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Chris Rock Rips The Academy Awards Apart In His Opening Monologue, Lots Of Parents Don't Want Their Kids To Be Born On Leap Day, Banking For People Who Like to Be Treated Like People, A Couple Of Guys Give Their Sperm To A Couple Of Girls And Other News, Would You Buy Meat From A Robot Butcher?, Why Its Feels So Good To Scratch An Itch The Daily Digg Monday, February 29, 2016 NOT EVEN KEVIN HART IS SAFE Chris Rock Rips The Academy Awards Apart In His Opening Monologue digg.com "I'm here at the Academy Awards, otherwise known as the White People's Choice Awards," Chris Rock started, before going on to explain exactly why the #OscarsSoWhite controversy is such a problem. He never stopped. SENDING YOUR 5-YEAR-OLD TO COLLEGE Lots Of Parents Don't Want Their Kids To Be Born On Leap Day fivethirtyeight.com As soon as Noel Ziegler learned in July 2007 that she was pregnant with a March 5 due date, she realized she might give birth on leap day — Feb. 29, 2008 — and dreaded it. UPGRADE YOUR FINANCES SPONSORED Banking For People Who Like to Be Treated Like People simple.com Simple believes in a few things that are easy to believe in. Personal finance should be effortless. Budgeting and saving should be easy, even beautiful. You should be able to get help from a real person, every time. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND A Couple Of Guys Give Their Sperm To A Couple Of Girls And Other News digg.com The awkwardness of sperm donation, the absurdity of Steph Curry, and how to not get hacked — here's the best stuff you might have missed this weekend. DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC MEAT? Would You Buy Meat From A Robot Butcher? kernelmag.dailydot.com From modern farming to fast food's made-to-order assembly lines, food production has gone industrial. Soon robot butchers and cooks may be subbed in for people. WHAT SPOT DOES IT HIT? Why Its Feels So Good To Scratch An Itch bbc.com It's the unpleasant feeling that makes us instinctively scratch and scratch and scratch. So why does a fingernail almost instantly make an itch feel better? Get more stories on Digg.com A COLD EMBRACE Chelsea Carey, right, celebrates her win over Northern Ontario with Amy Nixon during the gold medal game at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts curling event in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Sunday, Feb. 28. Credit: Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

Just A Dab Of Dab Helps The Medicine Go Down

110-Year-Old Lady Doesn't Have Time For Your Bullshit Interview Questions, The Evolution Of Pokémon Games, Stop Drinking Crap Wine. Try Before You Buy The Bottle With VINEBOX., Meet The Parents Who Medicate Their Kids With Weed, Boston Dynamics' New Robot Doesn't Give A Shit About Your Weak Human Attacks, If You Dare Hackers To Hack You, They'll Hack You Good This Week's Top Videos Sunday, February 28, 2016 'I TAKE A NAP AS MANY TIMES AS I CAN' 110-Year-Old Lady Doesn't Have Time For Your Bullshit Interview Questions digg.com Just let Flossie Dickey get back to napping and leave her alone. And no, she is not excited for her birthday party. TRAIN ON! The Evolution Of Pokémon Games digg.com The Pokémon series turns 20 this week! Take a look back at the 100+ games that kept the franchise going through the years. WINE WE DIGG SPONSORED Stop Drinking Crap Wine. Try Before You Buy The Bottle With VINEBOX. getvinebox.com The first wine by the glass subscription club, VINEBOX delivers boutique European wines every month right to your door. And did you see the vials they come in? Very classy. JUST A DAB HELPS THE MEDICINE GO DOWN Meet The Parents Who Medicate Their Kids With Weed digg.com The next big thing in medical marijuana might be cancer therapy. But with little hard evidence, families whose children have life-threatening cancer are taking matters into their own hands, and getting their kids super stoned — to save their lives. THEY WILL NOT FORGET THIS RIDICULE Boston Dynamics' New Robot Doesn't Give A Shit About Your Weak Human Attacks digg.com A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings, can withstand both difficult terrain and stupid humans taunting it with a hockey stick. HACK ME, YOU WON'T If You Dare Hackers To Hack You, They'll Hack You Good digg.com Fusion's Kevin Roose asked some of the best hackers at DEF CON to do their worst to him. He didn't even know what was coming. Get more stories on Digg.com THIS IS WHAT YOU PUT INTO YOUR BODY... Molten copper is no match for a giant jawbreaker. Credit: Digg Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 News.me Inc. 29 Little West 12th Street, NY, NY 10014

