The Modern Pirates Of The Caribbean

China's Epic Offshore Wealth Revealed, 'I Am A Gigolo', What Should You Read?, Arnold Schwarzenegger Puts On Mustache, Surprises People At The Gym, Snowden Calls Russian Spy Story 'Absurd' The Daily Digg Wednesday, January 22, 2014 MODERN PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN China's Epic Offshore Wealth Revealed zerohedge.com How Chinese oligarchs quietly parked up to $4 trillion in the Caribbean. NOT NAMED 'DEUCE BIGELOW' 'I Am A Gigolo' xojane.com In terms of therapeutic value, a great escort beats a psychologist any day of the week. When was the last time your shrink held you in their arms? APPS WE LIKE SPONSORED What Should You Read? itunes.apple.com The world is filled with millions of great stories, but let's face it: it's hard to find a moment to read even one. Storyville makes sure you spend your precious reading time with only the best, award-winning work. 'WHAT DOES A KEY CARD MEAN?' Arnold Schwarzenegger Puts On Mustache, Surprises People At The Gym digg.com "You look pretty pumped up." 'CLEARLY FALSE' Snowden Calls Russian Spy Story 'Absurd' newyorker.com Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor turned whistleblower, strongly denies allegations made by members of Congress that he was acting as a spy, perhaps for a foreign power, when he took hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. government documents. Read more on Digg.com → QUICKER THAN TAKING THE BUS A woman carries cross-country skies along 86th Street on the Upper East Side after returning from skiing in Central Park as a winter storm brings frigid temperatures and heavy snowfall to New York, NY, on January 21, 2014. The storm is expected to bring up to 14 inches of snow in parts of the five boroughs, wind gusts up to 30 MPH and freezing temperatures that are expected to be in the single digits overnight. Credit: Anthony Behar/Sipa USA/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

How Toilet Paper Explains The World

Bill Simmons Apologizes, Explains How The Dr. V Story Came To Be Published, How Toilet Paper Explains The World, Click Here If You're Bored At Work (We Won't Tell), The Cure For Snoring Is... Singing?, A Call To My Childhood Rapist Teacher The Daily Digg Tuesday, January 21, 2014 BREAKING THE SILENCE Bill Simmons Apologizes, Explains How The Dr. V Story Came To Be Published grantland.com I don't remember the exact moment when I realized that we definitely screwed up, but it happened sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning. THE WHOLE WIPE WORLD How Toilet Paper Explains The World washingtonpost.com A country's most popular hygiene product has a lot to do with its demographics. 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. THE ONLY LULLABY THAT WORKS The Cure For Snoring Is... Singing? smithsonianmag.com Choir director Alise Ojay's vocal exercises have been shown to work throat muscles that help silence the snorer within. UPSETTING MATERIAL A Call To My Childhood Rapist Teacher digg.com "I am 28 years old and have been waiting years to get up enough courage to report a teacher for sexually abusing me for years. When I finally got up enough courage to report her, I found out that the statute of limitations was up and she will never have to pay for the things that she did to me. I decided to call her and make a video to let the public know what kind of person is around their children." Read more on Digg.com → THESE KIDS NEVER SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF Kindergarten children use towels after a workout in a playground at Tokyo's Mizuho kindergarten on January 20, 2014, on the day of Daikan, which is believed to be Japan's coldest day of the year. Some 500 children at the kindergarten play and exercise without shirts every day of the year to keep healthy. Credit: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Scoop, Dump, Repeat

Our Toxicity Experiment In West Virginia, Famous Movie Quotes As Charts, Beach Awash In Bioluminescent Phytoplankton Looks Like An Ocean Of Stars, How Firefighting Planes Refill On The Go, Heroin Gains A Deadly Foothold In Vermont The Daily Digg Monday, January 20, 2014 'AN UNKNOWN THREAT' Our Toxicity Experiment In West Virginia wired.com There's nothing like realizing that our regulators and our corporations rely on semi-educated guesses, dependence on corporate testing of chemical compounds, and squeaking by on the lucky chance to make me feel safer. And I'm sure the residents of West Virginia – this month's guinea pigs in our national toxicity experiments- feel safer too. WHAT CAN'T YOU CHART? Famous Movie Quotes As Charts flowingdata.com This will easily make the best charts of the year chart. YOUR NEW BACKGROUND PHOTO Beach Awash In Bioluminescent Phytoplankton Looks Like An Ocean Of Stars thisiscolossal.com While vacationing on the Maldives Islands, Taiwanese photographer Will Ho stumbled onto an incredible stretch of beach covered in millions of bioluminescent phytoplankton. SCOOP, DUMP, REPEAT How Firefighting Planes Refill On The Go digg.com Watch as two firefighting planes steal water from a lake. THE PERFECT APRES SKI DRUG Heroin Gains A Deadly Foothold In Vermont bostonglobe.com A flood of cheap heroin has thrust Vermont, land of green hills and sweet vistas, into an addiction crisis, a grave threat to younger residents and to a way of life. Read more on Digg.com → SOAK OF THE YEAR Japanese macaque monkeys, known as "snow monkeys," take an open-air hot spring bath at the Jigokudani Monkey Park in the town of Yamanouchi, Nagano prefecture on January 19, 2014. Credit: KIMIMASA MAYAMA/EPA/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Wing Walking On Sunshine

