Everybody Loves Celery

Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini was hailed for turning the dream of regenerative medicine into a reality — until he was exposed as a con artist and false prophet.

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FAILED PROMISES UNMASKING THE MIRACLE WORKER The Celebrity Scientist Who Fooled Almost Everyone theguardian.com Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini was hailed for turning the dream of regenerative medicine into a reality — until he was exposed as a con artist and false prophet. NO SAFETY NET How The NBA Failed Royce White longreads.com He was compared to basketball superstars like Charles Barkley and LeBron James. But without comprehensive mental health treatment, Royce White found himself fighting for a new cause. EXECUTIVE DISORDER What In The World Is Going On With DACA? digg.com Everything you need to know about Trump's potential repeal of DACA. WE'RE NOT NUMBER 1 Why Giving Birth Is Safer In Britain Than In The US digg.com The US and the UK used to have the same rate of women dying in pregnancy and childbirth. Now, Britain's is almost three times lower. Here's what they're doing right. WITH LULL | SPONSORED Help! I Love This Mattress So Much I Can't Get Out Of Bed digg.com It took me 27 years and a mattress sent to my house in a box, but I finally got the best sleep of my life. Without further ado, a Lull mattress review from someone who's actually slept on one. THE WEEK IN PHOTOS SATURN'S NORTH POLE AND HARVEY The Week's Coolest Space Photos digg.com Every day satellites are zooming through space, snapping incredible pictures of Earth, the solar system and outer space. Here are the highlights from this week. · Plus: A Really Cool Way To Visualize The Sun's Staggering Size WATER EVERYWHERE Before-And-After Satellite Images Of Harvey's Devastation theatlantic.com New images reveal the extent of the flooding in and around Houston in the wake of the brutal storm. CURATED BY VIEWFIND The Best Photography Of The Week digg.com The last Americans to visit North Korea, drone photos of Georgia and a photographer documenting her own battle with Harvey. LOOKING FOR VALIDATION CAUGHT 'SCAMMING Inside The Black Market For Instagram Verification mashable.com It's about who you know and how much money you have. CHASING THE MOST HIGH How The Summer Of Love Helped Give Birth To The Religious Right vox.com The Jesus People reshaped both American Christianity and conservatism. STALKS ARE BOOMING Celery Was The Avocado Toast Of The Victorian Era tastecooking.com Stored in fancy vases. Cooked with care and finesse. Served in the Titanic's first-class cabin. There were days when celery was not just boring crudité, but a luxury. VIDEO OF THE DAY WE'RE NOT JOKING This Is, Without A Doubt, The World's Worst Parallel Parker digg.com Three excruciating minutes that will make you feel much better about your own driving abilities. MATTRESSES WE DIGG | SPONSORED Mattress Retailers Don't Want You To Know These 3 Secrets (So Here They Are) lull.com Most mattress retailers charge you 6-12x their manufacturing costs, plus you only get to try the mattress out for a few minutes in the store. Cue Lull, the mattress that will ship with free shipping to your door and let you try it for 100 nights, risk-free. Find out about three other debunked mattress myths. This is not a scam: the long weekend is here. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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If There Was A Problem, This Guy Will Solve It

Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: A man potentially solved the problem to end all problems, professional boxing reveals itself as an incredible scam and what do to when you win $759 million.

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YO, I'LL SOLVE IT WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Someone May Have Solved One Of The Hardest Math Problems On Earth, And Other Facts digg.com Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: A man potentially solved the problem to end all problems, professional boxing reveals itself as an incredible scam and what do to when you win $759 million. TRUE CRIME SOLVERS The Girl Detectives topic.com At the University of Pittsburgh, there's a student club devoted to solving crimes, one that's taken seriously by law enforcement. And it's run by young women. OKAY, JUST BE EVIL Google Uses Its Power To Quash Ideas It Doesn't Like — I Know Because It Happened To Me gizmodo.com Google has a lot of power, and it knows it. GRILLS WE DIGG | SPONSORED The Best Electric Grill On The Market KenyonGrills.com Not allowed to have a grill in your home? No problem. Kenyon Grills produce high, even heat with cooking grate temperatures exceeding 550˚F — all without fire. Use the promo code DIGG and get 10% off your new grill, now through Labor Day. FIRST THINGS FIRST ABANDONMENT ISSUES Idyllic 1960s Postcards Juxtaposed With Their Locations' Present-Day Disrepair dcist.com The transformation of these Poconos and Catskills resorts is like looking through some sort of dystopian View-Master. THE COASTS WITH THE MOST An GIF Illustrating The Spread Of Cities In America Over The Last 400 Years digg.com Today the amount of cities in the United States of America with more than a million residents is a double digit number. But all of those cities — as well as all the cities smaller than them — had to start at zero. WHISKEY COMES TO THE NEW WORLD America's First Addiction Epidemic longreads.com The alcohol epidemic devastated Native American communities, leading to crippling poverty, astonishingly high mortality rates, the desperate exodus of entire nations — and a successful sobriety movement. EXILE ON VENICE BEACH The Forgotten LA History of The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main St. laweekly.com The making of "Exile on Main St" is one of rock's most infamous storylines, and LA played a key role. VIDEO OF THE DAY 'OUMBÄRLIG GETTING STARTED' Guy Turns His Friends' IKEA Trip Into A Nightmare With Terrible Puns digg.com IKEA trips can put a strain on any relationship, and this guy is determined to make it much worse. IN THE NEWS US Posts Disappointing August Job Numbers, With 156K New Jobs Shocking Video: Nurse Legally Prevents Utah Cop From Taking Blood From Unconscious Patient, Gets Roughly Arrested Damage From Harvey Has Already Caused Millions Of Pounds Of Toxic Pollutants To Be Released Into The Air Georgia Cop Fired After Footage Emerges Of Him Tells White Woman 'We Only Kill Black People' During Traffic Stop Controversial Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Resigns FROM THE DIGG STORE The Best Word Processor You're Not Using store.digg.com The Nisus Writer Pro offers fully customizable word processing for the frequent writer. Here's an easy case to crack: How to relax over a holiday weekend. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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