Wars," but then we remembered that alphorns can only play notes within a harmonic series. HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Wine Experts Answer The Questions You're Too Afraid To Ask digg.com Wine is a complicated subject and no one wants to looks stupid, so we went to the New York Autumn Wine Festival to clear up some nagging questions we had. Get more stories on Digg.com HUNTER, BE HUNTED The week's best short is "Uncanny valley." Set in the not-to-distant future, virtual reality is so enjoyable that people become addicted. But just how virtual is it? Credit: 3DAR Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 29 Little West 12th Street, NY, NY 10014