The History Of The Trapper Keeper

NASA Will Pay You To Stay In Bed For 70 Days, The History Of The Trapper Keeper, Why Do Smart People Believe In Astrology?, The Price Of Beer At Oktoberfest Completely Defies Economic Logic, How A Kids' Cartoon Created An Real-Life Invasive Army The Daily Digg Friday, September 20, 2013 GET PAID FOR BEING A WASTE OF SPACE NASA Will Pay You To Stay In Bed For 70 Days outsideonline.com Who says there's a job crisis in America? NASA is currently looking to pay a number of volunteers $18,000 to lie in bed for 70 days. USED TO BE THE TRAPPER PORTFOLIO The History Of The Trapper Keeper mentalfloss.com In the fall of 1981, second grader Mike Ryan was walking through the halls of his new school when he realized something terrible: He was the only kid without a Trapper Keeper. SIGNS OF IRRATIONALITY Why Do Smart People Believe In Astrology? psmag.com With little to no scientific evidence backing them, why do so many people still look at their horoscopes? TOO DRUNK TO NOTICE The Price Of Beer At Oktoberfest Completely Defies Economic Logic qz.com Beer is what economists call an elastic good; the more it costs, the less of it people buy. But at Oktoberfest, Germany's debaucherous annual beer festival in Munich, the rule doesn't exactly hold. In fact, it gets flipped on its head. ADORABLE MONSTERS How A Kids' Cartoon Created An Real-Life Invasive Army nautil.us Tales of monsters invading Japan are a longstanding tradition. At this very moment, the country is engaged in just such a war, with an entire army of invasive creatures, but they're both less fearsome and more adorable than Godzilla or Mothra. Read more on Digg.com → BEER HALL, BEFORE THE BEER Employees sit in an empty beer tent as preparations are under way for the Oktoberfest beer festival at the Theresienwiese fair grounds in Munich, southern Germany. This year's edition of the world's biggest beer festival will open on September 21 and runs until October 6, 2013. Credit: CHRISTOF STACHE/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

How To Get Served First

Sex And Politics At Google, How To Use Body Language To Get Served First At A Bar, The Baseball Archaeologist, Dinner Of The Damned, Netflix Exec: Canada's Broadband 'Almost A Human Rights Violation' The Daily Digg Thursday, September 19, 2013 A GAME OF THRONES IN MOUNTAIN VIEW Sex And Politics At Google businessinsider.com "Inside Google, it's a 'Game of Thrones.'" The show and books are full of violence, sex, and political intrigue. There is no violence at Google. But sex and politics? Oh, yes. MONEY TALKS How To Use Body Language To Get Served First At A Bar telegraph.co.uk Scientists have identified the body language that ensures bartenders will serve you first in a busy bar. IN SEARCH OF BASEBALL'S HOLY GRAIL The Baseball Archaeologist grantland.com How one man is rewriting the history of the game — one diary at a time. 'DOES EVERYONE LIKE INTERCOURSE?' Dinner Of The Damned roadsandkingdoms.com Nicholas Gill ventures into the dark, purplish heart of the global star-chef bacchanal called Gelinaz! On the menu in Lima: octopus, gangster rap, and simulated vomiting. PUTIN TO STEP IN Netflix Exec: Canada's Broadband 'Almost A Human Rights Violation' gigaom.com Low broadband caps in Canada put that country close to third-world countries. Read more on Digg.com → WAR SHOTS AFP reporter Sammy Ketz, takes cover as a Syrian soldier runs past during sniper fire in Syria's ancient Christian town of Maalula, on September 18, 2013, scene of recent fighting between pro-government troops and rebel forces. Credit: ANWAR AMRO/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 Reviews Are Out, And One Is In Here

Do Animals Cry?, iPhone 5S Reviewed, Tech Tips You Can't Live Without, How Evil Should A Video Game Allow You To Be?, How To Move A Giant Rocket In Under 2 Minutes The Daily Digg Wednesday, September 18, 2013 OR DID THAT BABY ELEPHANT PLAY US? Do Animals Cry? news.discovery.com Certain animals may weep out of sorrow, similar to human baby cries, say animal behavior experts. SPOILER: IT WORKS iPhone 5S Reviewed anandtech.com This is an iPhone review. There are many like it, but this is the one we've chosen to link to. EMAILS WE DIGG SPONSORED Tech Tips You Can't Live Without nttd.co If you like the Daily Digg, you'll love Netted, which introduces you to the best sites, apps, and other online stuff that makes life better. Not that you need any added incentive, but the fact is, if you sign up today you could win a Jawbone UP and Jambox. Sweetens the deal, no? BLURRED LINES How Evil Should A Video Game Allow You To Be? newyorker.com Video-game violence is, like all onscreen violence, an act of play. But the medium has a unique capacity to inveigle, and even implicate, its audience through its interactivity. LITERALLY ROCKET SCIENCE How To Move A Giant Rocket In Under 2 Minutes videos.digg.com The Antares/Cygnus rocket is set to launch Wednesday at 10:50am EDT. Here's how they moved the thing. Read more on Digg.com → RAKE UNDER THE ASHES Indonesian farmers rush to harvest crops in the district of Karo as an ash cloud rises during a fresh eruption of the Mount Sinabung volcano on September 17, 2013. Credit: SUTANTA ADITYA/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

