Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Any Weirder

Olympian Films Wolf Stalking Her Hotel Hallway, The Dark Power Of Fraternities, Don't You Hate Shirts?, What Happens When You Make The Internet Share A Video Game, The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of WhatsApp The Daily Digg Thursday, February 20, 2014 THE SOCHIEST MOMENT OF SOCHI Olympian Films Wolf Stalking Her Hotel Hallway digg.com Olympian Kate Hansen tweeted out a video of what appears to be a wolf trotting down her hotel hallway with the message, "I'm pretty sure this is a wolf wandering my hall in Sochi." BEST LEDE EVER, OR BEST LEDE EVER The Dark Power Of Fraternities theatlantic.com A yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Don't You Hate Shirts? bonobos.com We did too. Then we learned about Bonobos. Now we love shirts and our HR department is happy. THE THEOCRACY OF 'POKÉMON' What Happens When You Make The Internet Share A Video Game digg.com If you go to this stream you'll see a grayscale boy in a hat running in circles. What you might not realize is that you're watching quite possibly the most interesting social experiment of all time. WHAT'S COOL? PROVING EVERYONE WRONG The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of WhatsApp forbes.com Jan Koum picked a meaningful spot to sign the $19 billion deal to sell his company WhatsApp to Facebook - the office where Koum, 37, once stood in line to collect food stamps. Read more on Digg.com → MORE PROOF THE BIATHLON IS AMAZING Norway's Tiril Eckhoff shoots during the mixed biathlon relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Credit: AP Photo/Lee Jin-man Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The Hunt For The World's Weirdest Whale

The Hunt For The Sea Unicorn, Waking Up To The Issues Of Pilot Fatigue, This Is How Strong A Modern Plane Is, Dear Asus Router User: You've Been Pwned, Survey: NFL Players Don't Actually Seem To Mind If Their Teammates Are Gay The Daily Digg Tuesday, February 18, 2014 THE WORLD'S WEIRDEST WHALE The Hunt For The Sea Unicorn newscientist.com With its spiraled horn and elusive ways, the narwhal is a thing of legend. Isabelle Groc joins an expedition braving Arctic waters to meet it face to tusk. FLYING THE SLEEPY SKIES Waking Up To The Issues Of Pilot Fatigue nycaviation.com Fatigue rules and regulations in the early days of commercial aviation were simple: there were none. And the ones we have today are inadequate. MAYBE DON'T WATCH BEFORE FLYING This Is How Strong A Modern Plane Is digg.com What happens when 120 tons of landing Boeing 767 encounters severe turbulence just above the runway? You get to see the incredible strength of modern engineering. Watch the wings flex and the landing gear absorb the shock. AT LEAST THE HACKER LET YOU KNOW Dear Asus Router User: You've Been Pwned arstechnica.com Hackers expose eight-month-old Asus weakness by leaving note on victims' drives. DOES THIS COUNT AS PROGRESS? Survey: NFL Players Don't Actually Seem To Mind If Their Teammates Are Gay espn.go.com If Missouri defensive end Michael Sam is drafted in May and becomes the NFL's first openly gay player, he'll walk into a league that seems to be moving closer to acceptance but is still dealing with growing pains as it does so. Read more on Digg.com → AN URN? Construction workers install glass panels on the new European Council building in Brussels on Monday, Feb 17, 2014. The building, in the shape of an urn, will accommodate a new EU summit meeting room and a headquarters for the European Council President. Credit: AP Photo/Virginia Mayo Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

What We Mean When We Say Hello

The Original 'Robocop' Was A Christ Allegory, Debunking The Myth Of Kitty Genovese, Lessons In Ruthlessness From Frank Underwood, What We Mean When We Say Hello, How The North Ended Up On The Top Of The Map The Daily Digg Monday, February 17, 2014 ROBOCHRIST The Original 'Robocop' Was A Christ Allegory gizmodo.com The original "Robocop," released back in 1987 and directed by Paul Verhoeven, was not only one of the best science fiction films of the last three decades — or, as Tom Scocca described it on Gawker, "a brilliant comedy operating in the guise of an ultraviolent action movie" — but it was also a Christian allegory. MISREADING MURDER Debunking The Myth Of Kitty Genovese nypost.com In 1964, New York became internationally infamous as a city filled with thoughtless people who didn't care about one another; where people could watch their neighbors get stabbed on the street without lifting a finger to help, leaving them to die ­instead in a pool of their own blood. LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR Lessons In Ruthlessness From Frank Underwood digg.com Even if you haven't finished binge-watching season 2 yet, here's your (spoiler free) compilation of the best advice Washington's most cutthroat fictional politician has to offer. GOODBYE What We Mean When We Say Hello theatlantic.com The curious geography of American greetings. NORTH IS JUST REALLY INTO DOMINATION How The North Ended Up On The Top Of The Map america.aljazeera.com A cartographic history of what's "up." Read more on Digg.com → WHICH WAY IS UP? David Wise of the United States gets air during men's freestyle skiing half pipe training at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. 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

