Strange Brew

Saving Coffee From Extinction, This Is What It's Like To Have Your Life Stolen By A Woman Who Doesn't Exist, Stop Buying Expensive Wine, And Other News, The Secret To Vacationing In The World's 'Most Dangerous' Places, VIDEO: Hula-Hooping Shadow Boxer Provides The Entertainment NASCAR Races Sorely Lack, In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is In Demand The Daily Digg Monday, May 25, 2015 BEAN NICE KNOWING YOU Saving Coffee From Extinction bbc.com Two billion cups of coffee are drunk around the world every day and 25 million families rely on growing coffee for a living. Over the past 15 years, consumption of the drink has risen by 43% — but researchers are warning that the world's most popular coffee, Arabica, is under threat. SHE'S NOT ALL THERE This Is What It's Like To Have Your Life Stolen By A Woman Who Doesn't Exist buzzfeed.com Leah Palmer was a high-flying fashionista with a jet-setting lifestyle and a host of admirers on social media. But her entire existence was a fraud — a multi-year hoax that depended on stealing someone else's life. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND Stop Buying Expensive Wine, And Other News digg.com Cheap wine is all you need, dogs have been our friends longer than we thought and this whirlpool is very hungry. ADVENTURE CAPITALS The Secret To Vacationing In The World's 'Most Dangerous' Places kernelmag.dailydot.com Vacation in Somalia. Really. It's amazing. HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY! VIDEO: Hula-Hooping Shadow Boxer Provides The Entertainment NASCAR Races Sorely Lack digg.com The cars zipping by do provide a great backdrop though. VALLEYGAG In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is In Demand nytimes.com "It just removes food completely from my morning equation up until about 7 p.m." Get more stories on Digg.com → THE THIRST IS REAL A two month-old Black Howler Monkey named Gael by the zoo staff, is nursed in the Rescue Center at a National Zoo of Managua, Nicaragua, Sunday, May, 24, 2015. The monkey was rescued by hunters before being brought to the center. Credit: AP Photo/Esteban Felix 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

This Week's Best Videos: Catchers, Cramps and Chabbernaggles

Delta Made 'The Internetest Safety Video On The Internet', We've Found Harry Shearer's Replacement For 'The Simpsons', Organized Crime And The Japanese Right Wing, Smooth Batter Catches Ball That Hit Him, Tosses It Back To Pitcher Like It's No Big Deal, Say 'Hebbo!' To Tarvuism, This Is The Worst Cramp Of All Time Or There's A Bunch Of Worms Under This Dude's Skin The Daily Digg Sunday, May 24, 2015 WE GOT MEMED Delta Made 'The Internetest Safety Video On The Internet' digg.com Meme-morial Day weekend came early this year. 'THEY'RE SAYING BOO-URNS' We've Found Harry Shearer's Replacement For 'The Simpsons' digg.com Brock Baker does impressions, and apart from Principal Skinner he seems to have mastered the Shearer repertoire. THE TATTOOED MAN IN THE VAN Organized Crime And The Japanese Right Wing digg.com "Uyoku dantai" are Japanese nationalist right-wing groups of which there are over 1,000 in Japan with about 100,000 members in total. VICE caught up with Masaya Kudo, a Right-Wing activist and leader of his own group, "Nihon-no-Kai" as he explained his philosophies and concerns regarding the Right-Wing movement today and their ties to the Yakuza. BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME Smooth Batter Catches Ball That Hit Him, Tosses It Back To Pitcher Like It's No Big Deal digg.com Eh-hem... Sir? I believe this belongs to you. Perhaps you should watch where you're throwing. #TBT Say 'Hebbo!' To Tarvuism digg.com In the way back year of 2008 someone made up a joke religion called Tarvuism. What is it? We have no idea. All we know is that it's so easy to join. THE HUMAN BODY WAS NOT MEANT TO 'BUBBLE' This Is The Worst Cramp Of All Time Or There's A Bunch Of Worms Under This Dude's Skin digg.com This has to be some viral marketing for a new "Alien" movie right? Get more stories on Digg.com → TENDER, IT'S HOW PEOPLE MEAT Tender is the easy way to connect with new and interesting meat around you. Who knows, you might even find your soulmeat. Credit: Marcello Gómez Maureira 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

