Robo ScarJo, Bad Art And A Buzzer Beater Three

What The Hell Happened In East New York? Episode 2, Take This Very Easy Survey, And You'll Make A Bunch Of Digg Employees Really Happy, How To Be The Guy In The $800 Suit (Without Paying $800), Why Do We Love Bad Art?, The Programmer Helping Us Live Out Our Moneyball Fantasies, The Scarlett Johansson Bot Is the Robotic Future Of Objectifying Women The Daily Digg Tuesday, April 5, 2016 RELIGION What The Hell Happened In East New York? Episode 2 digg.com Kevin Heldman grew up next to East New York. His journey since has been anything but easy — a troubled youth, an army stint, a flourishing journalism career all but abandoned in the wake of a tragic death. Then he rediscovered his calling, not far from where he once played in the city dump. WE'VE GOT SOME QUESTIONS Take This Very Easy Survey, And You'll Make A Bunch Of Digg Employees Really Happy digg.com Hey, you already open this email pretty regularly, why not answer a few questions that will help us build it better, faster and stronger for you? We'd really appreciate it :) SUITS WE DIGG SPONSORED How To Be The Guy In The $800 Suit (Without Paying $800) indochino.com Come on! This sale is a no-brainer. Use the promo code PREMIUM16 and save up to $400 on Indochino's made-to-measure Premium collection suits. MORE LIKE FART! Why Do We Love Bad Art? theatlantic.com The Museum of Bad Art, founded in 1994 in a suburban Boston basement, is a bona fide institution dedicated to "building the finest bad art establishment in the world." But isn't art supposed to be pretty? HITTING IT OUT OF THE PARK The Programmer Helping Us Live Out Our Moneyball Fantasies motherboard.vice.com The Major League Baseball season is almost upon us, and with it comes one of the nerdiest of American pastimes: predicting the statistical performances of the league's 30 teams and 750 players. BUILD YOUR VERY OWN 'HER' The Scarlett Johansson Bot Is the Robotic Future Of Objectifying Women wired.com As robotics and 3-D printing technologies become more accessible to home tinkerers, men are (of course) building robots of beautiful women. Get more stories on Digg.com WOW Watch Villanova defeat North Carolina for the national championship on a buzzer-beater three pointer. Credit: CBS Sports 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

Um, There's Something Important Going On In Panama

What The Hell Happened In East New York?, Episode 1: Obsession, For Those In Pursuit Of The Perfect Polo: We Found It, What You Should Know About The Panama Papers, The All-Encompassing Oral History Of 'All The President's Men', How Hollywood Gives Actors Plastic Surgery With A Mouse Click The Daily Digg Monday, April 4, 2016 BROKEN What The Hell Happened In East New York? digg.com East New York is, by far, the worst neighborhood in New York City, among the worst in the nation, and has been for quite some time. Award-winning journalist Kevin Heldman tried to report out why. WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED IN EAST NEW YORK? Episode 1: Obsession digg.com For 25 years one neighborhood has remained New York's most crime ridden, most polluted, most neglected, most hopeless — cut off from Brooklyn's emergence as the hippest place on earth. SHIRTS WE DIGG SPONSORED For Those In Pursuit Of The Perfect Polo: We Found It criquetshirts.com Started by two lifelong friends in Austin, TX, Criquet's vintage-inspired shirts are made with 100% organic cotton (read: super soft) and are the only polos we know of that have removable collar stays. AN UNPRECEDENTED LEAK What You Should Know About The Panama Papers digg.com ​On Sunday, over 100 news organizations from around the world dropped simultaneous investigations into a massive data leak which revealed how the the ultra-wealthy, including several world leaders, hide their money. Here's what you need to know. REAL SHOE-LEATHER MOVIEMAKING The All-Encompassing Oral History Of 'All The President's Men' washingtonian.com Forty years ago this month, the premiere of "All the President's Men" upended DC's notion of celebrity. Here, the story behind the making of the movie that brought Tinseltown gloss to Washington proceduralism. A CYBER NIP AND A DIGITAL TUCK How Hollywood Gives Actors Plastic Surgery With A Mouse Click vulture.com Spaceships and giant robots are old news. Now, Hollywood special effects can shave years off an actor's life, reshape a performance, or even recast a role after a movie's been shot. Get more stories on Digg.com BLADES OF GLORY FOR THE MOTHERLAND Ksenia Stolbova, right, and Fedor Klimov, left, of Russia, skate during the exhibition program at the World Figure Skating Championships, Sunday, April 3, 2016, in Boston. Credit: AP Photo/Steven Senne 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

