Marvel's Real-Life Lex Luthor

How Marvel Became The Envy (And Scourge) Of Hollywood, 10 Bar Bets You'll Always Win, What We Learned This Week, The 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Trailer Is Here, This Is What Happens When You Ask Contemporary Artists To Reimagine Maps Of The World, First Day Of Terror The Daily Digg Friday, July 25, 2014 HEROS OR VILLIANS? How Marvel Became The Envy (And Scourge) Of Hollywood hollywoodreporter.com Ike Perlmutter has become one of the town's most feared (and frugal) moguls. Now, as "Guardians of the Galaxy" takes the $6 billion-grossing brand in a new and risky direction, insiders open up about the never-seen executive's ironfisted style and the underside of a superhero empire. AKA HOW TO SCAM MONEY OFF YOUR FRIENDS 10 Bar Bets You'll Always Win digg.com You might win these bets, but depending on your watering hole of choice, you might get your smarmy ass tossed out on the curb too. DIGG PICKS What We Learned This Week digg.com This week we learned Vegas is changing blackjack, why sleeping in doesn't work and that New York is the unhappiest city in America. Ok, we probably could have guessed that last one. SUITABLE FOR WORK The 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Trailer Is Here digg.com We know you've been waiting for this with bated breath. PUTTING THE 'ART' IN CARTOGRAPHER This Is What Happens When You Ask Contemporary Artists To Reimagine Maps Of The World huffingtonpost.com From renderings of the physical world to abstract images that attempt to navigate the spaces inside our minds, the stunning visualizations turn scientific data and condensed topography into contemporary artworks. OIL BARONS STARE DOWN BARREL OF A GUN First Day Of Terror theappendix.net As six casually dressed young people carrying black Adidas bags turned the corner and began to approach the building, the oil ministers from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Libya, and Algeria had begun another round of discussions about the price of oil. Their meetings had been headline material for over two years, since October 1973. Read more on Digg.com → WHY DON'T ALL MUSEUMS ALLOW NAPPING? A visitor takes a nap on a couch at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, in Tokyo. What a fine idea. Credit: AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

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How A Solar Storm Nearly Destroyed Life As We Know It Two Years Ago, Sign Up For Digg's Video Email, The Fascinating Story Of The Inventor Of The High Five, This Is What A Silencer On A Shotgun Sounds Like, No, Your Air Conditioner Isn't Broken, Derailed On The Death Train The Daily Digg Thursday, July 24, 2014 'WE WOULD STILL BE PICKING UP THE PIECES' How A Solar Storm Nearly Destroyed Life As We Know It Two Years Ago washingtonpost.com On July 23, 2012, the sun unleashed two massive clouds of plasma that barely missed a catastrophic encounter with the Earth's atmosphere. EMAILS WE DIGG Sign Up For Digg's Video Email digg.com We watch a lot of videos. Like, way too many. Let us leave the good eggs in your inbox every day so you're never late to the content party. Because there's no party like content party, right? Right? FIST BUMP INVENTOR LESS INTERESTING The Fascinating Story Of The Inventor Of The High Five priceonomics.com When a professional baseball player popularized the high five in the 1970s, his story revealed much more important contributions. SORT OF LIKE A HOLE PUNCH? This Is What A Silencer On A Shotgun Sounds Like digg.com Bugs Bunny might have been in a lot fewer "Looney Tunes" episodes if this had been invented back then. DIGG DIY No, Your Air Conditioner Isn't Broken digg.com ​It's that time of year again. The time when you come home, turn on your AC, strip off all your clothes, collapse on some soft surface and wait for that cool, comforting breeze to wash over you. But it doesn't. Ugh. Is your air conditioning broken? Chances are, it's not. CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE Derailed On The Death Train foreignpolicy.com For every Central American migrant who makes it to the U.S. border, countless others are stuck in the purgatory of Mexico City on the long journey north. Read more on Digg.com → OH HAI In this July 10, 2014 photo, a rescued horse peeks out of a stable at the Red Bucket Equine Rescue in Chino Hills, Calif. Almost every horse rescue in the country is running out of room or money as they continue to be strained by an influx of abandoned equines, a trend that began during the recession. When the barns are at capacity and rescue owners can't take in more animals, they will network to try to find an empty stall at another rescue, a foster home or with a potential adopter. Credit: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

It's All About Timing

The Secrets Of NYC Real Estate Agents, A Day In The Life Of A Watchmaker, The Only Way To Hear What You Want, America's Favorite 'Star Wars' Movies (And Least Favorite Characters), There's A Swarm Of Flies So Enormous It Shows Up On Radar, Why You Shouldn't Ride On The Back Of A Grocery Cart The Daily Digg Wednesday, July 23, 2014 'ALL APARTMENTS ARE BASICALLY FOUR WALLS' The Secrets Of NYC Real Estate Agents theguardian.com There's a moment in almost every hunt for an apartment — usually just after the agent assures you the shoebox you're looking at is "massive space for the money!" — when you come to suspect the employee is reciting this from some sort of manual. Guess what? They are. ALL ABOUT TIMING A Day In The Life Of A Watchmaker digg.com Sure we all have phones that tell us the time, but this actually makes us want to own a watch. HEADPHONES WE DIGG SPONSORED The Only Way To Hear What You Want gradolabs.com Listen up! If you take sound seriously, you want Grado headphones. Hand-made in Brooklyn and founded in 1953, they're the choice of music lovers, sound professionals, and several Digg employees — the smart ones, anyway. THE FORCE IS STRONG WITH THIS CONTENT America's Favorite 'Star Wars' Movies (And Least Favorite Characters) fivethirtyeight.com How many people are "Star Wars" fans? Does the rest of America realize that "The Empire Strikes Back" is clearly the best of the bunch? Which characters are most well-liked and most hated? And who shot first, Han Solo or Greedo? EXCUSE US WHILE WE RUN AWAY SCREAMING There's A Swarm Of Flies So Enormous It Shows Up On Radar businessinsider.com Once a year, the bugs emerge — millions of them. RUSSIAN DASHCAM CAPTURES CART ACCIDENT Why You Shouldn't Ride On The Back Of A Grocery Cart digg.com Let this man's humiliation be a lesson to you. Read more on Digg.com → THAT'S NOT HOW YOU KILL SMOG China opened its military academy to local and foreign media Tuesday displaying their weaponry, rolling tanks, bayonet drills and dancing robots at their base. Credit: AP Photo/Andy Wong Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The Best Time To Lose Your Virginity

