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Can Baseball Players Still Hit After Going Gray?, Can India Ever Beat Rabies?, The Dress Shirt For The 21st Century, VIDEO: How To Sharpen Your Knives The Right Way, The True Story Of Kudzu, The Vine That Never Truly Ate The South, The Rise And Fall Of Hollywood's Legendary Punk Rock Speakeasy, The Zero Zero Club The Daily Digg Tuesday, August 25, 2015 A HEAD-SCRATCHER Can Baseball Players Still Hit After Going Gray? digg.com We examine four graying players to see if a silver mane has any Sampson-like powers. A DOGGED FIGHT Can India Ever Beat Rabies? digg.com Will India ever escape rabies when rabid dogs are running the country ragged? CLOTHES WE DIGG SPONSORED The Dress Shirt For The 21st Century ministryofsupply.com Ministry of Supply's Archive shirt is the dress shirt you won't be dying to get out of at the end of the work day. ON POINT VIDEO: How To Sharpen Your Knives The Right Way digg.com Treat your knives well and they'll treat you well. IN THE WEEDS The True Story Of Kudzu, The Vine That Never Truly Ate The South smithsonianmag.com Introduced from Asia in the late 19th century as a garden novelty, but not widely planted until the 1930s, kudzu is now America's most infamous weed. STARTING FROM ZERO The Rise And Fall Of Hollywood's Legendary Punk Rock Speakeasy, The Zero Zero Club medium.com At the dawn of Reagan's America, Hollywood's underground community of punk musicians, struggling artists, and scene-makers lived for the night. Get more stories on Digg.com → 24 YEARS ​Cadets march in central Khreshchatyk street during military parade marking Ukraine's Independence Day in the capital Kiev, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Speaking at the parade, President Petro Poroshenko said Ukraine would continue to increase its troop numbers in order to fend off the attacks of separatist rebels. Credit: Mikhail Palinchak, Pool Photo 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

And Now, The Bland Finale

The Fight For The Gray Lady, The Worst TV Show Finales, And Other News, Your Wrist, Improved, I Confronted The Man Who Fooled Me (And Millions Of Strangers) With Diane In 7A, A Baseball Powerhouse Blossoms In Uganda, Quentin Tarantino On White Supremacy, Obama, And The Film Industry's Future The Daily Digg Monday, August 24, 2015 SULZBERGER STAKES The Fight For The Gray Lady nymag.com A three-way, mostly civilized family contest to become the next publisher of the New York Times. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND The Worst TV Show Finales, And Other News digg.com The finales that got it right and the ones that got it wrong, a lazy, lazy grizzly bear, and people who are bad at naming their kids. WATCHES WE DIGG SPONSORED Your Wrist, Improved mvmtwatches.com Time is money, but that doesn't mean your watch has to be. MVMT has great watches for great prices, including Chrono, the newest member of the MVMT family. UP IN THE AIR I Confronted The Man Who Fooled Me (And Millions Of Strangers) With Diane In 7A buzzfeed.com I thought I'd scooped the biggest viral story of the year — turns out, I'd fallen for an elaborate joke. Over a year later, still plagued by embarrassment and resentment, I sat down with Elan Gale, the guy whose fake midair fight nearly derailed my career just as it was starting. THE (NEW) WORLD'S GAME A Baseball Powerhouse Blossoms In Uganda sports.vice.com "Eventually, Uganda will long surpass the Dominican Republic as far as number and quality of [baseball] players." The person who said this out loud, and truly believes it, is an intelligent and reasonable man with a more than basic understanding of baseball, even though his quote suggests otherwise. FILM GRUFF Quentin Tarantino On White Supremacy, Obama, And The Film Industry's Future vulture.com "Frankly, sophisticated audiences are not a problem. Dumb audiences are a problem." Get more stories on Digg.com → OPTICAL ZOOM The ​United States' Justin Gatlin, center, races in a men's 100m semifinal at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Lee Jin-man 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: Return To Snake Island