Always Check Your Shoes

Photos Of The Historic Flooding In Colorado, What It's Like To Get Bitten By A Black Widow, The Best Bike Lock, How Bad Is Your NFL Team's Owner?, Why, How, And Where You Should Start Eating Bugs The Daily Digg Tuesday, September 17, 2013 SEND HELP, THEN SEND TOWELS Photos Of The Historic Flooding In Colorado theatlantic.com Over the past few days, a 4,500-square-mile area across Colorado's Front Range has been hit by devastating floods, leaving at least six dead, forcing thousands to evacuate, and destroying thousands of homes and farms. ALWAYS CHECK YOUR SHOES What It's Like To Get Bitten By A Black Widow nytimes.com I lay on my back with my teeth clenched and my hands gripping the sides of a hospital bed. A crowd of strangers in white coats filled the tiny room. Waves of pain lapped from my abdomen into my chest as the venom worked its way toward my heart. PROTECT YOUR STEED SPONSORED The Best Bike Lock thesweethome.com A bike lock isn't an exciting piece of gear, but it's a really important one. So here's what you need. OFFENSIVE LINES How Bad Is Your NFL Team's Owner? motherjones.com Federal investigations, millions in political donations, brain trauma denial? All in a day's work for football's money men. CRICKETS ARE JUST THE BEGINNING Why, How, And Where You Should Start Eating Bugs gizmodo.com Whaddya mean you didn't chow down on cicada during this summer's mass emergence? You'd be surprised how delicious those little creepy-crawlies are with a bit of salt and vinegar. Besides, if you had, you'd have gotten a head start on our inevitable bug-eating future. Read more on Digg.com → MASS SHOOTING Members of the military look out from a nearby building toward police units responding to a shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington, DC, September 16, 2013. Credit: SAUL LOEB/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

How To Spot A Fake iPhone

Brutally Frank Relationship Advice From A 98-Year-Old Woman, The Boy Genius Of Ulan Bator, How To Spot A Fake iPhone And Other Phony Tech Gadgets, Photos Of The Bad Part Of Town, The Strangest Driving Laws On Earth The Daily Digg Monday, September 16, 2013 ORAL HISTORY Brutally Frank Relationship Advice From A 98-Year-Old Woman esquire.com First of all, you have to be sexually compatible. That's very important. If anyone tells you different, they're nuts. FROM MONGOLIA TO MIT The Boy Genius Of Ulan Bator nytimes.com How does a student from a country in which a third of the population is nomadic, living in round white felt tents called gers on the vast steppe, ace an M.I.T. course even though nothing like this is typically taught in Mongolian schools? iPHONY How To Spot A Fake iPhone And Other Phony Tech Gadgets businessinsider.com Counterfeiters sell $700 billion worth of fake products every year. And when it comes to fake electronics, these things aren't be tested or regulated. They can be dangerous. GOOGLE STREETZ VIEW Photos Of The Bad Part Of Town vice.com The great thing about Google Street View is that it allows you to visit parts of your town that you would usually be too terrified to set foot in. The "bad part of town." Here's a collection of Street View images taken in the worst parts of a bunch of cities around the globe. RULES OF THE ROAD The Strangest Driving Laws On Earth dailyinfographic.com Okay Alaska, you're right, no one should be letting their dog sit on the roof of the car while they are driving. Read more on Digg.com → TWISTED SISTERS Performers from circus act Cirque du Soleil pose outside a gala event at a recently opened shopping mall in Beijing. Credit: ED JONES/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

Are You A Sucker?

Are You A Sucker?, Disney Exec: Standalone 'Star Wars' Films Will Be 'Origin' Stories, Okay, Fine, Now Somebody Else Is Going To Win, The Probability Puzzle That Makes Your Head Melt, Where The Hipsters Are Coming From The Daily Digg Friday, September 13, 2013 HOW PEOPLE GET YOU TO READ SH*T Are You A Sucker? medium.com 8 secrets writers use to trick the smartest readers into reading their shittiest writing, backed by psychology and scienti-logical awesomeness. HERE'S HOPING FOR A YOUNG YODA Disney Exec: Standalone 'Star Wars' Films Will Be 'Origin' Stories news.cnet.com Though Disney hasn't said much about the forthcoming group of "Star Wars" films, it appears likely they will focus on the back stories of major characters, including possibly Han Solo and Yoda. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Okay, Fine, Now Somebody Else Is Going To Win squarespace.com No matter what you're looking to build, Squarespace makes it fast and easy. To prove it, we're going to feature the best site made by any Digg reader who signs up with Squarespace this week. That's right, you could be right here. Your mom will be so proud. SOLVE AT YOUR OWN RISK The Probability Puzzle That Makes Your Head Melt bbc.co.uk A reference in a recent article to the Monty Hall problem — where a contestant has to pick one of three boxes — left readers scratching their heads. Why does this probability scenario hurt everyone's brain so much? A FLANNEL-LINED SPAWNING GROUND Where The Hipsters Are Coming From businessinsider.com Young people in their late twenties who fashion themselves as outside of the mainstream — derisively referred to as hipsters — are a major force in New York, especially trendy neighborhoods like Williamsburg, Brooklyn. But how did they get there? Where do they call come from? Read more on Digg.com → WHAT TO PACK WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO ALASKA Soldiers of U.S. Army Alaska's 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Battalion 21st Infantry Regiment, off load from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft on the flight line at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Sept. 10, 2013. Credit: The U.S. Army Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014