The Week's Best Videos: Chiminea Volcano, Trick Shot Wizard, Spoiled Milk

Explaining The Fermi Paradox In Six Minutes, Trick Shot Wizard Couldn't Care Less About How Amazing His Throws Are, The Difference Between 'Best By,' 'Sell By' And 'Expires On', Forget Reality, You've Just Entered 'THE VOID', Mom Has The Only Sane Reaction To Idiot Using A Leaf Blower On A Chiminea, The Right Way To Learn Coding The Daily Digg Sunday, May 10, 2015 WHERE ARE ALL THE ALIENS? Explaining The Fermi Paradox In Six Minutes digg.com The universe is unbelievably big — trillions of stars and even more planets. So… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? And more importantly, what does this tell us about our own fate in this gigantic and scary universe? WILL HE EVER BE PROUD OF HIS TALENTS? Trick Shot Wizard Couldn't Care Less About How Amazing His Throws Are digg.com Clearly this man has man some sort of pact with the devil. There is no other explanation. WHO FREEZES AN EGG?! The Difference Between 'Best By,' 'Sell By' And 'Expires On' digg.com Wording of food packages (and perishable non-food items) is confusing and seems totally arbitrary. That's because, in a lot of ways, it is. '4D ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS' Forget Reality, You've Just Entered 'THE VOID' digg.com Never, ever, ever grow up with what appears to be the latest in laser-tag-meets-Call-of-Duty virtual reality technology. 'WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!' Mom Has The Only Sane Reaction To Idiot Using A Leaf Blower On A Chiminea digg.com This entire neighborhood probably smells like burning because one drunk dummy thought massive plumes of chiminea smoke looked cool. Way to ruin a nice day for everyone, bud. HAVE A PROBLEM The Right Way To Learn Coding digg.com "Learning programming is like practicing scales — it's gonna make you a great musician, but if you never get to play a song it's gonna be very frustrating." Get more stories on Digg.com → THE ULTIMATE DECK-MEASURING CONTEST Wizards, demons and goblins collide in the world's first trading card game "Magic: The Gathering," affectionately dubbed "cardboard crack" by its 10+ million diehard obsessives. From dank, wood-paneled basements to international big money pro tournaments, Magic continues to flourish since its phenomenal debut in 1993. Credit: VICE 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

Velcro You Can Drink

Dreams Have No Borders, Friendship Will Get You Everywhere And Other Facts, How To Make Long Distance Relationships Work, This History Of Velcro, Our Secret Identity Crisis, A Field Guide To Modern-Day Foodies The Daily Digg Friday, May 8, 2015 CAUGHT OFFSIDE Dreams Have No Borders sbnation.com Sydney Leroux's journey from Canada to the American National Team. WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Friendship Will Get You Everywhere And Other Facts digg.com This week we learned that flattery will not get you everywhere, the profound effects a leaf blower has on a chiminea and Ken Jennings might be a robot. APPS WE DIGG SPONSORED How To Make Long Distance Relationships Work hipchat.com Work relationships, that is. HipChat lets you do everything you can do in person, and more. Group chat, video chat and file sharing — it's got everything a team needs to stay in touch, whether you're sitting next to Jim from accounting or a thousand miles from Michelle in sales. AND A COCKTAIL TO GO WITH IT This History Of Velcro digg.com This week, the "Dinner Party Download" podcast tells us all about how a Swiss engineer devised a "space-age" fastener we now know as Velcro, and gives us a custom drink to go down with the history. COVER STORIES Our Secret Identity Crisis birthmoviesdeath.com We're more into alter egos than ever — just not, strangely enough, in our superhero stories. COCKS ILLUSTRATED A Field Guide To Modern-Day Foodies firstwefeast.com Everything you need to know about the various species of fuccbois ignoramus foodeus. Get more stories on Digg.com → CATCH UP Cincinnati Reds center fielder Billy Hamilton can't come down with the ball off the center field wall by Pittsburgh Pirates' Pedro Alvarez in the fifth inning of a baseball game Thursday, May 7, 2015, in Pittsburgh. Credit: AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar 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

Mortal Enemy

The Man Who Found The Internet In A Wireless Place, America's Epidemic Of Useless Medical Care, And Other Things You Didn't Have Time To Read, It's Not Your Fault You Get Motion Sickness, Bill Gates' Quest To Determine Why Children Are Dying, The Case For Violent Video Games, What It Was Like To Play For The '80s Clippers, The Worst Team In Sports The Daily Digg Thursday, May 7, 2015 LOGGING ON AMONG THE ULTRA-ORTHODOX The Man Who Found The Internet In A Wireless Place digg.com On this week's episode of the Reply All podcast, a story about the Internet encroaching on a world that has managed pretty successfully to block it out — New York's Ultra Orthodox Jewish community. THE LONG-READER'S DIGEST America's Epidemic Of Useless Medical Care, And Other Things You Didn't Have Time To Read digg.com Useless medical care, Mexico's missing students, and Gamergate's origin — here's the best of this week's long-form journalism. DNA TESTS WE DIGG SPONSORED It's Not Your Fault You Get Motion Sickness digg.com Are you one of the 1 in 3 people who suffer from motion sickness? You can probably blame your ancestors for that. MORTALITY'S ENEMY Bill Gates' Quest To Determine Why Children Are Dying theatlantic.com An interview with Gates about why so many newborns die in developing countries, and what he thinks he can do about it. ON OUR WORST BEHAVIOR, ON-SCREEN The Case For Violent Video Games themarshallproject.org A new book says kids know they're a fantasy — even a healthy one. WINGS CLIPPED What It Was Like To Play For The '80s Clippers, The Worst Team In Sports deadspin.com With the Clippers entering a new era, one in which they aren't the most embarrassing franchise in pro sports, it feels like a good time to look back at the bad old days, and talk to those who lived through them. Call it an oral history of crushing incompetence. Get more stories on Digg.com → CAN'T SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREE POSES People take part in a yoga session on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Every week in May free Yoga classes are offered featuring different yoga instructors in Ottawa. Credit: Justin Tang/The Canadian Press 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

