Ask Paul Ford About Wikipedia

Ask Paul Ford Your Questions, You Should Get Rid Of Your Router And Other Facts, We're Down To Half The Fish In The Sea, How To Talk To A Grieving Person, WATCH: Machine Generates The World's Largest Man-Made Wave, Young Thug Likes Everything People Say About Him The Daily Digg Friday, October 9, 2015 LEAVE YOUR QUESTIONS NOW Ask Paul Ford Your Questions digg.com Paul Ford is the co-founder of Postlight, a web services agency in New York City. He writes a column called Big Data for The New Republic, and is writing a book about web pages for FSG. He's here now to answer your questions about his latest piece on Wikipedia. WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK You Should Get Rid Of Your Router 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: unreliable routers, bleeps and bloops and a cool card trick that you can totally do. THERE ISN'T PLENTY OF FISH IN THE SEA We're Down To Half The Fish In The Sea daily.jstor.org A new report has concluded that the ocean has half the fish it contained in 1970. 'I'M SORRY' How To Talk To A Grieving Person adequateman.deadspin.com There is a gulf between mourners and the rest of the world. We want to talk, but we don't want to make people uncomfortable. IT'S MAKIN' WAVES WATCH: Machine Generates The World's Largest Man-Made Wave digg.com This is the Delta Flume: A 1000 foot-long, 30 foot-deep channel specifically made for literally making waves. 'DRUNK ON HIS OWN ECCENTRICITY' Young Thug Likes Everything People Say About Him theguardian.com Atlanta's Young Thug is the gender-fluid, surrealist rapper who's being anointed as hip-hop's next titan. Don't know what to make of him? You're not the only one. Get more stories on Digg.com HOPE SHE CAN GET OUT OF THAT MAIZE ​An Indian woman farmer dries the maize crop at Aloli village, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Ajmer, India's western state of Rajasthan, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. Maize is an important cereal crop in the world after wheat and rice. Credit: AP Photo/Deepak Sharma Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 29 Little West 12th Street, NY, NY 10014

The Truth Behind Your Myers-Briggs Test

Uncovering The Secret History Of Myers-Briggs, The Best Stories Of The Week: Nigerian Scammers And Reptilians In Hollywood, A Shocking Way To Fix The Brain, How Fear Slammed America's Door On Syrian Refugees, The Best (And Worst) Movies To Watch On Paramount's New YouTube Channel, A Brief History Of Apocalypse Predictions The Daily Digg Thursday, October 8, 2015 WHAT'S YOUR TYPE? Uncovering The Secret History Of Myers-Briggs digg.com The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. But its creator, Isabel Briggs Meyers, remains shrouded in mystery. A library at the University Florida holds the truth, but no outsider has ever been granted access. We investigate. THE LONG-READER'S DIGEST The Best Stories Of The Week: Nigerian Scammers And Reptilians In Hollywood digg.com A psychiatrist with a broken brain and a drug-dealing problem; the new, romantically-inclined wave of Nigerian scammers; and the strange story of a half-alien secret agent in Los Angeles. SHOCK DOCS A Shocking Way To Fix The Brain technologyreview.com Neurosurgeons hope to treat some of the most intractable mental disorders by putting advanced arrays of electrodes into patients' brains. PUTTING OUT LADY LIBERTY'S FLAME How Fear Slammed America's Door On Syrian Refugees defenseone.com As millions flee from war to uncertainty or death, "national security concerns" have kept US arrivals to a trickle. THE DEADLY B MOVIES The Best (And Worst) Movies To Watch On Paramount's New YouTube Channel digg.com Paramount just revealed a new YouTube channel called "Paramount Vault" which lets anyone on YouTube watch hundreds of classic films from the production house's vast archives. Y2K15 A Brief History Of Apocalypse Predictions theverge.com A Christian organization called the e-Bible Fellowship has crunched the numbers and concluded that October 7th, 2015 will usher in the apocalypse. This sounds like bad news, but predictions of Earth's obliteration are old hat. Get more stories on Digg.com SEEING PINK Dancers perform during a traditional festival of "ngarot" in Indramayu, West Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. The festival is held regularly every year to welcome the rice planting season. Credit: AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 29 Little West 12th Street, NY, NY 10014