Love And The Lowest Bidder

The Hilariously Realistic Valentines One Husband's Been Sending To His Wife, The Truth About Being Single, It's Time For Netflix To Stop Acting Like Television, The Couple That Pays Each Other To Put The Kids To Bed, 9 Historic Olympic Cities And What They Look Like Today The Daily Digg Friday, February 14, 2014 LOVE AGES LIKE WINE, BECOMES VINEGAR The Hilariously Realistic Valentines One Husband's Been Sending To His Wife buzzfeed.com Ah, there's nothing like a mature and stable romance. HAVE FUN DYING ALONE! The Truth About Being Single digg.com Time to drastically lower your standards. AND AMAZON TO STOP ACTING LIKE NETFLIX It's Time For Netflix To Stop Acting Like Television theweek.com To be truly revolutionary, the streaming service should embrace its unique potential: storytelling without boundaries LOVE AND THE QUANTIFIED SELF The Couple That Pays Each Other To Put The Kids To Bed nbcnews.com Like most couples, Daniel Reeves and Bethany Soule fight. Unlike most, they solve their spats with dollars. NOT ALL FUN AND GAMES 9 Historic Olympic Cities And What They Look Like Today buzzfeed.com Some venues were repurposed and used for years after the games; others were abandoned and fell to disrepair. Read more on Digg.com → SOCHI ADDS SYNCHRONIZED SKIING EVENT In this image made with a multiple exposure, Finland's Antti Ollila competes in the men's ski slopestyle qualifying at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park during the 2014 Winter Olympics. Credit: AP Photo/Gero Breloer Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Where The F-Word Really Comes From

Comcast Said To Buy Time Warner, Where The Word 'F*ck' Really Comes From, Even Knowing About This Law Might Prevent You From Serving On A Jury, How Superintendents Decide Snow Days, Why Writers Are The Worst Procrastinators The Daily Digg Thursday, February 13, 2014 THE WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE, CONSOLIDATED Comcast Said To Buy Time Warner bloomberg.com Comcast has agreed to acquire Time Warner Cable Inc. for about $159 a share in an all-stock deal, combining the largest two U.S. cable companies, according to four people familiar with matter. EXPLETIVE ETYMOLOGY Where The Word 'F*ck' Really Comes From solongasitswords.wordpress.com One origin story for f*ck is that it comes from when sex was outlawed unless it was permitted explicitly by the king, so people who were legally banging had Fornication Under Consent of the King on their doors, or: F.U.C.K. But obviously that's wrong. And if you do believe that, stop it. Stop it right now. TALKING ABOUT IT MIGHT GET YOU ARRESTED Even Knowing About This Law Might Prevent You From Serving On A Jury digg.com Guilty or not guilty? Well, there's a third option you might not know about. THE ARBITERS OF YOUR CHILDHOOD JOY How Superintendents Decide Snow Days newsfeed.time.com As the superintendent of Bethlehem Area School District, a large public school system in Pennsylvania, Dr. Joseph Roy is tasked with making the severe weather closure decision for all 22 schools under his purview. And it's certainly not an easy one. UNDER PRESSURE Why Writers Are The Worst Procrastinators theatlantic.com The psychological origins of waiting, and waiting, and waiting to work. Read more on Digg.com → RUBBING IT IN Germany's Eric Frenzel celebrates winning the gold as he is flanked by Japan's silver medal winner Akito Watabe, left, and Norway's bronze medal winner Magnus Krog during the flower ceremony after the cross-country portion of the Nordic combined at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Credit: AP Photo/Matthias Schrader Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Should We Stop Stigmatizing Cigarettes?

The War On Smoking Has Gone Too Far, This F1 Pit Stop Crew Is Insanely Fast, How To Snack Without Eating Crap, Everything We Know Google Is Working On This Year, Clever Map Reveals Which Cities Get The Best Weather The Daily Digg Tuesday, February 11, 2014 PUT IT OUT The War On Smoking Has Gone Too Far newrepublic.com Quitting smoking is good. Stigmatizing smokers isn't. IN AND OUT This F1 Pit Stop Crew Is Insanely Fast digg.com You can count the number of seconds this pit stop takes on two fingers. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED How To Snack Without Eating Crap naturebox.com Look, we love you. We want you to be healthy so you can keep reading Digg for many years to come. So starting today, if you use the code DIGG when signing up for NatureBox you'll get 50% off. It's a win-win situation. SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO BING IT Everything We Know Google Is Working On This Year arstechnica.com Google's plans for Android, gaming, smart homes, healthcare, robots, and much, much more. THE OPTIMIST'S ATLAS Clever Map Reveals Which Cities Get The Best Weather wired.com Kelly Norton's interactive chart shows which cities get the most pleasant days every year, drawing from NOAA data. Of course, what constitutes "pleasant" weather is subjective, so Norton played it safe. Read more on Digg.com → YOU NEED AT LEAST THREE BRUSHES AND A COMB TO WIN Jordan, a Yorkshire Terrier, is prepped in the benching area during the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014, in New York. Credit: AP: John Minchillo Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014