Thanks Granny Smith

Apple Has Plans For Your DNA, A Comprehensive Collection Of Comedians Tweeting About Their Flights, Your Underwear Needs A Spring Cleaning Too, VIDEO: An Honest Trailer For '50 Shades Of Grey', Scientists Take First Picture Of Thunder, When Your Surgeon Really Is A Hack The Daily Digg Wednesday, May 6, 2015 GOT IT FROM YOUR GRANNY SMITH Apple Has Plans For Your DNA technologyreview.com The iPhone could become a new tool in genetic studies. Apple is collaborating with U.S. researchers to launch apps that would offer some iPhone owners the chance to get their DNA tested, many of them for the first time, according to people familiar with the plans. HOPEFULLY THEY DON'T CRASH AND BURN A Comprehensive Collection Of Comedians Tweeting About Their Flights splitsider.com Nothing puts off one's judgment like anger, so oftentimes comedians end up posting airline tweets without the kind of mental editing or restraint they give their usual punchlines. The result is a sometimes hilarious and sometimes shameless look at which comedians perform best under pressure — and not the kind of pressure they're used to onstage. UNDIES WE DIGG SPONSORED Your Underwear Needs A Spring Cleaning Too meundies.com It's time. You know it. We know it. Everyone in the gym locker room knows it. You need new underwear and MeUndies' got the pair for you. With a money back guarantee and 20% off your first pair, you can't go wrong. STARRING EDWARD CULLEN GREY VIDEO: An Honest Trailer For '50 Shades Of Grey' digg.com "Teenage girls from around the world made Twilight into a global phenomenon. Now it's mom's turn." BOOM, CLAP Scientists Take First Picture Of Thunder sciencenews.org For the first time, scientists have precisely captured a map of the boisterous bang radiating from a lightning strike. The work could reveal the energies involved in powering some of nature's flashiest light shows. All it took was a kevlar-coated copper wire launched into an electrically charged cloud using a small rocket. A DIFFERENT TYPE OF VIRUS When Your Surgeon Really Is A Hack blog.norsecorp.com There's been a quiet revolution going on within hospitals, mostly in the United States. In 2013, for example, nearly half-a-million robot surgeries were performed where a doctor remotely manipulated a device performing the operation. And these devices could be prone to security weaknesses. In other words, someone might hack your doctor's robot. Get more stories on Digg.com → SMOKE RINGING IT IN Australian indigenous performers, William Barton, left, and Djakapurra Munyarryun perform the smoking ceremony during the inauguration of the Australian pavilion at the 56th Biennale of Arts in Venice, Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis 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 Elephant No Longer In The Room

The Best and Worst Places To Grow Up: How Your Area Compares, VIDEO: Mom Has The Only Sane Reaction To Idiot Using A Leaf Blower On A Chiminea, How To Get A Better Job, The Man Who Cut Out His Own Appendix, How Corona Made Cinco De Mayo An American Holiday, The Elephant Watcher The Daily Digg Tuesday, May 5, 2015 KIDS DON'T HAVE IT MADE IN MANHATTAN The Best and Worst Places To Grow Up: How Your Area Compares nytimes.com Children who grow up in some places go on to earn much more than they would if they grew up elsewhere. 'WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!' VIDEO: Mom Has The Only Sane Reaction To Idiot Using A Leaf Blower On A Chiminea digg.com This entire neighborhood probably smells like burning because one drunk dummy thought massive plumes of chiminea smoke looked cool. Way to ruin a nice day for everyone, bud. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED How To Get A Better Job teamtreehouse.com These people did it. So can you. Seriously. You can do it. You. ALWAYS BRING TWO DOCTORS The Man Who Cut Out His Own Appendix bbc.com During an expedition to the Antarctic, Russian surgeon Leonid Rogozov became seriously ill. He needed an operation — and as the only doctor on the team, he realised he would have to do it himself. THE VALENTINE'S DAY OF CHEAP BEER How Corona Made Cinco De Mayo An American Holiday vinepair.com Suffice it to say, Cinco de Mayo is a behemoth when it comes to selling booze, but how did a holiday that isn't really even celebrated in Mexico become not only the most powerful US holiday when it comes to selling alcohol, but also the only connection most Americans have to our largest immigrant group? OUR TURN NOT TO FORGET The Elephant Watcher newyorker.com As poachers grow bolder, Andrea Turkalo records the behavior of a vanishing species. Get more stories on Digg.com → DON'T BACK DOWN A worker of the recently closed Swan garments factory covers her face with a scarf to shelter herself from the sun as she participates in a protest outside the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Export Association office in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, May 4, 2015. More than two hundred workers protested Monday demanding payment of wages still owed to them as well as reopening of the manufacturing unit. Bangladesh is the world's second-largest garment manufacturing country after China. The sector employs about 4 million workers, mostly women. Credit: AP Photo/A.M. Ahad 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