Baby, I’m A Secret Agent, Alien-Hybrid Here To Save The World

Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare's Language, Stopping The Next Mass Shooter And Other Great Political Writing, You Don't Need Those 1,000 Thread Count Sheets, Baby, I'm A Secret Agent, Alien-Hybrid Here To Save The World, The Story Of 'Liquid Ass,' The World's Worst Smell, Humans Are Still Evolving And We Don't Know What Will Happen Next The Daily Digg Wednesday, October 7, 2015 YOU CAN CALL HIM BILL Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare's Language newyorker.com Critics of a project that will translate Shakespeare's plays into modern English may have forgotten the long history of the Bard's scripts undergoing heavy editing for the stage. THE ENTHUSIASM GAP Stopping The Next Mass Shooter And Other Great Political Writing digg.com This week in "The Enthusiasm Gap" we cover the origin story of the Republican Party's malady, a third-degree Bern and the frontline of defense for preventing the next mass shooting. LINENS WE DIGG SPONSORED You Don't Need Those 1,000 Thread Count Sheets linenspa.com The idea that higher thread count means better sheets is a myth — good sheets start with quality fibers that are made into the best fabrics and carefully finished to look and feel great. Which is what you'll find at Linenspa. A STORY THAT'S OUT OF THIS WORLD Baby, I'm A Secret Agent, Alien-Hybrid Here To Save The World playboy.com When Jeffrey Alan Lash died, his body was rotting in an SUV and authorities found $5 million worth of guns at his condo. His lovers were convinced he was an alien-hybrid. So who was this man? 'BUTT CRACK, WITH A HINT OF DEAD ANIMAL' The Story Of 'Liquid Ass,' The World's Worst Smell digg.com Back in the mid-2000s, auto engineers Andrew Masters and Allen Wittman released Liquid Ass as the be-all and end-all of olfactory gags (literally, gags). On this week's episode of "The Leap," the strange story of the world's worst smell. WHERE DID YA COME FROM, WHERE DID YA GO? Humans Are Still Evolving And We Don't Know What Will Happen Next hopesandfears.com When did modern humans branch off as an independent species? What have been our most important adaptations? And, most importantly, what is the next evolutionary step for humanity? Get more stories on Digg.com → AIR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION Window washers use cables to lower themselves from a skyscraper while working on a polluted day in Beijing, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. Air quality readings in the city on Tuesday were at levels considered hazardous by international measuring standards.​ Credit: AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein 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

Your Galoshes Are About To Cringe

The Myth Of The Good Guy With The Gun, 8,400 High-Res Images From The Apollo Moon Missions Were Just Put Online — Here Are The Best, What's You're Most Common Typo?, Watching Monsoons Unfold In 4K Will Make Your Umbrella Cower, What It Will Really Take To Fix India's Railways, Meet Augustus Invictus, The Florida Libertarian Senate Candidate Who Loves Paganism, Civil War And Goat Sacrifice The Daily Digg Tuesday, October 6, 2015 NO SUCH THING AS A GOOD SHOT The Myth Of The Good Guy With The Gun politico.com It's an intuitive and appealing idea — that a good guy with a gun will stop a bad guy with a gun. We can imagine it. We see it in movies. At least 80 million Americans have gone into the gun store, laid money on the counter, and purchased that fantasy. And yet it rarely plays out as envisioned. PICS THIS GOOD COME ONCE IN A BLUE MOON 8,400 High-Res Images From The Apollo Moon Missions Were Just Put Online — Here Are The Best digg.com An archivist in Virginia just released thousands of high-res images from the Apollo missions. Here are our favorites. TYPOS WE DON'T DIGG SPONSORED What's You're Most Common Typo? grammarly.com Meet Grammarly, a spelling and grammar checker on (totally legal) steroids, and never make a silly mistake again. AND YOUR GALOSHES CRINGE Watching Monsoons Unfold In 4K Will Make Your Umbrella Cower digg.com Chasing monsoons in Arizona sounds nuts, but the time lapse footage captured makes it all worth it. RAILROAD IT THROUGH What It Will Really Take To Fix India's Railways citylab.com Google and Japan have promised to bring WiFi and odorless toilets to India's trains, but the South Asian country has a much bigger problem it needs to fix first. ONE TO BRING HOME TO MOTHER Meet Augustus Invictus, The Florida Libertarian Senate Candidate Who Loves Paganism, Civil War And Goat Sacrifice vice.com Augustus Invictus is the only Libertarian running for Marco Rubio's Senate seat in Florida, but he happens describe himself as an "American Fascist," advocate for another civil war and be accused of goat sacrifice. He's throwing his party into turmoil. Get more stories on Digg.com → FLOODY WATERS ​A man makes his way through floodwaters in the parking lot of The Citadel Beach Club on Isle of Palms, SC, Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. The Charleston and surrounding areas are still struggling with flood waters due to a slow moving storm system. Credit: AP Photo/Mic Smith 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