Maestro Gets Sick Of Disruptive Crowd, Includes Them In The Piece, Dave Grohl Sings 'My Hero' In The Face Of A Crying Fan, A Taste Of Japan With A Single Click, There's A Good Reason You Can't Land On This Island, Bad Lip Reading Redubs The GOP Debate, Don't Weaponize A Frisbee With Surgical Steel The Daily Digg Sunday, August 23, 2015 TOP SCORE Maestro Gets Sick Of Disruptive Crowd, Includes Them In The Piece digg.com That's one way to deal with a tough crowd. Now wait for them to fight over who gets to be first-chair hand clapper. 2 DIGG EDITORS CRIED A LITTLE WATCHING THIS Dave Grohl Sings 'My Hero' In The Face Of A Crying Fan digg.com Dave Grohl, still in crutches after breaking his leg, invited a crying fan up to the stage and sang one of the Foo Fighters' greatest hits right in his crying face. The fan later told a Colorado rock station that the song reminded him of his mother, who had recently passed. Listen to the interview below. CANDY WE DIGG SPONSORED A Taste Of Japan With A Single Click japancrate.com Want a taste of Japan without dropping your paycheck on a plane ticket? Us too! Japan Crate delivers a haul of Japanese candy and snacks right to your doorstep or office. Use code "digg" for $5 off your first Premium crate and send your taste buds on an adventure. INDIANA JONES'S WORST NIGHTMARE There's A Good Reason You Can't Land On This Island digg.com Off the coast of Brazil is Snake Island. It earned its name because it has the highest density of venomous snakes in the world. I JUST WANTED REGULAR POTATOES Bad Lip Reading Redubs The GOP Debate digg.com "Well, we could just go out and collect a dead swan." DON'T CATCH Don't Weaponize A Frisbee With Surgical Steel digg.com Mainly because you have just as much chance of hurting yourself while throwing it as hurting whoever might walk in front of its flight path. Get more stories on Digg.com → SIMON SAYS POP LOCK AND DROP These ten young men showed up in LA on Wednesday and absolutely demolished the competition at World Of Dance. Our hats are off to these talented dancers. Credit: World of Dance 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

You're Outta Here

Ketamine Can Cure Your Depression And Other Facts, How DuPont Slipped Past The EPA, Chewable Vitamins? Try Chewable Coffee, Baseball Fans Getting Tackled On The Field, Wasting Away In Margaritaville, Big Data Is For The Birds The Daily Digg Friday, August 21, 2015 WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Ketamine Can Cure Your Depression And Other Facts digg.com This week we learned Special K has a special effect on depression, rats are climbing up your toilet and what beers you should shower with. THE TEFLON TOXIN, PART 3 How DuPont Slipped Past The EPA firstlook.org During the five decades in which DuPont used and profited from C8, a chemical used in Teflon, the company had only infrequently discussed the chemical with environmental authorities, and it kept most of its extensive internal research on the chemical confidential. SNACKS WE DIGG SPONSORED Chewable Vitamins? Try Chewable Coffee nootrobox.com Your morning routine is complicated enough. Nootrobox's Go Cubes combine the zip of your coffee and a host of brain-boosting chemicals into a small gummy candy to make your morning that much easier. YOU'RE OUTTA HERE! Baseball Fans Getting Tackled On The Field digg.com Let's not mince words here: doing this will absolutely get you fined, arrested and banned for life from a stadium. Don't become a nameless blob of pixels in a video like this one. CHEESEHEADS IN PARADISE Wasting Away In Margaritaville luckypeach.com What are Parrotheads, and why do they love Jimmy Buffett so much? NOT JUST RANDOM PECKINGS Big Data Is For The Birds nautil.us The mysteries of avian migration at night are being solved with computational power. Get more stories on Digg.com → THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR CLOWNING AROUND ​Matt Brodeur, of Fairhaven, Mass., also known by his clown name of "Dusty", is pelted by a foam pie shell filled with soap at the American Clown Academy in Newark, Ohio, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. The students at the clown school were spending a week learning the traditions of the art of clowning, including learning a long kept circus formula for making soap for pie fights. Credit: Paul M. Walsh/The Eau Claire Leader-Telegram 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