Real Eyes Realize SEAL Lies

Seal Clubbing Still Exists, And Other Facts, What Happens To Former ISIS Fighters?, WATCH: What It Looks Like To Leave Our Solar System At The Speed Of Light, What a Kanye Presidency Would Look Like, Fostering Black Tech, Why Are People At Festivals So Happy? The Daily Digg Friday, September 4, 2015 WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Seal Clubbing Still Exists, And Other Facts digg.com This week we learned that seals still get whacked, one man's life mission is to track down phony Navy SEALs and Swiss golf is really hard. CEASE AND ISIS What Happens To Former ISIS Fighters? newyorker.com Thousands of Europeans have left for the jihadi battlefields of Syria and Iraq, but what consequences await them when they return to the EU? RIDE THE LIGHT WATCH: What It Looks Like To Leave Our Solar System At The Speed Of Light digg.com There is no better way to grasp the enormity of space than hitching a ride on a photon from the Sun. Take an hour, and just let the sheer vastness of our universe sink in. And this video stops at Jupiter. A BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY What a Kanye Presidency Would Look Like motherboard.vice.com "The President takes a seat at the head of a long conference table. Kendrick Lamar sits at the other end. The President holds out his hand, and a member of Secret Services steps forward, and places a Snickers in his outstretched palm. "You're the guy with all the money," he says down the table." HIDDEN GENIUSES Fostering Black Tech nytimes.com The acute underrepresentation of blacks in the technology industry has given rise to a flurry of initiatives in Silicon Valley to improve the situation. THE DRUGS HELP Why Are People At Festivals So Happy? vice.com "There's the feeling of missing out on an eternal summer: photos of beautiful people in their flower crowns, crop tops and fringe, evoking feelings of first times and the wonder that comes from new makeouts with other beautiful people, new drugs and seeing your favorite band live." Get more stories on Digg.com → DONKEY MOM Anju, a Western Lowland Gorilla, holds her week-old newborn in the Gorilla World habitat at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015, in Cincinnati. The baby, who has yet to be named, is the 50th gorilla born at the zoo since 1970.​ Credit: AP Photo/John Minchillo 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

Space Is Cool

The Bizarre Story Behind A Fake Comcast Customer Representative, The Best Articles Of The Week: Killer Chemicals And Jesus People, The Steepest Streets In San Francisco, The Best Space Images Of The Month, The Impossible Fight Against America's Stadiums, Pop Culture Overload: Too Much Is Never Enough The Daily Digg Thursday, September 3, 2015 A VERY BAD CALL The Bizarre Story Behind A Fake Comcast Customer Representative digg.com On this week's episode of "Reply All," a terrible customer service phone call leads us down a rabbit hole of obfuscation, subterfuge, and goofing off. THE LONG-READER'S DIGEST The Best Articles Of The Week: Killer Chemicals And Jesus People digg.com A small West Virginia town slowly poisoned by DuPont, a young man's escape from the cultish Jesus People USA, and Atlantic City's uncertain future. IT'S AN UPHILL BATTLE TO MAKE THIS LIST The Steepest Streets In San Francisco priceonomics.com San Francisco's hills have long-since boggled the minds of tourists and locals alike. In some of the city's hillier neighborhoods, any form of mobile activity — driving, walking, running, cycling — can be like riding a roller coaster. SPATIAL AWARENESS The Best Space Images Of The Month digg.com As we tediously while away our days down here on Earth, satellites are zooming through space, snapping incredible pictures of Earth, the solar system and outer space. Here are the highlights from August. STADIUMS AREN'T YOUR PAL The Impossible Fight Against America's Stadiums psmag.com The shady money and politics behind the country's biggest, most expensive sports arenas. BUFFER ZONE Pop Culture Overload: Too Much Is Never Enough medium.com You're never going to get to the end of your Netflix or Spotify queue. And that's okay. Get more stories on Digg.com → STEP UP 3: THE KREMLIN ​The Kremlin guards change at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier outside the Kremlin wall in downtown Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin 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

