The Tortoise Always Wins

Jeb In The Wilderness, Authoritarian Outfitters, Why Are Mattresses So Expensive?, VIDEO: Here's A Tortoise Chasing A Dog, The Uncertain Legal Future Of Net Neutrality, A Campaign To Put A Woman On The Twenty-Dollar Bill The Daily Digg Thursday, March 5, 2015 GREEN PARTY Jeb In The Wilderness politico.com The time Florida's Republican governor took on the biggest environmental restoration project in American history. DRESSING TO OPPRESS Authoritarian Outfitters newrepublic.com German neo-Nazis' favorite clothing brand is expanding throughout Europe. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Why Are Mattresses So Expensive? tuftandneedle.com Mattresses are marked up 6-12 times from manufacture to point of sale. That means you're mostly paying for bad TV commercials, retail markups, sales commissions, and wholesaler's profits. Sounds like a waste of money to us. Luckily Tuft & Needle is here to fix the problem. IN DOGGED PURSUIT VIDEO: Here's A Tortoise Chasing A Dog digg.com The tortoise never stands a chance, but you have to respect the hustle. WON THE BATTLE, NOT THE WAR The Uncertain Legal Future Of Net Neutrality dailydot.com Net neutrality advocates are celebrating the Federal Communications Commission's approval of strong rules designed to protect the open Internet, but the FCC and its opponents in the cable and wireless industries are already preparing for the next step: a legal war. JACKSON WAS A NO-GOOD ANYWAYS A Campaign To Put A Woman On The Twenty-Dollar Bill newyorker.com Each of the eleven denominations in circulation, from the one-dollar bill to the ten-thousand-dollar bill, depicts a man. Barbara Ortiz Howard and Susan Ades Stone want to change that. Get more stories on Digg.com → SIXTY CANDLES Thai Buddhist monks pray and gather at Wat Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province to participate in Makha Bucha Day ceremonies Wednesday, March 4, 2015. Makha Bucha, a religious holiday that marks the anniversary of Lord Buddha's mass sermon to the first 1,250 newly ordained monks 2,558 years ago. Credit: AP photo/Sakchai Lalit 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

Everyone Gets A Fish

7.3 Billion People, One Building, VIDEO: You've Been Eating Bagels Wrong Your Entire Life, Don't Get Trashed On St. Patrick's Day, The Fisherman's Dilemma, In Praise Of Greg Gutfeld, The Conservative Jon Stewart, Race To The NBA's Bottom! The Daily Digg Wednesday, March 4, 2015 CRUNCHING PEOPLE (AND NUMBERS) 7.3 Billion People, One Building waitbutwhy.com How big a building would you need to fit all the people in the world in it? It's a question that's tantalized almost no one through the ages, and today we're gonna tackle it hard. SCHMEAR CAMPAIGN VIDEO: You've Been Eating Bagels Wrong Your Entire Life digg.com Remember: the only thing that should go in the hole is more cream cheese. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Don't Get Trashed On St. Patrick's Day flaviar.com Irish whiskey, unlike other styles, is usually distilled three times, making it one of the smoothest on the palate. From a traditional option, the Jameson 18 Year Old, to the new kid on the block, Uisce Beatha, these are the Irish whiskeys you need to have on hand this St. Patrick's Day. WILL THERE BE PLENTY OF FISH IN THE SEA? The Fisherman's Dilemma stories.californiasunday.com Off the coast of California, a radical experiment has closed hundreds of miles of ocean to fishing. Will it lead to better catches for years to come? GUT CHECK In Praise Of Greg Gutfeld, The Conservative Jon Stewart newyorker.com For more than eight years, Fox News has been broadcasting an odd and often funny 3 A.M. program called "Red Eye." Its sensibility is snarky and surreal, thanks to its host, Greg Gutfeld, who adopts a tone of half-sarcastic alarm, as if he can't decide which is more annoying: the politician he is talking about, or the fact that he has to talk about politicians. It sounds like faint praise to call "Red Eye" the funniest and most unpredictable program on cable news, but that's what it is — or, rather, that's what it was. KNICKS ARE SPRINTING FULL TILT RIGHT NOW Race To The NBA's Bottom! medium.com With draft position for the league's worst teams at stake, there's just one thing to do: Lose. And lose spectacularly! Get more stories on Digg.com → PUPS FOR PEACE A small dog peers from a car at an Ukrainian army checkpoint near Kurakhove, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 on a road leading to Russia-backed separatists held territory. Ukraine's president signed a decree Monday opening the way to a formal request for international peacekeepers to be stationed in eastern regions where government forces are battling Russian-backed separatists. Credit: AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda 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 World According To LARP