America's Secret War In 134 Countries, This Guy Animated Classic Paintings And The Results Are F*cking Beautiful, 'Blackfish' And The Weird Path To Popularity, The History Of Pop Music, According To Google, Stopping The Next Financial Crash Is An Impossible Dream The Daily Digg Friday, January 17, 2014 THE SPECIAL OPS SURGE America's Secret War In 134 Countries tomdispatch.com All over the planet, the Obama administration is waging a secret war whose full extent has never been fully revealed–until now. TRUST US, THIS IS WORTH YOUR TIME This Guy Animated Classic Paintings And The Results Are F*cking Beautiful digg.com Using the 2.5D effect, Rino Stefano Tagliafierro brought these paintings to life from Caravaggio to Reubens. HAVE YOU ACTUALLY WATCHED IT? 'Blackfish' And The Weird Path To Popularity psmag.com The documentary debuted a year ago, but no one started talking about it until late October. Except, how many people are actually talking about it? PINPOINT THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED The History Of Pop Music, According To Google theatlantic.com Google Play provides a dataset for interrogating the rise and fall of musical artists and genres. NOT THAT WE SHOULDN'T TRY Stopping The Next Financial Crash Is An Impossible Dream theweek.com Every boom needs a bust. Read more on Digg.com → WING WALKING ON SUNSHINE Breitling Wingwalkers display team perform during the opening of the Bahrain International Airshow 2014, in Sakhir, south of the capital Manama, on January 16, 2014. Credit: MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Is This Thing On?

Is This Thing On?, Hannibal Lecter Isn't A Psychopath, But You Might Be, The Most Violent Sport On Earth, The Incredible Underwater Art Of Competitve Aquascaping, The Dark Side Of The Truffel Trade The Daily Digg Thursday, January 16, 2014 WHY AUDIO NEVER GOES VIRAL Is This Thing On? digg.com With a community of creators uncomfortable with the value of virality, an audience content to watch grainy dashcam videos, and platforms that discourage sharing, is a hit-machine for audio possible? And is it something anyone even wants? VILLAINS GET A BAD RAP Hannibal Lecter Isn't A Psychopath, But You Might Be qz.com Some of the most famous psychopaths of the silver screen are anything but, according to an extensive analysis by forensic psychiatrist Samuel Leistedt. MODERN GLADIATORS The Most Violent Sport On Earth digg.com A mix, of rugby, soccer, american football, boxing, MMA and Greco Roman wrestling, Calcio Storico happens once a year in Florence, Italy. The 600-year-old sport is probably the most violent game you'll ever see. TAKING HOME THE GOLDFISH The Incredible Underwater Art Of Competitve Aquascaping thisiscolossal.com No, these aren't exactly your childhood goldfish bowls. The world of competitive aquarium design, or aquascaping, is just as difficult, expensive, and cutthroat as any other sport but requires expertise in many different fields to guarantee success. SNIFFING OUT CORRUPTION The Dark Side Of The Truffel Trade theatlantic.com Nighttime heists, Chinese knockoffs, and poisoned meatball-sabotage: the high-stakes pursuit of the world's most-prized fungus. Read more on Digg.com → OF COURSE HE'S LOOKING AT THE CAMERA Usain Bolt of Jamaica competes during the Men's 200m semi-final at the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships Moscow 2013 at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. Credit: ZUMA Press/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Your Clothes Are Soaked In Cocaine (If You're Lucky)

NSA Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers, China Is Cloning Pigs On An 'Industrial Scale', The House That Cocaine Built, Monopoly's Secret War Against The Third Reich, The Crumbling Ancient Texts That May Hold Life-Saving Cures The Daily Digg Wednesday, January 15, 2014 COVER YOUR LAPTOP IN TIN FOIL NSA Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers nytimes.com While most of the NSA's surveillance software is inserted by gaining access to computer networks, they have increasingly made use of a secret technology that enables it to enter and alter data in computers even if they are not connected to the Internet. CLONED IN CHINA China Is Cloning Pigs On An 'Industrial Scale' bbc.co.uk The cloning methods may not be novel - but the application of mass production is. HUFF AND PUFF AND BLOW IT DOWN The House That Cocaine Built vocativ.com An inside look of a Colombian cocaine lab that's sure to blow you away. END GAME Monopoly's Secret War Against The Third Reich eurogamer.net As the world burned, Britain was devoting serious time and ingenuity to keeping have-a-go-heroes stocked with gizmos and trinkets churned out by a plucky bunch of garden shed types. SOMEONE LAMINATE THESE, QUICK! The Crumbling Ancient Texts That May Hold Life-Saving Cures nautil.us A new malaria medicine may be needed in the near future if resistance to artemisinin grows. Perhaps a clue lies in the Timbuktu texts, but to find it, scholars and researchers must be able to study their pages. Read more on Digg.com → WITH A BANG AND A WHIMPER Egyptian policemen stand outside the court in the working class Imbaba neighbourhood of Cairo on January 14, 2014 after blast hit the building two hours before polls opened for Egyptians to vote on a new constitution. Credit: KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014