Chess Pains

Cracking The Cartel, Finally, We Can Put A Face To Deez Nuts, Transplant Surgeons Revive Hearts After Death, Who's Mountain? Obama's Mountain!, The End Of 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' Marks The End Of An Era For TV Animation, The Super Bowl Of Elementary School Chess The Daily Digg Wednesday, September 2, 2015 HEIS-UNMANNED Cracking The Cartel newrepublic.com Money is a blight on college sports. We must remove it from the equation and leave the good things: sports and schools. Don't pay NCAA football and basketball players. AND MEET HIS DAD, MIKE ROTCH Finally, We Can Put A Face To Deez Nuts digg.com Watch an interview with Iowa teen Brady Olson, the young man responsible for the political tour de force that is Deez Nuts. It was a good joke Brady, but maybe stay away from voicing opinions on things you know absolutely nothing about. THE BEAT GOES ON Transplant Surgeons Revive Hearts After Death technologyreview.com A technology to keep organs alive outside the body is saving lives. And provoking ethical debates. WHAT WE'RE READING IN POLITICS THIS WEEK Who's Mountain? Obama's Mountain! digg.com Welcome to "The Enthusiasm Gap," a weekly digest that aims to bridge the gap between interest and enthusiasm in politics by bringing you the best political and electoral writing of the week.​ GONE TO THE GREAT BIG MCDONALD'S IN THE SKY The End Of 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' Marks The End Of An Era For TV Animation avclub.com "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" was a show about nothing, but not like "Seinfeld." It was about nothing in the same way as Waiting For Godot was about nothing: "nothing" as a kind of earnest hopelessness, an anticipation of meaning that seems forthcoming but which never actually arrives. WHEN PAWNS BECOME KINGS The Super Bowl Of Elementary School Chess narrative.ly Two thousand high-achieving students. Hordes of proud parents, anxious coaches, and one scrappy underdog team from Harlem. Screaming. Crying. Chess. Get more stories on Digg.com → FRESH OFF THE BOAT ​Migrants disembark from the catamaran Terra Jet at the Athens' port of Piraeus, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. About 1,800 refugees arrived from the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos as the country has been overwhelmed by record numbers of migrants this year. Credit: AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis 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

Chained But Not Lossless

The Rust Belt: Once Mighty Cities In Decline, Brain Cancer Surgery Is Stuck 'In The Middle Ages' — Is There A Better Way?, What Is Your Money For?, The Fully Immersive Mind Of Oliver Sacks, How Will Our Future Laws Treat Robots?, An IBM Supercomputer Will Take On China's Air Pollution Crisis The Daily Digg Tuesday, September 1, 2015 INDUSTRIAL HEART, BEATS NO MORE The Rust Belt: Once Mighty Cities In Decline msnbc.com An auto giant's exit brings Flint to its knees. This area once served as the industrial heart of the U.S. Rail lines connected cities that were home to manufacturers of heavy industrial materials and large consumer products like cars and trucks. Today, the goliaths of industry that once loomed large in these areas are mostly gone, leaving behind urban decay and blight. LIGHT AT THE END OF THE SCALPEL Brain Cancer Surgery Is Stuck 'In The Middle Ages' — Is There A Better Way? digg.com Telling cancer from non-cancer is tough for brain surgeons. Scorpions, Amazon and the legacy of a dying girl might change that. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED What Is Your Money For? simple.com Probably not weird bank fees. Probably not paying perpetual debt. We think your money is for building the life you want. Simple's beautiful budgeting and saving tools can help you do it, a little each day. A STUDY OF GENIUS The Fully Immersive Mind Of Oliver Sacks wired.com Pioneering neurologist and author Oliver Sacks died Sunday, August 30 at age 82. In his writings about patients' sometimes bizarre case studies — which he would call "neurological novels" — Sacks was able to draw out the humanity in pathology. Steve Silberman wrote about Sacks' own case study in 2002. CHAINED BUT NOT LOSSLESS How Will Our Future Laws Treat Robots? medium.com Will a robot marry your daughter? Should you tip a robot? Can you rape a robot? Just ask the author of "Humans Need Not Apply." MOVE POLLUTION TO TRASH ICON An IBM Supercomputer Will Take On China's Air Pollution Crisis dailydot.com Before they enslave us, the machines are going to help us fight air pollution. The air quality in Beijing, China is so poor that breathing it for 24 hours is akin to smoking 36 cigarettes. IBM, famed for its unlikely computer projects to beat humans at chess and Jeopardy, is seeing what it can do to mitigate the problem with machine learning technology. Get more stories on Digg.com → A TIGER OF EPIC PROPORTIONS An Indian artist with his body painted with the likeness of a tiger dances before a tableau with a picture of tiger during the 'Pulikali' or Tiger Dance procession in Thrissur, Kerala state, India, Monday, Aug. 31, 2015. This folk art festival is held every year in this town to entertain people during the harvest festival 'Onam'. Credit: AP Photo/Arun Sankar K 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