Larp Comes Out Of The Shadows, Meet The Man Who Takes Care Of Yellowstone By Himself Every Winter, Click Here If You're Bored At Work (We Won't Tell), How To Build An Igloo By Yourself, The Spy Who Came In From Al-Qaeda, This Professor Has Invented A Pill That Eliminates Hangovers The Daily Digg Tuesday, March 3, 2015 LIVE (CAMERA) ACTION ROLE PLAYING Larp Comes Out Of The Shadows roadsandkingdoms.com At the most influential Live Action Role-Playing gathering of its kind, the weirdest thing isn't wizards or witches — it's new-found fame. LONESOME STEVE Meet The Man Who Takes Care Of Yellowstone By Himself Every Winter dailymail.co.uk For the past 42 years, Fuller has worked as the caretaker of Yellowstone National Park, protecting the park's buildings during the long and brutal winter months. He lives in a small cabin alone during the winter, with enough food stored up since his closest neighbors are a two-hour snowmobile ride away. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Click Here If You're Bored At Work (We Won't Tell) teamtreehouse.com Work doesn't have to be boring. Unlock the skills you need for a successful weekday while having fun. IT'S SNOW MUCH WORK How To Build An Igloo By Yourself digg.com If you're good, you can build an igloo in about 5 hours with just a saw, a shovel and maybe some ski poles. FROM AFGHANISTAN WITH LOVE The Spy Who Came In From Al-Qaeda bbc.com Aimen Dean is a founder member of al-Qaeda, who changed tack in 1998 and became a spy for Britain's security and intelligence services, MI5 and MI6. Interviewed by Peter Marshall, he describes his years working in Afghanistan and London as one of the West's most valuable assets in the fight against militant Islam. NOT HORNY GOAT WEED This Professor Has Invented A Pill That Eliminates Hangovers munchies.vice.com Former chief drugs adviser, Professor David Nutt has answered your sweaty, toilet-bowl-hugging prayers and invented a non-toxic inebriant drug that mimics the effects of alcohol: without the hangover. Get more stories on Digg.com → BATTLING THE BLAZE A fire fighters, right, battle a fire with others, near the town of Hout Bay, South Africa, Monday, March 2, 2015. South African firefighters say they are battling to control a wildfire that has burned down five homes in Cape Town's southern peninsula. Spokeswoman Liezl Moodie said Monday that nearly 150 firefighters, along with park volunteers, have combated the blaze since early Monday. Credit: AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam) 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

Hunts With Wolves

The Plot To Free North Korea With Reruns Of 'Friends', Slowing The Speed Of Light, And Other News, What It's Like To Need Hardly Any Sleep, Are Humans Getting Cleverer?, VIDEO: Dad Builds His Kids A Luge Track In The Backyard, How Hunting With Wolves Helped Humans Outsmart The Neanderthals The Daily Digg Monday, March 2, 2015 SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING YOU SEE ON TV The Plot To Free North Korea With Reruns Of 'Friends' wired.com Kang Chol-hwan's North Korea Strategy Center has become the largest in a movement of political groups who routinely smuggle data – foreign movies, music, and ebooks – into North Korea. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND Slowing The Speed Of Light, And Other News digg.com A history of the speed of light, San Francisco's drug usage visualized, and a handy guide to stealing an election. DON'T NEED NO COUNTING SHEEP What It's Like To Need Hardly Any Sleep nymag.com "Short sleepers" wake refreshed and energized after just a few hours of sleep, and those who have been studied tend to pack their lives with tasks that they perform well unaided by stimulants or other crutches. STILL DO A LOT OF DUMB STUFF Are Humans Getting Cleverer? bbc.com IQ is rising in many parts of the world. What's behind the change and does it really mean people are cleverer than their grandparents? STILL BUILDING THE BOBSLED VIDEO: Dad Builds His Kids A Luge Track In The Backyard digg.com Winter sucks. But having a custom built sledding track in your backyard should make it a bit better. HOMO SAPIENS' BEST FRIEND How Hunting With Wolves Helped Humans Outsmart The Neanderthals theguardian.com Forty thousand years ago in Europe our ancestors formed a crucial and lasting alliance that enabled us to finish off our evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals. Get more stories on Digg.com → IS IT JUST ME OR IS IT COLD IN HERE? A harbor light is covered by snow and ice on the Lake Michigan at 31st Street Harbor, Sunday, March 1, 2015, in Chicago. After one of the coldest, snowiest Februarys on record, March is expected to open with a continuation of below-normal temperatures. Credit: AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh 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

This Week's Best Videos: Why Kevin Spacey's Accent Sounds Off, The Great Llama Chase Of 2015 And The Most Dangerous Sword

The Most Dangerous Sword On Earth, Why Kevin Spacey's Accent In 'House Of Cards' Sounds Off, The Great Llama Chase Of 2015, The Fastest Way To Ruin A Perfectly Good Telecaster (If You Suck At Surfing), The Intricate Process Of Making Arrows From Bamboo, February's Best News Bloopers The Daily Digg Sunday, March 1, 2015 URUMI The Most Dangerous Sword On Earth digg.com Kalaripayattu is considered to be the oldest fighting system, and the urumi — a flexible whip-like sword — is its most difficult weapon to master. An urumi wielder requires great agility and knowledge of the weapon simply to avoid self-injury. BECAUSE IT'S FAKE AS HELL Why Kevin Spacey's Accent In 'House Of Cards' Sounds Off digg.com Here's some real linguistics to mix with your fake politics. ON THE LLAM The Great Llama Chase Of 2015 digg.com For the next 18 minutes, forget all your worries, your stress. For the next 18 minutes just follow the journey of these two star-crossed lovers as they attempt to escape to wider pastures and true freedom. Laugh with them when they're victorious, cry with them when they lose. Just know, for the next 18 minutes, we are all llamas. YO DAWG, I HEARD YOU LIKE SHREDDING The Fastest Way To Ruin A Perfectly Good Telecaster (If You Suck At Surfing) digg.com Chris Hau loves shredding guitar. Chris Hau loves shredding waves. Chris Hau loves multitasking. CUTTING STRAIGHT TO THE POINT The Intricate Process Of Making Arrows From Bamboo digg.com Yu Young-Ki is a Korean fletcher. Here he uses ancient techniques to make a a whole batch of arrows with little more than fire, knives and hammers. REST IN PIECES, LOCAL NEWS February's Best News Bloopers digg.com And that's why you don't conduct an interview in a pool. Get more stories on Digg.com → THIS CONTENT IS LITERALLY TOO HOT Many drones were harmed in the making of this film, the volcano and content Gods thank you for your service. Credit: 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