Fake Perpetual Motion Has Us Perpetually Perplexed

Is This A Real Perpetual Motion Machine?, Watch The Ground Just, Uh, Disappear During This Nuclear Test, This Company Set Out To Make The Most Comfortable Memory Foam Mattress Ever, Guy Learns The Tablecloth Trick In 7 Seconds*, This Ice Cream Cake Machine Is Mesmerizing, Dividing By Zero On A Mechanical Calculator Is A Good Way To Break That Calculator This Week's Best Videos Sunday, April 3, 2016 IT. JUST. KEEPS. GOING. Is This A Real Perpetual Motion Machine? digg.com Of course, thanks to the lame Second Law of Thermodynamics, the answer is no. But this thing does look like it will keep going forever. ROCKING THE CRATER Watch The Ground Just, Uh, Disappear During This Nuclear Test digg.com This is what happens when an underground nuclear explosion basically makes the Earth hollow. BEDS WE DIGG SPONSORED This Company Set Out To Make The Most Comfortable Memory Foam Mattress Ever drommabed.com Dromma Mattress had one goal: design the most comfortable, eco-friendly memory foam bed ever made, fit it in a box, and sell it for under $1,000. And guys, they nailed it. *6.9 SECONDS Guy Learns The Tablecloth Trick In 7 Seconds* digg.com YouTuber Mike Boyd typically makes videos of himself slowly learning to do something impressive over time. But apparently learning the famous tablecloth trick takes a little less time than it does to learn to ride a unicycle. WE'RE SATISFIED, BUT ALSO HUNGRY This Ice Cream Cake Machine Is Mesmerizing digg.com How are Viennetta ice cream cakes assembled? With this awesome ice cream-extruding, chocolate sauce-drizzling contraption. YOU'RE DOING YOUR BEST, WE KNOW Dividing By Zero On A Mechanical Calculator Is A Good Way To Break That Calculator digg.com If you punch in "3 / 0" into your TI-84, you'll just get an "Error" message. If you do it with a mechanical calculator? Thing loses its mind. Get more stories on Digg.com TWO HALVES MAKE US WHOLE Guy slices a bunch of stuff in half with a water cutter, with some very cool results. Credit: Digg Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge Street, 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10002

Start-Up Culture Is Not For Middle-Aged Men, And Other Facts

Start-Up Culture Is Not For Middle-Aged Men, How Space Archaeology May Have Helped Find North America's Second Viking Site, Trying To Rebuild Credit Or Establish History? Allow Us To Hook You Up, Donald Trump's Republic Of Fear Is Here To Stay, How To Make Six Figures On Snapchat, VIDEO: The Greatest (Pre-Murder) Movie One-Liners The Daily Digg Friday, April 1, 2016 WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Start-Up Culture Is Not For Middle-Aged Men digg.com Welcome To What We Learned This Week, a digest of the week's most curiously important facts. This week: start-up culture is hell if you're old, it really pays to be in real estate and mechanical calculators do not like dividing by zero. AN ARCHAEOLOGIST'S VALHALLA How Space Archaeology May Have Helped Find North America's Second Viking Site news.nationalgeographic.com Guided by ancient Norse sagas and modern satellite images, searchers discover what may be North America's second Viking site. CREDIT BUILDING WE DIGG SPONSORED Trying To Rebuild Credit Or Establish History? Allow Us To Hook You Up selflender.com Self Lender gives you your free credit score, credit monitoring and the opportunity to apply for a credit builder loan. Yep, go ahead and sign us up. A BIG BULLY ENABLING LITTLE BULLIES Donald Trump's Republic Of Fear Is Here To Stay newrepublic.com Donald Trump has already transformed American culture. Even if he loses the election, Trumpism is here to stay. A SNAPCHAT OF SUCCESS How To Make Six Figures On Snapchat techinsider.io You can't exactly "go viral" on Snapchat since there's virtually no method of user discovery. But these creative minds have still managed to find success on the app, and make a lot of money doing it. 'WELL, DO YA, PUNK?' VIDEO: The Greatest (Pre-Murder) Movie One-Liners digg.com Nothing's more satisfying than watching the hero — or, sometimes, the villain — utter a truly badass line before they kill their opponent. Get more stories on Digg.com MARS: THE BLUE PLANET The best space images from March all in one place. Credit: Digg 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