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Your Frequent Flier Status Is A Scam

Frequent Flier Status Is A Scam And Other Facts, The Strange Case Of The Man With No Name, Did You Know You Can Make And Receive Calls In Slack?, Just The Good Stuff From Thursday's GOP Debate, Will Virtual Reality Make Life Better?, Come Talk About Weather With Meteorologist Eric Holthaus The Daily Digg Friday, February 26, 2016 WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Frequent Flier Status Is A Scam And Other Facts digg.com ​​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Your elite flier status just isn't worth it, you shouldn't trust BMI, and you should know all of Italy's pizzas. GIVE UP THE GHOST The Strange Case Of The Man With No Name features.wearemel.com In life, Lyle Stevik went to extraordinary lengths to keep his identity a secret. In death, he was analyzed, dissected, and scrutinized. And beyond that, he became a 9/11 terrorist, a ghostly apparition and an internet superstar. APPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Did You Know You Can Make And Receive Calls In Slack? ottspot.co Cause you can. And it's awesome. Register now for beta access and get unlimited users for $0. 'SOMEBODY ATTACK ME PLEASE?!' Just The Good Stuff From Thursday's GOP Debate digg.com The last Republican debate before Super Tuesday was Thursday night. Whether you were looking for a Rubio-Cruz showdown or Trump's latest incendiary remark, we've got you covered with all the highlights. A NEW AVENUE OF ESCAPE Will Virtual Reality Make Life Better? wired.com Virtual reality will dramatically transform movies and gaming, but some see an even loftier goal for the burgeoning technology: Providing the world's poor and underprivileged with a better life. DIGG DIALOG Come Talk About Weather With Meteorologist Eric Holthaus digg.com Eric Holthaus is a meteorologist who writes about weather and climate for Slate. He is also an advisor to Poncho. He'll be here at 12pm EST to talk about all things weather. Leave your comments now! Get more stories on Digg.com CANYON YOU DIG IT? On Thursday, NASA released another beautiful photo that details more of Pluto's dreamy surface. This time, The New Horizons Team has captured long vertical canyons that run across Pluto's polar area. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

Skin Deep

Inside The Topless Sisterhood, Apple Is Said To Be Working On An iPhone Even It Can't Hack, A Touchscreen Universal Remote Designed For The Internet Generation, Inside The Controversial World Of Competitive Yoga, How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable, Meet The Mad Scientists Of Video Game Sound Design The Daily Digg Thursday, February 25, 2016 PLAY OUT OF YOUR SKIN Inside The Topless Sisterhood bbc.com As a young dancer with feminist tendencies, Bee Rowlatt was scandalized to find herself on stage alongside topless dancers. Many years later, after writing a book about early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, she visited the Moulin Rouge in Paris to talk to dancers who bare their breasts in this unforgiving industry. LOCK IT UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY Apple Is Said To Be Working On An iPhone Even It Can't Hack nytimes.com Apple engineers have already begun developing new security measures that would make it impossible for the government to break into a locked iPhone using methods similar to those now at the center of a court fight in California, according to people close to the company and security experts. TECH WE DIGG SPONSORED A Touchscreen Universal Remote Designed For The Internet Generation ray.co Not only does The Ray Super Remote replace all the remotes cluttering up your coffee table, it's got a lightning-fast search function and adaptive software that helps you discover new content based on your tastes and preferences. THE ZEN MASTERS Inside The Controversial World Of Competitive Yoga racked.com Picture this: a hundred people sitting around a boxing ring at a Brooklyn gym one snowy evening in late January. Instead of gathering to watch people fight, they are there to watch people bend, twist, and fold their bodies into contorted yoga poses. COULD SHOOT SOMEONE AND NOT LOSE A VOTE How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable rollingstone.com He's no ordinary con man. He's way above average — and the American political system is his easiest mark ever. SOUND AND THE FURY OF HELLFIRE Meet The Mad Scientists Of Video Game Sound Design polygon.com Chris Kowalski arrived at the Aliso and Wood Canyons Regional Park with two Blizzard team members and a duffel bag in tow. The bag barely contained its bizarre contents, and it certainly couldn't conceal them: swords, sticks, tubes and poles jutting out at every angle. The guys would need them all. Get more stories on Digg.com NEVER BACK DOWN ​Government workers protest recent layoffs during the current administration of President Mauricio Macri in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. In the first strike against Macri's government, workers blocked streets in the capital and across the country. Credit: AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002