Must Be A Killing Joke

Ohio Man Declared Dead Comes Back To Life, Ben Affleck To Play Batman, How To Renounce Your Citizenship, The Man Who Invented Modern Probability, These Patterns Move, But It's All An Illusion The Daily Digg Friday, August 23, 2013 HE'S ALIVE! Ohio Man Declared Dead Comes Back To Life abcnews.go.com When 17-year-old Lawrence Yahle learned his father was dead earlier this month at Kettering Medical Center in Ohio, he ran down the hall to see nurses around his father's body. They weren't trying to revive him anymore. Distraught, Lawrence pointed and shouted, "Dad, you're not going to die today." NO JOKE Ben Affleck To Play Batman hollywoodreporter.com Ben Affleck will join Henry Cavill in the Warner Bros. "Man of Steel" sequel. THIS ONE'S FOR YOU, TED CRUZ How To Renounce Your Citizenship news.nationalgeographic.com The rules of renunciation in Canada, U.S., Russia, France, and Japan. HERO OF THE UNLIKELY The Man Who Invented Modern Probability nautil.us If two statisticians were to lose each other in an infinite forest, the first thing they would do is get drunk. That way, they would walk more or less randomly, which would give them the best chance of finding each other. The "drunkard's walk" theory is one of the many significant contributions Andrei Kolmogorov made to modern mathematics. SEEING IS BELIEVING These Patterns Move, But It's All An Illusion blogs.smithsonianmag.com What happens when your eyes and brain don't agree? Read more on Digg.com → SOMEONE GET THIS ORANGUTAN A SNUGGIE An orangutan covers itself with a blanket during winter time at the Rio de Janeiro Zoo in Brazil. Credit: YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Humanity Is Getting Close To Extinction

A Convicted Murderer's Case For Gun Control, The Inevitable Trayvon Martin 'Law & Order' Episode Is Filming, You're Cutting Tomatoes Wrong, Humanity Is Getting Close To Extinction, How Consciousness Works And Why We Believe In Ghosts The Daily Digg Thursday, August 22, 2013 STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH A Convicted Murderer's Case For Gun Control theatlantic.com Why a man serving 28 years to life at the Attica Correctional Facility believes a few simple laws could significantly affect criminal behavior. LOOKS LIKE SVU GOT THE CASE The Inevitable Trayvon Martin 'Law & Order' Episode Is Filming dailymail.co.uk It is the story that divided a nation. And now "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" is to examine the Trayvon Martin case in an upcoming episode. PROBABLY COOKING THEM WRONG TOO You're Cutting Tomatoes Wrong slate.com Learn how to avoid flesh wounds and see-splattered clothes. A DANGER TO OURSELVES AND OTHERS Humanity Is Getting Close To Extinction vice.com We've had a good run, but the Near Term Extinction movement and others are saying that it's pretty much over for humans. HOW THE LIGHT GETS OUT How Consciousness Works And Why We Believe In Ghosts aeonmagazine.com Consciousness is the 'hard problem', the mystery that confounds scientists and philosophers. Has a new theory cracked it? Read more on Digg.com → FANTASTIC FAT FROG An African Bullfrog is placed on a weighing scale during the London Zoo's annual weigh-in in London on August 21, 2013. The task involves weighing and measuring the population of the zoo, before the information is shared with zoos across the world, allowing them to compare data on thousands of endangered species. Credit: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Pee Whiz

The Horror Of North Korean Prison Camps Exposed, The Science Behind Historic Uses Of Urine, The GOP Plan To Crush Silicon Valley, Behind The Most Brilliant Deception Of World War II, The Wretched Google Interview Experience The Daily Digg Wednesday, August 21, 2013 TALES FROM CAMP 14 The Horror Of North Korean Prison Camps Exposed reuters.com Public executions and torture are daily occurrences in North Korea's prisons, according to dramatic testimony from former inmates at a U.N. Commission of Inquiry that opened in South Korea's capital on Tuesday. FROM GUN POWDER TO TEETH WHITENER The Science Behind Historic Uses Of Urine blogs.smithsonianmag.com The saying goes that one person's waste is another's treasure. For those scientists who study urine the saying is quite literal – pee is a treasure-trove of scientific potential. KILLING STEVE JOBS' ANGEL The GOP Plan To Crush Silicon Valley newrepublic.com When House Republicans start looking for places to trim the budget there's one place they'll likely focus their attention – science and technology. OUTFOXING BEATS OUTGUNNING Behind The Most Brilliant Deception Of World War II foreignpolicy.com It all starts with a briefcase seeded with sensitive papers chained to the wrist of a dead man carefully selected from a British morgue, dressed as a Royal Marine, and taken by submarine and floated ashore on the coast of Spain where Nazi spies were known to have links to local officials. THE GOOGLE GAUNTLET The Wretched Google Interview Experience symbo1ics.com I would like to describe my experience interviewing with Google, and specifically outline why I thought the experience was poor by way of telling my story. Read more on Digg.com → SOMEONE PHOTOSHOP AN OBAMA 'STACHE ASAP US President Barack Obama mimics a mustache while joking about the hair styles of the 1970s during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House August 20, 2013 in Washington, DC. Obama was joined by members of the 1972 Miami Dolphins to celebrate the Super Bowl win against the Washington Redskins in 1973. Credit: TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKIBRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