Don't Send Your Kid To The Ivy League, The Gratuitous Injustice Of American Tipping Culture, Digg In A Box Is Finally Here, Losing Your Virginity: A Better Experience Now Than 20 Years Ago, The New Yorker Opened Its Archive — Here's Where To Start, This Illusionist Will Eventually Guess Your Card — We Promise The Daily Digg Tuesday, July 22, 2014 AN EDUCATED OPINION Don't Send Your Kid To The Ivy League newrepublic.com The nation's top colleges are turning our kids into zombies. THE TIPPING POINT The Gratuitous Injustice Of American Tipping Culture kitchenette.jezebel.com No matter where you go and who you talk to, it seems like everyone hates America's tipping culture. Finding someone who thinks our current system is just fine and dandy is more difficult than keeping track of which Kardashian is which. BOXES WE DIGG Digg In A Box Is Finally Here quarterly.co Do you like Digg? Of course you do, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this. Well now you can get the same kind of great, weird and curious stuff you find on Digg but in real life, delivered right to your door. We don't know what you'll be getting yet, but rest assured it'll be really cool. And if you use the code "DIB5OFF" it'll be really cool for $5 less. What could go wrong? EVERYTHING'S BETTER WHEN YOU'RE A MILLENIAL Losing Your Virginity: A Better Experience Now Than 20 Years Ago esquire.com Back in your day, sex was guilty and uncomfortable and anxiety-ridden. But the kids are realizing that it doesn't have to be that way. DÏGG PÏCKS The New Yorker Opened Its Archive — Here's Where To Start digg.com In case you haven't heard, America's favorite magazine to carry in public has pulled a Willy Wonka and opened up its robust archive to the general public. But where to begin? IT'S LIKE THERE'S A SIGN ON HIS BACK This Illusionist Will Eventually Guess Your Card — We Promise digg.com Illusionist Eric Leclerc needs only a deck of playing cards to make you believe in mind reading, or at least in the power of probability. Read more on Digg.com → FLATLINERS Taiwan Marine Corps "Frog Men" display stretching routines during a tour at the naval base in Zuoying, southern Taiwan. Credit: AP Images: Wally Santana Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Screening A Screen

If You Like This Email, You'll Like Digg Deeper, My Uber Got Pulled Over By The Denver Police — And Then Things Got Really Weird, Alleged iPhone 6 Screen Gets The Sandpaper Test, The Little Girl Who May Hold The Secret To Aging, The Russian Public Has A Totally Different Understanding Of What Happened To Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, What You Missed This Weekend The Daily Digg Monday, July 21, 2014 YOU SHOULD DO THIS If You Like This Email, You'll Like Digg Deeper digg.com Want even more of the most compelling and talked about stories and videos? Of course you do — they're compelling. Well our new Digg Deeper feature delivers the same great stuff you've come to know and love from us but faster and more personalized. You should really give it a try. When have we ever steered you wrong? TAPPED IN THE ROCKIES My Uber Got Pulled Over By The Denver Police — And Then Things Got Really Weird geekwire.com Colorado is the self-described "vanguard" of innovation. But that's not really how it felt to me on Friday after the Denver police stopped the UberX I was riding in. Here's the full story, with all of the bizarre twists and turns. THERE'S THE RUB Alleged iPhone 6 Screen Gets The Sandpaper Test digg.com Seems as though the screen isn't pure sapphire, but it's a great deal tougher than the 5S's screen. THE DNA OF YOUTH The Little Girl Who May Hold The Secret To Aging macleans.ca Mackenzee Wittke, a five-year-old Alberta girl with the body of an infant, might just hold the genetic key to how we age. BENGHAZI HAS NOTHING ON THIS The Russian Public Has A Totally Different Understanding Of What Happened To Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 newrepublic.com Did you know Malaysia Air Flight 17 was full of corpses when it took off from Amsterdam? Did you know that the crash of MH17 was all part of an American conspiracy to provoke a big war with Russia? Well, it's all true — at least if you live in Russia, because this is the Malaysia Airlines crash story that you'd be seeing. DIGG PICKS What You Missed This Weekend digg.com Fighting in Gaza, confusion in Ukraine, and a broken World Cup trophy. Read more on Digg.com → HOW DO YOU EVEN TAKE A PHOTO LIKE THIS? Williams driver Felipe Massa of Brazil crashes in the first curve of the German Formula One Grand Prix in Hockenheim, Germany, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Petr David Josek Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014