It's Okay To Be A Jerk

A Nice Afternoon With The Women Of New Orleans' Trans Veterans Support Group, Why You Should Be A Jerk And Other Facts, Does Color Exist?, Your Contribution To The California Drought, VIDEO: This Cactus Bloomed In Two Days, You Can Watch It Happen In Twenty Seconds, Could The Skyscrapers Of The Future Be Made Out Of Wood? The Daily Digg Friday, May 22, 2015 'WE LEARNED TOGETHER' A Nice Afternoon With The Women Of New Orleans' Trans Veterans Support Group buzzfeed.com Though transgender people are still barred from openly serving in the military, a small but increasingly visible population of veterans are demanding health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs — and getting it. WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Why You Should Be A Jerk And Other Facts digg.com This week we learned that sometimes you need to be a bully to get ahead, the Navy has a big frickin' railgun now and raindrops are impossible. HOW CAN COLORS BE REAL IF OUR EYES AREN'T Does Color Exist? newrepublic.com What you see is only what you see. THE THIRST IS REAL Your Contribution To The California Drought nytimes.com The average American consumes more than 300 gallons of California water each week by eating food that was produced there. WHAT A BUDDING TALENT VIDEO: This Cactus Bloomed In Two Days, You Can Watch It Happen In Twenty Seconds digg.com Kind of looks like it's waking up and stretching out. ABOVE THE TREE TOPS Could The Skyscrapers Of The Future Be Made Out Of Wood? digg.com Until recently, the potential for using timber in towers was very limited. But new advances could help take wooden architecture to the next level, literally. Get more stories on Digg.com → PHONER ECLIPSE A man uses his mobile phone to photograph a circular sun halo in Mexico City, Thursday, May 21, 2015. The ring around the sun is a fairly common weather phenomenon caused by ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. Credit: AP Photo/Marco Ugarte 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

Find Ye Olde Chill

Ecuador's President Does All His Own Tweets, Three Things You Should Read This Week, Box Of Awesome? Yes, Please., 1776: The Revolt Against Austerity, Machine-Learning Algorithm Mines Rap Lyrics, Then Writes Its Own, VIDEO: Meet Conrad, The Engineer Who Keeps Pratt Institute Running The Daily Digg Thursday, May 21, 2015 AND FIGHTS TROLLS Ecuador's President Does All His Own Tweets digg.com In Latin America, Twitter offers a direct line to heads of state. And no Latin American President president is more engaged online than Rafael Correa. RATS, DRUGS AND GENITALS Three Things You Should Read This Week digg.com ​In this week's edition of the Long-Reader's Digest: The fall of Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road drug market, a history of the clitoris and humanity's war against rats. BOXES WE DIGG SPONSORED Box Of Awesome? Yes, Please. bespokepost.com Bespoke Post is like having Don Draper on speed dial. They pack up a themed box that is delivered right to your doorstep each month. You can skip any box, cancel anytime, and now you can get your first box for 25% off. Awesome indeed. FIND YE CHILL 1776: The Revolt Against Austerity nybooks.com What made the Declaration of Independence so offensive to British politicians then, and what makes it highly relevant to Europeans and Americans today, is that America's founders offered a blueprint for a different kind of state response to fiscal crisis. RAP GENIUS Machine-Learning Algorithm Mines Rap Lyrics, Then Writes Its Own technologyreview.com An automated rap-generating algorithm pushes the boundaries of machine creativity, say computer scientists. 'CONRAD AND THE STEAMPLANT' VIDEO: Meet Conrad, The Engineer Who Keeps Pratt Institute Running digg.com Conrad Milster, Pratt Institute's chief engineer, has worked in the Brooklyn power plant nearly his entire adult life. Starting as a mechanic in 1958, he later became one of only four chief engineers in the plant's 127-year history, taking over the official duties in 1965. He's been there ever since. Get more stories on Digg.com → FLEE(T) WEEK A young boy runs off with a cadet's hat after the newly commissioned ensigns tossed them into the air at the conclusion at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's 134th Commencement Exercises during the closing procession, Wednesday, May 20, 2015, in New London, Conn. where President Barack Obama delivered the commencement address speaking on global warming. Credit: AP Photo/Stephan Savoia 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

It Pays To Be A Jerk

Why It Pays To Be A Jerk, How Terrorist Bounties Are Calculated, The Extreme Athlete Who Built A New Knee, Building A Private Titanic, The Second Job You Don't Know You Have, VIDEO: This Is A Plate And It Is Also A Bowl The Daily Digg Wednesday, May 20, 2015 LEAN MEAN MONEY-MAKING MACHINE Why It Pays To Be A Jerk theatlantic.com Sneer at the customer. Keep your colleagues on edge. Claim credit. Speak first. Put your feet on the table. Withhold approval. Instill fear. Interrupt. Ask for more. And by all means, take that last doughnut. You deserve it. A TERRIBLE PRICE How Terrorist Bounties Are Calculated defenseone.com Osama Bin Laden had a $25 million prize on his head, and even that might have been undervalued. KNEED FOR SPEED The Extreme Athlete Who Built A New Knee digg.com When Brian Bartlett was 24 he was hit by a car from behind so hard it ripped his right leg off instantly. It all happened so fast. THAT'S MY SHIP Building A Private Titanic hakaimagazine.com Engineers are struggling to keep up with demands from the megarich for ever-bigger megayachts. EVERYONE IS SELF-EMPLOYED The Second Job You Don't Know You Have politico.com How self-checkouts, ATMs and airport check-ins are changing our economy. BOWL, NOT FOR SOUP VIDEO: This Is A Plate And It Is Also A Bowl digg.com But it's so beautifully made you shouldn't use it for either of those things. Just admire it. And watch it transform. Get more stories on Digg.com → ACTING TROOP Indonesian men dressed as "stormtroopers" from the movie "Star Wars", take a break between performances during a promotional event at a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Stormtroopers are fictional soldiers from the epic film series Credit: AP Photo/Dita Alangkara 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