When A Building Implodes

This Is What It Looks Like When A Building Implodes, Stunning Aerial Tour Of The Arctic, You Can Only Take So Many Long Walks On The Beach, Shark Swallowed Whole By Even Bigger Shark, The Rise Of Minimalist Sex Apps The Daily Digg Tuesday, August 20, 2013 SUCH CONTROL This Is What It Looks Like When A Building Implodes io9.com You hear the phrase "implode" all the time, but what does it really mean? Now you can find out, in this video of a Cal State Hayward building being neatly demolished over the weekend. MORE THAN SNOW Stunning Aerial Tour Of The Arctic universetoday.com Enjoy this tour of the Arctic and Greenland, courtesy of the pilots of IceBridge, a six-year NASA mission to survey the ice at both of Earth's poles. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED You Can Only Take So Many Long Walks On The Beach howaboutwe.com Nobody ever blew their date away with just dinner and a movie. Here's how to do better. IT'S A SHARK EAT SHARK WORLD Shark Swallowed Whole By Even Bigger Shark nbcnews.com Do you really even care about the story behind this? Just click to see a bigger version of the photo. NO-FRILL THRILLS The Rise Of Minimalist Sex Apps nymag.com In January of last year, Roman Sidorenko and Alexander Kukhtenko had an idea to break their sexual dry spells the way they solved many of their other problems: with an app. Read more on Digg.com → THE SPLIT-SECOND THERE WASN'T FOG The San Francisco skyline is seen behind one of Oracle Team USA's AC72s during a practice run in San Francisco, California on August 18, 2013. Credit: JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The iPhone Is Going Gold

The Next iPhone Is Going Gold, Old Spice Needs To Hire This 11-Year-Old Inventor, Stat, The 20 Cities Most Vulnerable To Flooding, The Best Love Story You'll Read Today, A History Of Beards In The Workplace The Daily Digg Monday, August 19, 2013 GOLDFINGER The Next iPhone Is Going Gold techcrunch.com "Gold? All over?" M asks James Bond upon hearing how Jill Masterson died in 1964′s Goldfinger. While Bond goes on to explain that the gold coating on Ms. Masterson caused her to die of "skin suffocation", the same fate will not befall the next iPhone. But only because the iPhone will not require oxygen. Yes, there will be a gold iPhone. ROCKY FOR YOUR ARMPITS Old Spice Needs To Hire This 11-Year-Old Inventor, Stat dailydot.com You rush up to the bathroom, crack open the medicine cabinet, and grab your stick of Old Spice. You pop the cap off, and all of a sudden the theme from Rocky begins to play. This scenario has become a reality thanks to 11-year-old inventor Quinn Sheeran. EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST LUCK OUT The 20 Cities Most Vulnerable To Flooding livescience.com Researchers have just figured out which cities across the globe face the highest risk from coastal flooding. BETTER THAN FICTION The Best Love Story You'll Read Today nytimes.com In 1978, Gay Cioffi and Mark Obenhaus had a summer fling in the Hamptons then lost touch. In 2012, they reconnected on Facebook and were married Aug. 3. TO SHAVE OR NOT TO SHAVE A History Of Beards In The Workplace bbc.co.uk Why do people feel so strongly about beards? Read more on Digg.com → DROP ZONE A soldier is dropped from the 250 foot tower with a T-10 Parachute during Airborne School at Fort Benning. Airborne School consists of three weeks of training, ground week, tower week, and jump week. Credit: Ashley Cross/U.S. Army Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Screenless

Hope you've been enjoying The Daily Digg! Let us know what you think, and feel free to unsubscribe at any time. -The Digg Team The Daily Digg Friday, August 16, 2013 TEST CASE The Real Cure For AIDS newrepublic.com The new case for universal HIV screening. OK COMPUTER Google Is Preparing For Screenless Computers qz.com The spread of computing to every corner of our physical world doesn't just mean a proliferation of screens large and small—it also means we'll soon come to rely on mobile computers with no screens at all. DRINKING OUT OF THE BOTTLE IS NOW CLASSY Turn Your Beer Bottles Into Glass Cups In 5 Easy Steps seriouslyforreal.com Glassware can get pretty expensive especially if you're in college and always getting sh*t faced and breaking your glasses. Start just using your empty beer bottles and turning them into your new glasses. SURVIVOR The Girl Who Wouldn't Die theweek.com Christina Martinez's moonlit ride through L.A. went horribly, violently bad. But she lived to tell the tale. AREA 51 IS REAL The Secret History Of The U-2 foreignpolicy.com A just-released CIA report pulls the covers off America's most famous spy plane -- and Area 51. Read more on Digg.com → CALL CHILD SERVICES... TWICE Twins pose during the 20th edition of the Fete des Jumeaux (Festival of Twins), a gathering of twins, triplets and quadruplets, in Pleucadeuc, western of France on August 15, 2013. Credit: FRED TANNEAU/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014